Doug Ford’s new bill would give him too much control over TTC, confidential report warns A confidential TTC briefing note obtained by the Star says Bill 98 could allow Doug Ford’s government to take over the TTC to regulate fare prices and even share revenue with other transit systems.

They're right.

Bill 98 is a direct attack on the rights of local transit riders, transit workers and the TTC Board itself.

We fought for and won 3 years of a fare freeze. But for what? For Ford to overturn local decisions and raise fares? Not on our watch.

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Caring about Care Workers: Centring Immigrant Women Personal Support Workers in Toronto’s Home Care Sector

Personal Support Workers are subsidizing Ontario's homecare system with their unpaid labour.

Using their personal unpaid time, PSWs are working off the clock to provide adequate care to clients. Read more: www.socialplanningtoronto.org/carework

Ottawa & Toronto! Join me for two events:

I'll be hosting a session on effective advocacy at the Ottawa Food Security Conference on April 15; and

I'll be moderating a discussion of housing as a human right, following a free screening of Dr. Brian Doucet's "Thinking Beyond the Market" on April 27!

ALL OUT to stop the privatization of our hospitals!

List of protests on Saturday, April 25 below 👇

(There will be more protests in other towns later this year. This is just the first set.)

#onpoli #dougford #healthcare #protest #ontario

The migrant women who care for Canada deserve a future here If the workers who enable others to work cannot remain safe or healthy, the economic system they sustain becomes unstable. As Nathania Ebegbare writes, migrant care providers deserve straightforward p...

Canada’s care economy depends on migrant women, but our immigration system exploits them. If the workers who enable others to work cannot remain safe or healthy, the economic system they sustain becomes unstable, writes Nathania Ebegbare.

Ontario correctional facilities operating at 130% capacity as overcrowding worsens | Globalnews.ca New documents obtained by Global News using freedom of information laws show Ontario's correctional facilities are overflowing, with no sign the situation will improve.

80% of people in an Ontario jail haven't been convicted of a crime.

“This lays waste to the principle of the presumption of innocence. It also lays waste to the argument we have a catch and release system and that our bail is too lenient.”

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Toronto and East York Community Council - April 1, 2026 YouTube video by Toronto City Council

April 1 Toronto and East York Community Council. In defence of Chinatown.
Watch the community in action:
www.youtube.com/live/KnY012t...

Check out this important webinar on Bill C-12 and how it impacts refugees
us06web.zoom.us/rec/play/364...

Want to know capitalism’s endgame? Just look at private equity – it has captured our everyday lives | Hettie O'Brien These companies now own everything from nurseries to care homes, squeezing vital services for profit while we foot the bill, says Hettie O’Brien, author of The Asset Class: How Private Equity Turned C...

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

A new tenant union is being founded in Toronto. What’s it all about? On April 18, tenants from across the city will gather for the founding convention of the Toronto Tenant Union

A prominent tenant union based in Toronto’s northwestern corner that has helped prevent evictions, halt rent increases and force landlords to complete building repairs is going citywide. www.torontotoday.ca/local/real-e...

Ontario to seize ownership of Toronto Island Airport lands and declare it is a special economic zone Premier Doug Ford says the provincial government will be seizing ownership of city-owned lands at Toronto’s Billy Bishop Airport and declaring it a special economic zone, invoking new powers that will...

Invoking Bill 5 to designate the island airport a "special economic zone" isn't just overreach on municipal authority.

It also allows the Ford government to circumvent all responsibility for harms caused to the land, water, wildlife, and human health around the airport — including future lawsuits.

Immigration cuts have left her no path to stay in Canada — even though she’s exactly the type of worker the country needs Even with a shortage in the sector, foreign care workers already working in the country are facing steep barriers to staying amid immigration cuts.

Our report, Caring About Care Workers, is referenced in this article about barriers to immigration:

www.thestar.com/news/canada/...

