Rumours have begun to surface that Paul Calandra has plans to collapse Ontario’s 72 school boards into just four: English Public, English Catholic, French Public…
Contrary to what the Ford government wants us to believe, public services and public sector workers are our best defense against economic precarity—not privatization.
International Overdose (and Drug Toxicity) Awareness Day takes place around the world every year on August 31st to honour those lost to the overdose crisis…
This article first appeared in The Grind. It is republished with permission. To read the original, click here. “The first few days [after the closure]…
In a story that is all too common across the province, parents and teachers from the Toronto District School Board calling into the CBC Radio’s…
The Ontario elections are over. The government spent $189 million in taxpayer money to lose two seats and we are back to basically where we…
Ford successfully took advantage of the real fear and anger that people feel about the looming trade war with the US, and positioned himself as the best defender of jobs and the economy. But Ford will face major political challenges. The healthcare crisis, the housing crisis, and a potential deep economic downturn are not going away.
Doug Ford has yet another pre-election healthcare promise. In 2018 it was “ending hallway medicine,” in 2022 it was “unprecedented hospital capacity,” and now it…
Ford’s election call is politically self-serving – designed to get re-elected before the threat of Poilievre’s cuts, and using patriotism to erase the memory of his policies and to divide workers across borders. Nonetheless, the way to respond to Ford’s early election is not to oppose the election, it is to say bring it on.
On January 15 Doug Ford was seen at a press conference sporting a hat with the phrase “Canada is not for sale”, which was met…
After six waves and more than two years of COVID-19, the Ontario election on June 2 should be a referendum on Premier Doug Ford’s pandemic response. Based on his record a vote for Ford is a vote for COVID, but the Liberals are no alternative.
With less than a month to go before the June 2 election Ford is leading in the polls. To change this we need to build strong movements that raise people’s expectations, put workers and racialized communities’ needs front and centre and aim to shift the political terrain to the left.
