The solution to high gasoline prices is to reduce our reliance on fossil fuels altogether

A brief history on the attack of Canada’s public transit system and how we’re trying to defend it

I remember the excitement I felt when Ottawa’s long-awaited light rail train finally opened to the public. But what it promised and what it delivered turned out to be two very different realities. Why did this happen, and what does this mean for the future of Ottawa’s transit?

If new revenues go to tax cuts, not public services, we will all pay the price

Remarks to the Standing Committee on Finance and Economic Affairs regarding the 2022-23 Ontario budget on Jan. 19, 2022

If the provincial government needs more money—and it certainly does—then why has it been giving so much away?

Adult education during the pandemic

The biggest bite will come out of health care.

Minimum wage workers could ill-afford the cost of these lost wages.

Today’s Throne Speech was not a change of course so much as a change of emphasis.

At no time in the last decade has an Ontario government underspent its annual targets by 6.6%.

A multi-billion dollar budgetary windfall is an opportunity to tackle some of our most pressing challenges.

Post-COVID budgets are built on cuts

It’s not rocket science—a strong provincial sick leave plan can be created quickly by following a few basic principles.

For labour activists, it’s a sombre occasion—sadness layered over a base of quiet anger. But this year that anger won’t be quiet. Not a chance.