Tag: Economic Policy
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Auditor General’s report confirms suspicions about Ford government’s plan for Ontario Science Centre: OPSEU/SEFPO
This week, the Auditor General’s (AG) report on the planned move of the Ontario Science Centre, confirmed what workers, experts, and community members have been saying for months. The AG found that the decision to move the Science Centre was based on “preliminary and incomplete costing information.” Meaning the Ford government deliberately excluded costing information that did not work in their favour to mislead the public. In response to the report, OPSEU/SEFPO President JP Hornick…
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Police, Poverty and the Cycle of Violence
Why does poverty exist in our modern society, and why can’t we take care of each other? Why can’t we meet workers’ and poor people’s basic needs, including dignity? The reason is that we live in a system that venerates the rights of property over people. The working class in Toronto is clearly being extorted by landlords, by multi-billion-dollar grocery chains, and, at the top, by giant banks. How is this the case when working…
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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…
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Toronto Voters Reject the Right, Embrace a Vague Left Reformist
In the June 26 Toronto mayor by-election, former NDP MP and city councilor Olivia Chow ran as an independent. She won with the embarrassingly vague slogan “We can build an affordable, safer and caring city.” She captured 37.17 per cent of the votes cast, topping former city councilor Ana Bailao at 32.45 per cent. Chow enjoyed the support of the soft pro-capitalist left, and some unions, while Bailao was backed by prominent Liberals, former mayor…
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Fair Application of Traffic Laws with Revenue Tools for the City
Traffic fatalities are on the rise, advanced technologies are not helpful and Toronto cannot afford road repairs but progressive punishment model is a win win solution. Exclusive program offered by Municipal Socialist Alliance candidate for mayor Kiri Vadivelu. The number of motor vehicles registered in Canada exceeded 26 million in 2021. Economic losses caused by traffic collision-related health care costs and lost productivity are at least $10 billion annually. In recent years, speeding and aggressive…