Join us for a free event on Thursday, March 4 to learn about Progress Toronto’s case at the Supreme Court of Canada as we take on Premier Doug Ford! 2018 Toronto City Council candidate and 2014-2018 TDSB Trustee Ausma Malik will be in conversation with Progress Toronto’s lawyer at the Supreme Court Don Eady. Learn more and sign up here.

Join Progress Toronto on Thursday, February 18 at 9:30AM via Zoom so we can watch City Council live together. While we watch the livestream, Progress Toronto will be there, online with you on our Zoom chat. We will be providing helpful info throughout the day, and can help to answer questions about process, timing, motions, and more! Learn more and sign up here.

Join our Day of Action on Wednesday, February 17 to help put last minute pressure on the Mayor and City Council before the vote on the 18th. Learn more and sign up here.

Join Progress Toronto's Program and Operations Director, Erica Woods, on Thursday, February 11, 2021 to learn more about the legislative process, who the key players are influencing decisions, and how you can have your say. Learn more and sign up here.

There is no economic recovery without affordable child care. Yet, 133 child care centres in Ontario and 27 in Toronto have closed during the pandemic. Without increased funding from the City, Province and Federal Government, many non-profit child care centres are in jeopardy of closing permanently. Thousands of families - particularly racialized women - won’t be able to access child care and will fall further behind.

City Council will be voting soon on its 2021 budget priorities. The City needs to fight for child care by ensuring funding is made available now! Learn more and take action here.

In December, Toronto City Councillors and the Mayor made a commitment to house those who are experiencing homelessness and we launched a petition calling on Council to act. City Council will be voting soon and we need your help to reach as many people as possible and help them take action. Learn more and sign up here.

Join Progress Toronto Organizer, Mosheh Herdsman on Tuesday, February 2 to learn how to phone bank from home using our online tool and best practices on helping people take action for a better city.

Half of this workshop will be a training where you will become familiar with our online phone bank tool and how to move people to action, and in the second half of the workshop you will get a chance to put your new skills to practice and phone bank people across our city to take action. We will debrief after you make some calls! Learn more and sign up here.

At this workshop you will learn the basics of making a deputation. You will learn a little bit about how to choose which committee to speak at, how to read the committee agenda, how to sign up for a deputation, and how to prepare your deputation (speech). Right now, deputations at the City of Toronto are taking place online. We will review how this works and how you can prepare. Learn more and sign up here.

The Scarborough—Agincourt by-election is just days away and we’re so close to getting our Progressive Champion, Manna Wong, elected! Sign up for Election Day this Friday and help get voters to the polls! Want to join another day? You can phone bank all week!

Learn more and sign up: https://www.progresstoronto.ca/byelection-volunteer

Progress Toronto is offering 6 free trainings and workshops for our 2021 Winter Training Series! Due to COVID-19, all of our trainings are happening online.

Workshops this Winter include how to phone bank for our city, how to meet with your local politician, using your personal narrative to move people to action, and more!

Learn more and sign up here: https://www.progresstoronto.ca/winter-training-series-2021

With just days left until the Scarborough—Agincourt by-election, we need to act fast to make sure our Progressive Champion, Manna Wong, gets elected. Join our Day of Action on Saturday, January 9 to phone bank for Manna and help get out the vote! Learn more and sign up here.

We're hiring! Join our team as a Volunteer Coordinator or as an Outreach Coordinator - both positions are 8 weeks long and start on January 4, full-time. Application deadline is on December 28, interviews will be held on December 30. This is a Canada Summer Jobs position so some qualifications apply. Learn more here.

This week Toronto City Councillors will vote on a motion that would call on the Federal government to use their emergency powers to expropriate vacant hotel and apartment units to help solve the housing and homelessness crisis in Toronto.

Instead of criminalizing homelessness, we need bold and decisive action to save lives. Use our tool to send a message to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Mayor John Tory and your local Councillor and MP. Take action here.

We're proud to announce we’ll be working hard to elect TDSB Trustee Manna Wong to City Council in Scarborough—Agincourt. With only 26 votes on Council this is a big opportunity. Find out how to help Manna win here.

Progress Toronto is campaigning to elect a Progressive Champion to City Council in the Scarborough—Agincourt by-election being held on January 15, 2021. This is our chance to elect a progressive voice in Scarborough and with only 26 votes on Toronto City Council this by-election is an important opportunity! With just 5 weeks till election day, we need to act fast. Learn more.

Thanks to the 7,400+ people who sent their message demanding a Vacant Homes Tax, Mayor Tory announced that he will support the tax at the December 10 Executive Committee. This is a big win, but we still need to make sure the vote passes at Executive Committee on December 10 and Council the following week. Learn more how to take action here.

Join this training on Thursday, December 3. In this online workshop, you’ll learn the fundamentals of public narrative -- the story of self, the story of us, the story of now -- and practice telling your story to inspire others to take action. Learn from expert storyteller, Amara Possian, to perfect your personal narrative. Learn more and sign up.

In December, Toronto City Councillors will be voting on whether or not to use one of the many tools we can use to address our City’s housing crisis: implementing a Vacant Homes Tax.

The vote may be close, so we’re ramping up our campaign and need your help in the coming weeks to phone people and help them take action. COVID-19 has deepened Toronto’s housing crisis and City Councillors urgently need to hear from us so they feel public pressure to support a Vacant Homes Tax. Learn more and sign up.

You’re invited to join us on Thursday, November 26 at 7pm for our not to be missed online fundraising event. Our inspiring list of speakers include Director of International Diplomacy at the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group and former Toronto Mayor David Miller, Parkdale-High Park MPP Bhutila Karpoche, and the President of the Toronto Public Library Workers Union Brandon Haynes. The event will be hosted by our advisor Zahra Ebrahim. Learn more and buy your tickets here.