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Slow down reopening during the COVID-19 pandemic, and ensure that everyone has the financial supports they need by diverting supports offered to large corporations to the people

Offer financial support for low-income Ontarians’ first and last month’s rent

Fund Black Futures on Eglinton West and support their exploration of Black culture thorough community arts engagements in Toronto

Provide publicly funded food-inclusive housing

Increase prisoners’ access to university education by investing in Wall to Bridges!

Ensure all Ontarians have access to affordable childcare 

Free internet service for low income households

Provide low income children with warm winter clothing

Support Disability Justice Network of Ontario in their efforts to create a world where people with disabilities are free to be, through funding

Provide financial supports for research from inside the jails

 Fund peer led and grassroots services run by folks with lived experiences of marginalization 

 Financial coverage for all forms of therapy for folks who have been incarcerated 

 Invest more into after-school programs that give youth free alternatives to getting involved in criminal activity in the first place

 Remove fare inspectors and improve anti-racist and anti-oppression training for TTC staff

 Invest in community-led support networks

 Provide adequate PPE to elementary schools that will reopen during COVID-19

 Improve access to post-secondary education for low-income individuals 

 Create a program that offers support to wrongly convicted prisoners, to help them navigate and access education and jobs

 Increase public health funding

 Have Indigenous women consult on how to best support and protect them, and then follow through with all of their suggestions

 Fund local farmers markets

 Create free city-wide wifi networks

 Fund culture and heritage preservation organizations and initiatives

 Set the amount offered by CERB as the minimum support available through ODSP

 Create a new curriculum with textbooks that teaches elementary students about prison abolition

 Create breakfast programs for high school students

 Pay Indigenous people reparations

 Create unarmed conflict resolution and de-escalation first response teams, with community oversight

 Create more, accessible public bathrooms

 Give funding to Scarborough Co-op Market to increase their capacity to improve community-led access to good food and products in Scarborough

 Invest in public school infrastructure

 Provide funding to Platform, so they can expand the scope of their initiative to reshape the political landscape to advance the priorities of young BIPOC women and gender-diverse BIPOC youth

 Fund TTCriders and support their transit advocacy that gives a voice to transit users in Toronto

 Invest in publicly subsidized housing

 Create tree stewardship incentives to take better care of urban forests

 Fund youth-led collectives like Climate Justice Toronto, fighting for climate justice and mobilizing broad-based youth movements in the province

 Create low/no income housing that operates as an entire life building experience. In addition to living spaces, residents can also work at the in-house restaurants, medical centre, independent shops, garden, learning centre, child care, art facility, sports centre, etc. 

 Improve physical health resources in public schools

 Establish a basic income for seniors 

 Invest in supportive housing so those who need it don’t have to spend years on a waiting list

 Set up food drive initiatives across the province

 Build more elevators in public schools

 Create new scholarships for Black students

 Protect Muslim women and children by giving funding to Nisa Homes so they can expand their operations

 Create new scholarships for students with disabilities

 Give funding to the Native Youth Sexual Health Network so they can expand the scope of their advocacy around sexual and reproductive health, by and for Indigenous youth

 Provide subsidized affordable food-inclusive housing

 Create arts spaces in low-income neighbourhoods, with recording equipment, instruments, art supplies and books

 Use that money to fund the task of dismantling the racist white supremacist police force 

 Create new scholarships for students of colour

 Fund Red Door Family Shelter and aid in their mission to provide emergency shelter and support for women and children affected by domestic abuse, families experiencing a housing crisis, and refugee claimants with nowhere else to turn

 Support the Movement Defense Committee in providing legal support to groups and communities organizing against oppression through funding

 Create breakfast programs for elementary students

 Create free and accessible ASL classes, and teach ASL in public schools

 Widen our refugee program acceptance rates and scope, and ensure all refugees receive necessary supports

 Establish and implement a family reunification initiative

 Invest in cement, with which to fill all solitary confinement cells in Ontario prisons

 Establish and implement a universal pharmacare plan

 Hire peer support workers to work in probation and parole offices

 Build gender neutral washrooms in post-secondary schools

 Create an ongoing education program for teachers with a focus on equity studies

 Redistribute funds to the homeless, food funds, health care, teachers and education 

 Improve bus service in Oakville

 Free, universal gender-affirming healthcare and surgeries

 Overhaul the bail system, and develop a new system that is not blatantly classist

