Progress Toronto is seeking a senior non-profit leader to fill the role of Interim Executive Director for a 12-month parental leave contract. Applications are due on Sunday July 5, 2020. Find out more here.

A discussion on reprioritizing city investments as we build a just Toronto.

Sign up (for free) to join us on Wednesday, June 17 as we team up with the Urban Alliance on Race Relations to co-host a conversation with Black Lives Matter Toronto co-founder and Vice Chair of the Black Legal Action Centre Sandy Hudson, lawyer, professor, author, advocate and Chair in Indigenous Governance at Ryerson University Dr. Pamela Palmater, writer and community organizer with Education Not Incarceration Phillip Dwight Morgan, and Executive Director of Black Creek Community Health Centre Cheryl Prescod. The conversation will be moderated by Toronto Star Digital Producer Angelyn Francis. Find out more and sign up here.

Examining the intersections of rebuilding our city & what we can achieve

Sign up (for free) to join us on Thursday, June 11 as we host a conversation with City Councillor Kristyn Wong-Tam, the Executive Coordinator of the Toronto Community for Better Child Care Abigail Doris, and MPP for Scarborough Southwest and the Official Opposition Critic for Early Learning and Child Care Doly Begum. The conversation will be moderated by Leila Sarangi, Director of Social Action Family Services Toronto and National Coordinator of Campaign 2000. Find out more and sign up here.

This pandemic has exposed and deepened inequality in our city — showing even more of us that the old way of doing things isn’t working.

Just as so many of us are struggling to pay rent and put food on the table, COVID-19 emergency spending alongside decades of underfunding has pushed City Hall to a financial breaking point and Toronto’s City Manager has been ringing the alarm.

If thousands of us take action by signing this petition, we can convince the Federal and Provincial governments to provide immediate financial relief to cities and commit to a new deal, a new relationship, with our city to help us build a Toronto that works for everyone. Find out more and send your message here.

Progress Toronto is excited to partner with the Workers’ Action Centre and 15 and Fairness to help provide a “Know Your Rights” online training with WAC’s Executive Director, Deena Ladd and Parkdale Community Legal Services, Workers's Rights Division staff lawyer, John No. This training is designed to help you navigate and apply for the Canada Emergency Relief Benefit (CERB), to know more about your rights regarding job protection, paid and unpaid leave, and safe working conditions, and to understand the supports you are entitled to. Find out more and sign up here.

As the Mayor, Councillors and Toronto’s new Office of Recovery and Rebuild begin their work on Toronto’s recovery, local organizations including Progress Toronto, representing tens of thousands of people from across the city, have submitted a letter to the Mayor and City Council that outlines ten principles for a bold, green, and just recovery. See our letter here.

Progress Toronto is offering 7 free trainings, workshops, and events for our Spring Training Series!

We’ve changed things up for this training series in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. We’ve moved over to online trainings and added some new topics.

Our trainings include how to build your own neighbourhood support networks, a panel on e-learning and who is left out, self-care in challenging times, using your personal narrative to move people to action, and more!

Learn more and sign up here!

Big news was announced today! The Supreme Court of Canada has granted the City of Toronto’s appeal of Doug Ford’s Bill 5 - his interference in our active 2018 municipal elections. You remember, that time Doug Ford changed all the rules and wards in the middle of our election, weeks before voters went to the polls — an unprecedented attack on Toronto and local democracy.

Since Bill 5 was first announced on July 27, 2018, Progress Toronto has been advocating to stop it. We’ve helped tens of thousands of people take action against Bill 5 and won key votes at City Hall as we encouraged the Mayor and Councillors to stand up for our city and continue fighting this unprecedented interference in our elections. Read more here.