Editing Art Eggleton (section)

== Notable Work ==
In July 2018, Eggleton wrote, with fellow Canadian [[Raymonde Saint-Germain#:~:text=Raymonde Saint-Germain (born October,by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.|Senator Raymonde Saint-Germain]], calling for an update to Canadian privacy legislation, adapting it to protect people's data given the rise of new technologies.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Blendz |first=Marketing |title=Protecting your private data |url=https://www.ottawalife.com/article/protecting-your-private-data?c=1 |access-date=2023-01-25 |website=Ottawa Life Magazine|date=23 July 2018 }}</ref>

Eggleton was the Chair of the World Council on City Data's advisory board.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Media Room & Blue Book – University of Toronto |url=https://media.utoronto.ca/media-releases/former-toronto-city-manager-joe-pennachetti-to-join-world-council-on-city-data-and-global-cities-institute-at-u-of-t/ |access-date=2023-01-25 |website=media.utoronto.ca}}</ref> The World Council on City Data is an organization that tracks standardized city data across the world to help achieve sustainable development goals.<ref>{{Cite web |title=World Council on City Data |url=https://www.data4sdgs.org/partner/world-council-city-data |access-date=2023-01-25 |website=data4sdgs.org}}</ref>

In the early stages of the [[COVID-19 pandemic]] in April 2020, Eggleton wrote with Canadian political commentator [[Hugh Segal]] arguing for a basic income program in Canada, both supporting efforts in the Canadian Senate to establish such a policy.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Eggleton and Segal: COVID-19 presents lessons in how a guaranteed basic income program could work |url=https://ottawacitizen.com/opinion/eggleton-and-segal-covid-19-presents-lessons-in-how-a-guaranteed-basic-income-program-could-work |access-date=2023-01-25 |website=ottawacitizen}}</ref>

In November 2021, Eggleton, with a human rights activist Rabia Khedr, called for Canada to fast track the Canada Disability Benefit and follow through with legislation to reduce disability poverty tabled by the Canadian government.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2021-11-03 |title=Opinion {{!}} Time to fast track Canada Disability Benefit|work=The Hamilton Spectator |url=https://www.thespec.com/opinion/contributors/2021/11/03/time-to-fast-track-canada-disability-benefit.html |access-date=2023-01-25 |issn=1189-9417}}</ref> Eggleton also published an e-book with four other authors make the case for basic income in Canada.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Art Eggleton {{!}} The Poverty and Inequality Challenge: The Case for Basic Income e-book |url=https://senatorarteggleton.ca/ebook-case-for-basic-income/ |access-date=2023-01-25 |website=Art Eggleton 45 of Public Service}}</ref>

Eggleton serves on the board of directors of Toronto [[Kiwanis]] [[Boys & Girls Clubs of Canada|Boys and Girls Club]], a charity that offers social service to youth in Toronto. As a boy in the late 1940s and early 1950s, Eggleton attended and is now a member of the Kiwanis Club of Toronto.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-07-02 |title=100 Stories, Celebrating 100 Years {{!}} No.3 – Art Eggleton {{!}} BGC Toronto Kiwanis |url=https://www.bgctk.org/100-stories-celebrating-100-years-no-3-art-eggleton/ |access-date=2023-01-25}}</ref>

He is also a vice-president of Liberal International, an international consortium of liberal and progressive democratic political parties and citizen groups headquartered in London, England and promoting liberal democracy and liberal values as well as being president of the Canadian Group of Liberal International.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Art Eggleton |url=https://liberal-international.org/people/art-eggleton/ |access-date=2023-01-25 |website=Liberal International}}</ref>