Hydro One Not For Sale

Sir Adam Beck spent his political career fighting for affordable hydro. On Aug. 15, several dozen Londoners gathered to pay tribute to Beck on the 92nd anniversary of his death. As We Own It mobilizer Amanda Picott told Newstalk 1290 host Al Coombs: "Beck had a dream, and his dream was hydro at cost. Today,...

Toronto – The sale of a further 20 per cent of shares in the once proudly public Hydro One is piracy, not policy, the President of the Ontario Public Service Employees Union said today. “The sale of Hydro One was always intended to transfer a treasured public asset to private investors for the sole purpose...

Ange Thompson is with the OPSEU-supported Hydro Not For Sale campaign. She tells radio host Craig Needles that the Wynne's government's latest scheme to quell criticism is just another shell game. She says that if Wynne were serious about helping Ontarians, she'd stop and reverse the sale of Hydro One. Click here to listen to...

Sault Online featured an article this week about the letter-writing event being organized by We Own It member mobilizer Carole Gregorcic. “Rising hydro rates are forcing more and more people in our community to choose between heating and eating,” Gregorcic, is quoted as saying. “So we’re holding an event called ‘Winter Warm Up’ where citizens...

I finally had the chance this week to ask Premier Kathleen Wynne’s business adviser, Ed Clark, if he loses sleep at night knowing his advice to sell off Hydro One is one of the most unpopular decisions in Ontario’s recent history. But someone beat me to it, in more polite language, after he delivered his...

“Don’t you dare privatize eHealth.” That was the message from close to 30 OPSEU members who protested outside a speech by ex-banker Ed Clark on October 17. Clark, the Bay Street brain behind beer in grocery stores and the selloff of Hydro One, is Premier Kathleen Wynne’s privatization czar. The government has asked him to...

Our family’s annual Thanksgiving tradition is to stand and say what we’re thankful for, and no one can leave the table till they’ve had their say. For me, I’ll be showing gratitude to all of those people who built and maintain our public services. People like our parents and grandparents who built things like medicare...

It was a cool, wet Saturday, but nothing could put a damper on the fun as United by Trauma held its first annual i Run and Rock in Thunder Bay on September 17. Chair Mike Lundy and United by Trauma cofounder Nicole Taylor hold a future friend for someone with PTSD The day-long fundraiser included...

Toronto – Apparently oblivious to Premier Wynne’s plummeting poll numbers, Toronto Mayor John Tory has announced that he will be looking to follow her example with a plan to privatize Toronto Hydro. Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU) President Warren (Smokey) Thomas said that wasn’t a surprise, given the close relationship and the shared donors the two...

A member of OPSEU Local 381 and member of Citizens Coalition Against Privatization (CCAP), Joel Usher writes in a letter to the Toronto Star for the case against privatizing Hydro One, Opinion Aug. 4. "Timing is everything. Currently, along with a several other Ontarians, I am particularly interested in the timing of the Ontario Liberals’...

Toronto – The Indigenous Circle of the Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU) has denounced the Liberal government’s tentative agreement with the Chiefs-in-Assembly of Ontario’s First Nations to sell 2.5 per cent of its shares in Hydro One to a new First Nations investment corporation. The agreement includes a $268-million, 25-year-term loan to help First...

Hundreds of residents from across Ontario converged on downtown Toronto on May 31 to tell Premier Kathleen Wynne that Hydro One belongs to the people – not to a government that wants to surrender it to a wealthy few. A large crowd assembles outside the MaRS building to protest the sell-off of Hydro One by...