Steward's Corner: Just About Anyone Can Be a Good Steward
Are you a new steward trying to find your footing and avoid rookie mistakes? Are you a veteran steward trying to grow your stewards’ network and make sure newbies stick around? This episode has advice for new stewards and old stewards alik
It doesn’t seem to be widely known or reported anywhere that the Ford govt is giving transit officers police powers to seize substances and arrest individuals under the Restricting Public Consumption of Illegal Substances Act: www.regulatoryregistry.gov.on.ca/proposal/53233
Now on TPR
This morning the City of Hamilton decided to not issue a compliance order for repairs at a rental building that's for sale as a 'solid investment property for repositioning to achieve market rents.'
Tenants are asking City Hall to enforce property standards, save their homes #yhmcc
A new report obtained exclusively by The Breach shows how Canada’s biggest landlords are profiting from racialized displacement—targeting Black and Arab neighbourhoods, evicting tenants, and driving up rents. breachmedia.ca/financialize...
Hard to convey just how truly devastating this is going to be for renters, especially low income renters on social assistance. It’s going to be open season on their affordable units by REITs and their local vulture capitalist partnerships.
Bill 60 is a generational gift to landlords & a devastating attack on the rights of tenants. Eliminating compensation for N12 evictions, evicting tenants faster for arrears, restricting tenants right to appeal LTB decisions, undermining security of tenure. It’s gasoline on a fire
Incredible display of contrasts. I like when the consultant speaking in favour of “pragmatism” said the NDP shouldn’t demonize lobbyists and corporations.
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The deep spending cuts called for by PM Carney’s government yesterday will only weaken the programs that people depend on. This could result in thousands of public service job cuts impacting PSAC members, their families and communities across the country. 1/2
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shoutout to our remote Mississauga MP for Hamilton Centre, Aslam Rana,who decided to litter the corner of a vacant property at the end of our street with these pointless signs for Canada Day
everybody who yaps about how unsafe downtown hamilton is has clearly never tried walking through the Centre Mall parking lot
This is a highly inappropriate use of an N5 by Greenwin. It is simply anti-democratic and anti-free speech.
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In solidarity with striking IUOE Local 772 workers at Hamilton Water! ✊🚰
What Cohn can’t comprehend is that the NDP, for whatever its faults, is an organizational expression of the working classes’ need for independent political action. It’s only by organizing independently of the bosses parties that working people have ever made gains. www.thestar.com/politics/pol...
“The foundations of social democracy have been sapped for decades in Canada. The class basis for new radical ideas needs to be built anew from struggle. Ideas can change and there are real openings to advance a working-class alternative…“
@springmagca.bsky.social
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On a teal background, a group of people's shadows with a flag. The below text above is displayed in white with the header text above "May Day" and "International Workers' Day": Today is a sombre May Day, friends, as a new vector of attack on our communities is coming with Ontario's Bill 6—the new 'Safer' Municipalities Act—we have to remember the core of this day is for all of the working class, no matter if we are judged as productive or criminalized by the state and the ruling class.
It is a sombre May Day as a new vector of attack on our communities is here with Bill 6—the new 'Safer' Municipalities Act—we have to remember this day is for all of the working class, no matter if we are judged as productive or criminalized by the state and the ruling class. 1/2
waking up to my annual tradition of listening to the inimitable peter linebaugh tell the story of may day on @democracynow.org
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Over 200 CUPE 2073 members at Canadian Hearing Services are on strike after CHS refused to bargain fairly.
These workers deliver vital services to Deaf and hard of hearing Ontarians. They deserve respect and a fair contract.
Solidarity! ✊
Hundreds of people are at Hamilton City Hall to mark the Day of Mourning
The recent workplace death of City of Hamilton worker Nabil El Ahmed is felt in the room. His family and friends shed tears as a co-worker spoke about his life. Ceremony will walk to Bay and Main for 630pm. Open to all #HamOnt
Excellent summary of Trump’s use of tariffs by the late Fred Goldstein: “in a tariff war between the bosses, as in any war, the workers are the real casualties.”
For as long as this tariff circus plays out, the obscenely wealthy Canadian elite will mobilize maudlin patriotism to get you to buy their shit, even while they raise prices way beyond what they would 'need' to to cover their extra costs. YOU will pay for the trade war, Galen Weston will not.
very cool to get a phone call from
someone in Guelph to back their preferred candidate (also from Guelph) to be the NDP nominee in Hamilton Centre.
(no one should be seeking the ndp nomination for hamilton centre)
Meet Kojo Damptey, the Ontario NDP candidate for Hamilton Mountain for the upcoming provincial election.
#HamOnt #HamOntMtn #onpoli
you may want to review hamilton centre. incumbent sarah jama has the strongest chance of holding the seat, but your site makes it seem like she doesn’t exist.
New from me:
A column on why Sarah Jama is likely to win in Hamilton Centre.
- Her independent riding association raised $34K in just one month in 2023
- They can spend reach the ~$110K campaign limit
- The other parties do not have local campaigns that can compete. #HamOnt #yhmvote
as an unrepentant dirtbag leftist i liked the connotation of “sewer socialists”. but i respect the rationale. looking forward to the next phase!
