Category: Public Goods
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Healthcare Funding Falls, Again
Real provincial government healthcare funding per-person has fallen again this year in Ontario, the third year in a row. Since 2009 real funding per-person has fallen 2.6% – $63 per … Keep reading »
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On the Rails: A Case for Renewed Leftist Infatuation with Transport
A few weeks ago, at 3:30 in the morning, the Manitoba government froze public transit funding to Winnipeg, equivalent to a $10-million cut. It was a quiet affair. The bill … Keep reading »
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Free Transit for a Sustainable Future
Free transit advocacy can be an element in a broader vision to reorganize urban life. Watch video »
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UK Unions Call for Energy to be Returned to Public Ownership
The annual congress of the UK Trades Union Congress (TUC) has passed a historic composite resolution on climate change that supports the energy sector being returned to public ownership and … Keep reading »
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How New York Subways Got Broke, On Purpose
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is pushing for a tax on the rich to fund desperately needed improvements to the crumbling subway system run by the Metropolitan Transportation … Keep reading »
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The Summer of Fear for New York Subway Riders
After months of increasing delays at all times of the day and night, a series of incidents have now raised an even more urgent question: about the daily safety for … Keep reading »
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Privatizing Healthcare: More Private Funding of Hospitals
The Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) reports that total expenditures on Ontario hospitals increased to $23.7-billion in 2016. This is an increase of 2.4% since 2015 and 6.1% since … Keep reading »
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Public Transit, Privatization and the Canada Infrastructure Bank
The Canada Infrastructure Bank (CIB) will create a pipeline of privatization for our public transit systems. Corporations will be able to extract long-term profit from public transit fares and public … Keep reading »
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Banking on Privatization: the Canada Infrastructure Bank
The Liberal government is promoting the Canada Infrastructure Bank as a new way to provide financing for public infrastructure. But it’s really a new and dangerous way for corporations to … Keep reading »
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Private Billing and Health Clinics: Rebuild Capacity in Public Hospitals
In the Globe and Mail this weekend, physicians who are extra-billing patients for services at private clinics justified themselves by complaining that they cannot get operating room time and waits … Keep reading »
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Unions and the City: Negotiating Urban Change
Toronto – 1 June 2017 This panel invites Toronto labour leadership to respond to a comparative book on labour strategy and political action in Toronto and New York City, titled … Watch video »
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Dump Hydro Privatization, Build Public Power
Hydro in Ontario is a mess and rates are skyrocketing. The high number of people who have trouble paying or can’t pay their Hydro bills is growing by the day. … Watch video »