Many immigrant families in Ontario are moving out of heavy populated urban areas for smaller cities and rural communities. One of those towns is Bradford.
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COVID-19 vaccine bookings for babies and toddlers open in Ontario
Ontario parents expressed excitement and relief Thursday as the province opened COVID-19 vaccine bookings for babies and preschoolers, with shots for some set to be administered later in the day.
Appointments for children aged six months to under five years were available through the province’s online booking portal, public health units using their own booking systems, certain pharmacies and some primary care providers.
Schools aren’t in session but that won’t stop the radical activists
Indoctrination of the innocent doesn’t seem to stop even during the summer months.
Even though schools aren’t in session, woke activists are springing out of the woodwork every day to keep radical trans/LGBTQ ideology on the front burner.
Waterloo Region District School Board (WRDSB) trustee Karen Meissner is promoting a “binding” workshop for this Saturday at the Kitchener public library.
57% of Ontarians believe they’ll never be able to afford a home where they live
More than half of Ontarians believe they’ll be priced out of the city or town where they currently live, a new survey has found.
Conducted by Right at Home Realty, the research shows that housing affordability “continues to be a major concern” for those who do not own a home in the province.
Ontario pushes for more immigration amid labour crunch
Ontario Premier Doug Ford is planning to raise immigration and skilled labour shortage issues at a meeting of premiers from across the country next week in Victoria.
The meeting is set to largely focus on health-care issues, with premiers hoping to press the government for increased Canada Health Transfer Funding.
But Ford is also highlighting labour issues in a statement about his priorities for the meeting, saying more skilled workers are needed to address a “historic labour shortage.”
Toronto eyeing new plan to ban cats from going outdoors unless on leash
“If you love your cat, keep Fluffy indoors.”
These were environmentalist and former Scarborough city councillor Glenn De Baeremaeker’s words to Toronto City Council Wednesday as a city committee discussed a plan that could prohibit cat owners from allowing felines to roam freely outdoors.
The motion, moved by Councillor for Ward 17 – Don Valley North Shelley Carroll, is rooted in the belief outdoor cats can be a danger to local ecosystems, hunting bird and rodent populations, and are themselves at risk of being hit by vehicles or attacked by wildlife while roaming.
So what’s the money angle?
Ontario Teachers Union Lesson Plan Seeks To Accuse Children Of Sexism And Racism
The Elementary Teachers Federation of Ontario (ETFO) has been releasing multiple school resources for their member teachers to teach Ontario elementary-age children about “white privilege” through things like the Re-Think, Re-Connect, Re-Imagine PDF package they released fairly recently.
The rather insidious nature of this lesson plan package and its other supplementary materials is how it is deliberately designed to teach white children that they are somehow racist or are beneficiaries of “privilege” based only on their skin colour.
Trudeau government to ship Roxham Road illegal border crossers to Ontario
The Trudeau government has approved a plan requested by Quebec to ship asylum claimants who illegally cross into Canada via Roxham Road into Ontario cities such as Niagara Falls and Ottawa.
Quebec authorities have pleaded with Ottawa in recent months to alleviate the stress the influx of migrants has caused for the province.
What Doug Ford’s blue-collar victory means for Canada’s progressives
OTTAWA, Ont. — Canada’s left-wing New Democrats are facing a new threat from a Conservative movement keen to steal long-standing support from the party’s working-class base.
Last week, an election in Canada’s largest province saw the Progressive Conservatives win a landslide majority, partly due to a successful bid to appeal to union workers in former NDP strongholds.
The NDP hasn’t had the working class vote for eons, they rep Big Labour – principally our predatory public service unions whose members number nearly 2 million in Ontario. Private sector unions are not nearly so large but do rep the left leaning media.
Geoff Russ: The anti-Doug Ford left takes cues from the U.S. alt-right
In the aftermath of Ontario’s provincial election, unfounded accusations of voter fraud and other alleged plots have emerged across the internet. Within hours of the polls closing, Ontario Liberal and NDP supporters took a page from the alt-right’s playbook, and began spreading conspiracy theories to delegitimize the democratically re-elected Progressive Conservative government.
Merge & Purge? ‘That was pretty devastating’: Ontario Liberals wonder how to rebuild after another brutal election defeat
“I’m not sugar-coating it. That was pretty devastating last week,” former Liberal cabinet minister John Milloy said Monday.
That has to qualify as the understatement of the year.
But it gets stranger … Ontario Liberals, NDP should mull merger, former finance minister says
As Ontario Liberals look to rebuild after their devastating result in last week’s provincial election, former finance minister Greg Sorbara says it’s time to consider what he admits is a “pie-in-the-sky” idea: merging his party with the province’s NDP.
Many members of the two parties have denounced the concept after a campaign in which they aimed political attacks at each other. In an interview, Mr. Sorbara, who was finance minister from 2003 to 2007, when Dalton McGuinty was Liberal premier, acknowledged such a merger is unlikely.
Did The Ontario NDP Pay The Price For Jagmeet Singh Selling Out To Trudeau?
There appears to be a connection between anger towards the federal NDP leader and significant losses for the party in Ontario.
GOLDSTEIN: There’s no Tory dynasty in Ontario and the Liberals aren’t dead
Premier Doug Ford had an impressive election victory on Thursday, but it’s not the start of a Progressive Conservative dynasty in Ontario and the Liberal Party isn’t going to disappear.
The apathy election? Ontario sees lowest voter turnout in history, early data suggests
Call it the apathy election.
Thursday’s vote in Ontario may have seen the lowest turnout in the province since Confederation.
With some final polls still being counted, early data from Elections Ontario suggests about 43.03 per cent of eligible voters cast a ballot — or about 4.6 million of the province’s 10.7 million potential electors.
Voter turnout in Ontario lowest in history, early data from Elections Ontario shows
As of Friday morning, the Elections Ontario website indicated only 4.6 million out of 10.7 million eligible voters chose to cast a ballot in Thursday’s election.
That’s around 43 per cent of eligible voters.
Is it any wonder? Given the choices on offer Ford seems the lesser evil.
What Doug Ford can teach the federal Conservative party
Premier Doug Ford’s re-election Thursday evening was watched closely by federal Conservatives looking for lessons on how to bring their party back to power after three straight election losses.
The main takeaway from multiple party insiders – including those helping to run leadership campaigns – was that the federal Conservatives need to emulate Ford’s blue-collar messaging and build a new voter coalition to take on Justin Trudeau’s Liberal Party.
Well maybe not really, private sector unions represent only a small segment of the workforce. The public service union predator class are wed to the Libs and NDP.