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In the midst of a pandemic, Ford has empowered landlords and police to impose greater discipline and hardship on working-class people.
Ford’s half-assed breakdown is emblematic of so much of the theatre of his government’s pandemic response.
Funding federal pharmacare, enacting a wealth tax and ensuring homes are more affordable were all measures the Liberals should have taken.
Successive Conservative and Liberal governments have underfunded higher education in Ontario for decades, while shifting more and more costs onto students.
ONDP Leader Andrea Horwath’s supposed plan to save Ontario is wholly inadequate for this catastrophic moment.
Ford laughs while his policies kill us, and has the guts to complain that we aren’t happy about being led to our deaths.
Like any good former colonial subject, our state media and its private counterparts have been pumping out praise of Philip since his death.
Gendered violence isn’t a reflection of bad attitudes, but the material power some men wield over particularly vulnerable classes of women.
The country is broken in fundamental ways that no report, no consultation, no committee investigation will fix.