Ford raises the rent, after freezing wages
The Ford government allowing landlords to raise rent by 2.5 percent when tenants are continuing to struggle sends a clear message about the ruling class’s priorities: profit over all else.
The Ford government allowing landlords to raise rent by 2.5 percent when tenants are continuing to struggle sends a clear message about the ruling class’s priorities: profit over all else.
Galen Weston is a symptom of a system that puts profits before people. It is time to not only curb the power of billionaires but to end the system that produces them.
Faced with high inflation the ruling class is driving us into a recession and fomenting unemployment in order to preserve profits. To justify this they fear monger about workers’ wages leading to a wage-price spiral. This is simply a diversion from the fact that capitalists are out to protect their profits.
One of Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s first actions in his first term was to cut paid sick days, which fuelled the spread of COVID-19. Ford then promised “the best paid sick days in North America” but only provided three temporary days. Now one of his first actions during his second term is to let these days expire at the end of this month, which amounts to cutting paid sick days a second time.
NORAD makes Canada a junior partner to US militarism and imperialism. If Canada was truly a force for good in the world, a peacekeeper and adherent of a rules based international order, Ottawa would withdraw from NORAD, rather than spend billions more strengthening it.
Dramatic headlines such as ‘Global markets plunge as Fed mulls biggest rate rise in decades’ are no longer surprising. Yet, the onset of the present inflationary…
On June 11, 2022, Toronto Mayor John Tory and Toronto Police Service (TPS) Chief James Ramer held a public session at North York’s 31 Division…
The disproportionate policing of Black Torontoians across the city shows what many have known for a long-time: that anti-Black racism is not incidental to the TPS, it’s built in.
FIFA wants to be fair. It says as much in its mandate: FIFA exists to govern football and to develop the game around the world….
The World Bank outlines the crisis conditions enveloping global capitalism. The question before us is who will pay for the coming recession.
“We did it!” says Kim Benson, Sea to Sky Teacher and BCTF Divest Now Campaign organizer. “Now we need to ensure the next steps are taken…
Far from a radical innovator, Elon Musk is just another capitalist who lies, exploits, and endangers people in the quest to turn a profit.