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		<title>A Solution for Everyone</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 03:42:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently the media has focused extensively on Toronto Mayor, Rob Ford&#8217;s proposed cuts to the student nutrition programs. At the time of writing, it seems as if Ford has been forced to back off owing to the howl of outrage this proposal produced. A ten per cent cut would mean 58 of its 669 programs would be closed, affecting about fourteen thousand children. The city is considering cutting $380 000 from its annul $3.8 million contribution to nutrition programs which cost a total of $12 million to run, the rest coming from the province and donations. To put it bluntly, kids will go hungry and hungry children can&#8217;t learn effectively. It has been clearly shown that breakfast programs in low-income areas result in 50% lower suspension rate, and scores in math, science, and reading have risen by nine to fifteen per cent. Ford has run into such stiff opposition on the council on this matter that they are looking at other ways to get the city out of debt. Ford&#8217;s 2012 budget proposed $88 million worth of cuts, including closing some swimming pools, eliminating recreation programs, programs for the arts, HIV prevention programs, reducing arena hours, allowing ambulance wait times [...]


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		<title>Occupy Toronto</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 03:49:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As anyone can clearly see, the world is heading closer to the brink of environmental and financial disaster brought about by the rapacious and ruthless nature of capitalism. In such disturbing times, it is refreshing to see two movements appear that are saying, in effect, &#8220;wait a minute, there is a way out&#8221;. I refer to Democracy Now and the Occupy Movements. Both have spread rapidly and globally, particularly the Occupy Movement, and both are unlike anything else yet seen under capitalism, apart from socialism. They cannot be compared to the Civil Rights Movement of the 50s and 60s, or the feminist groups of the 70s, because in neither case are they demanding improvements for minorities within capitalism. Nor can there be comparisons with the Anti-Vietnam War Movement, which wasn&#8217;t opposed to capitalism or even the American government, but its policy of continuing, in their view, an unjust war (as if there could be such a thing as a just war). The most positive factor with these new developments is that they realize that it is pointless getting rid of a government and putting a new one in power if its intention is to continue to administer capitalism for the [...]


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		<title>Food for thought</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 23:30:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Toronto Star (6/March/2010) asks “Who will be tomorrow’s Builders?” It goes on to list the famous men (no women!) who have “built” the great concert halls, university colleges and other public and private buildings of Toronto. Maybe I have missed something here. I thought builders wore jeans and hard hats and poured the foundations, and framed the buildings and plumbed, wired, and ﬁnished them. The former group only wear suits and sit on their backsides. Do we really have to wait around for these useless idlers to get anything done? Many people have lost their homes in this recession, and been put out on the street with nowhere to go. This is a bad thing. The US government, however, has been able to build a whole village styled after those in Afghanistan so the troops, American and Canadian, can practice the art of killing other human beings more efﬁciently. This is supposed to be a good thing(?). The Ontario government and the developers are salivating over exploiting Ontario’s chromite rich Ring of Fire, located in a vast area of pristine lakes and wilderness in the province’s North Country. As usual in capitalism, the squabble to get a piece of [...]


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		<title>Food for thought</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Apr 2010 03:47:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Under Capitalism When the lead smelters came to Jiyhuan, China, the workers rejoiced for the new jobs, the infrastructure upgrades, the new cultural hall, and the new basketball stadium. The lead smelters also brought lead poisoning. Jiyhuan’s blue skies have gone, its fruits and vegetables are stunted, its children and workers poisoned. The story details the medical troubles of worker, Li Yingfu who had half of his stomach removed. The follow-up story reported that he had died. In India, ten-year-old Muna gets up at dawn to go to the ﬁeld to collect melon-size rocks to take to the crushing machine to make gravel for the new roads that are part of India’s ‘economic miracle’. He works fourteen hours a day at this back-breaking work for about 90 cents. It is estimated that India has 60 million working children. Amazingly, Thomas Chandy, head of Save the Children India has a solution the World Bank SHOULD demand that contractors hired to build roads ﬁnanced by them do not buy gravel from quarries that use child labour! Some solution, but when you can only think in capitalist terms, what is to be done? Totally bleeping useless! John Ayers No related posts.


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		<title>Mississauga The Good?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 06:36:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For some years the city of Mississauga, Ontario, has been held up as an example of how efficiently a city can be run, inferring that it is the incompetence of other jurisdictions that prevent them being run prosperously. While its next-door neighbour, Toronto, has had its financial woes for twenty years, Mississauga went without a single tax increase between 1991 and 2001 and, in fact, Mississauga has not borrowed money since 1978. A low business tax encouraged companies to relocate from Toronto, and new developments were constantly being built, bringing in more revenue. Now, however, things are not so rosy. The city is proposing a 2.3% increase on the city&#8217;s portion of the property tax bill. The cash reserves that have kept Greater Toronto&#8217;s second largest city debt-free are almost gone. The gloomy prognosis is that by 2012 Mississauga will have to borrow again. The main factor behind the city&#8217;s changing fortunes is that it is now built out and, therefore, charges on new development are no longer coming on stream. Also, repair costs are rising with $1.5 billion needed over the next twenty years to repair or replace the city&#8217;s roads, bridges, water lines, and sewers. To pay for [...]


