Tag: Hydro One Not For Sale
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Remembering Beck’s dream of public hydro at cost
Sir Adam Beck spent his political career fighting for affordable hydro. On Aug. 15, several dozen Londoners gathered to pay tribute to Beck on the 92nd anniversary of his death. As We Own It mobilizer Amanda Picott told Newstalk 1290 host Al Coombs: "Beck had a dream, and his dream was hydro at cost. Today,…
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Yet another hydro betrayal
Dear friends, For the second time in as many years, Financial Accountability Officer Stephen LeClair has proven with numbers what the majority of Ontarians know in their hearts: the ongoing privatization of our hydro system is a betrayal. It’s a betrayal of democracy. A betrayal of financial responsibility. And a betrayal of our children. LeClair’s…
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Hydro One: Liberal pirates loot Crown jewel – while they still can
Toronto – The sale of a further 20 per cent of shares in the once proudly public Hydro One is piracy, not policy, the President of the Ontario Public Service Employees Union said today. “The sale of Hydro One was always intended to transfer a treasured public asset to private investors for the sole purpose…
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Hydro ‘smoothing’ just another shell game
Ange Thompson is with the OPSEU-supported Hydro Not For Sale campaign. She tells radio host Craig Needles that the Wynne's government's latest scheme to quell criticism is just another shell game. She says that if Wynne were serious about helping Ontarians, she'd stop and reverse the sale of Hydro One. Click here to listen to…
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Group aims at handing over a bunch of letters to David Orazietti
Sault Online featured an article this week about the letter-writing event being organized by We Own It member mobilizer Carole Gregorcic. “Rising hydro rates are forcing more and more people in our community to choose between heating and eating,” Gregorcic, is quoted as saying. “So we’re holding an event called ‘Winter Warm Up’ where citizens…
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Does Ed Clark understand working people?
I finally had the chance this week to ask Premier Kathleen Wynne’s business adviser, Ed Clark, if he loses sleep at night knowing his advice to sell off Hydro One is one of the most unpopular decisions in Ontario’s recent history. But someone beat me to it, in more polite language, after he delivered his…
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Member protest challenges privatization czar
“Don’t you dare privatize eHealth.” That was the message from close to 30 OPSEU members who protested outside a speech by ex-banker Ed Clark on October 17. Clark, the Bay Street brain behind beer in grocery stores and the selloff of Hydro One, is Premier Kathleen Wynne’s privatization czar. The government has asked him to…
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Toronto Sun: My turkey wishbone wish: Keep your private sector forks away
Our family’s annual Thanksgiving tradition is to stand and say what we’re thankful for, and no one can leave the table till they’ve had their say. For me, I’ll be showing gratitude to all of those people who built and maintain our public services. People like our parents and grandparents who built things like medicare…
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Tory copying Wynne’s failed policies with Hydro privatization
Toronto – Apparently oblivious to Premier Wynne’s plummeting poll numbers, Toronto Mayor John Tory has announced that he will be looking to follow her example with a plan to privatize Toronto Hydro. Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU) President Warren (Smokey) Thomas said that wasn’t a surprise, given the close relationship and the shared donors the two…
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Plenty of reasons not to privatize Hydro One
A member of OPSEU Local 381 and member of Citizens Coalition Against Privatization (CCAP), Joel Usher writes in a letter to the Toronto Star for the case against privatizing Hydro One, Opinion Aug. 4. "Timing is everything. Currently, along with a several other Ontarians, I am particularly interested in the timing of the Ontario Liberals’…
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Liberal scheme to sell Hydro shares to First Nations a sham: Indigenous Circle
Toronto – The Indigenous Circle of the Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU) has denounced the Liberal government’s tentative agreement with the Chiefs-in-Assembly of Ontario’s First Nations to sell 2.5 per cent of its shares in Hydro One to a new First Nations investment corporation. The agreement includes a $268-million, 25-year-term loan to help First…
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OPSEU First VP to guest on Labour News, AM 1610, June 30
OPSEU First Vice-President/Treasurer Eduardo (Eddy) Almeida will be Fortunato (Lucky) Rao’s guest for Labour News at 8 p.m. on June 30, 2016, AM radio 1610 (Voces Latina). The interview will take place in English. Eddy and Lucky will discuss a broad range of subjects of interest to all Ontarians, including: cuts to health care, particularly…
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Thomas decries Hydro One sale as ‘legalized larceny’
Hundreds of residents from across Ontario converged on downtown Toronto on May 31 to tell Premier Kathleen Wynne that Hydro One belongs to the people – not to a government that wants to surrender it to a wealthy few. A large crowd assembles outside the MaRS building to protest the sell-off of Hydro One by…
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Energy Minister should release names of top donors: OPSEU
The president of the Ontario Public Service Employees Union is calling for more transparency from Ontario Energy Minister Bob Chiarelli. “As the government gets set to sell another 15 per cent of Hydro One, I’m calling on Minister Chiarelli to personally release the names of all donors who paid $1,000 or more to attend a…
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Put contractors on the Sunshine List: OPSEU
Toronto – The president of the Ontario Public Service Employees Union is irked that the annual Sunshine List still fails to capture many high-income earners paid from the public purse. “I’m pleased that Ontarians know who’s getting rich – or richer – courtesy of their tax dollars,” said Warren (Smokey) Thomas. “It’s particularly interesting to…
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Come to our Anti-Privatization forum – Citizen’s Coalition Against Privatization
Join us on Sunday, February 21 between 10:00am to 3:30pm in Toronto for a day of discussion, strategy building and deepening our own capacities to understand and challenge privatization, and contribute to a common strategy to fight back. For more details see event flyer here. For more information, visit our Hydro Not for Sale campaign…
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PM’s byelection meddling puts him on hook for Hydro sale: OPSEU President
TORONTO – The president of the Ontario Public Service Employees Union says Justin Trudeau’s appearance at a Liberal campaign event in Whitby-Oshawa on Tuesday means he must take some of the blame for the sell-off of Hydro One. “The Liberals know they’re in trouble over Hydro One,” Thomas said. “Kathleen Wynne is counting on Justin’s…
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Citizens Coalition Against Privatization illuminates the streets of Toronto
TORONTO – Members of the Citizens Coalition Against Privatization staged three straight days of rallies across Toronto to voice their opposition to the sale of Hydro One. They handed out hundreds of leaflets and sang carols calling on the Premier to stop the sale: “I'm dreaming of public Hydro, just like the one I used to…
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Support the NDP Opposition Day Motion to end the sale of Hydro One
Dear Brothers and Sisters, Like more than 80 per cent of Ontarians, we strongly oppose Premier Kathleen Wynne’s plan to privatize Hydro One. The Liberal government doesn’t have a mandate to sell off this important public asset. Just because she's sold off the first batch of shares doesn't mean this fight is over. It's only…
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Act now to stop the Hydro One privatization
Dear Friends, Like more than 80 per cent of Ontarians, we strongly oppose Premier Kathleen Wynne’s plan to privatize Hydro One. The sell-off of Hydro One is just the latest action of the Liberal government’s disastrous campaign to put the province’s key assets up for sale. For months now she’s claimed it’s necessary to sell…