Privatization

6 Minutes

Canada Women and Gender

The campaign for quality, universal, public childcare intensifies

PV March 2, 2023

By Helen Kennedy Ask anyone in the women’s movement what they believe is the most important program to ensure women’s equality, and they more often than not will reply, “childcare.” The federal government’s announcement...

6 Minutes

Canada

From the frontlines of the healthcare crisis: an EMS worker’s experience

PV November 15, 2022

By Parker Palmer Ontario’s emergency medical system is in an escalating crisis, with no plan from government leaders to do much of anything. While politicians pass the buck, outright lie or refuse to admit...

3 Minutes

Canada

Code Blue… Act to defend public healthcare!

PV October 26, 2022

PV Staff Throughout the summer, news headlines routinely warned that Canada’s public healthcare system was collapsing as emergency rooms closed and exhausted healthcare workers cautioned that people and institutions were stretched to the limit. ...

6 Minutes

Canada Labour

Public sector in Ontario facing huge real wage cuts

PV October 12, 2022

By Doug Allan The Ontario Financial Accountability Office (FAO) says that, with inflation, real wages in the public sector will decline 11.3 percent over the three-year period 2021-22 to 2023-24. This would radically deepen...