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		<title>Colonialist Canada</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2008 23:45:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Canada is now a superpower in the African mining sector. According to the Ministry of Natural Resources Canada , only the Republic of South Africa, with over 35% of assets and investments, is just ahead of Canada in the African mining industry. But with South Africa&#8217;s assets concentrated on its own territory, Canada dominates the rest of the continent. In 2001, Canadian companies have operations in 35 countries. 91% of Canadian investments were concentrated in eight countries, with the order of countries&#8217; importance being the following: South Africa (25.6%), DR Congo (17.8%), Madagascar (13.8%), Zambia (9.9%), Tanzania (9.5%), Ghana (6.5%), Burkina Faso (4.7%) and Mauritania (3%). Africa represented 11% of Canada&#8217;s US$25.8 billion in cumulative mining assets in 2001, a proportion which had risen to 17% of the total $85.9 billion in the same assets by 2007. Canadian diplomacy is very much at the service of business interests . In this regard, the country at times pursues objectives seemingly at odds with its development agenda, some examples of which include: -In 1996, the Canadian High Commissioner in Tanzania intervened on several occasions to influence revisions to mining legislation as a means of promoting Canadian business interests. And, specifically, in order [...]


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		<title>The Toronto Propane Explosion</title>
		<link>http://wspus.org/2008/09/the-toronto-propane-explosion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2008 05:03:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Capitalism has a nasty habit of suddenly laying a ton of grief on unsuspecting members of the working class. A typical example is when the employees of Consumers Glass in Etobicoke, Ontario, were recently told the plant was going to be shut down just two weeks after they had negotiated a union contract. But the explosion at the Sunrise Propane yard in Toronto on August 10 takes some beating. This happened at 4 am in a heavily populated residential area. 12 000 people living in a 1.6 kilometre radius were evacuated, many clad only in night clothes. A 25-year veteran of the Toronto Fire Department died fighting the blaze, and a Sunrise employee was missing presumed dead. He was reportedly last seen heading towards the fire. Considering the blast shattered windows over a wide area and flying debris damaged buildings hundreds of metres away, it was surprising casualties were not greater. Thousands forced to flee from their homes are demanding answers from the Toronto City Council as to why Sunrise Propane Industrial Gases was allowed to build a distribution plant in a long established residential area three years ago. Although the casualties were light, the residents wonder why they were [...]


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		<title>Politicians, Prime Ministers and Polls</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Dec 2007 09:07:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the wake of the Brian Mulroney/Karl Heinz Schreiber scandal there has been an outpouring of emotion concerning politicians in general and Mulroney in particular. This has reached such an extent that on December 15th the Toronto Star published the results of an Angus Reid strategies poll showing how Canadians felt about ex-prime ministers Trudeau, Chretien and Mulroney. The headlines read, PMs evoke fear, love, loathing. The results were charted, supporters and opponents checking off their feelings about them: love, joy, wonder, optimism, acceptance, no feelings, surprise, sadness, displeasure, shame, anger, contempt, disgust, and so on read the poll. Theres no need to republish the results here. To do so would be to hoodwink the matter within the capitalist kaleidoscope of the Angus Reid Political Watch obtaining the results that tell readers, emotions are a very powerful predictor of voting intentions. This may indeed be a considerable factor in determining how people vote ﬁndings which by the way echo the ﬁnest of capitalist examples like in 1932 where two German-Nazi elections played up heavily on the worst possible xenophobia of its German electorate to eventually gas-chamber Jews in that nation’s ‘ﬁnal solution.’ Whether an electors vote is determined by one’s [...]


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		<title>The Magna/CAW Deal</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Dec 2007 06:03:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Magna Corporation is the largest supplier of parts to the auto industry in Canada. It employs more workers than GM Canada, all non-union and all working below union rates putting downward pressure on wages in the industry. (It will come as no surprise that CEO Stronach takes home higher than union wages &#8211; $100 million over the last three years!). The company represents a significant challenge to the Canadian Auto Workers’ Union (CAW) and a potentially large source of dues revenue. But the deal that was struck between CAW president Hargrove and Stronach has provoked strong reaction. Here’s why &#8211; Stronach agreed to allow a union drive in his plants and to promise no lockouts while Hargrove agreed to give up the right to strike. In other words, the union gets in and Magna gets the kind of union it wants. Disputes will be settled by binding arbitration, workers losing the right to an elected shop steward for each department to speak for them, and instead will be represented by a single employee advocate for the whole plant appointed by a plant committee composed of union and management in equal proportions. “Troublemakers” need not apply Criticism has rightly been [...]


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		<title>Imagine &#8211; Summer 2007</title>
		<link>http://wspus.org/2007/07/imagine-summer-2007/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jul 2007 05:20:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Imagine is the magazine of our Canadian Companion Party &#8211; the SPC. In this issue they celebrate &#8220;100 Years For Socialism&#8221; No related posts.


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		<itunes:subtitle>Imagine is the magazine of our Canadian Companion Party &#8211; the SPC. In this issue they celebrate &#8220;100 Years For Socialism&#8221;


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