 Fund Oasis Food Hub, so they can expand their food security and climate resilience initiatives

 Invest in women's shelters

 Give existing transformative justice practitioners funding to create training programs

 Increase the amount of bus-only lanes in Scarborough

 Fund existing environmental improvement initiatives

 Improve mental health access in underserved neighbourhoods

 Incentivize local/Canadian-run businesses to continue to do business here and hire Canadian workers

 Fund WoodGreen and support them in enhancing self-sufficiency, promoting well-being and reducing poverty through innovative solutions to critical social needs

 Support Stella’s Place in the provision of peer supports, clinical, online, employment, wellness, and recovery services, through funding

 Give Osman Okey funding to expand “Safari Nites” gatherings that enrich communities by delivering free drum circles, acoustic instrument jams, yoga, art, DJ sets, and dancing

 Invest in public school supplies, and ensure no teacher in Ontario has to pay out of pocket to provide students with school supplies of any kind

 Support prisoners by investing in John Howard Society

 Ensure adequate and livable social assistance rates

 Fund creators with disabilities’ art, music, film and television projects

 Offer universal free eye care

 Give funding to CMHA Ontario and support their efforts to further equitable access to mental health services and champion the reduction of mental health disparities

 Fund the Encampment Support Network, and meet their demands to decommodify housing

 Establish mutual aid projects across the province

 Give Not Another Black Life funding for their amazing advocacy and activism 

 Ensure everyone in Ontario owns multiple pairs of socks

 Increase free supports and resources made available to people with chronic illnesses

 Invest in community led and built gardening and food production initiatives

 Give existing transformative justice practitioners funding to create new centres

 Give funding to Spectra Helpline and support their mission of ensuring every individual in need of emotional support or crisis intervention has access to life-sustaining care 

 Invest in local agriculture, and provide financial supports for local farmers

 Give funding to The ENAGB Indigenous Youth Agency so they can expand their initiative to provide cultural, employment, life skills, holistic wellness and recreational opportunities to Indigenous youth

 Invest in community-led arts projects

 Raise the minimum wage in the province to a living wage that reflects the cost of living, providing small business with financial supports so that they can afford to pay their workers that wage 

 Meet Grassy Narrows First Nation’s demands for justice, and take directions from their leaders on how to ensure that justice is achieved

 Improve access to immigrant settlement services by putting more agencies in suburban areas with large immigrant populations

 Invest in cooperative housing

 Establish a basic income for all criminalized individuals upon release from prison

 Free phone calls for prisoners

 Protect tenants in communities facing gentrification 

Give funding to Canadian Students for Sensible Drug Policy to expand their capacity to dismantle state violence via harm reduction, drug policy, and prison abolition education and advocacy

Fund the Nia Centre for the Arts so the can expand their capacity to support, showcase and promote an appreciation of arts from across the Afro-Diaspora

Work to reduce the cost of rent, since inflation has outpaced increase in earnings

Create a new curriculum with textbooks that teaches elementary students about Indigenous studies

Give funding to Friends of Chinatown Toronto so they can expand the scope of their work to keep Chinatown affordable and inclusive

Offer financial supports for victims of human trafficking

Invest in Black-owned businesses

Fund free trauma informed mental health programs for youth 

Establish a basic income for veterans and war amputees

Create and implement an initiative to decriminalize acts and behaviours that do not cause harm to society

Support Right To Play in their mission to protect, educate and empower children to rise above adversity using the power of play, through funding

Fund Black Women in Motion so they can expand the scope of their work empowering and supporting the advancement of Black womxn and survivors of sexual violence

Finance live neighbourhood events with local musicians, DJs and other kinds of performers to share uplifting content with their communities

Invest in community specific transitional housing for trans people

Make birth control free, accessible and available for all, regardless of age

Ensure everyone in Ontario has shoes and shoelaces

Invest in public libraries 

Invest in organizations led by Indigenous women like Idle No More

Increase funding for community centres, so that they can offer more programs and build new infrastructure

Invest in rehabilitative programs and counseling for prisoners

Provide more post-secondary grants

Offer financial coverage for 900 dollar record suspension application

Invest in job trainings and readiness programs

Give the Debra Dynes Family House funding to create new programs and initiatives to support the communities they serve

Fund Tea Base so they can expand their capacity to make accessible space for intergenerational activists and artists who support social justice movements in and around Chinatown in Toronto

Improve supports and services for people dealing with trauma and mental health challenges

