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GroundWire | July 31

GroundWire Production — Tue, 01 Aug 2017 01:25:47 +0000

INAC Vigil and the State of Indigenous Broadcasting

This episode of Groundwire is produced by CKUT 90.3FM in Montreal broadcasting from the traditional unceded territory of the Haudenosaunee or Mohawk nation.

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Bayers Road gets stay of execution

Jim Guild — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 18:24:04 +0000

HRM defers decision on road widening for one year

Facing near-unanimous opposition to the widening of Bayers Road, HRM today decided to take cover for a year.

The HRM Regional Council today deferred for at least one year any decision on whether or not to approve two large technical reports which would have effectively committed the muncipality to the $21-million project.

Interview with Joe Pantalone

DannyLiberty — Sun, 24 Oct 2010 01:33:52 +0000

Candidate for Mayor of Toronto 2010

Interview with Joe Pantalone - He is a Candidate for Mayor of Toronto 2010 a City Councilor and the current Deputy Mayor of Toronto, Joe Pantalone calls in to CKLN radio to tell Toronto about his vision, hosted by Robin Nieto

Joe Pantalone's campaign website MayorJoe.ca

Poverty activists use fake transfers to ride streetcars

Mick Sweetman — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 08:51:43 +0000

Linchpin.ca

TORONTO — At a streetcar stop at Queen and Bay streets Saturday about 50 anti-poverty activists boarded a westbound streetcar after showing the driver protest “transfers” made by the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP) in what they called a “pilot program” for fighting the fare hike.

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Gwalgen Dent — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 01:56:17 +0000

London transit workers on strike

LONDON, Ont. — Workers of Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) Local 741 went on strike at midnight Nov. 16, when the deadline for a new contract passed unheeded by their employer, the London Transit Commission (LTC). ATU-741 represents 450 bus drivers, maintenance workers and support staff, and the strike has effectively paralyzed London’s public transit system.

The workers of the LTC have been without a contract since June. Chief among their demands are regularly scheduled lunch breaks, a 12 per cent wage increase over three years and improvements to dental and short-term disability benefits. The union has repeatedly requested arbitration as a means of settling the dispute, but their requests have been blocked by LTC general manager Larry Ducharme and the city’s mayor, Anne Marie DeCicco-Best.

DeCicco-Best slammed the workers’ demands as “irresponsible” at a press conference the day before the deadline was set to expire, citing the fact that London has been particularly hard hit by the current economic downturn. She also vowed to wage a public-relations war to inform Londoners of the “true costs” to the LTC and taxpayers of meeting the union’s demands.

The union responded by pointing to the fact that they are paid significantly less than their counterparts in other municipalities, and their benefit packages trail far behind workers in most other unionized sectors.