If you are one of the millions of Ontarians who lives in a high-rise or works in an office tower, you wake up every morning expecting to get down and out of your building and up to your office safely and on time. Elevator workers are a silent army that...
(0) Comments | Posted May 2, 2013 | 8:02 AM
Minority parliaments provide unique opportunities to cut through partisan politics and collaborate to deliver progressive change. Thursday's Ontario budget provides one such opportunity that cannot be squandered.
It is time for Ontario's political parties to do something truly courageous: listen to Ontarians and work together to adopt a People's...
(8) Comments | Posted February 14, 2013 | 6:55 AM
The way that Conservative Members of Parliament like Pierre Poilievre go on about unions dues, you'd think they are familiar with the struggle of the average working person. However, unlike the millions of workers in Canada who are striving to make ends meet, Poilievre is only 33 years...
(27) Comments | Posted July 20, 2012 | 8:12 AM
Ontario PC Leader Tim Hudak's recent white paper, "Flexible Labour Markets," has been the centre of much controversy and debate.
Hudak trumps up a lot of nonsense and feigned concern about union democracy and transparency, but in the end offers little more than selfish individualism in opposition. That...
(6) Comments | Posted July 19, 2012 | 7:29 AM
From Queen's Park to Parliament Hill, if there is one lesson that Conservatives have learned from Indiana, Alabama, Louisiana and other states where "right-to-work" laws have decimated worker representation and driven down wages, it is that attacking unions is also the best way to silence your critics. It has become...
(31) Comments | Posted July 18, 2012 | 10:10 AM
This is part one of a three-part reply to Ontario PC Leader Tim Hudak's series of HuffPost blogs about his party's "Path to Prosperity" white paper.
Since when was the middle class the enemy of Ontario's economic strength? It seems impossible to have a conception of...

(1) Comments | Posted June 5, 2013 | 5:22 PM