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Support the student walkout in Ontario
Show your support for accessible education for all student by emailing your your MPP!
U.S. university admissions scandal product of increasing income inequality
When money gives the wealthiest 1% that kind of power, the rest of us are second-class citizens. Stopping the wealthy from buying their way to the front of the line means reducing income inequality. And a crucial step to reducing income inequality is ensuring large corporations and the wealthy pay their share of taxes.
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Refusal to use economic strategies makes more SNC-Lavalin scandals inevitable
As long as the federal government continues to take a hands-off approach to the economy and to use P3s and other privatization schemes, there is a good possibility we will see a repeat of the SNC-Lavalin scandal. What’s needed is a change in direction.
Health care super agency is Ford’s ‘ultimate betrayal’: OPSEU
“Shuffling bureaucratic deck chairs won’t help patients. The Ford plan is taking a heavy-handed, top-down approach that will take billions of health care dollars from frontline patient care.” — Warren (Smokey) Thomas, OPSEU President
“Too big to fail” helps privatization industry avoid accountability
Low- or middle-income Canadians who falsely claim too much from government programs will find themselves in court faster than you can say “P3 privatization scheme,” but large corporations walk away with millions and barely get a slap on the wrist.
NAPE makes donation to Community Food Sharing Association in wake of fire
On behalf of all NAPE members, the union is incredibly proud to donate $10,000 to the association to help them get back to supporting our province’s most vulnerable.
Billionaires told pay their share in taxes if they want to fix the world’s problems
Many of those objecting to the message that the wealthy should pay their fair share in taxes have been involved in schemes to allow large corporations or the wealthy to avoid taxes.
NUPGE responds to latest Oxfam report on growing wealth inequality
26 billionaires are as wealthy as half of all humanity combined.
Canada’s personal debt crisis growing
“The growing number of Canadians struggling with debt is a result of the increase in income inequality. To tackle problems like the personal debt crisis we need to be taking action to reduce income inequality.” — Larry Brown, NUPGE President