After years of cuts and attacks, former Toronto Mayor John Tory won’t be missed.  However, Tory’s resignation alone doesn’t solve the crises of skyrocketing rent, police violence, crumbling transit lines, poverty, and the other effects of decades of austerity, across the city.

The campaign against Doug Ford’s anti-protest law has been a huge success. There have been well-attended and enthusiastic forums at McMaster U., University of Waterloo, and UofT. The protest at Ryerson University attracted more than 100 people and received wide press coverage. The campaign even provoked an attack from the National Post. Subsequently, the pressure […]

  It was the best of times, it was the worst of times… In Vancouver, the right wing NPA was defeated in the mayoralty by a former NDP MP, combined with a strong showing for the left wing Coalition of Progressive Electors (COPE). But in Toronto, former Progressive Conservative leader John Tory won a landslide […]

  It was the best of times, it was the worst of times… In Vancouver, the right wing NPA was defeated in the mayoralty by a former NDP MP, combined with a strong showing for the left wing Coalition of Progressive Electors (COPE). But in Toronto, former Progressive Conservative leader John Tory won a landslide […]

On Oct. 22, Torontonians will head to the polls to vote for their next mayor. After four years of Mayor John Tory, a former Rogers CEO and lackey of Toronto’s elite, none of Toronto’s most pressing problems, including subpar transit, skyrocketing rent, or the rise in precarious work have been addressed. Given this, some have […]