Speaking at a news conference late Friday afternoon to announce new COVID-19 restrictions to help curb the rapidly spreading Omicron variant, Ford spoke directly to parents and said he understands that they are concerned and waiting for news.
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Doug Ford says high gas prices “just the beginning” due to carbon tax
As Canadians are facing unprecedented spikes in the price of gasoline at the pump, Ontario Premier Doug Ford told reporters that the carbon tax will only compound the high prices even further.
Doug Ford prorogues Ontario legislature until after federal election
Ontario’s Progressive Conservatives have prorogued the legislature until after the federal election, a move the Opposition called an “abdication of responsibility” as the province fights a fourth wave of COVID-19.
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Ford expected to give details of vaccine passport on Tuesday
Government had been adamant it would not bring in a verification system despite calls from health and business groups and polls showing strong public support.
Don’t campaign for Erin O’Toole, Doug Ford’s office tells ministers
The reason given to cabinet was that they have their plates full with their own files, and Mr. Ford’s team expects ministers will be too busy to get involved federally. The requests not to campaign for Mr. O’Toole or his candidates were described to The Globe by two sources with direct knowledge of the discussions. One of the sources said the message was also relayed to ministerial staff in a recent meeting. The Globe is not naming the sources because they were not authorized to discuss the internal deliberations.
Outspoken doctor quits group advising Doug Ford on COVID
“More recently, I find myself increasingly uncomfortable with the degree to which political considerations appear to be driving outputs from the tables, or at least the degree to which these outputs are shared in a transparent manner with the public,” Dr. David Fisman, an epidemiologist at the University of Toronto’s Dalla Lana School of Public Health, said in a resignation letter he shared on Twitter.
Doug Ford says he’ll hop into a school bus and drive kids to class this fall if he has to
Is there anything Doug Ford can’t do? By his own estimation, not really.
The Premier of Ontario has added “driving a school bus” to his ever-growing list of self-perceived capabilities, atop such talents as scolding yahoos, baking cheesecake, rescuing coyotes, vlogging trips to McDonald’s, seeing the future, fixing little red wagons, going up ying-yangs with firecrackers and coming at things “like an 800-pound gorilla.”
Ontario passes election spending bill with notwithstanding clause
The Ontario government has passed a bill limiting third-party election advertising by employing a rarely used legislative power.
Bill 307 used the notwithstanding clause to reintroduce parts of a law struck down by a judge last week.
The clause allows legislatures to override portions of the charter for a five-year term.
Maybe We Should Try Treating People Like Adults
The government acting like our parents is completely at odds with how a ‘free’ society is supposed to function.
Ontario leads Canada in lockdown severity: report
Included in the report is a “stringency index” which evaluates the overall strictness of lockdowns and public health orders. The index takes into account over a dozen variables including mask policy, gathering limits, restaurant closures and much more.
Ontario vowed to investigate horrific deaths in long-term care. Now it says that didn’t happen.
Nearly one year ago, as that first detailed picture emerged of the true scale of the horror faced by residents of Ontario’s long-term care system during the pandemic, a visibly emotional Premier Doug Ford vowed: “There’s going to be justice.”
Ford calls for ban on non-essential travel into Canada due to COVID-19 scariant first identified in India
In a statement released Saturday morning, the premier called the discovery of the B.1.617 variant “extremely troubling.”
Ontarians finally discover a breaking point for the lockdown abuse they’ll tolerate
Surely there must have been people in cabinet, in caucus, who could have told Ford he was yet again courting disaster. Instead he blundered straight into it.
There is no one at the wheel in Ontario
Where the hell do I even begin?
That’s not really a rhetorical question. The past 72 hours in Ontario have been, with no exaggeration, the most bizarre three days I’ve ever covered — or even witnessed. There are four or five different columns I could write about it, and all would cover some entirely distinct, eye-popping angle. There’s the “dozens of police forces refuse premier’s offer of power to arbitrarily stop and interrogate any citizen without limit” column. There’s an entire column about what the new police powers — even the lesser, revised versions — mean. There’s a border-closure column. There’s a column about the insanity of closing playgrounds. There’s a column about the volcanic eruption of public anger after the new emergency measures were announced on Friday. You could do an entirely separate one just on the astonishing outpouring of on-background-only and off-the-record wailing and horror by Progressive Conservatives themselves, the likes of which I have never seen.
Ford declines help from Trudeau, Red Cross: ‘We have a supply issue’
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the federal government is prepared to deploy the Canadian Red Cross to help Ontario with their mobile vaccination teams and send aid to hospitals and long-term care homes; something the Premier says isn’t needed at the moment.