leftwingmememachine @ leftwingmememachine @lemmy.ca Posts 19Comments 5Joined 2 yr. ago

Federal government commits to creation of national school food program
Manitoba NDP pulls plug on Hydro CEO’s vision to pursue more private power projects | "...our position is that that new generation should be publicly owned"
NDP slams Ontario government housing ads which rolled out days after damning Greenbelt report
At least in the browser, adding an exclamation mark redirects you to the community. Without the exclamation mark my phone thinks its an email address.
Would love if you could add !ndp@lemmy.ca, and perhaps combine it with canadapolitics under a "politics" category?
This person was part of a firm that appears to have lobbied Doug Ford's government to take lands out of the Greenbelt, without legally registering as lobbyists
Congratulations to Ajax Starbucks workers, who have successfully unionized!
Completely agree!
Doesn't seem like enough to me, although he's had success with these small asks (he got the GST credit doubled a few times now)
For Ontario teachers, arbitration is no substitute for the right to strike
Canada's unions say that children deserve the freedom to be themselves
Ontario NDP wins step in the right direction with ban of celebrity gambling ads
We need a massive, WW2-style investment in home construction, and we need housing prices to go down. That's something that the NDP believes in more than any other party. Take a look at this response in the last leader's debate, where Singh actually pushes back on the notion that housing should be an investment and prices should keep going up. You think Poilievre or Trudeau are going to say anything like that?
The fact is though, that REITs are buying up massive amounts of property, have perverse tax incentives, and have a lot of political influence through their accumulation of capital over the past decades.
Corporate investors to blame for housing crisis, says NDP MP Daniel Blaikie | 'Canadians are getting kicked in the teeth'
Marit Stiles: Greenbelt report paints picture of corruption in the Conservative government
Corruption: Ontario government's Greenbelt land swap influenced by well-connected developers, AG finds