Note: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario.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 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DetailsNote: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario.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DetailsNote: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario.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DetailsNote: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario.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…
DetailsNote: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario.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 A topsy-turvy combination of political grandstanding, broken promises, conflicting priorities and chronic underfunding continues to rock public education in Ontario. The education policies of the McGuinty Liberals…
DetailsNote: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario.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 After more then a month of bloody fighting and destruction in the Middle East, the guns and bombs are almost silenced. The lessons from this conflict are only…
DetailsNote: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario. When CUPE Ontario launched a lawsuit against the Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System (OMERS) two years ago, OMERS vilified CUPE Ontario maintaining the CUPE claims were simply not reflective of the truth.…
DetailsNote: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario.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 Toronto mayoral candidate Jane Pitfield is trying desperately to kick-start a flat and nearly invisible campaign. Twice in the past month she has taken cheap shots at the…
DetailsNote: This page contains outdated content and may not appear correctly.Please Click Here to find recent news, events and information from CUPE Ontario. [July 7, 2006 10:51 AM] Both Bill 206 and its companion piece of legislation were proclaimed on June 30th, which means that both the OMERS Sponsors Corp. and the Administration…
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 Sara Anderson, a 45-year-old native woman living in Sudbury, has just ended a 15-day hunger strike to protest the McGuinty government’s betrayal of people on welfare…
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