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(TORONTO, ON) - A media conference to be held at Queen’s Park on Friday, April 20 at 10:00 am will launch a province-wide campaign, called “We Are Ontario,” that brings together over 90 labour and community groups to oppose unfair budget cuts that target poor and middle-class families while rewarding banks and corporations. The campaign is planning a 3:00 pm rally of thousands at Queen’s Park on Saturday, April 21 but it will start the prior evening with a mass community assembly, called the “Common Front,” from 3:00 to 6:00 pm on Friday, April 20 at the Church of the Holy Trinity (behind Toronto’s Eaton Centre).

(TORONTO, ONTARIO) – With thousands already signed up to board 97 buses from as far away as Timmins, and thousands more planning to travel by foot, car and streetcar to the Queen’s Park Legislature, Saturday’s rally against McGuinty’s deep budget cuts is expected to demonstrate widespread public opposition only days before the final budget vote.

On April 11, workers around the province will be trading in the blue and white collars for pink shirts to challenge homophobia, transphobia and other forms of bullying. Celebrated each year on the second Wednesday of April, the International Day of Pink is marked by millions of people who wear pink shirts to demonstrate that positive actions can make a difference.

From March 30 to April 1, the OFL hosted its first-ever Equity Retreat at the...

(TORONTO, ON) - Today, the McGuinty government delivered two budgets to the province: a lucrative one for corporations and the financial sector and another full of deep cuts to core services for everyone else. McGuinty’s stubborn refusal to increase provincial revenue through the fair taxation of banks and corporations will cost many their jobs and many more their livelihoods.

On March 21, as Canadians join people all over the world in recognizing the United Nations International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, Canada’s racialized wage gap and poverty-stricken Aboriginal communities tell the story of a legacy of colonialism and ongoing systemic racism that continue to conspire against equality within our borders. Even modest strides toward wage parity for some of Canada’s workers of colour are being offset by a growing gap between the richest Canadians and the rest of us. However, recent international attention on income inequality and Canada’s deplorable treatment of its First Nations has inspired a new movement to fight for real equality within our lifetime.