Parkdale Community Legal Services (PCLS) is both a community legal clinic and teaching clinic for Osgoode Hall Law School students in downtown Toronto. We work with low income community members…
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PCLS Supports Tenant Organizing during COVID-19
These are challenging and unprecedented times, and recent weeks have been hard on many of us. It has been particularly hard on the communities we serve, who have been disproportionately…
Continue ReadingReport: Demanding the Right to the City and the Right to Housing (R2C/R2H): Best Practices for Supporting Community Organizing
Download the Report The goal of this report was to examine how to promote the Right to the City (R2C) and the Rightto Housing (R2H) through strategic legal and organizing…
Continue ReadingJoint Statement from PCLS Board and Staff Regarding Reconsideration Decision
On Friday, December 13th, Parkdale Community Legal Services (PCLS) received a decision from the Legal Aid Ontario (LAO) Clinic Committee reconsidering its earlier decision on funding for PCLS. The reconsideration…
Continue ReadingOntario government fails to restore legal aid funding and weakens access to justice in proposed legislation
On December 9, 2019, the government introduced the Smarter and Stronger Justice Act (Bill 161) that eliminates legislative protections and governmental obligation to provide legal aid services and access to…
Continue ReadingLegal Aid is under attack – but PCLS is fighting back!
A lot has happened since the government slashed funding by over 30% last April to legal aid services for low income communities. In June, Parkdale Community Legal Services’ (PCLS)’ funding…
Continue ReadingFighting the cuts to PCLS
On July 9th, PCLS made a request to the Legal Aid Ontario Board to reconsider its decision to cut PCLS by 45% over two years. We made a presentation to…
Continue ReadingThe Right to Housing is Not Abstract
Join us on December 11 as we launch our report entitled Demanding the Right to Housing! The right to housing is not abstract. In Toronto’s Parkdale neighbourhood tenants are demanding…
Continue ReadingReport Launch: Demanding the Right to Housing
Report Launch: Demanding the Right to Housing Wednesday, December 11, 6:30-8:00pm Metro Hall, 55 John Street, Room #310 Professor Martine August of University of Waterloo and Cole Webber of PCLS…
Continue ReadingAnnual General Meeting 2019
Community Dinner and Annual General Meeting Wednesday September 25, 2019 Dinner at 6:30 PM; Meeting at 7:00 PM Parkdale Library 1303 Queen Street West, Lower Level Auditorium This past year…
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