Tag: Change Leadership
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MSA’s Official Endorsement of Candidates for Fall 2026 Elections
Across Ontario, workers, small business owners, and entire communities are being squeezed by rising costs, precarious work, and the devastating consequences of climate catastrophe. Doug Ford’s unapologetic corporate agenda of austerity and privatization is only accelerating the surging crises. Rather than equipping municipalities to meet growing needs, his government has cut their funding and stripped their ability to deliver the public services on which communities rely. Public services — from mass transit to libraries— are…
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Gridlock in Transit Planning
Sitting on a Goldmine! “You’re sitting on a goldmine!” David Quarmby told a Toronto Region Board of Trade meeting barely a year after the Lac Megantic (Quebec) rail disaster. It gave the federal government a perfectly good reason to kick Canadian Pacific rail off their midtown Toronto freight-only corridor. As the head of Transport for London, Quarmby was referring to all the abandoned or underused GTA railway tracks. It was he who inspired the interconnection…