The Toronto Committee of the Communist Party of Canada condemns the recent announcement of the joint bid to host the global headquarters of the newly announced “Defense, Security and Resilience Bank” in Toronto. While the Bank’s stated purpose is to “provide long-term, affordable capital for defence, security and resilience investments,” Read more…
After one of the longest summer breaks in recent history, the Ford government has returned to Queen’s Park with a plan for another short, intense session designed to limit debate, avoid public scrutiny, and ram through more of its sweeping corporate agenda. This is their new, undemocratic playbook: govern while the legislature isn’t in session, then unleash a blitz of omnibus legislation to overwhelm resistance. It is a conscious method for accelerating the transfer of public wealth into private hands while minimizing democratic accountability.
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The Ontario Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of Canada condemns in the strongest terms the Ford government’s Bill 60, the so-called “Fighting Delays, Building Faster Act.” This omnibus legislation is a full-scale assault on tenants, democratic planning, and local democracy, designed to inflame the province’s devastating housing crisis and serve corporate interests.
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The Communist Party of Canada (Ontario) extends its full and active solidarity with 10,000 support staff, members of the Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU), who are on strike at public colleges across Ontario. The CPC (Ontario) recognizes that years of government underfunding, compounded by the Ford Conservatives’ deliberate diversion Read more…
The Political Situation: The Ford government’s corporate offensive The re-election of Doug Ford’s Conservative government in February 2025 represents a dangerous acceleration of corporate power over Ontario’s working class, Indigenous nations, public services, and democratic institutions. Ford’s victory was engineered through a campaign that cynically exploited fears of U.S. tariff Read more…