Create a program to teach high school students about how to recognize and oppose different types of violence

Invest in Hamilton youth, by funding youth-led initiatives like The SPACE Youth Centre

Fund No Pride in Policing Coalition, and support their fight for queer liberation and against the carceral state

Improve existing free school lunch programs

Give funding to YWCA Hamilton to expand their operations

Invest in centres that provide resources to victims of domestic abuse

Fund an independent investigation into murdered and missing Indigenous women in the province

Support 2SLGBTQ+ youth in Toronto by funding Toronto Kiki Ballroom Alliance, who teach ballroom arts and use the ballroom to demonstrate the importance of self-confidence, healthy living and an active lifestyle

Put that money towards investing in better schools, mental health resources, and healthcare in Black communities.

Provide laptops and computers to outreach organizations for participants to use

Improve the Civics curriculum in Ontario, so that students learn about how various government policies work and what they do; for instance, explain where funding goes and where it is removed from under neoliberalism and austerity

Fund reforestation initiatives

Improve accessibility to legal aid services for Black Ontarians by funding the Black Legal Action Clinic

Fund Indigenous creators’ art, music, film and television projects

Increase funding for CAMH so they can expand and improve education and research on mental health and addiction, and clinical care for those struggling

Investments in food security, affordable housing and childcare because when everyone has enough healthy food, a safe place to live, and their children are cared for, communities thrive

Replace every police officer in Ontario schools with a counsellor or social service worker

Hire more substitute teachers

Give the Association of Black Social Workers funding to expand operations and serve communities in Ontario

Fund and create a restorative justice response led by Indigenous leaders

Fund the Edge OV Youth Clinic and support their efforts to support the health and wellbeing of youth in Toronto

Fund mental health resources, addictions counselling and offer treatment for free to low-income folks

Support The Criminalization and Punishment Education Project’s work to identify key issues to be the focus of criminological and social justice inquiry, and carry out related public education and advocacy initiatives, through funding

Invest in youth support services

Invest in The Canadian Centre to End Human Trafficking and support their mission to bring an end to all types of human trafficking in Canada

Create an ongoing education program for teachers with a focus on Indigenous history

Invest in public housing

Fund 2SLGBTQ+ creators’ art, music, film and television projects

Reduce the cost of public transit

Create new scholarships for Indigenous students

Invest in highway maintenance in Northwestern communities

Invest in CoSA Canada’s restorative justice safety program

Provide incentives to prevent companies from outsourcing call centre jobs, and to set up centres in isolated communities with few job opportunities

Fund mental health resources, addictions counselling and offer free treatment to people without homes

Increase funding for Gladue Courts

Invest in mental health by funding Distress Centres across the province, and expanding their capacity to provide support to people in crisis

Create a new curriculum with textbooks that teaches high school students how to manage their finances

Give existing restorative justice practitioners funding to create new centres

Provide health services and a program to gain independence for all who are experiencing homelessness

Government funded classes for things like home ec., home repairs, de-escalation skills and boundaries as well as more specific employment related skills

Create a survivor-led dispatch team for sexual assault

Give funding to Joint Development Consultant’s, so they can work with organizations in Ontario and help them expand their reach

Fund Reach Out Centre for Kids and aid in their mission to promote and achieve optimal mental health in kids and families in Halton

Pandemic pay for essential workers

Provide more bursaries for post secondary education/union fees

Provide homeless people with warm winter clothing

Invest in rent geared to income housing

Improve anti-racist and anti-oppressive training for healthcare workers

Fund programs that support ex prisoners with medical needs

Create an initiative to investigate and prevent ableism in the provision of mental health first aid

Help protect people from being wrongly convicted and incarcerated through investments in the Innocence Project

Invest in the wellbeing of residents of the St. James Town neighbourhood in Toronto by funding St. James Town Community Co-op

Increased funding for medical clinics

Provide adequate, permanent, affordable housing so people don’t have to risk their lives on the streets or in crowded and often dangerous shelters

Create a first response team of trained mental health professionals

Invest in sup­ports for peo­ple who have expe­ri­enced sex­u­al­ized vio­lence by funding the Sexual Assault Centre of Hamilton & Area

Buy buildings slated for demolition or that would have turned into condos, and transform them into hostels for at-risk-youth who could stay in them for low cost

