Alex Cosh is the news editor of The Maple.
“We need solutions that aren't like 10 years off of treatment, or attempts to go to recovery beds. We need solutions that will save somebody's life this afternoon.”
“The proposed Conservative policy is a rather toothless gesture ... requiring one lone worker representative on large corporate boards, and only applying to a relatively small number of federally regulated companies."
"We're living in an emergency. People know it. The question now is whether humans, all of us, and governments, all of them, are going to start acting like it's actually an emergency and start drastically cutting emissions with real regulations."
“If the hiring practices are still inherently racist, then hiring people of a different background doesn’t do anything. You have people from a diverse background within this racist culture still, and nothing has changed.”
We asked NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh what truly "affordable" housing means, and whether 500,000 affordable housing units is enough to address the current shortfall.
“Tactics like that just aren't welcome in a democratic society. We need the provincial government to intervene, and the federal government to intervene.”
Does the NDP's housing plan go far enough to address the current crisis? The Maple asked Jagmeet Singh what truly "affordable" housing means and if his proposal for a $5,000 renter subsidy is just a bailout for landlords.
“The fact that this government thinks that it can feed the flames with one hand and put them out with the other is ludicrous, and people understand that."
“So far they’ve counted on the Canadian public not caring or not caring enough – that allowed them to perpetrate these injustices.”