We are learning, as the multiple crises and threats to lands, waters, biodiversity and people unfold, that the impacts upon Indigenous nations and peoples, and their inherent treaty rights are far more negative than on almost everyone else. While more than 400 years of colonization and genocide cannot be undone, what we can do is … Read more
“We are asking union leaders and members to join us as we lobby the leaders of the Liberals, NDP,
Greens, and Bloc to work together as parties did in France to prevent a far-right Poilievre majority,” said
Barbara Schumacher, Chair, Cooperate for Canada. “We also hope these unions will do the same if Doug
Ford calls an early election in Ontario.”
Reflecting on progress with the TRC Calls to Action -excerpted from comprehensive analyses: Calls to Action Accountability: A 2022 Status Update on Reconciliation and Calls to Action Accountability: A 2023 Status Update on Reconciliation by the Yellowhead Institute, an Indigenous-led research and education centre based in the Faculty of Arts at Toronto Metropolitan University. It … Read more
Welcome to the first edition of our newsletter. Thank you for visiting our website and subscribing. We hope that you will find it both informative and inspiring. Let’s jump right in! Hope is believing in the viability of the possible, rather than the inevitability of the probable. – Marshal Gantz Upcoming By-elections Both Elmwood–Transcona (Winnipeg MB) and Lasalle-Émard-Verdun (Island … Read more
Top of the news for many this August 2024 is the devastation of Jasper National Park…But nowhere in Canada is immune. We are experiencing the impact of climate breakdown…
MEDIA RELEASE – July 30, 2024 Toronto, ON – Cooperate for Canada (C4C) is launching new content and resources in preparation for the next Ontario election. Cooperate for Canada was established late last year to prevent vote-splitting in electoral ridings where there is a possibility to defeat the Conservatives federally, noting that the policies of … Read more
On June 29, 2018 Doug Ford was sworn in as Premier of Ontario. He has enjoyed two back-to-back majority governments since then, as a result of the first-past-the-post system. The people of Ontario are facing a multitude of interconnected crises. The summary below provides insight into Doug Ford’s government record on addressing many of these … Read more
Editorial by Joyce Hall, Ontario Climate Emergency Campaign (OCEC) Co-Chair Is the Ford government eroding Ontario democracy? Democracy means more than having elections every four years. Checks and balances within a system ensure that power is responsible, transparent, and accountable. Unfortunately, they can be removed incrementally and gradually, with the result that democracy suffers death … Read more
June 26, 2025 View pdf Toronto | Tkaronto — In a nation-wide campaign called Cooperate for Canada, a group of concerned citizens is calling on non-Conservative parties to cooperate electorally to prevent a Pierre Poilievre win in the next federal election.“After the shock of the Conservative win in Toronto-St. Paul’s we need to consider the … Read more
July 8, 2024 View pdf Toronto |Tkaronto — The campaign Cooperate for Canada (C4C) is advising progressive parties in this country to follow the lead of the Left-Green alliance in France. The willingness of progressives in France to work together to avoid splitting the vote meant that the far right didn’t do as well in … Read more