Verdecchia is the co-founder of Annex newspaper. He supports lowering the voting age to sixteen, and entrenching the right to health care and free post-secondary education in the Canadian Constitution ("Toronto Star", 30 May 1997). In 1996, he participated in a press conference with David Suzuki to draw attention to a boycott of the pulp and paper multinational firm Daishowa, and Daishowa's subsequent lawsuit against those behind the boycott. He has also produced "Making a Killing: Canada and the Arms Trade".[https://web.archive.org/web/20060927224939/http://www.perc.ca/PEN/1996-10/conference.html