Category: Public Goods
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A Win for Pittsburgh Public Transit
Since port Authority of Allegheny County (PAAC) cut 15 per cent of its service, residents of Baldwin, Mooncrest and Groveton – working-class suburbs of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania – had to walk … Keep reading »
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Wynne Gives Big Retail the Gift of Beer
The heads of big retail might be walking with a spring in their step this week due to a potentially generous gift from Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne. After months of … Keep reading »
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TRANSITogether: Building A Movement
Toronto — 1 March 2015. The election of John Tory creates new openings and challenges for the public transit movement in Toronto, as does the large vote for Ford in … Watch video »
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Rapid Transit Rip-Off
How Kathleen Wynne became a transit privateer, and what we need to do to get back on track Campaigning for re-election in April 2014, Liberal leader and Premier of Ontario … Keep reading »
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Beyond the Gridlock
Toronto — 9 October 2014. Public Transit Struggles from across Europe and North America Struggles to expand public transport and to block privatization are central to overturning neoliberalism and addressing climate … Watch video »
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Fight for Fare Free Transit in Toronto
Toronto — 28 September 2014. Presentations by: Kamilla Pietrzyk of the Greater Toronto Workers’ Assembly‘s Free and Accessible Transit Campaign Ward 6 Socialist city council candidate Michael Laxer, who is … Watch video »
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Low Income Transit Passes: Consolidate and Struggle to Make it Free
The passing of a resolution to “develop a Policy Framework for Toronto Transit Fare Equity for consideration by the end of 2015” by Toronto City Council on July 8th, 2014 … Keep reading »
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Healthcare in Canada and the U.S. in an ‘Age of Permanent Austerity’
An interview with Robert Chernomas by Robin Chang In North American debates over healthcare, Canada’s universal public ‘single-payer’ system of health insurance is often celebrated compared to the private employer-delivered system … Keep reading »
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Free Transit: Three Reasons It Is an Idea Whose Time Has Come
On January 1, 2013, Tallinn, the capital of Estonia, became the largest city in the world to make mass transit free for its residents. While the effects of having done … Keep reading »
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The New Struggle for Public Transit
Lessons from the Plundering of the London Underground As we in Canada (and especially Toronto) face the painful and seemingly never-ending process of developing actual projects for public transit expansion, the … Keep reading »
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Pink Wages and the Colour of Economic Exclusion
The Politics of Wage-Setting in Ontario The current debate in Ontario over raising the minimum wage offers insights into the politics of wage-setting in the neoliberal era, which is based on … Keep reading »
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Ontario NDP Waging War on Public Investment
Public transit remains a crucial policy issue for the province of Ontario, but it is not clear that citizens will get good solutions any time soon. Investment in public transit … Keep reading »