from the Bullet
"Louis Riel must be smiling." That's the front-page headline in the Winnipeg Free Press two days ago.
Mar 132013
Feb 252013
Auditor General's findings aside, Metrolinx linked to P3s.
from The Bullet
Brenda Thompson mulls over the roles Infrastructure Ontario and Metrolinx play in ensuring Toronto transit projects are guided into public-private partnership models in a recent edition of The Bullet. The Auditor General's report on two recent transport projects indicates P3s are more costly and much less open to public input.
Nov 292012
Privatization with no public consultation.
from The Bullet, produced by the Socialist Project
It seemed all our transit woes in Toronto were finally behind us. Mayor Rob Ford's cancellation of Transit City had galvanized the mushy middle. In February, Toronto Council ignored his call for subways to vote in favour of four Light Rapid Transit lines (LRTs). At long last, the residents of Malvern and Jane and Finch in Toronto's northern suburbs were going to get some much needed public transit. In retrospect this was only the lull before the storm. No one suspected that it signified the end of locally controlled, maintained and operated public transit. Two months later, the Ontario provincial government made the announcement that Metrolinx, a provincial arms-length agency meant to coordinate regional planning, was taking over for the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) Expansion Department. Construction of $8.4-billion worth of LRTs was being pushed back to 2014. They needed the extra time to pursue Alternate Funding Procurement (AFP) otherwise known as a public-private partnership (P3).
Sep 252012
from The Bullet
The ease with which self-described democratic states embroil themselves in torture continues to be illustrated by the manner in which agencies of the Canadian state, from spies to judges, have wedged open a door to legitimize complicity in a practice that both domestic and international law ban outright….
May 012012
Students call for general strike to reclaim the public realm.
from The Bullet
The student revolt that has been shaking the Quebec state, has been
captivating activists across Canada and the world. Coalition large de
l’association pour une solidarité syndicale étudiante (CLASSE) is the major
component of the coalition of student unions leading the strike of some
180,000 students out on strike. It is said to represent about half of the
coalition.