Daily Archives: October 8, 2024

Ford government’s audit of child protection system another smokescreen to evade responsibility for mounting crisis in child protection sector

Many hundreds of young people in Ontario have been warehoused in hotels, motels, office buildings and worse because of an acute crisis of care the provincial government has manufactured. Four years into a “redesign” of the province’s children’s aid system with no progress to show for its efforts, it’s clear the announced audit is another…

Opposition to war is a workers’ issue: CUPE Ontario statement

Yesterday CUPE Ontario leaders and members marked one year since the horrifying events of October 7, 2023, which saw 1200 people killed in Israel, including eight Canadians. Those events began a catastrophic cycle of attacks, death, and devastation – a year in which tens, perhaps hundreds, of thousands of innocent people have been killed. One…