Oct 19 2019 — Allison Jones — TORONTO — With election day less than 48 hours away, Andrew Scheer suddenly found himself in the hot seat Saturday as reports linked the Conservative party to a co-ordinated effort to smear former caucus colleague Maxime Bernier and his nascent populist People's Party of Canada. The Globe and Mail reported that strategist Warren Kinsella and his firm Daisy […]
Oct 19 2019 — Allison Jones — TORONTO — With election day less than 48 hours away, Andrew Scheer suddenly found himself in the hot seat Saturday as reports linked the Conservative party to a co-ordinated effort to smear former caucus colleague Maxime Bernier and his nascent populist People's Party of Canada. The Globe and Mail reported that strategist Warren Kinsella and his firm Daisy […]
Oct 5 2019 — Allison Jones — TORONTO — With the front-runners catching their breath, the battle for third place seized the campaign spotlight Saturday as the NDP and the Green party each promised a new deal of sorts for Indigenous Peoples in Canada. In northern Ontario, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh assailed the Liberal record on improving the lives of First Nations […]
Oct 5 2019 — Allison Jones — TORONTO — With the front-runners catching their breath, the battle for third place seized the campaign spotlight Saturday as the NDP and the Green party each promised a new deal of sorts for Indigenous Peoples in Canada. In northern Ontario, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh assailed the Liberal record on improving the lives of First Nations […]
Sep 20 2019 — Allison Jones — TORONTO — Images of Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau in blackface and brownface have tarnished Canada's international reputation and he should have confronted them long ago, former Ontario premier Kathleen Wynne said on Friday. Wynne, who supported and actively campaigned for Trudeau in 2015 when she was the Liberal premier, said in an interview that she was […]
Sep 20 2019 — Allison Jones — TORONTO — Images of Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau in blackface and brownface have tarnished Canada's international reputation and he should have confronted them long ago, former Ontario premier Kathleen Wynne said on Friday. Wynne, who supported and actively campaigned for Trudeau in 2015 when she was the Liberal premier, said in an interview that she was […]
Sep 15 2019 — Allison Jones — TORONTO — Ontario Premier Doug Ford took time out of his work days to film taxpayer-funded videos that have been criticized as partisan propaganda on at least 100 occasions during his first year in power. A Canadian Press analysis of a year's worth of Ontario News Now videos found that Ford filmed with them on close to […]
Sep 15 2019 — Allison Jones — TORONTO — Ontario Premier Doug Ford took time out of his work days to film taxpayer-funded videos that have been criticized as partisan propaganda on at least 100 occasions during his first year in power. A Canadian Press analysis of a year's worth of Ontario News Now videos found that Ford filmed with them on close to […]
Sep 13 2019 — Allison Jones — TORONTO — Ontario's budget deficit now stands at $7.4 billion, nearly half of the $15 billion Premier Doug Ford claimed he inherited last year from the previous Liberal government — a figure critics have said was vastly inflated. Treasury Board President Peter Bethlenfalvy and Finance Minister Rod Phillips gave a financial update Friday with the government's public accounts, saying the […]
Sep 13 2019 — Allison Jones — The Canadian Press — TORONTO — Ontario's budget deficit now stands at $7.4 billion, nearly half of the $15 billion Premier Doug Ford claimed he inherited last year from the previous Liberal government — a figure critics have said was vastly inflated. Treasury Board President Peter Bethlenfalvy and Finance Minister Rod Phillips gave a financial update Friday with the government's public accounts, saying the […]
Sep 9 2019 — Allison Jones — Ontario school boards must now develop policies to accommodate students with service animals in classrooms. Education Minister Stephen Lecce announced Monday that boards have until Jan. 1 to come up with their rules, saying only about half of school boards currently have policies on service animals. "Anything the province can do to create a framework, […]
Sep 9 2019 — Allison Jones — Ontario school boards must now develop policies to accommodate students with service animals in classrooms. Education Minister Stephen Lecce announced Monday that boards have until Jan. 1 to come up with their rules, saying only about half of school boards currently have policies on service animals. "Anything the province can do to create a framework, […]
Sep 8 2019 — Allison Jones — TORONTO — Health authorities in Canada are closely monitoring increasing reports in the United States of respiratory illnesses in hundreds of people, mostly teenagers, potentially linked to vaping. There have been at least 450 possible cases, including five deaths, identified in the U.S. this year and many said they had been vaping THC, the chemical that […]
Sep 6 2019 — Allison Jones — TORONTO — Proposed changes to ambulance rules in Ontario could see paramedics take patients to facilities other than a hospital emergency department, or treat them and release them on scene. People calling 911 for medical assistance could also be directed to other facilities in the community. The proposals, posted this week on the province's regulatory registry, are aimed at […]
Sep 6 2019 — Allison Jones — TORONTO — Proposed changes to ambulance rules in Ontario could see paramedics take patients to facilities other than a hospital emergency department, or treat them and release them on scene. People calling 911 for medical assistance could also be directed to other facilities in the community. The proposals, posted this week on the province's regulatory registry, are aimed at […]