2013 Ontario Liberal Party Leadership
Eric Hoskins | Gerard Kennedy | Sandra Pupatello | Charles Sousa | Harinder Takhar | Kathleen Wynne Omar Ha-Redeye will be provided coverage of the 2013 Leadership Convention as an…
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A tiny response to growing elder needs
The Ontario government’s 26 page Action Plan for Seniors came out yesterday. There’s not much to it. About half of the report simply rehashes what is already in place. To…
Major decline in nursing in Ontario hospitals
There was a sharp reduction in the number of Registered Nurses (RNs) working in Ontario hospitals in 2011, with a cut of 2,750 RNs to 58,699 according to new CIHI…
On Prorogation: A Solution To Hand The Power Back To The People
By Joe Fantauzzi jjfantauzzi@gmail.com | @jjfantauzzi When a minority federal government facing a confidence vote over a rejected economic update suspended Parliament in 2008, a constitutional expert told CBC News…
Public sector employment still lags in Ontario
There has been a lot of claims about how the McGuinty Liberal government has bolstered teachers and other public sector workers. And in fact they did increase the percent of…
Long-term care beds falling well short of need
The Auditor General reports that the stock of long-term care beds in Ontario has grown only 3% since 2004-5. Over seven years (until 2011-12) that means an annual average growth…
Should we tolerate secrecy for public health care?
It’s amusing to review the course of events that led to the revelation of the secrecy concerning the problems at private surgical and diagnostic clinics. The doctors lobbied to move…
Je Me Souviens/I Remember Dec. 6, 1989
Geneviève Bergeron (1968-1989), civil engineering student Hélène Colgan (1966-1989), mechanical engineering student Nathalie Croteau (1966-1989), mechanical engineering student Barbara Daigneault (1967-1989), mechanical engineering student Anne-Marie Edward (1968-1989), chemical engineering student…
More cuts to Ontario deficit coming in January
The Ontario government’s Fall Economic Outlook retroactively confirmed that the 2011-12 deficit was $2 billion less than set out in the 2012 provincial budget. It also lopped $400 million off…
POSITION ANALYSIS: A Scathing Indictment of Neoliberalism And The Privatized Delivery of Social Services in Canada
The increasingly privatized delivery of social services under neoliberal governments is arguably doing real damage to the Canadian welfare state. Discussions about neoliberalism, which as the Oxford Concise Dictionary of…
Why The Rob Ford Verdict Is Good For Canada
That Justice Charles Hackland found Mayor Rob Ford in violation of the Municipal Conflict of Interest Act and ordered him removed from office bodes well for a more progressive Canada.…
McGuinty government demands multiple concessions
As expected, the McGuinty government has made a long series of concession demands at the OPSEU "OPS" negotiations, where OPSEU is bargaining on behalf of 36,000 provincial civil servants. Here…
PCs rule out legislative wage freeze deal with McGuinty
The Progressive Conservatives have -- effectively -- all but ruled out reaching an agreement with the McGuinty government on a legislative public sector "wage freeze".While complaining that the McGuinty government…
Elderly pushed out of hospitals: Elder Advocate
Jane Meadus of the Advocacy Centre for the Elderly says that some seniors are being pushed out of hospital too soon under the province's Home First policy, the Ottawa Citizen…
Home and community care funding less than promised
The announcements of new "home and community care" funding (which started last week) continue, this time for the Ottawa area. Home care activists First the good news. The $7.15 million…
Tiny cracks appear in Liberal attack on collective bargaining
After the architects of the Liberal attack on collective bargaining (Premier McGuinty and Finance Minister Dwight Duncan) announced their exit from provincial politics, the first, very modest, move away from…
Tim Hudak Proposes to End Overregulation with More Regulation
Ontario PC Leader, and most likely our next Premier Tim Hudak has released his predictable rehash of the Harris “common sense revolution.” Massive tax cuts are of course there, but…