Provide prisoners with a course in coding 

Invest in community specific transitional housing for mad people

Give this money to WHO, to aid in COVID-19 pandemic efforts

Create a new curriculum with textbooks that teaches high school students about 2SLGBTQ+ history

Distribute funds to class C long-term care homes in order to eliminate all 4-person ward rooms and provide at-risk seniors with a high quality of life

Establish an initiative to develop and implement harm reduction strategies

Invest in safe injection sites

Fund Les Femmes Michif Otipemisiwak and support their mission to influence public policy and decision making related to concerns and aspirations of Métis women

Create an initiative to implement anti-racist and anti-oppressive policies in medical clinics

Support the Native Women’s Association of Canada and their mission to  represent the political voice of Indigenous women, girls and gender diverse people in Canada, through funding

Universal free dental care

Turn Toronto Police Service 52 Division into a centre that provides free mental health services

Work with Indigenous communities on a public safety option with community oversight

Give the Black Health Alliance a grant to reduce the racial disparities in health outcomes for Black communities in Ontario

Improve access to healthier, cheaper, better and sustainable foods

Create a new curriculum with textbooks that teaches high school students about Indigenous studies

Establish an initiative to distribute funds deliberately towards the final goal of making money (capital) obsolete

Put that money towards investing in better schools, mental health resources, and healthcare in working class communities

Cover costs of hiring human rights/civil lawyers

Offer free group therapy for marginalized individuals

Invest in mental health resources run by BIPOC

Use the money to bolster front-line agencies dealing with mental health and homelessness 

Provide funding to Climate Justice Peel so they can expand the scope of their climate activism

Provide long term financial grants to culturally specific grassroots programs and organizations

Fund improvements for schools in disrepair

Have low-income youth consult on and run programs and spaces for their communities, and invest in those projects

Cover the costs for low-income people in Ontario to furnish their apartments with all the essentials

Support Operation Prefrontal Cortex’s efforts to bring meditation and mindfulness to all institutions as a means to bring meaningful anti-violent change to our communities through funding

Hire social service workers for schools

Provide every low-income student, including post-secondary students, with a backpack and all necessary school supplies

Healthy food security programs for folks in halfway houses

Increased funding for long term care homes

Fund LGBT Youth Line to support their provision of peer support for 2SLGBTQ+ youth 

Provide rent relief amid COVID-19

Fund disability services

Provide PPE to secondary schools that will reopen during COVID-19 

Use the money to create sustainable and affordable housing for low income folks with community garden plots

Fund after school arts programs for high school students

Finance neighbourhood “get to know you” events that allow neighbours to meet, build their support networks within their communities and share meals, music, art, etc.

Create and implement a transition to clean energy sources

Invest in as many individual arts initiatives as possible

Provide free food justice classes/workshops

Build gender neutral washrooms in public schools

Invest in Black-led organizations

Support youth in conflict by supporting Peacebuilders through funding

Improve accessibility to legal aid services for Indigenous people in Toronto by providing funding to Aboriginal Legal Services

Fund Maggie's: The Toronto Sex Workers Action Project, and support their work to assist sex workers in their efforts to live and work with safety and dignity

Set up anti-racist, community-led neighbourhood watches

Invest in community owned grocery stores, not privatized

Support the Black Coalition for AIDS Prevention and their mission to reduce the spread of HIV infection within Toronto’s Black communities and enhance the quality of life of people living with or affected by HIV/AIDS, through funding

Provide every low-income person in Ontario with a set of professional clothing

Put people with lived experience in leadership positions in housing, drug use, prison, policing and mental health initiatives and policy decisions

Offer financial supports for Black trans people

Give funding to Skylark to aid in their support of children, young people and their families struggling with complex mental health and developmental needs

Ensure everyone in Ontario has access to a washer and dryer that they can afford

Provide relief for small businesses affected by COVID-19

Offer free, weekly mental health and deescalation training across Ontario

Fund an initiative to make as many government services available online to improve accessibility

Fund peace making centres

Increased funding for hospitals

Invest in Indigenous led services by supporting the Hamilton Regional Indian Centre

Fund safe needle exchange programs across the province

Increase funding for Montfort Renaissance, to increase their capacity to support the health and well-being of people struggling with addiction, mental health, homelessness and/or age-related issues

Fund community-led creative convergence hubs for community health

Invest in inner city mental health 

Create and implement an initiative to combat environmental racism in Ontario

Build local sustainable greenhouses and community kitchens to feed, and connect our communities with each other and social services and supports

