Toronto Everywhere Judy Duncan, ACORN Canada Head Organizer, and I went we seemed to be hearing about deindustrialization. The epidemic that collapsed the manufacturing sector in the US now seems to have become viral in Canada as well. First, we talked to John Cartwright, head of the Toronto and York Labor Council, who has been …
Month: July 2007
Healthcare and Chaos
Toronto Found a New York Times down the street in Cabbagetown on Parliament near where Judy Duncan, ACORN Canada’s head organizer, lives. That was the good news. On the other hand the shop charged $9 Canadian (which is almost the same as US Dollars) for the paper, and that was the bad news! At the …
Cricket Bonanza
Toronto The ACORN Canada board was a good humored session from front to back. Several of the leaders from British Columbia even developed a comedy routine of sorts parroting the Toronto Dominion spokesperson by from time to time in different discussions raising their right hands in the air and saying, “…but it’s legal!” In …