Ontario

5 Minutes

Canada

Transit Rider Summit strengthens and builds organizing efforts in Toronto, throughout Ontario

PV July 2, 2024

By Jane McKenzie TTCriders, Toronto’s grassroots and membership-based transit rider organization, held its first Transit Rider Summit in several years on June 16 at the Scarborough Civic Centre, a site of pre-amalgamation municipal government....

3 Minutes

Canada

The “Wild West” of private healthcare in Ontario

PV April 30, 2024

By Stuart Ryan In September 2023 media reports by CTV and the Ottawa Citizen revealed that a private primary care service provided by nurses was operating in Ottawa’s South Keys area. The media report...

3 Minutes

Canada Labour

Labour-student coalition says Ontario’s PSE funding falls short of what is needed

PV April 5, 2024

Government “stabilization” funding would need to be tripled to meet Canadian average The Ontario University and Colleges Coalition (OUCC), which represents over 435,000 faculty, staff and students from every public post-secondary institution in Ontario,...

2 Minutes

Canada

Ontario student movement to visit MPPs, call for action for post-secondary education that “puts students over profit”

PV February 23, 2024

PV staff Ontario’s largest student organization – Canadian Federation of Students-Ontario (CFS-O) – is hosting its annual Lobby Week from February 25-28, providing post-secondary students with a key opportunity to meet with MPPs. The...