Politics

A new government to partner with

Doug Ford was sworn in as the 26th Premier of Ontario. Following the official swearing-in at Queen’s Park, public remarks were made on the lawn. A new cabinet was announced. Here is the new cabinet, reduced from 28 ministers to ...

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Don’t scapegoat refugees; build housing—OCAP

Faced with a rise in refugee claimants fleeing harrowing conditions of war in their countries of origin, and racism in the United States, politicians from all three levels of government are blaming the decades-old shelter crisis on people in desperate ...

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Keep dangerous, expensive OPG nuke?

The Ontario Chamber of Commerce has spent the last few years predicting that rising electricity prices would doom the province’s businesses and drive its economy into the ditch.dangerous nuke So it is a bit puzzling that the Chamber, in a ...

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Feds waste money subsidizing news operations

• Wasting money propping up untenable news operations. • Billions spent on the CBC, hundreds of millions redirected by the CRTC. Is more federal funding for local news justified? Peter Menzies The smartest thing the federal government could have done ...

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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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Council of Canadians slams Trudeau water sellout

The Trudeau government introduced sweeping changes to Canada’s water, environmental and energy legislation. For people like you and me who care deeply about water, we’ve been waiting more than five years for this day—ever since the Harper government stripped 99% of ...

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Brad Lamb’s answer to dumb-ass King St. car ban

  Streetcar Named  DISASTER The King Street Pilot Project is a ‘ban on cars’ It doesn’t matter that cars can access King Street a block at a time. This bizarre program was set up to be so incredibly inconvenient that ...

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Trudeau’s tax-cutting rhetoric doesn’t match reality

The government has raised income taxes on the majority of middle-class Canadian families, despite repeated claims of the opposite Too often, reality doesn’t match political rhetoric. The federal government’s tax relief promises are a case in point. On the federal ...

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500% tax hike threatens historic Yonge Street

Toronto City Hall is helping both foreign and domestic developers denude Historic Yonge Street of its landmark merchants south of Bloor Street, replacing them with monster condos and cookie-cutter chain stores. It’s a disgrace.yonge tax grab Councillor Krystin Wong-Tam backs ...

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