Opinion

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 a stake through their benighted careers in ...

Frank Touby — Canada probably should avoid entering into any treaties. The only exceptions would be those where we declare peace between ourselves and possible opponents. But trade deals? Out of the question! Currently our ruler in Ottawa, the secretive ...

Stig Harvor — Our quasi-Mayor Rob Ford persistently and very loudly proclaims he is protecting every single dollar of “hardworking taxpayers.” Yet his policies and actions are causing millions of such dollars to be wasted in big and smaller ways. ...

John Sewell — Enough already. The serious problems at the Toronto Community Housing Corp. (TCHC)  have gone unresolved for several years and it’s time for change. Disrepair, bad management, lack of good governance by a distant board of directors—the TCHC ...

Instead of dithering over whether to permit jets on the Lake Ontario gem that is Toronto Island, let’s do the right thing and remove that airport altogether. Shut it down, restore it to the parkland it was many decades ago ...

Ian Steer — Toronto city councillors voted unanimously on April 1 to go a step further in the process of authorizing Porter Airlines to offer whisper jet access to the city’s waterfront airport. “Both sides broke out in spontaneous applause ...

There is a solution to bring our province and Canada out of this depression that started in 2007. It’s a common-sense resolution that would pay off big for most of us. Let’s take a look at it. It’s not really ...

Frank Touby — Dreadlocked-candidate Sarah Thomson claims a poll puts her in 5th place, rising above Councillor Karen Stintz and compares herself to ex-mayor David Miller in the early stages of his campaign. In a release, Thomson, who was laughed ...

Frank Touby — It’s been a little over 50 years since John Fitzgerald Kennedy was murdered by assassins in Dallas. Everyone over the age of reason during that tragedy—notably except for the father of George W. Bush—knows where he or ...

Frank Touby — So now “they” have stripped Lord Conrad Black of his major Canadian honour: membership in the elite Order of Canada. It was granted to him based upon his great success as a media mogul whose holdings were ...