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Strong NDP presence will keep Conservatives in check

Jan 24, 2006 02:02 PM OTTAWA – New Democrats will keep Conservatives in check and that’s good news for Canadians, said Paul Moist, national president of the Canadian Union of Public Employees.

Today, Jan. 23, we get out the vote for positive change

Moist at Winnipeg polling station with NDP candidate Pat Martin

Jan 21, 2006 10:22 AM Today, Jan. 23, we will get out the vote for positive change. Working people want a government that listens to them and will be responsive to their needs at all times, not just at election time.

Be strategic: Vote NDP

Jan 20, 2006 11:33 AM If the polls are right. and that's not always a sure thing, the Conservative party will form a minority -- perhaps even a majority -- government following Monday's election. This prospect underscores the need for progressive voters to elect as many New Democratic Party MPs as possible, Paul Moist writes in today's National Post (January 20)

Let’s vote positive to protect our social programs and women’s equality

Jan 20, 2006 11:10 AM On Jan. 23, women are looking for a government that will advance social programs and economic equality.

Our communities need positive support in Parliament

Jan 19, 2006 11:06 AM Communities are the engines of Canada’s economy and the hub of human development, but Canada’s mayors must think the Liberals and Conservatives have forgotten this fact.

The NDP can keep the child care dream alive

Jan 18, 2006 09:34 AM A Conservative majority government would trash the emerging national child care program. But by voting NDP, we can keep the Conservatives from destroying it outright by forcing them into a minority government position.

The home stretch: vote positive to protect public health care

Jan 17, 2006 11:42 AM Don’t be fooled by Stephen Harper’s Conservatives. Under his government, health care privatization would flourish.

New Democrats, not Conservatives, are the real friends of working people

Jan 16, 2006 12:56 PM Stephen Harper’s Conservatives are trying to pass themselves off as friends of working people, but their agenda promises bad news for working women and men. And on every substantial point for working people, NDP policies come out much further ahead. The best way to defeat a Conservative majority is to vote for the NDP.

Layton energizes Ontario campaign rally

CUPE child care worker Marta Posada at rally

Jan 15, 2006 10:50 AM With TV funnyman Rick Mercer watching from the sidelines and Bare Naked Ladies singer Stephen Paige introducing him with a rousing song, NDP Leader Jack Layton leaped energetically to the stage of a packed-house rally in Toronto on Saturday. “Tell Liberal voters that Paul Martin’s party needs a time-out to clean itself up and find out what it believes in,” Layton told the crowd of about 1,000 trade unionists and other NDP candidates and supporters. “Ask them to change their vote to the NDP.”

Harper’s Conservative platform would dismantle the Canada working people built

Jan 14, 2006 11:49 AM Conservative Leader Stephen Harper has tried to remake his public image into something more moderate to get elected. But his true intentions, as revealed in his party’s just-released policy platform, are to dismantle the caring society built by working Canadians with help from the party that protects their best interests, the NDP.

Vote positive to stop the Conservatives

Jan 13, 2006 11:11 AM People want change this election. On Jan. 23 we have the opportunity to make positive change for working people.

Special letter from NDP leader Jack Layton to CUPE members:

Jan 12, 2006 02:11 PM NDP Leader Jack Layton has written a special letter to CUPE members, reminding them that they have a choice between corruption and Conservatives:

Layton scores in French-language leaders’ debate

Jan 11, 2006 11:30 AM NDP Leader Jack Layton demonstrated again in last night’s French-language leader’s debate that the NDP is the best choice for working people.

Layton more attuned to working families, women, youth

Jan 10, 2006 12:10 PM CUPE members watching Monday night’s English debate in Montreal noted that NDP leader Jack Layton had the most to say about the need to protect their interests and needs of working families across Canada.

Tune in to the election debates tonight and tomorrow to see who will best protect working families

Jan 9, 2006 11:44 AM Which party leader will work hardest to protect your day-to-day needs as an ordinary Canadian working family? Tune in to the election debates and decide for yourself.

For workers the only strategic vote is an NDP vote

Paul Moist, Jack Layton, and Barry O’Neill greet trade unionists at a Vancouver rally

Jan 8, 2006 11:21 AM It may have been raining cats and dogs but that didn’t put a damper on the hundreds of trade unionists, including many CUPE members, who welcomed NDP Leader Jack Layton and NDP candidates to an energetic election rally in Vancouver yesterday.

Little hope for jobless if Liberals or Tories form government

Jan 7, 2006 11:14 AM No wonder we aren’t hearing much about jobs in this election. The latest Statistics Canada figures reveal that Canada’s 1.2 million unemployed workers haven’t got much to hope for if either the Liberals or the Tories form a government after Jan. 23.

The Conservatives: Standing up for a meaner Canada

Jan 6, 2006 12:13 PM Some voters looking for a change from the governing Liberals may be tempted to vote Conservative. And to be sure, punishing the Liberals for their arrogance, corruption and privatization agenda is a worthy goal. But the Conservatives’ plans would fail CUPE members, and all Canadians.

Liberals and Conservatives choose drug patents and profits over patients

Jan 5, 2006 10:58 AM

As drugs became one of the fastest rising costs in the health care system, the Liberal government didn’t just sit back and watch. They made things worse by protecting patents and profits, not patients. And they ignored calls for a national pharmacare program.

Tories and Liberals keep post-secondary education for the rich

Jan 4, 2006 12:08 PM

Will we keep quality post-secondary education public and accessible? Or do you have to be rich to get a good education?

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