Opinion

Parents! Weigh in on TDSB’s new funding formula

Chris Mosie – With the first of three elections over on June 13, Kathleen Wynne and the Ontario Liberal Party were given a majority mandate. The Liberals as the incumbent party were chased in the election by Tim Hudak and ...

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Port Authority greatest threat to Waterfront: Vaughan

Robin Careless – There was a good deal of excitement for the future at the meeting of the  Bathurst Quay Neighborhood Association (BQNA) on June 19. The first speaker was James Roche, the director of parks, design and construction for Waterfront ...

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Child safety is vital, but don’t discourage volunteers

Chris Moise – Although I rely heavily on social media to stay connected with what’s happening locally and internationally, I still watch and listen to CBC News periodically throughout the day to stay in the know. If I were to ...

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Waterfront Toronto investment pays off handsomely

Stig Harvor – Financing of more needed Waterfront Toronto (WT) work has reached a critical juncture. In less than two more years WT will run out of money. It will be unable to continue its impressive revitalization of our former ...

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It was Mike Harris who beat the pants off Tim Hudak

Scandals and sellouts aside, voters went for hopeful promises of lesser devils than the ones they have experienced at the hands of Dalton McGuinty. The voter demolition of both Andrea Horwath’s NDP and Tim Hudak’s Tory regimes at the polls ...

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Toronto schools stand to benefit from Wynne’s win

Chris Moise – With the first of three elections over on June 13th, Kathleen Wynne and the Ontario Liberal Party were given a majority mandate. The Liberals as the incumbent party were chased in the election by Tim Hudak and his ...

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Hudak rightly lost but so, too, did democracy

Stig Harvor – What if anything, can we glean from the unprecedented amount of political activity in our province and city squeezed into just this one year, 2012? Ontario with Toronto is experiencing noteworthy political change. Of special interest is ...

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Our nation’s wealth is taken by corporate oligarchs

Stig Harvor — It has been difficult, if not impossible, to rise above the partisan noise of our 5-week Ontario election ending on June 12. There is an incessant noise about provincial debt, balanced budgets, taxes, killing jobs to create ...

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Taxpayers lost as Ford boys used position for personal gain

What do you think, poor Toronto taxpayer? Enough of the crooked Ford boys! It’s overdue that the outrageous pair be removed from city hall and an array of  ethical breaches on behalf of their family corporation, Deco Labels, should drive ...

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