Canada’s most populace province, Ontario, has the highest numbers of households struggling with energy poverty (1.1 M households). Households that spend more than 6% of their after-tax householdincome on home energy services (or roughly twice the nationalmedian) have high home energy cost burdens, and are said to beexperiencing energy poverty.
Many vulnerable people across Ontario struggle to pay their energy bills each month. We know that when people can’t afford their energy bills, they usually have difficulty making ends meet for other basic needs like rent and food, too. That’s why the United Way of Bruce Grey has partnered locally
I want to tell you a story. It’s not a short story, its sort of a sad story, its an older story but more importantly it’s my story. People often ask my why I’m so passionate about energy poverty, why so driven, who so uncompromising. There are many activists and
The United Way of Bruce Grey is releasing their numbers for the first 5 months of the new reporting year for its Utility Assistance Program. The United Way switched to reporting on a July to June format to more accurately capture the impact of a single winter. From July 1st
