Does the NDP's housing plan go far enough to address the current crisis? The Maple asked Jagmeet Singh what truly "affordable" housing means and if his proposal for a $5,000 renter subsidy is just a bailout for landlords.
“There are still concerns for those that are working with the public. Where people may not be keeping their distance, who aren't wearing a mask, there has definitely been discomfort.”
On October 15, 2001, Parliament voted 213 to 10 in support of Canada joining the invasion of Afghanistan.
“The fact that this government thinks that it can feed the flames with one hand and put them out with the other is ludicrous, and people understand that."
Progress gained by Black communities across socio-economic and health indicators will be left to ruin in the pandemic’s wake.
For the first time in a long time, a national childcare system is within reach. The left can’t let that slip through our fingers.
“So far they’ve counted on the Canadian public not caring or not caring enough – that allowed them to perpetrate these injustices.”
“Essentially, on the first full day of the campaign, the Conservatives announce they’re cancelling the agreements in the same way that Stephen Harper cancelled the previous agreements.”
The pandemic has proven to be a temporal shift for Toronto, with the lines between housed and unhoused being blurred.