Taxation : Communist Party of Canada (Ontario)

Meet our candidates

Elizabeth Rowley, Brampton-Springdale

Elizabeth Rowley is Ontario Leader of the Communist...

Saleh Waziruddin, St Catharines

Saleh Waziruddin is a 33-year old call centre worker...

Miguel Figueroa, Davenport

For almost 40 years of activism and campaigning,...

Cathy Holliday, Toronto Centre

Cathy Holliday has worked as a front line nurse for...

Rick Gunderman, Ancaster-Flamborough-Dundas-Westdale

Rick Gunderman is a factory worker, musician and community...

Drew Garvie, Guelph

Drew Garvie is a service sector worker, part-time...

Stuart Ryan, Ottawa Centre

Stuart Ryan works for a Canadian Union of Public Employees...

Jim Kabitsis, Don Valley West

Dimitrios “Jim” Kabitsis is the Communist...

Anthony Gracey: Hamilton-Centre

Anthony Gracey is a graduate student and Teaching Assistant...

Hospital “Superbug” Deaths Preventable

Posted by DM on September 23, 2011 · Leave a Comment

ST. CATHARINES, ON – After yesterday’s announcement of the 35th death of a Niagara hospital patient from “superbug” outbreak-related infections, the Communist candidate for St. Catharines, Saleh Waziruddin, is calling on all candidates in the four Niagara ridings to publicly commit to restoring hospital staffing, beds, and services to prevent further loss of life. At an... Read More

Category 2011 Election News, Health Care, Labour movement, Pharmacare, Taxation · Tags

Behind Ford: another Right-wing “revolution”

Posted by admin on October 23, 2010 · Leave a Comment

A Message from the Communist Party of Canada (Ontario) Rob Ford and the wealthy and reactionary forces backing him are working hard to secure a right-wing majority on Toronto City Council, and especially on the city’s powerful Executive Committee. Their not-so-hidden agenda is to slash and privatize municipal services, attack city workers and their unions, reduce local... Read More

Category Front, Municipal politics, Taxation, Toronto · Tags city hall, privitization, Progressive tax reform, Rob Ford, school board, Social programmes

Defeat the public sector wage freeze

Posted by admin on September 1, 2010 · Leave a Comment

Commentary by the Communist Party of Canada (Ontario) The Ontario government, in collusion with private sector employers, is about to download the cost of the economic crisis onto the backs of public sector workers with “consultations” aimed to corral unions into framework agreements that will result in a 6% wage cut over two years. The cuts will take place during... Read More

Category 2011 Election, Front, Labour movement, Taxation, Wage Freeze · Tags CLC, McGunity, OFL, USWA

Ontario budget: open for business

Posted by admin on May 1, 2010 · Leave a Comment

By Liz Rowley, CPC (Ontario) leader People’s Voice Newspaper, May 2010 The Ontario budget delivers on the government’s promise to open the province up to (foreign) business. It includes a $4.6 billion corporate tax cut, another $4.5 billion cut effective July 1 with the implementation of the Harmonized Sales Tax, elimination of the capital tax, and a small business... Read More

Category 2011 Election, Front, HST, Liberal Party of Ontario, Ontario Budget, Taxation · Tags Bill 16, Budget, Childcare, Health Care, Hospitals, McGunity, Ontario Health Coalition, Progressive tax reform, Social programmes

Communist Party of Canada

Time for a united fightback strategy says April 2012 Central Committee meeting
As global capitalism continues to flounder, the attraction of radical alternatives appears to be rising. Meeting in Toronto over the April 14-15 weekend, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Canada analyzed this important development, and how to help strengthen the working class movements. Elected from across Canada at the Party’s 36th Convention […]
Solidarity with Quebec students
For free education and a general political strike! Resolution of the Central Committee, Communist Party of Canada Since early February, college and university students across Québec have been confronting the Charest Liberal government’s attack on accessible education with a magnificent and historic student strike that has rocked the province. The student str […]
No fighter jets – slash military spending!
Resolution adopted by the Central Committee, Communist Party of Canada, April 14‑15, 2012 Demands are growing for the resignation of Defense Minister Peter MacKay and Prime Minister Harper, in the wake of the Auditor‑General’s report that the purchase of sixty‑five F‑35 fighter‑bombers would cost taxpayers at least $10 billion more than the Conservative gove […]
Organization and resistance!
Solidarity message from the Central Executive Committee, Communist Party of Canada Organized labour in Canada is under attack legislatively and economically, blackmailed by strike and lockout. Two and three tier levels of wages, benefits and pensions are being forced on workers under the bludgeon of lockout and forced strikes. There has not been a major [... […]