Policy Statement
Electing to Build A Liveable City – Together
This October, voters across Toronto and York Region will go to the polls to elect
Yaro
November 18, 2024
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Policy Statement
Recent Mass Shootings in the USA – Where Hate and Gun Violence Converge
The deaths of 19 children and two teachers at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, was shockingly the 27th school shooting in the United States in 2022. While those of us who are parents can feel the sorrow and grief of those mothers who will never see their children again, we are reminded that things do not have to be this way.
Yaro
November 18, 2024
Our Society
Response to the 2022 Election
At the end of election night – June 2nd, 2022 – the counting was over
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November 22, 2024
Our Society
Labour Council’s Statement on White Supremacy in Buffalo Shooting
The Toronto & York Region Labour Council is horrified and dismayed by another devastating and senseless racially-motivated act of hate.
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November 22, 2024
Our Workplaces
Canada’s Labour Unions Condemn the Raiding of UNITE HERE!Local 75 Royal York Hotel Union
The Canadian Labour Congress (CLC), the Ontario Federation of Labour (OFL), and the Toronto & York Region Labour Council (TYRLC) wholeheartedly condemn raiding and call on the labour movement to stand together for the benefit of all working people.
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November 18, 2024
Our Cities
The Real Cost of Doug Ford’s “Open For Business” Ontario
To see why the Conservatives deserve to be decisively voted out of office on June 2nd, take a look at what Labour Council Delegates have said about this government during its four years in power. Each statement accurately predicted the results of Ford’s decisions – the real costs.
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November 18, 2024
Our Society
Mr. Ford Gets It Wrong Again: Workers Vote for Good Jobs and Public Services, Not Free Licensing Stickers
In March 2022, the Ford government quietly scrapped equity hiring targets in arrangements for the $28.5 billion subway program (consisting of the Ontario Line, Yonge North Subway Extension, Scarborough Subway Extension, and Eglinton West LRT), undoing years of progress to bring women, people of colour, and Indigenous and Black residents into this well-paid workforce.
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November 22, 2024
Our Cities
Moving Ahead Together – Community Solidarity TO: A Response to the Rise of the Alt-Right in Canada
It has been two years since Canada declared a pandemic on March 11th, 2020. Twenty-four months of social distancing requirements, restrictions on travel and entertainment. And, twenty-four months of frontline worker exhaustion, fear, illness and loss. COVID-19 fatigue is real, and it is impacting our ability to feel compassion for one another’s suffering as we focus on dilemmas closer to home.
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November 18, 2024
Our Cities
Action Plan for the 2022 Municipal Election
Each election cycle, Labour Council works to support the election of progressive candidates for city councils and school boards across Toronto and York Region. Toronto City Council races have had the highest profile.
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November 18, 2024
Our Cities
The Ford Government Just Doesn’t Work for Workers
Doug Ford is trying to pull the wool over workers’ eyes. He wants to look like he’s helping workers and COVID-struck employers. But he’s actually helping workers as little as possible while rewarding bosses who injure their workers or deny their status as employees, in a desperate bid for re-election in June.
Yaro
November 18, 2024