Emergency action now to address the wildfire crisis!

Put people and the planet before profit, to end the climate catastrophe!

The Communist Party of Canada (Ontario) calls for immediate, emergency action to address the ongoing wildfire crisis which is gripping the province. The rapidly expanding wildfires are destroying communities in Northern Ontario and displacing Indigenous nations and many working-class people there. The fires are blanketing the rest of the province in a thick coating of smoke, leading to disastrous health outcomes for working people hundreds of kilometres away from the fires themselves.

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Education is a right! Full public funding and free tuition now!

The Communist Party of Canada (Ontario) stands with tens of thousands of post-secondary students and education workers who have mobilized against Doug Ford’s latest attacks. Education is a right, not a privilege – it should be fully funded by the government and provided free of tuition. Student debt should be cancelled, and students should be provided with a stipend to cover their living expenses.
Ford’s February 12 announcement that Ontario is ending the years-long tuition freeze and reducing OSAP grants to a maximum of 25 percent of student assistance is a deliberate step that accelerates the drive to privatization in post-secondary education.

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Ontario Provincial Committee – Political Report

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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Ford’s “Faster Evictions Act” declares war on Ontario tenants

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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