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Solidarity with LCBO workers: Stop Ford’s privatization agenda

The Communist Party expresses full solidarity with LCBO workers and their union who are bargaining for a decent contract and against the Ford government’s privatization agenda. Privatization of the LCBO will mean a major loss in revenue, resulting in more severe cuts to health, education and public services.  LCBO workers have voted for a 97% strike mandate. The LCBO has recently said that they will close stores for two weeks in the event of a Read more…

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Political Report of the Toronto Convention

Since our last convention in April 2022, Toronto’s political crisis has intensified. From the worsening economic crisis gripping working people in the city, to the precipitous increase in environmental destruction and the ensuing crisis, and the increasingly drive of imperialism, conditions for working people are becoming more desperate by the day.

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Solidarity with TTC workers!

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 a huge victory for these workers and all workers, the Ontario Superior Court and the Court of Appeal have ruled that the 2011 legislation (TTC Read more…

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Ontario Provincial Committee – Political Report

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 7.8% while food insecurity rose and food banks struggled to keep up with demand. Children make up 33% of food bank users while only representing Read more…

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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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