May 9 2021 — Anthony Furey — Sun Media — A friend of mine got to the point where he’d just had enough of Ontario. The other week he and his wife packed up the car and drove with the kids to the United States. They were able to get across because one of them is a dual national. Now, mere days after moving into […]
Apr 18 2021 — Anthony Furey — Sun Media — The outrage came fast and fierce on Friday when Ontario Premier Doug Ford announced the latest round of restrictions that included closing playgrounds and recreational park space, banning people from socializing outdoors with non-family members, and giving the police the power to stop anyone to ask where they’re going. Criticism poured in from doctors, legal […]
Mar 21 2021 — Anthony Furey — Sun Media — A couple of weeks ago, Cardinal Thomas Collins — the influential Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Toronto — called on the Ontario government to revise its capacity rules for places of worship. “This makes no sense,” Cardinal Collins wrote, in reference to the rules governing Toronto and Peel Region that capped attendance at […]
Dec 20 2020 — Anthony Furey — Sun Media — As jurisdictions across the country ponder tighter restrictions, an ER doctor in the Greater Toronto Area is stepping forward to call for a more balanced approach. “The main message I want to get across is I want people to adhere to public health measures and try to do their part, but locking people up is […]
Dec 6 2020 — Anthony Furey — Sun Media — Back in February, I wrote a column with the now-quaint headline: “Expect the coronavirus to bring ‘social distancing’ to Canada.” It’s hard to believe now, but that was one of the first times the phrase had appeared in Canadian news. And I was laughed at by some for suggesting back then that we may see […]
Sep 15 2020 — Anthony Furey — Sun Media — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is promising that the upcoming throne speech will be more “ambitious” than ever, and a lot of that ambition seems to be focused on his deeply rooted green agenda convictions. There may even be, as John Ivison recently reported, a second carbon tax coming, in the form of the innocuously named […]
Aug 30 2020 — Anthony Furey — Sun Media — Regis Korchinski-Paquet died in Toronto just two days after the killing of George Floyd. The 29 year-old woman was, according to initial statements made by her mother, “shoved” off a 24-storey balcony by police officers. They had been called to the scene to respond to a woman in distress, but instead of getting her the […]
Aug 24 2020 — Anthony Furey — Sun Media — One of the more interesting Canadian public opinion polls to come out during the pandemic was an Angus Reid poll conducted in May that showed perceptions of the government in China were at an all-time low. Only 14% of respondents held a positive opinion of the leadership in Beijing. That’s as it should be, for […]
Aug 17 2020 — Anthony Furey — Postmedia — A popular refrain on social media during the first term of the Trudeau government was that the PM was little more than a puppet for Gerald Butts, who was then principal secretary to the PM. The taunts sometimes had different angles to them – some of them even roping George Soros into the mix, who […]
Aug 9 2020 — Anthony Furey — Sun Media — Canada is currently weighing whether or not to make a COVID-19 vaccine in some way mandatory, according to Navdeep Bains, the Liberal government’s Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry. Good luck getting everyone on board with that one. As if the various measures imposed upon Canadians hasn’t been contentious enough, imposing mandatory vaccines could easily […]
Jun 28 2020 — Anthony Furey — Sun Media — It was quite something to log in to Twitter last weekend during President Donald Trump’s Tulsa rally, his first since the lockdowns came into effect. Both anonymous accounts and prominent journalists and public figures unleashed non-stop jabs at every aspect of the rally as if they were auditioning to be some low-rent MSNBC version of […]
Jun 21 2020 — Anthony Furey — Sun Media — There’s an impasse on Parliament Hill that serves as a good example of the broader tensions playing out across society right now. On Wednesday, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh put forward a motion concerning the RCMP. It called for a review of their budget, their public accountability measures and their use of force policies. These reasonable […]
Jun 14 2020 — Anthony Furey — Sun Media — You probably haven’t heard that much about Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best on the news and across social media. Maybe that’s because she appears to be everything we need right now – a calm and level-headed officer, who is very much open to reform but also speaks out against violent looting and is not willing […]
Jun 6 2020 — Anthony Furey — Sun Media — I’ve been breaking the rules ever since the start. Despite officials recommending against it, I’ve been dividing my time between rural Ontario and downtown Toronto, regularly going back and forth. It’s what we felt we had to do to as a family to maintain our sanity as a household with multiple small children. I know […]
Jun 3 2020 — Anthony Furey — Sun Media — The stock market is down. Companies are available for cheap. Some pretty good companies. Some sensitive ones. Maybe middle-class people in Canada who have cash to spare will use this opportunity to make some purchases for their TFSAs or RRSPs. Or, maybe, the Chinese government will swoop in and gobble up these companies.