By John Bell With less than a week to go before the provincial election, Premier Kathleen Wynne conceded that 15 years of Liberal rule were over. The surprise announcement left her supporters in tears and pundits scratching their heads. How voters will react remains to be seen. “After Thursday, I will no longer be Ontario’s Continue readingOntario Liberals show their true colours
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By David Bush Last fall the Facebook page North99 exploded onto the social media scene. It went from nothing in the Fall of 2017 to one of the largest progressive social media accounts in the country almost overnight. It currently has 40,000 likes on Facebook, not quite half as many as Press Progress, a similiar social Continue readingNavigating Ontario’s online political front groups
By Gerard Di Trolio After having abandoned promises like funding for First Nations education and electoral reform, the Trudeau government is now flirting with a policy that no one was promised: airport privatization. Although airport privatization was not in the current federal budget, the government is still considering it. Trudeau continues dodge the question, refusing Continue readingLiberal privatization plans ready for take off
By Michal Rozworski The fall fiscal update gave us a good idea of the economic model that Trudeau’s Liberals are gradually putting forward and it is business-friendly to the core. The infrastructure bank was the big news item in the fall fiscal update but there are far more goodies to make business happy tucked away Continue readingTrudeau’s pro-business economic agenda
By Doug Nesbitt Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was given a standing ovation at the 2nd Unifor convention in Ottawa yesterday. But not all Unifor members were cheering on the love-in between the Prime Minister and their national union president, Jerry Dias. There are plenty of Canadian workers already fed-up with business-as-usual and inaction during a Continue readingWhy Trudeau is no friend of labour