Members of the Amalgamated Transit Union local 113 have set a strike date of Friday June 7, if their negotiations do not reach a tentative agreement. This is an important milestone in the lives of nearly 14,000 TTC workers who until recently, did not have the right to strike. However, in Read more…
The attack on working people’s living standards deepens The steep decline in working people’s standard of living continues in Ontario. With core inflation at 3.9% in 2023, prices on basic necessities such as food, fuel and rent are soaring, while wages fall behind. The price of a food basket rose Read more…
After months of consultation, deputations, and debate, Olivia Chow has passed her first budget as Mayor. While Chow was able to successfully staunch the bleeding on city services, temporarily slowing the absolute decline of the basic functions of the city working people rely on, it comes at the cost of Read more…
The Communist Party condemns the Ontario government’s move to make anti-Communist propaganda a mandatory part of the Grade 10 curriculum. This attempt to rewrite history, which pretends to educate students about a genocide, comes only months after the Canadian Parliament applauded a veteran of the Nazi Waffen SS and while Read more…
The Toronto Committee of the Communist Party calls for needs-based statutory funding for the city of Toronto to provide good quality public services, free transit, reverse privatization, and expand rent-geared-to-income social housing in the city. While the so-called ‘new deal’ negotiated with the Province takes some of the most intense Read more…
