Measure elected trustees against CPE’s platform!
A 10 Point Program for Public Education in Toronto.
Corporations still won’t pay their share.
On Monday July 14th, Ontario Finance Minister Charles Sousatabled an identical … $130.4 billion fiscal blueprint to the one he introduced May 1, which sparked last month’s election. “It’s a little bit of déjà vu, but a lot has changed,” the treasurer told reporters, referring to the fact Premier Kathleen Wynne’s Liberals were re-elected June […]
HUDAK’S PLAN WILL MAKE LIFE HARDER FOR STUDENTS
The Conservative government is planning to slash 10,000 jobs in education, increase class sizes, halt the implementation of full day kindergarten and end tuition grants for post-secondary students. This isn’t fair to students! Vote wisely on June 12!
HUDAK’S PLAN WILL MAKE LIFE HARDER FOR FAMILIES
The Conservative government is planning to reduce the wages and benefits of hard-working Ontarians in addition to slashing 100,000 jobs in the public sector. Families will struggle. Vote wisely on June 12!
HUDAK’S PLAN WILL MAKE LIFE HARDER FOR SENIORS
The Conservative government is promising to reduce pensions. What will this leave our seniors with? Vote wisely on June 12!
How did my Trustee vote on that, anyway?!!
Check out current voting records of your school trustee at the TDSB… here !!
Those who can, teach; those who can’t ridicule
. Who you callin’ a teacher? Why we love ’em in theory and loathe them in practice Of course Justin Trudeau’s experience as a teacher isn’t going to help him run a government. What could he possibly have learned overseeing a group of squabbling, self-absorbed kids who can’t see past their own interests that might […]
“A Trojan horse for school closings” says Globe report
In Saturday’s Globe and Mail Kate Hammer reports that TDSB’s “K-12 Strategy” consultations are essentially “a Trojan horse for school closings” . Here is her report: As a father of two young children, there are a lot of things Corby Fine would change about Toronto’s public schools. He thinks that technology is too important to allow some schools to have tablets […]
Democracy postponed: Rally Wed 530pm Queens Park
Wedding postponed…but so is our democracy! In place of a wedding, guests are invited to attend a rally this Wednesday, October 17th 2012 at 5:30pm at Queen’s Park against the shutting down of the legislature and the profoundly undemocratic manner in which austerity is being imposed on Ontarians. The corporate elite of Canada regrets […]
wartime-style powers
The Ontario government is selling its new public restraint bill as a simple, two-year wage freeze. A close reading shows the proposed law is much, much broader. Unveiled on Wednesday by Finance Minister Dwight Duncan, it would give the provincial cabinet wartime-style powers over public sector compensation for at least six years. If approved by the […]