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Not Rex: Hacking away at Hydro One

Russian hackers planted malware in Hydro One computers to use them in zombie attacks, but the best of Ontario's electricity systems had already been hacked away by a government a little closer to home.

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Policy makers need to understand lived experience when it comes to gendered violence

Doreen Nicoll

| November 17, 2016

We’re half way through Woman Abuse Prevention Month, time to look at some initiatives Ontario’s government has put in place to make it easier for women, and their children, to leave abusive intimate partner relationships.

Not Rex: Peel Children's Aid Society workers fight for caseload cap

Peel Children's Aid Society workers have been forced to strike for more than two months. They're on the streets fighting for a cap on the number of cases individual workers have to take on. Workload caps are a standard provision in most children's aid society contracts, but the Peel Children's Aid Society is resisting such caps at all costs. Scabs are being paid $85/hour while Children's Aid Society workers strike for caseload caps virtually everyone else already has.

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Pressing the reset button: A progressive vision for Ontario

Trish Hennessy

| September 21, 2016

The Ontario government has prorogued the provincial legislature, returning September 12 with a new throne speech.

The throne speech has been cast as government "pressing the reset button" following a recent by-election loss and ongoing controversies such as election finance scandals, hydro privatization, and high hydro bills.

Each of those controversies need to be tackled head on, but what should "pressing the reset button" look like for a government that is mid-term, purporting to be "activist" in its approach and less than two years away from a general election?

The answer starts with the question: what is the role of a provincial government in creating the conditions for decent work and reduced income inequality?

'Yes, logging introduces mercury!' New revelations from Grassy Narrows

Mark Calzavara

| September 21, 2016

Another stunning story in the Toronto Star last week revealed that top environment officials in the Ontario government knew that clearcut logging in Grassy Narrows territory would increase mercury levels in fish even as the province refused a request by the First Nation for an environmental assessment of the province's 10-year logging plan for the area.

The article references government emails obtained through freedom of information requests made by Grassy Narrows:

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Passionate movement for public power is pushing back against hydro privatization

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In the early 1900s, Toronto entrepreneur Henry Pellatt used his enormous wealth to build the most magnificent private residence ever seen in Canada -- a stunning palace that took 300 workers three years to construct and featured an oven large enough to cook an ox.

The construction of Casa Loma put to rest any doubts about whether there was money to be made harnessing the power of Niagara Falls, which was how Pellatt had made his fortune.

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Ontario's $15 minimum wage campaign just got a boost

Trish Hennessy

| April 6, 2016

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What a difference two years make.

In February 2014, Ontario NDP Leader Andrea Horwath was gearing up for a provincial election and announced that, if elected, her government would raise Ontario's minimum wage to $12 by 2016.

A $12 promise fell considerably short of the $14 minimum wage campaign that was being waged by grassroots workers in 2014.

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Debt looms over the good and bad in Ontario budget

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The good, even visionary, news in Ontario's recent budget was elimination of student debt to cover tuition, for all families under $50,000 of income and many above. It amounts to "free tuition." It doesn't matter if there's no new money provided to do it, or if it's "just moving money around," as the opposition says. It doesn't matter because a fateful dynamic was finally confronted.

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Patients need real solutions to a health system in crisis

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On Friday I wrote about my personal and political experiences as a patient activist and my take on the new patient ombudsman position to which Christine Elliot has been appointed. I have a lot more to say about many aspects of this appointment and its implications.

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Can Ontario's patient ombudsperson cure what ails health care?

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There are many tangled threads and competing demands in the life of a patient activist. Within your body, your ethics, your politics. It's a murky cauldron at the best of times.

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