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Toronto’s New Budget: A compromise to the Right, a giveaway to police

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 political capitulation to the corporate class by giving huge increases to police, and forcing working people to foot the bill. The new budget, approved by Read more…

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Stop Ontario’s new mandatory anti-Communist curriculum!

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 the provincial and federal governments are actively supporting a genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. This new curriculum pretends to defend democracy while it is actually Read more…

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Toronto’s “New Deal” alleviates symptoms, leaves root causes unaddressed

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 pressures off the city, it does nothing to address the root causes of the decay at Toronto’s core. It is undeniable that the Don Valley 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 being proposed: “Model 1” encourages students to stop attending school to enter a full-time apprenticeship starting in grade 11—they would continue to be enrolled with Read more…

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Ontario Provincial Committee – Political Report

The following is the political report of the Ontario Committee of the Communist Party of Canada which was discussed and amended at an Ontario Committee meeting on Sept 30th, 2023. The political situation in Ontario As imperialism hurtles towards world war, nuclear catastrophe and irreversible climate chaos, the living standards of working people in advanced imperialist countries continue to decline. In Canada, working people face plummeting real wages and skyrocketing costs for housing and basic Read more…

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