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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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No War Bank in Toronto! Fund working people’s needs!

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,” its true purpose is to support US and NATO imperialism, ratchet up the drive to war, and provide a vehicle for military investments. The Bank Read more…

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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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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 of funding from public system to private institutions, have brought the college system in Ontario to the brink of collapse. Since 2013-14 provincial funding for Read more…

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