Put peoples’ health before profit!
The Communist Party of Canada (Ontario) condemns the Ontario government’s latest decisions to significantly restrict access to COVID-19 testing, contact tracing and reporting, and to halve isolation requirements. These political decisions will inevitably result in more unnecessary disease and deaths.
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Delegates to the 31st Ontario Convention of the Communist Party of Canada united in their condemnation of the ongoing US campaign to destabilize Cuba. They unanimously agreed to demand an end to the US blockade which is strangling the country and creating undue hardship.
At the 31st Ontario Convention of the Communist Party of Canada, delegates from across the province called for urgent measures to be taken towards ending the ongoing opioid epidemic. With the social distancing measures, combined with overwhelmed and underfunded health care services, the COVID-19 pandemic has severely exacerbated and accelerated the opiod crisis, the number of deaths rising by over 60% in 2020. This trend is continuing with deaths up by 30% in the first Read more…
The Ontario Convention of the Communist Party of Canada condemns the recent arrests of land defenders on Wet’suwet’en territories. We stand in full solidarity in the fight for the rights of land and water defenders whether it be on Wet’suwet’en territory, Haudenosaunee territory at the 1492 Land Back reclamation or anywhere around the world where Indigenous peoples are struggling against capitalist dispossession.
By declaring that municipalities have no basis in the Constitution and are mere creatures of provincial governments – creatures that can be created, changed, merged or dissolved according to political whim – the Supreme Court has clearly signalled the urgent need for democratic constitutional change.
