Those eligible for Ontario Works may be able to receive other benefits such as medical and dental coverage, eyeglasses, moving or eviction costs and employment-related costs.

In September 2006, new claims that the Ivory-billed Woodpecker may not be extinct were released by a research group consisting of members from Auburn University in Alabama and the University of Windsor in Ontario.

In the UK, the British Computer Society licenses software engineers and members of the society can also become Chartered Engineers ( CEng ), while in some areas of Canada, such as Alberta, Ontario, and Quebec, software engineers can hold the Professional Engineer ( P. Eng ) designation and / or the Information Systems Professional ( I. S. P.

The members of The Band gradually came together as a part of Toronto-based, rockabilly singer Ronnie Hawkins's backing group, the Hawks: Helm, an original Hawk who journeyed with Hawkins from Arkansas to Ontario, then Robertson who was told by Hawkin's ," You won't make much money but you'll get more pussy than Frank Sinatra ", Danko, Manuel and finally, Hudson.

" Pragmatism played a role as well, since his party depended for its survival on the votes of Progressive party members of parliament who represented farmers in Ontario and the Prairies.

The 1960s saw the emergence of renewed political organizations. The Lake Nipigon Metis Association was the first in Ontario spawning a series of community groups and a major provincial political Association of some 100, 000 members.

The Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec are associate members.

Along with the other members of the Council of Ontario Universities, the University of Ottawa signed a pledge in November 2009 known as Ontario Universities Committed to a Greener World, with the objective of transforming its campus into a model of environmental responsibility.

He attended secondary school briefly at Upper Canada College, before transferring to Appleby College in Oakville, Ontario, and graduated from university at University of Toronto, where both he and his cousin were active members in The Kappa Alpha Society, and Balliol College, Oxford.

In the Canadian province of Ontario, John Tory, leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario ran in a 2009 by-election in Haliburton — Kawartha Lakes — Brock, after he convinced one of his caucus members to step down, in hopes of re-entering the Ontario legislature.

* October 2: Canadian province of Ontario conducts a general election to elect members to the Ontario government.

The committee's mandate includes incorporating sustainability into the academic programming, engaging in research across the disciplines into issues of environmental sustainability, utilizing ecological landscaping methods and preserving green space and building and renovating facilities in accordance with energy efficiency and sustainability principles Along with the other members of the Council of Ontario Universities, Western had signed a pledge in 2009 known as Ontario Universities Committed to a Greener World, with the objective of transforming its campus into a model of environmental responsibility.

In 2007 the Citizens ' Assembly on Electoral Reform in Ontario, Canada, also recommended the use of MMP in future elections to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, with a ballot similar to New Zealand's, and with the closed province-wide lists used in New Zealand but with only 30 % compensatory members.

Most of these are members of the Francophone Association of Municipalities of Ontario, or AFMO.

At the provincial level, St. Catharines is well known for electing high-profile members of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario.

Members of a Legislative Assembly in a Commonwealth country are usually referred to as a " Member of the Legislative Assembly ", commonly abbreviated as MLA ; however, in Canada, members of the province of Ontario's Legislative Assembly are known as a " Member of the Provincial Parliament " ( MPP, Ontario ).

The Ontario Hockey Association ’ s annual meeting was unanimous that a fitting memorial be established to members of the OHA who had fallen on the field of war.

From the Act of Union ( 1840 ), the Canadian colonial legislature had been composed of an equal number of members from Canada East ( Lower Canada, Quebec ) and Canada West ( Upper Canada, Ontario, Canada ).

Two additional acts provided statutory establishment of the LWCB, defined its jurisdiction and powers, and provided for board members appointed by Canada and Ontario: the Lake of the Woods Control Board Act, Canada, 1921, the Lake of the Woods Control Board Act, Ontario, 1922.

In declining urban areas ( like Kingston Road in Scarborough, Ontario ), the remaining low-end motels from the two-lane highway era are often seen as seedy places for the homeless, prostitution and drugs as vacant rooms in now-bypassed areas are often rented by social-service agencies to house refugees, abuse victims and families awaiting social housing.

During and after World War II, Ontario experienced a housing boom common to many suburbs.

* Cornell, within the city of Markham, Ontario, was designed with walkable neighborhoods, density to support public transit, a variety of housing types and retail.

Following the decentralisation of public housing to local municipalities, Social Housing Services Corporation ( SHSC ) was created in the Province of Ontario in 2002 to provide group services for social housing providers ( public housing, non-profit housing and co-operative housing ).

It is a non-profit corporation which provides Ontario housing providers and service managers with bulk purchasing, insurance, investment and information services that add significant value to their operations.

Other popular initiatives included the TTC Eglinton West subway line in Toronto ( even though the official transit plan only recommended a busway for current needs ), support for public housing, and the Jobs Ontario job creation program.

Meanwhile the others moved, first to Essex, then to London, Ontario, where there is now a monument in their honour and an affordable housing co-op / trade union complex named after them.

This had strained many Ontario post-secondary institutions, as the spike in students forced the institutions to either construct or rent new buildings for student housing.

To the east of Spadina Avenue, numerous university students attending the University of Toronto, OCAD University ( formerly the Ontario College of Art and Design ), and Ryerson University live in many of the small houses built as workers ' housing.

After being vacant for over ten years ( most of which it was owned by the Government of Ontario ), the building eventually re-opened as apartments, after its redevelopment was approved by the Pilot Project's housing committee .. An apartment building on the corner of Queen Street and Dowling Avenue also lay vacant for some time before being expropriated by the city for an affordable housing re-development underway in 2009.

For much of his childhood, he lived in the Allenbury Gardens public housing, and at the age of 16 moved to Ajax, Ontario.

However, a number of Ontario credit unions are now offering limited financing, provided that that individual co-op corporations meet their fiscal standards, making these units affordable housing options for younger buyers.

As of 2012 new provincial legislation in Ontario will allow housing co-operatives to apply to a special tribunal to obtain a " writ of possession " to evict a member from their unit.

A co-operative housing community can take many forms: a traditional apartment building, scattered single family homes, townhouses or it can be the basis of an intentional community or a " living co-op " Student housing co-operatives also can be found in many parts of Canada including Kingston, Guelph, Waterloo and Toronto, Ontario ; New Westminister, British Columbia ); Edmonton, Alberta ; Winnipeg, Manitoba ; Montreal, Quebec ; and Fredericton, New Brunswick.

The protestors were asking to address the Ontario Legislature in order to demand a repeal of the new Tenant Protection Act which limited tenant rights, to demand increased social housing, to demand an end to the Safe Streets Act which was targeting the homeless and poor, and to reverse the 21. 5 % cut to welfare payments instituted by the Conservative government.

The organization officially changed its name to Ontario March of Dimes in 1973, and gradually expanded to include other service areas such as recreational activities, advocacy and supportive housing.

", a comprehensive study of housing in Ontario.

A community center was built in the mid-1960s, its $ 100, 000 cost shared by North York and Metro without any support from the Ontario or the federal housing agency Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation.

* The University of Waterloo in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada has the largest co-operative education program in the world, with more than 14, 000 students enrolled in co-op programs and more than 3, 500 active co-op employers.

TREC has incorporated Lakewind Power Co-operative Inc., a for-profit co-operative of Ontarians that will develop and own the project near the village of Bervie, just east of Kincardine, Ontario.

Waterloo Co-operative Residence Incorporated, also known as WCRI, is a non-profit student housing co-operative located in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.

* Waterloo Co-operative Residence Incorporated, a student housing co-operative in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada