Category: Public Goods
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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 »
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Austerity U: Preparing Students for Precarious Lives
Almost everywhere you look around the world, policy-makers are introducing big changes to university systems and pondering deeper transformation. It isn’t surprising that these changes take different forms on campuses … Keep reading »
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Fifteen Years of Postal Service Liberalization in Europe
The Precarization of Employment and Working Conditions In 2013, a fifteen year process of the liberalization of postal services in the European Union came to a preliminary end as the last … Keep reading »
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Time for Protest Against the Degradation of Postal and Other Public Services
As Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper was mixing it up with world leaders at the funeral service for Nelson Mandela, his government at home dropped a bombshell, a shocker. Harper’s … Keep reading »
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No Transit Fare Increase!
The entire Canadian urban public transit system is in serious crisis after years of neglect and underfunding from the neoliberal policies adopted by all levels of government in Canada. This … Keep reading »
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Pension Funds and Privatization
Toronto — 15 November 2013. Pension Funds, Unions, and Working Class Strategies – session 4: P3s and pension-financed privatization Nearly all of the largest pension funds in Canada have moved aggressively into … Watch video »