Read our report here:
www.socialplanningtoronto.org/carework2026

"This is unequivocally the biggest threat to our single-payer, universal Medicare system we've ever seen. Not just for Albertans, but for all Canadians." - @friendsofmedicare.bsky.social. Rally locations below⬇️

#onpoli #abpoli #cdnpoli #dougford #daniellesmith #markcarney #healthcare

Union’s legal review challenges Ontario’s promise that water corporations will be publicly owned CUPE hired a law firm to analyze the new water and wastewater corporations

With the passing of Bill 60, the Ford government has given itself broad regulatory powers that allow for the privatization of water and wastewater without legislative debate.

I'm old enough to remember Walkerton. Our water — our health — isn't for sale.

www.thetrillium.ca/news/municip...

This is a nuclear bomb to Ontario's democracy. The Ford government wants to obfuscate absolutely everything it does.

Greatest immigration reforms in decades pass key milestone toward law The Senate has passed a bill containing the greatest reforms Canada's immigration system has seen in decades, including the ability for the Governor in Council to vary, cancel, or suspend immigration ...

Bill C-12 passed 3rd Reading in the Senate
www.cicnews.com/2026/03/grea...

Canadian sovereignty means standing up for our values: our public health care is facing the most urgent crisis we have seen since its inception.
👇The twin threats & our first actions in the fightback

#onpoli #abpoli #cdnpoli #dougford #daniellesmith #markcarney #healthcare

Where is Canada's immigration minister? Community groups are asking | CBC News Newcomer organizations are expressing concerns about Immigration Minister Lena Diab's availability, and nine Liberal MPs are questioning her place at the cabinet table.

Not easy being an immigration Minister in a decidedly anti-immigrant government
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Ontario could give TTC special constables new powers to arrest drug users on transit | CBC News Ontario is considering changes to legislation that could give special constables new powers to arrest people using drugs on public transit — a move constables say needs to come with an increased abili...

I spoke to CBC about proposed regulations on Bill 6. Bluntly put, I am vehemently opposed to criminalizing people on the TTC suspected of using drugs. While the law is aimed at homeless people, what does someone who uses drugs look like? This is a recipe for profiling. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Stop Cuts to Refugee Healthcare - Migrant Rights Network On May 1, 2026, the federal government will force refugees and asylum seekers to pay out-of-pocket for essential health care  including critical medications, dental care, mental health counseling, vis...

Pls sign.
migrantrights.ca/actionslist/...

Canada Strong is healthy people who get the care they need when they need it, regardless of location or ability to pay.

#onpoli #abpoli #cdnpoli #healthcare #dougford #daniellesmith #markcarney #fyp

Carney will slash millions in spending meant to help immigrants. Here’s how hard Ontario is being hit
www.thestar.com/gift-redeem?...

Privatization is not the solution. It makes wait lists longer and allows queue-jumping for the few who can afford it.

#onpoli #abpoli #cdnpoli #healthcare #hospital #nursing #dougford #daniellesmith #markcarney #ontario #alberta #canada

Detentions, deportations, death: Canada’s border service acts in tandem with ICE ⋆ The Breach Desmond Cole explains how the Canada Border Security Agency works in tandem with the U.S.’s ICE to deport migrants

Detentions, deportations, death: Canada’s border service acts in tandem with ICE
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Canadian sovereignty has to mean something. Fundamental to the values that underlie our society is that we take care of each other. That is part of what makes us Canadian.

#onpoli #abpoli #cdnpoli #healthcare #hospital #nursing #dougford #daniellesmith #markcarney #ontario #alberta #canada

It's more important than ever to counter disinformation from pro-privatization forces because the problem is not public health care. The problem is cuts and privatization.

#onpoli #abpoli #cdnpoli #healthcare #hospital #nursing #dougford #daniellesmith #markcarney

Decriminalization worked. B.C. killed it anyway ⋆ The Breach The province’s drug decriminalization experiment lowered arrests and reduced harm—but it failed a different political test

'The B.C. government knows very well that life was easier without police beatings, court dates, and eviction notices. It simply refuses to grant that basic dignity to people who use drugs.'

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For-profit clinics & hospitals cost us more, not less.

#onpoli #cdnpoli #healthcare #dougford