Note: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario. By Sid Ryan This past week I was at Queen’s Park making a presentation to a government committee on long-term care legislation. As I sat twiddling my…
DetailsNote: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario. Page: A13 Section: Opinion Byline: Source: I grew up poor in a family of 10 children in the Republic of Ireland. At the time, Ireland had one of the highest poverty…
DetailsNote: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario. by Sid Ryan If you are a baby boomer in Ontario today, you had better take a long hard look at this province’s stock of long-term care facilities, especially…
DetailsNote: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario. By Sid Ryan I think I know what the messages on Jimmy Carter’s voicemail sound like. Last month, the former US president released his book, Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid.…
DetailsNote: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario. The Health Care Workers’ Coordinating Committee brings together locals representing more than 40,000 members in Ontario’s hospitals, long-term care facilities, community care and emergency services. It represents hospital dietary, service and maintenance…
DetailsNote: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario. By Sid Ryan While the Harper government was busy in the House of Commons rushing through recognition of Quebeckers as a nation, its representatives at the United Nations…
DetailsNote: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario. By Sid Ryan This past Monday, voters in Ontario sent a strong message to local politicians that they are in no mood to pander to pro-“urban sprawl” councillors or pro-cuts school…
DetailsNote: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario. By Sid Ryan Smooth Rock Falls, population 1,800, is located between Cochrane and Kapuskasing. The community was recently devastated by the announced closure of the Tembec paper mill, the town’s principal…
DetailsNote: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario. By Sid Ryan Oh, the hypocrisy of it all. There I was dozing my way through the six o’clock news last week when I was awakened by an all too familiar…
DetailsNote: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario. By Sid Ryan You can always tell when the right wing in Canada is losing control of the agenda by the sharp increase in name-calling and demonization of their…
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