TRUTH BOMB

THINGS AREN’T GOING OUR WAY. That’s nothing new. But things seem really off this time. We all feel it. And we are not wrong. Truth bomb: Corporate sector winning the economic recovery lottery; workers falling behind, a recent study by David Macdonald ald for the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA), details exactly how right right we are to feel how wrong things are.

SHITTIER AND SHITTIER

THERE ARE MORE SHIT JOBS in Ontario now than ever before: five times as many workers get paid the minimum wage now, as workers did 20 years ago; one third or all Ontario workers make no more than $16.60 an hour, today. And yet, big business and all their kept politicians, keep claiming Ontario is pretty much a workers’ paradise. A new study from the Toronto-based Workers’ Action Centre (WAC) reveals how deeply absurd and false that claim is.