By Gazette Staff
October 10th, 2025
BURLINGTON, ON
First published by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.
It’s been a busy fall. As we move towards the weekend, let’s take a moment and give thanks for the fight we still have left in us…and for all you do to make a difference in your workplace and community, on picket lines and in the streets.
And let’s celebrate some of the things worth fighting for:
- Affordable housing—including rent.
- Decent work, including pay, benefits, and working conditions.
- Public services, like health care, dental care, child care, education, pharmacare, that gives us all a chance—accompanied by more progressive taxes.
- Public supports, including for people with disabilities, unemployed and precariously employed people, and everyone living in poverty.
- Reducing income inequality (and you know wealth equality follows).
- Urgent action on climate change—treat it like the crisis it is.
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The strength within us – and the fight we still have left in us.
Canadian independence!
- Respect for human rights, international law, and an end to genocide.
Real progress is made with, and not at the expense of, each other. If we are truly in this together, Canada must move forward on reconciliation, address the ongoing scourge of racial and gender inequality, and provide certainty and security to future generations.
