Category: Public Goods
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Spending on Health Must Get Much Larger
The long term fiscal and economic outlook released this week by Ontario’s Financial Accountability Office (FAO) shows that big increases in healthcare spending are required in the years ahead. The … Keep reading »
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Financialization, Inequality and the University
The university sector in Britain has been hit by a momentous series of inter-linked strikes since 2018. Led by the University and College Union (UCU), representing some 110,000 staff, the … Keep reading »
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Corporations Can’t Deliver on Climate: Toward Global Public Goods
COP26 convenes at a time when vastly different visions of climate transition compete for supremacy. Large corporations around the World Economic Forum (WEF) are promoting a “Great Reset” where “stakeholder” … Watch video »
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Emergency Measures Needed to Address Ontario Healthcare Crisis
Ontario’s hospitals, long-term care (LTC) and home care services face critical and growing staffing crises. Our province’s health care system is not on the brink of crisis, it is in … Keep reading »
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Better Public Bus Service Is a Public Health Measure
A new COVID wave, a new round of service cuts to public transit. The reasoning always seems common sense enough: between remote working, things being closed down, and aversion to … Keep reading »
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Demanding Answers from Ford: Ontario’s Long-Term Care and Hospital Crises
The Ontario Health Coalition issued a statement on January 13 demanding that the Ford government explain what it is going to do about the spiralling crisis in Ontario’s long-term care … Keep reading »
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Unions and Climate Change: Toward Global Public Goods
A Corporate-led Transition Can’t Deliver on Climate: Toward Global Public Goods COP26 convened at a time when vastly different visions of climate transition compete for supremacy. Large corporations around the … Watch video »
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Doug Ford’s New Long-Term-Care Legislation, Tolls for All of Us
Hope to live out your old age in dignity and comfort? Think again, after Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s “new” long-term-care legislation, Bill 37, was rushed through with furtive speed, just … Keep reading »
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Free Transit Movement Making Inroads
Late afternoon on December 9th, volunteers with the advocacy group Free Transit Ottawa stood near the doors of St. Laurent Shopping Centre, thrusting leaflets into the hands of people hurrying … Keep reading »
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Ford Government’s Response on Long-Term Care is a Travesty
The so-called “new” long-term care legislation introduced by the Ford government is scheduled for third and final reading in the legislature today and it will be passed by the Conservative … Keep reading »
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Protecting Seniors? Bill 37 and the Ontario Crisis in Long-Term Care
The ‘new’ Ontario Long-Term Care legislation, Bill 37 Providing More Care, Protecting Seniors, and Building More Beds Act, 2021, has been referred to the Standing Committee on the Legislative Assembly … Keep reading »
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Urgent Letter to Ontario MPPs Regarding the New Long-Term Care Act
Dear Members of Provincial Parliament, We are writing to request that you do not support or facilitate any plan to drive through the “new” long-term care bill with undemocratic speed. … Keep reading »