Briefs

Rugby World Cup visits Yorkville March 30

The Rugby World Cup comes to Toronto and will be on display at Hemingway’s Yorkville Toronto as part of the last stop of the 2019 Rugby World Cup Trophy Tour. Rugby fans will be able to get up close to ...

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Lobby group praises Ford for ‘no carbon tax’ pledge

The Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF) is applauding the July 12 speech from the throne, which committed the government to introducing legislation that would end Ontario’s cap-and-trade carbon tax. “Mr. Ford was elected with a mandate to save Ontario families money ...

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Doug Ford announces his new Ontario cabinet

A new cabinet was announced. Here is the new cabinet, reduced from 28 ministers to 21 ministers, including Premier Doug Ford: Peter Bethlenfalvy, President of the Treasury Board Raymond Cho, Minister for Seniors and Accessibility Steve Clark, Minister of Municipal ...

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Young entrepreneurs who won’t mind their own business

Hamza Fasih is a young man with a dream and a desire to never work for anyone else. A fitness enthusiast, Hamza started Altius Fitness with nothing more than a Twitter handle, a single client and an idea. “It was ...

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Yes, the Sunshine List still matters

Once a year the Ontario government releases the names and salaries of government employees earning a taxpayer-funded salary of over $100,000. And like clockwork, critics complain that the $100,000 threshold for this “Sunshine List” is inappropriate. The main arguments are ...

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Fukushima-style event at Pickering?

A Fukushima Disaster at Pickering could lead to 26,000 cancers and $125 billion in lost home values Seven years ago, a runaway triple nuclear meltdown at the Fukushima Nuclear Station in Japan occured. The effects of this catastrophe continue today. ...

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Megan makes noise, Putin makes sense

An attempted assassination by NBC news poodle Megan Kelly quickly mired down in mock interrogation as she hammered the Russian leader with snide and unanswerable questions. It was the major-media equivalent of a How often do you beat your wife ...

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Prime Minister ‘Moonbeam’ continued to flail on India

Leader of Canada’s Conservatives, Andrew Scheer, released a statement following Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s meeting with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi Feb 22, 2018: “Canada’s Conservatives support efforts that grow our economy and create good, well-paying jobs, but unfortunately Justin ...

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February Toronto Police Accountability Bulletin

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Toronto Police Accountability Bulletin No. 107, February 7, 2018. This Bulletin is published by the Toronto Police Accountability Coalition (TPAC), a group of individuals and organizations in Toronto interested in police policies and procedures, and in making police more accountable ...

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Nukes dreams dying from low electricity demand

Since 2005, demand for electricity in Ontario has been steadily falling.  In  2017, it fell a further 3.6%meaning that demand has dropped by 16% since 2005. That is the equivalent of taking 2.5 million homes off the grid –  like unplugging all the ...

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