Offer housing for released prisoners with numerous job opportunities at fair living wages, educational opportunities and apprenticeships made available throughout the residential area

Invest in Indigenous-led organizations

Decriminalize drug use, end police involvement in overdose calls, and invest in the Toronto Overdose Prevention Society

Fund Runnindeer’s (Sue-Lynn Manone) organizing and outreach work

Create and implement a Land Back Strategy led by Indigenous leaders

Put that money towards investing in better schools, mental health resources, and healthcare in Indigenous communities

Invest in healing and restorative community centres/spaces 

Invest in spirit healing programs

Create an initiative to develop new educational delivery methods that are designed to engage students with ADHD

Ensure all healthcare workers are provided with adequate PPE during COVID-19

Invest in Indigenous-led anti-violence initiatives

Support Progress Toronto in their advocacy and organizing for a more democratic, socially just, and progressive city, through funding

Invest in our childcare and daycare centres in low income neighbourhoods to ensure proper early learning is accessible to all children

Offer free parenting classes/workshops across Ontario

Fund Supporting Our Youth, an innovative community development initiative creating free events and programs for 2SLGBTQ+ youth in the GTA

Invest in local sexual assault centres to fund prevention, outreach, and community connection for survivors (prevention programming specifically with younger populations to facilitate a culture of anti-violence)

Provide cash incentives to companies for eliminating single use plastics

Build more ramps in public schools

Fund free trauma informed long term counselling for youth 

Invest in over-policed communities by providing better access to education and job opportunities

Have people with disabilities consult on how to best invest in their communities, and follow through with those investments

 Increase funding for itinerant music programs in Ontario public schools

Invest in food justice for Toronto’s Black communities by funding Afri-Can Food Basket

Improved anti-racist and anti-oppressive curriculum in medical schools

Create new scholarships for low-income students

Invest in after school arts programs for elementary students

Build more elevators in post-secondary schools

Invest in immigrant services and programs that ease their transition into Canada

Increase funding for mental health wards in Ontario hospitals

Fund Migrant Rights Network, and meet their demands for full immigration status for all

Create a support fund for people getting out of prison

Give the Toronto Rape Crisis Centre funding to set up locations across the GTA

Give Black Lives Matter Toronto funding for the valuable work they do fighting for Black liberation

Create a program to provide and cover costs for emotional support animals for low-income applicants

Invest in restorative and non-violent conflict resolution education for high school students

Protect the rights of Canadian tenants by funding ACORN Canada

Establish an initiative to release individuals in prison for marijuana related offences and provide them with supports upon release

Create free lunch programs for high school students

Improve conditions in shelters

Give funding to Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, and other theatre companies in the province that are dedicated to promoting queer theatrical expression

Give funding to Just Think 1st, to aid in their mission to generate awareness about gun violence and high-risk behaviour

Create a new curriculum with textbooks that teaches elementary students about race and ethnicity in Canada

Build communities where funds go to creating positive public social spaces, with investments in libraries and other community spaces

Build small communities based on healing where people can build social/emotional skills while immersed in nature

Invest in addiction training for front line workers to be able to offer early intervention

Have people without homes consult on how to support homeless communities in the province, and follow through with all their suggestions

Add an additional subway system in the GTA that assists people in underserved areas

Expand prisoners’ access to books

Invest in restorative and non-violent conflict resolution education for elementary school students

Give this money to the Islamic Relief Foundation, so they can provide vital aid to communities facing immense hardships

Create a new curriculum with textbooks that teaches high school students about prison abolition

Fund an initiative to create a content-control software that monitors children's web use, and sets up children who show signs of being at-risk of self-harm or harming others with free counselling and supports

Fund free trauma informed mental health programs for BIPOC

Invest in better maintenance of low income housing

Provide a safe supply of drugs to people in Ontario who use drugs, including prisoners

Improve medical work ethics practices; establish as a principal that Black, Indigenous, Disabled, Fat, Intersex and Trans people are not to be mistreated, misdiagnosed, undergo surgical processes without consent, discriminated and ignored

Fund the Evergreen Counselling Centre and aid in their mission to provide a safe and hospitable place for individuals, couples and families to explore the challenges of their lives and relationships

GIve funding to Manifesto and aid in their mission to create spaces that inspire, develop and amplify diverse communities of young people through arts, culture and media

Increase funding for arts programs in public schools

Create an initiative to ensure that all children in Ontario have access to 3 nutritious meals a day

