Toronto Mayoral: Block the Right! Fight for a People’s Alternative!

The Toronto Committee of the Communist Party of Canada is calling for friends and supporters across the City of Toronto to block the right at the ballot box during the coming Mayoral by-election. After over a decade of right wing governments, Toronto services are in crisis, and working people are bearing the brunt of the city’s austerity policies. The cessation of social housing construction has led to a housing crisis which has priced many of Read more…

Stop Ford’s Privatization of Surgeries

This is the text of a presentation to the Standing Committee on Social Policy regarding Bill 60 made on March 27th, 2023. The Communist Party of Canada is 102 years old this year. The Communist Party of Ontario is 83 years old. We are proud to have been among the first advocates for public health care in Canada. It took several decades to achieve Medicare in Canada. And even then Medicare was far from universal Read more…

Block Bill 39 – Tories sweep aside local democracy for profiteering developers

The Ontario government’s recently tabled Bill 39, The Better Municipal Government Act is a sweeping attack on local democracy in the direct service of private corporate developers. It is a cynical use of the housing crisis to increase corporate profit and restructure governance in Ontario, and it must be blocked. The legislation comes on the heels of Bill 3, The Strong Mayor, Building Housing Act, which was passed in September and provides extraordinary executive powers to the mayors Read more…