Is there anything Doug Ford can’t do? By his own estimation, not really.
The Premier of Ontario has added “driving a school bus” to his ever-growing list of self-perceived capabilities, atop such talents as scolding yahoos, baking cheesecake, rescuing coyotes, vlogging trips to McDonald’s, seeing the future, fixing little red wagons, going up ying-yangs with firecrackers and coming at things “like an 800-pound gorilla.”
Ontario is planning to soon provide more regular updates on how many COVID-19 cases are in vaccinated and unvaccinated people, as the province’s top doctor said Tuesday the risk of getting the disease is 6.4 times higher for unvaccinated people.
Ever since Diana Bosco transitioned to female four years ago, she’s been attempting to get identification that accurately reflects her gender — a process she describes as invasive and stymied by systemic discrimination against transgender people.
A church in Greater Sudbury, Ont., says vandalism to a well-known statue is just one of many problems it’s been having.
The statue of Mary and baby Jesus was damaged last month at Ste-Anne-des-Pins Catholic Church on Beech Street. The same statue was damaged six years ago, and the temporary repair at the time made national headlines.
The province developed a functional vaccine passport system that was tested by at least one focus group six months ago, despite Solicitor General Sylvia Jones’s rejection on Wednesday of a mechanism to verify Ontarians’ vaccination status.
Equalization payments aren’t just a problem for western Canadians, a new poll suggests, with a majority of Ontario residents finding the federal government’s redistribution of provincial wealth to be unfair.
According to documents posted on the education ministry’s website, a new approach to math is needed to combat the field’s inherent white supremacy.
Politicians are well-known for speaking out of both sides of their mouths.
At no time did we see more of that behaviour than during the past 16 months of the COVID-19 pandemic when we expected our politicians to show some modicum of leadership.
Sadly, for the most part, that leadership has been lacking in so many areas.
When asked whether they support a federal government bill to promote and demote content in the results of search functions on social media sites like YouTube and Facebook, 62% of Ontario residents said they oppose this initiative. Of those, 41% said they strongly oppose the government having this power, while only 6% strongly support it.
We recently returned to the lovely little city of Peterborough, Ont., where the local constabulary take a very dim view of any sort of merriment in this day and age of COVID-19. You might recall our previous trip to Peterborough in April. We were there to cover an anti-lockdown protest staged at Confederation Square.
An investigation started after a video surfaced which shows a PRIDE flag in flames on the ground in what is believed to be in Mississauga.
Waterloo Region, which includes Kitchener, has seen a high number of cases in the past week. Health officials say the highly transmissible delta variant is playing a role in the spread of the virus, although it can take weeks to confirm that a variant of concern is specifically the delta variant. The delta variant, also known as B1617, is the variant first detected in India.
Describing Ontario’s electricity pricing system as a train wreck doesn’t do it justice.
That’s because it isn’t just one train — it’s the entire railroad — as a new report by the C.D. Howe Institute, Power Surge: The Causes of (and Solutions to) Ontario’s Electricity Price Rise Since 2006 makes clear.
The Ontario government has passed a bill limiting third-party election advertising by employing a rarely used legislative power.
Bill 307 used the notwithstanding clause to reintroduce parts of a law struck down by a judge last week.
The clause allows legislatures to override portions of the charter for a five-year term.
