Success Story: Community Advocacy

Written by Donna Ashcroft and Brittney Taylor, Oliver Community Advocates "Adrian was faced with mental and physical health issues & a housing crisis, and he contacted our outreach office at The Access Centre for support. The most urgent…

Success Story: Family Law Program

Written by David Desautels, Family Law Advocate ** names have been changed to protect privacy** Maria is married to Floyd, and they have two boys under 12 years old. Maria and Floyd had a good marriage until Floyd became aggressive and started…

Success Story: Poverty Law Program

Written by Keleah Strack - Poverty Law Advocate "We had a family who was served a 2-month eviction notice for landlord use of property. The landlord claimed that she needed the tenants to vacate because she wanted to move into the tenant’s…

Access Centre Success Stories

This Toronto doctor helps people get more money to improve their health

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By Leslie Young  Global News Posted May 19, 2019 6:00 am A few years ago, a woman came in to see Dr. Gary Bloch at his family medicine clinic in Toronto. She had “just terribly, terribly controlled diabetes,” he said. “Her…

Tax Volunteers for the Win

Here at the Access Centre, we offer FREE tax filing help and we are currently gearing up for this upcoming tax season. Though Revenue Canada is closed for E-filing this month, starting March 2nd and through March and April we will be in…

Employment Severance Dispute

A client came in stating he had been dismissed from his employment. The employer had given our client a small severance settlement. He had been there for 20 years. We advised our client not to sign the full and final settlement agreement employer…

Housing Success Story

Issue Our client came to us with a notice to attend a Residential Tenancy Branch Arbitration Hearing. The client’s only source of income was Persons With Disability (PWD) benefits from the Ministry of Social Development and Social Innovation…