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…
CUPE 3902, representing contract academic workers at the University of Toronto, has held its strike mandate vote. This is a bargaining year for Units 2,…
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…
On March 3rd, the Toronto Public Libraries Workers’ Union (TPLWU or CUPE 4948), representing approximately 2,300 Toronto Public Library workers, announced that its members had…
2,000 workers at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario are out on strike. PSAC 901 Unit 1, representing 2000 graduate teaching assistants, teaching fellows, and research…
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.
Ontario teachers, who signed a new four-year contract last year, will have to start thinking about bargaining sooner rather than later. The flood of articles…
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…
Just before the Ontario legislature rose for its winter break, Doug Ford introduced Bill 242, the Safer Municipalities Act, which escalates the ongoing criminalization of…
