Tag: Social Justice
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Meet Municipal Socialist Alliance candidate, Corey David for Scarborough Southwest, Ward 20
Meet our candidate Corey David for Scarborough South, Ward 20. Learn more about Corey at Municipal Socialist Alliance website, https://municipal.socialistalliance.ca and Corey’s campaign website, https://corey-david.ca. Municipal Socialist Alliance candidate, Corey David, is running for City Council in the Scarborough Southwest, Ward 20 by-election. Corey was the Socialist Action candidate in the January 2021 Scarborough Agincourt by-election. He championed social housing, quality public long-term care and health care, workers’ power, and police abolition. Corey is a…
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Socialist Action and the MSA at the No Pride in Policing Coalition march on June 25 in Toronto
On Pride Day in Toronto, while over a million walked or watched the big commercial parade on Yonge Street, over a thousand rallied and marched to oppose police harassment of the LGBTQI community. The slogan of the No Pride in Policing Coalition is “No More Shit!” Its event started and concluded in Grange Park, behind the Art Gallery of Ontario on June 25. Dozens of participants visited the Socialist Action, signed up for more information,…
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Build Public Housing Now!
There is no doubt that Toronto is mired in a deep and severe housing crisis. This is reflected in the growing encampments as many are left homeless, overcrowding in apartments, high rents that have forced tenants to go on rent strikes, and cries to build more affordable housing. This situation also presented itself to another city 100 years ago that also had a very rich landlord class and faced similar problems regarding housing affordability. That…
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Impact of Homelessness on Gender-based Violence in Toronto
Homelessness is a situation in which an individual, family or community lacks safe, proper, and stable housing. The reasons behind homelessness are: systematic or societal barriers, financial instability, lack of employment opportunities, lack of affordable housing, mental health and addiction, physical and cognitive disabilities, sexism, racism, and classism. (fredvictor.org) According to Statistics Canada (June 1, 2023), on any given night in Canada between 25,000 and 35,000 are houseless. The houseless population is increasing daily in…
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The Tragedy of the Tamil Genocide in Sri Lanka Cries Out for Justice!
No doubt, it is good to see some Canadian political leaders address the suffering of the fast growing and resilient Tamil community in Toronto. As the socialist mayoral candidate, I am skeptical of the formal statements from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Conservative Leader Pierre Poillivre, supposedly in support of Tamils. We need more than words professing sympathy. From 1983 to 2009, the total loss of Tamil civilians due to political violence exceeded 150,000, not…
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Wealth Tax Can Foster Equality and Help Meet Human Needs
Rising inequality has caused many people to demand a hefty tax on big wealth. According to a June 2020 report by the federal Parliamentary Budget Office, the top 1 per cent collectively own about a quarter of Canada’s total wealth, $2.6 trillion. In 2018, 87 families alone had a combined net worth of $259 billion, equal to 15% of the country’s entire GDP for that year. Meanwhile, over five million people in Canada then lived…
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Protest Housing Emergency in Toronto at City Hall Square
City of Toronto politicians, senior officials, big landlords, land developers and the construction industry have blood on their hands! The Municipal Socialist Alliance is pouring, onto City Hall Square, a representation of the blood of 187 victims of the worsening houselessness crisis. Toronto Public Health found that three house-less Torontonians died every week last year, 187 lives lost in 2022, due to a lack of shelter in one of the world’s richest cities. For women,…