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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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Solidarity with college support staff in their fight for a decent contract and to protect public colleges

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…

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Democracy dismissed: Ford’s school board takeover is an attack on public education

The Communist Party of Canada (Ontario) condemns the Ford Conservative government’s politically motivated seizure of four democratically elected school boards: the Toronto District School Board, Toronto Catholic District School Board, Ottawa-Carleton District School Board, and Dufferin-Peel Catholic District School Board. Minister Paul Calandra’s claim that this is an act of Read more…

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Communist Party submission on Ontario’s “Accelerated Apprenticeship Pathway”

Accelerated Apprenticeship Pathway Consultations – Submission from the Communist Party of Canada (Ontario) Both of the models being promoted by the Ontario government for the accelerated apprenticeship pathway appear designed to weaken and degrade both the public education system and the skilled trades & apprenticeship system. There are two models Read more…

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