Create meaningful job opportunities for communities impacted by homelessness, addiction and mental illness

Provide funding for the Black Lives Matter movement

Create and implement an initiative to improve diversity among mental health professionals

Invest in staff and resources to ensure all students with learning disabilities can receive quality one on one instruction at school

Fund public school disability accessibility

Expand public transit in the GTA

Give funding to Pauktuutit and support them in their work to amplify the voices of Inuit women in Canada

Amplify Black Feminist voices in literature by increasing funding for Hush Harbour Press

Invest in after school sports programs for elementary students

Provide the Guelph Black Heritage Society with funding to preserve Black Canadian history and promote awareness around the experience of Black Canadians

Improve existing school breakfast programs

Ensure all Ontarians have free access to community centre programs and classes

Fund Nanook Gordon’s organizing and outreach work

Pay Black Canadians reparations

Establish trauma-informed education and systems in public schools (for instance, being able to support assault and violence survivors and leading the way to transformative justice for these communities and individuals) 

Invest in after school sports programs for high school students

Create an accessible transformative justice service

Invest in privately owned subsidized housing

Improve bus service in Scarborough

Give existing restorative justice practitioners funding to create training programs

Create community gardens where people could learn how to grow their own food - portions of produce could be donated to food banks and homeless shelters

Create neighbourhood food and produce fridges that are free and accessible to anyone who needs to use them, cared for and contributed to by the community

Fire everyone employed in policing and prisons and provide them with financial supports as they seek employment elsewhere

Increase funding for reading programs

Set the amount offered by CERB as the minimum support available through EI

Provide Black seniors with free, quality long-term care

Create a comprehensive database of fatal police encounters that is made available to the public 

Create a new curriculum with textbooks that teaches high school students about race and ethnicity in Canada

Create an initiative to ensure that no one goes without a safe place to sleep, eat, and has access to reliable medical care and job opportunities

Ensure everyone in Ontario has access to essential self-care products

Expand public school libraries

Invest in developing accessible rentals in the GTA, appropriate for those requiring mobility aids

Fund free trauma informed long term counselling for low-income adults

Bring back the funding for families with children with special needs that was clawed back by recent administrations

Invest in community-led domestic abuse crisis response teams

Invest in harm-reduction housing

Use that money to invest in food sovereignty initiatives, especially Black and Afro-Indigenous ones

Increase funding for nurses

Offer free tutoring programs for low-income high school students

Invest in improving Careers programming offered in Ontario secondary schools

Develop social housing programs

Fund an initiative that ensures there is clean drinking water on every reserve in Ontario

Invest in grassroots anti-racism organizations

Create more support resources at school for 2SLGBTQ+ students, specifically those of colour

Give funding to Showing Up For Racial Justice to aid in their efforts to organize white people for racial justice

Put more counsellors into schools, specifically in low income neighbourhoods

Give funding to Ontario Families for Public Education, so they can increase their capacity to advocate for their children’s educations

Invest in the Jane and Finch community in Toronto, targeting food insecurity and underfunded schools and replacing the massive police presence with a community-led public safety option

Fund free trauma informed long term counselling for 2SLGBTQ+ folks

Invest in Indigenous-owned businesses

Invest in community housing

Make public transit free

Build infrastructure or supply financial support for community spaces for nonprofits to run their organizations out of

Provide Indigenous seniors with free, quality long-term care

Create an accessible restorative justice service

Improved mental health treatment accessibility

Mandate paid sick leave for all workers in Ontario, providing small business with financial supports if they would struggle to implement this

Fund free trauma informed mental health programs for low-income adults

Create a survivor-led dispatch team for domestic abuse

Fund Youthlink and support their mission to highlight and develop strengths, aspirations and positive actions that improve the health and well-being of Scarborough youth and their families

Invest education justice by supporting organizations like CASE

Invest in migrant labour justice and redefining citizenship laws so no one has to feel precarious, in danger or like they don’t have access to all the resources they need

Give funding to the Hamilton Centre for Civic Inclusion, and support their efforts to mobilize Hamiltonians to create an inclusive and welcoming city

Money into treatment centres for folks who want to access substance use supports residentially

Create and implement an initiative to improve the quality of life of marginalized populations in Ontario

Add additional paid vacation days for all elections, town halls, and other engagements with government that would require people to sacrifice a days pay

