Howard Hampton: Soon to be former ONT NDP Leader

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Todays Star has a good article on Howard Hampton the soon to be former Ont. NDP leader. Hampton never did get the chance to shine, stifled as he was by the shadow of Bob Rae. A shadow which even a move by Rae to the Liberals has not lifted. Ironically Hampton and Rae were not [...]

Workers Rights

This post will deal mainly with Ontario, though I would imagine similar situations are happening across the country. In Ontario workers rights are being eroded at an alarming rate, most especially by the huge increase in Temporary Labour placement companies and their use by employers. Temporary agencies, which require no licence to start up, are [...]

Targeting Reality

Carol Goar has an article in The Star titled, “Targeted child care misses mark”. In the article she details how many children are not being served because care is targeted to low income homes and children who are thought to be ‘at risk’ because they come from poverty. Doherty, a child development psychologist, has spent [...]

An Open Letter to Dalton McGuinty

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Dear Mr. McGuinty, My name is Devon. I am a 12 year old girl attending elementary school in Ontario. In the past election you said your government would be best for education. I recently watched this video, Writing on the Wall, by the Indigo Love of Reading Foundation. I don’t think that schools should have [...]

“Well, you’re not going to solve the problem if you even refuse to say what it is.”

War on Women

The Star carried this article yesterday about The War on Women: Elly Armour, Jane Hursham, and Criminal Domestic Violence in Canadian Homes, by Brian VallĂ©e. Stephen Lewis wrote an impassioned foreword for the book, urging the creation of a fully funded United Nations international agency for women that would provide “a tremendous force for advocacy [...]