Ontario Election 2025
SCAN!’s chapters can download any of the materials below and use them as they choose. They may want to gather where there are good crowds with signs, chants, songs, and posters to hand out leaflets to passersby. They may want to attend all candidates’ meetings. Perhaps there will be a demonstration near you where you can show solidarity with other social justice groups and – hand out leaflets.
Watch this space.
Candidate Pledge to Protect Ontario from Extreme Weather & Climate Change. Encourage candidates to sign on to this pledge. Click the button to the right to view/download the pledge. Click HERE to find out who’s already already signed it.
Indigenous Issues. Bring Indigenous issues to the public’s attention by using them as a basis for an op ed or letter to the editor. Click HERE to read “Indigenous issues MIA in Ontario election,” Lyba Spring’s recent letter to the editor of the Toronto Star.
Leaflet/This Election, Seniors Say, “Let’s Get Serious about Climate Breakdown”
Leaflet/This Election, Seniors Say, “Let’s Get Serious about Climate Breakdown” (Colour Version)
Leaflet/Fossil Fuels are Costing You Money
Leaflet/Ford’s Bad Energy Choices are Costing You Money
Leaflet/Ford’s Bad Energy Choices Don’t Have to Be Ours (Colour)
Brochure/Les Choix Energétiques de Ford Nous Coûtent Trop Cher
Leaflet/Making Way for Cars: High Costs for You and the Planet
Leaflet/Doug Ford’s Costly Highway-Building Law Will Worsen the Climate Crisis
Video/”For Two Hundred Bucks”
Lyrics/”For Two Hundred Bucks”
Lyrics and Chords/”Paved Paradise” and “Get Thee Behind Me, Satan”
Chants
Video/Maude and Millie
Bulletin/Ontario Clean Air Alliance/”Four Questions for Ontario’s Political Leaders.” Here is an initiative you can support during the election campaign. OCAA plays a major role in Ontario in the fight for ending fossil gas use, investing in renewable energy alternatives, and challenging the Ford government’s plans to expand nuclear energy. Please note, however, that SCAN! supports the 2030 deadline (not 2035) for the phase-out of gas plants (2030 is supported by over 30 Ontario municipalities) and for tripling renewables (2030 is supported by 100 countries at COP 28).
Talking to Candidates. When election candidates come knocking on your door, ask them if they support keeping our power in Canada by expanding our east-west electricity grid. Their answer will tell you a lot about who really has Ontario’s interests at heart. To find out more from the Ontario Clean Air Alliance, click the button.
Leaflet/”Vote Housing”/ACORN. ACORN is a “national organization of low- and moderate-income people.” Climate activists need to continue to make the link with social justice issues like health and housing.
What Allies are Doing …
You might find the following information useful during this election period.
Environmental Defence is encouraging people to vote. Lots of good background information here.
Grand(m)others Act to Save the Planet is encouraging people to vote strategically
The Alliance for a Liveable Ontario has an election toolkit.
The Ontario Health Coalition has some good information on cuts to health.