Offer financial supports for victims of violence

Invest in the protection and support of prisoners by providing funding to PASAN

Increased funding for Personal Support Workers

Make therapy free and accessible for all 

Create spaces for NonBinary spirits

Invest in free and accessible mental health supports for youth of colour

Establish universal housing because housing is a basic human right

Give funding to “Wadada Nights”, so they can uplift and unite communities with conscious Reggae

Make post-secondary education free

Improve bus service in Caledon

Create a program where every child in the province gets matched up with a person working in their dream profession to have as a support resource 

Fund Indigenous led services like The Native Women's Association of Canada 

Invest in urban agriculture systems and permaculture gardens, and grow more chestnut trees to provide a healthy, perennial grain

Create new scholarships for first-generation students

Raise prisoner’s wages to, at least, match the minimum wage

Provide every homeless person with a set of professional clothing, toiletries and a free place to have a shower

Create education and supportive after-school programs for youths in over-policed communities 

Provide free childcare for low income families

Fund Muskoka Parry Sound Sexual Assault Services and support their mission to provide leadership, education, advocacy and trauma-informed support to end sexual violence and harassment

Create programs to help homeless people gain financial independence

Create a new curriculum with textbooks that teaches elementary students about 2SLGBTQ+ history

Give funding to Queer Events, so they can increase their capacity to put together events for members of the 2SLGBTQ+ community to connect and increase their networks of support

Invest in 2SLGBTQ+ youth in Hamilton by giving funding to Speqtrum Hamilton

Financially support youth-led initiatives for and by Black 2SLGBTQ+ youth like Domino Project

Fund youth employment resources

Help divert people from incarceration by giving them access to fair representation through investments in Legal Aid Ontario

Fund free trauma informed long term counselling for seniors

Ensure all homes in Ontario have working heating and AC

Fund the Ocama Collective and aid in their mission to create access to cost supported full-circle and community-based birth care

Create financial bursaries for entrepreneurs who have criminal records

Create an ongoing education program for teachers with a focus on anti-oppression training

Overhaul the 911 system to dispatch social workers, addiction counsellors, etc. instead of armed cops

Offer free telephone service for those who are low income

Invest in a community-led rehabilitation initiative for youth

Invest in community developments with community oversight

Offer free tutoring programs for low-income elementary students

Create thriving communities catered to providing education, safety, and fair living wages to low-income and homeless people

Invest in transitional housing for people getting out of prison

Decriminalize sex work, and work directly with sex workers to ensure that they have the protections and resources they need

Provide support to incarcerated people by funding Elizabeth Fry Society

Invest in positive public community spaces

Put an EA/TA in every classroom in Ontario

Make autism therapy medically necessary, and invest in providing free medically necessary therapies to all Ontarians

Ensure migrant workers are treated equitably

Build more ramps in post-secondary schools

Fund free trauma informed long term counselling for BIPOC

Hire more teachers and ensure smaller class sizes

Invest in programming that will allow Indigenous communities to preserve their languages and connect their Indigenous youth to their cultures

Provide 2SLGBTQ+ seniors with free, quality long-term care

Implement apprenticeship programs for prisoners

Give NewPRIDE funding to expand their initiative to support and advocate for 2SLGBTQ+ students at the University of Toronto

Invest in Amnesty International Canada, to support their fight for human rights

Give financial supports to the families of people who have been killed in Ontario prisons or in encounters with police in the province

Give funding to  the Ontario Long Term Care Association, so they can use their expertise to take the lead on improving conditions in long term care facilities in the province

Invest in food sovereignty in the Toronto neighbourhood of Jane and Finch, by funding Black Creek Community Farm

Invest in addiction services in underserved neighbourhoods

Give funding to The Canadian Environmental Network, to help them with their initiative to protect and promote a sustainable environment

Invest in Black-led anti-violence initiatives

Create free lunch programs for elementary students

Provide free face masks to all Ontarians during the COVID-19 pandemic

Support local, community-led food sovereignty initiatives like The People’s Pantry, who are providing hot meals and grocery care packages to people across the GTA who have been disproportionately affected by COVID-19

Use that money to launch a truer and deeper justice for the missing and murdered Indigenous women and for protecting Indigenous 2SQT+ kin, led by Indigenous leaders

Fund Black creators’ art, music, film and television projects

Fund a literature access initiative headed by Book Club for Inmates

Create a universal basic income - during the (now eliminated) pilot universal income project in Ontario, those receiving the income reported better mental and physical health and were in better position to spend and give back to their local communities

