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Thursday, June 16, 2022

Racism, SIU, Ipperwash and other police stories

The new statistics about Toronto police violence against people of colour is not a revelation, but the numbers do confirm what is generally accepted as truth. It is not the first time statistics on race and the Toronto police have caused such controversy. The following is a collection of stories connected by racism, violence, institutions, crime, and mysteries.


Friday, June 3, 2022

Ontario NDP vote collapses as Ford's support softens

Here is last night's election results in historical context since the 1985 defeat of 42 years of PC rule. To give an idea of how few people are voting, Ontario's population grew from 9.3 million to 15 million between 1985 and 2022. It has grown by nearly 4 million people since the millenium.

Some conclusions...

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Thursday, June 2, 2022

What Resistance? Ontario labour and Doug Ford

Ford is hours away from winning a second majority. Horwath is hours away from defeat, with the possibility of losing Official Opposition to a Liberal Party led by a tool who may not even win his seat back. How did it go so badly? How did organized labour become so weak and divided?