 Invest in safe and accessible outdoor public spaces

Give funding to Scarborough Mutual Aid so they can expand their initiative to re-imagine how we show up for one another

Increase overall funding for public schools

Fund the Sentencing and Parole Project, so they can expand their mission to  prepare enhanced pre-sentence reports for Black people marginalized by poverty and racial inequality

Have a diverse panel of climate justice activists consult on what environmental improvement initiatives are needed in Ontario, and follow through with all their suggestions

Create a first response team of trained harm reduction counsellors

Ensure everyone in Ontario owns multiple pairs of underwear

Give funding to Ontario Peer Development Initiative to expand their initiative to amplify the voice of peer support in the province

Work with people in recovery to develop new models for rehab facilities, instead of focusing solely on 12 step programs, that are more accessible to different types of drug users

Fund mobile mental health units for rural areas

Expand educational opportunities for prisoners

Fund free trauma informed mental health programs for seniors

Offer free tutoring programs for low-income post-secondary students

Provide low-income seniors with free, quality long-term care

Invest in local food systems

Give Indigenous communities the power to remove pipelines from their lands/have the final say on pipeline developments and finance that removal

Invest in disability services in underserved neighbourhoods

Provide Native Women’s Resource Centre Toronto with funding to expand their ability to provide resources and support to urban Indigenous women and their families

Create a program to teach elementary school students about how to recognize and oppose different types of violence

Make summer camp programs that are free for low-income families

Give funding to Xpace Cultural Centre and aid in their mission to provide emerging and student artists, designers, curators and writers with opportunities to showcase their work in a professional setting

Invest in small businesses

Invest in community development initiatives for youth

Give funding to Climate ChangeHERS, so they can expand the scope of their climate action and environmental activism

Retrofit public water fountains and washrooms 

Invest in the health, happiness and full participation of 2SLGBTQ+ folks in Toronto by increasing funding for the 519

Create and implement an initiative to make non-Western medicine free and accessible to all Ontarians

Invest in free and accessible mental health supports for 2SLGBTQ+ youth

Create an initiative to implement anti-racist and anti-oppressive policies in hospitals

Invest in after-school clubs and sports for kids

Increase funding for Health Sciences North and support their approach to delivering the highest quality patient care, research, teaching and learning to Sudbury and beyond

Create community gardens in food insecure neighbourhoods

Financial supports for Indigenous people

Improve disability accessibility on public transit

Support Women's Health In Women's Hands and expand their capacity to offer health services for racialized women living in Toronto and surrounding municipalities

Offer free night-classes to low-income folks for various skills and trades

Fund addiction services

Provide schools in low income neighbourhoods with devices that students can take home

Invest in community specific transitional housing for newcomers

Fund organizations that monitor hate groups

Increase food security by funding Sundance Harvest

Give Assembly of Seven Generations funding to expand their capacity to offer cultural support and empowerment programs for Indigenous youth

Create an ongoing education program for teachers with a focus on social justice

Set the amount offered by CERB as the minimum support available through CPP

Invest in the safety, health and wellbeing of Indigenous people in Toronto by funding Toronto Council Fire Native Cultural Centre

Invest in community specific transitional housing for queer people

Invest in better supports for refugees

Create an initiative to investigate and remove sexism and racism from dress code policies in the province

Create and implement an initiative to meet all the demands put forth by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission 

Improve conditions in long term care facilities

Create centres for job training for people coming out of prisons

Give funding to the Toronto Prisoners’ Rights Project and expand their capacity to work towards decarceral futures, advocate for the rights of criminalized and incarcerated populations, and advance public education about the violence of imprisonment

Give FoodShare funding to expand their operations and increase the reach of their food sovereignty initiatives

Support the provision of equitable and holistic mental health services to racialized people by funding Across Boundaries

Increase protections on the green belt and stop the unnecessary development of marsh and fertile land and green space

Make payment mandatory for all internships, covering the cost if the employer cannot, so that those opportunities are accessible to folks who cannot afford to work for free

Invest in community-led public safety options outside of policing

Give funding to Seaton House so they can improve their conditions and expand their capacity to support and provide shelter to men in Toronto

Improve public transit access in underserved areas

Tear down every statue in Ontario that represents slavery, colonialism and violence, and replace them with statues commemorating BIPOC leaders and freedom fighters