More than half of Ontarians believe they’ll be priced out of the city or town where they currently live, a new survey has found.
Conducted by Right at Home Realty, the research shows that housing affordability “continues to be a major concern” for those who do not own a home in the province.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford is planning to raise immigration and skilled labour shortage issues at a meeting of premiers from across the country next week in Victoria.
The meeting is set to largely focus on health-care issues, with premiers hoping to press the government for increased Canada Health Transfer Funding.
But Ford is also highlighting labour issues in a statement about his priorities for the meeting, saying more skilled workers are needed to address a “historic labour shortage.”
“If you love your cat, keep Fluffy indoors.”
These were environmentalist and former Scarborough city councillor Glenn De Baeremaeker’s words to Toronto City Council Wednesday as a city committee discussed a plan that could prohibit cat owners from allowing felines to roam freely outdoors.
The motion, moved by Councillor for Ward 17 – Don Valley North Shelley Carroll, is rooted in the belief outdoor cats can be a danger to local ecosystems, hunting bird and rodent populations, and are themselves at risk of being hit by vehicles or attacked by wildlife while roaming.
So what’s the money angle?
The Elementary Teachers Federation of Ontario (ETFO) has been releasing multiple school resources for their member teachers to teach Ontario elementary-age children about “white privilege” through things like the Re-Think, Re-Connect, Re-Imagine PDF package they released fairly recently.
The rather insidious nature of this lesson plan package and its other supplementary materials is how it is deliberately designed to teach white children that they are somehow racist or are beneficiaries of “privilege” based only on their skin colour.
The Trudeau government has approved a plan requested by Quebec to ship asylum claimants who illegally cross into Canada via Roxham Road into Ontario cities such as Niagara Falls and Ottawa.
Quebec authorities have pleaded with Ottawa in recent months to alleviate the stress the influx of migrants has caused for the province.
OTTAWA, Ont. — Canada’s left-wing New Democrats are facing a new threat from a Conservative movement keen to steal long-standing support from the party’s working-class base.
Last week, an election in Canada’s largest province saw the Progressive Conservatives win a landslide majority, partly due to a successful bid to appeal to union workers in former NDP strongholds.
The NDP hasn’t had the working class vote for eons, they rep Big Labour – principally our predatory public service unions whose members number nearly 2 million in Ontario. Private sector unions are not nearly so large but do rep the left leaning media.
In the aftermath of Ontario’s provincial election, unfounded accusations of voter fraud and other alleged plots have emerged across the internet. Within hours of the polls closing, Ontario Liberal and NDP supporters took a page from the alt-right’s playbook, and began spreading conspiracy theories to delegitimize the democratically re-elected Progressive Conservative government.
“I’m not sugar-coating it. That was pretty devastating last week,” former Liberal cabinet minister John Milloy said Monday.
That has to qualify as the understatement of the year.
But it gets stranger … Ontario Liberals, NDP should mull merger, former finance minister says
As Ontario Liberals look to rebuild after their devastating result in last week’s provincial election, former finance minister Greg Sorbara says it’s time to consider what he admits is a “pie-in-the-sky” idea: merging his party with the province’s NDP.
Many members of the two parties have denounced the concept after a campaign in which they aimed political attacks at each other. In an interview, Mr. Sorbara, who was finance minister from 2003 to 2007, when Dalton McGuinty was Liberal premier, acknowledged such a merger is unlikely.
There appears to be a connection between anger towards the federal NDP leader and significant losses for the party in Ontario.
Premier Doug Ford had an impressive election victory on Thursday, but it’s not the start of a Progressive Conservative dynasty in Ontario and the Liberal Party isn’t going to disappear.
Call it the apathy election.
Thursday’s vote in Ontario may have seen the lowest turnout in the province since Confederation.
With some final polls still being counted, early data from Elections Ontario suggests about 43.03 per cent of eligible voters cast a ballot — or about 4.6 million of the province’s 10.7 million potential electors.
Voter turnout in Ontario lowest in history, early data from Elections Ontario shows
As of Friday morning, the Elections Ontario website indicated only 4.6 million out of 10.7 million eligible voters chose to cast a ballot in Thursday’s election.
That’s around 43 per cent of eligible voters.
Is it any wonder? Given the choices on offer Ford seems the lesser evil.
Premier Doug Ford’s re-election Thursday evening was watched closely by federal Conservatives looking for lessons on how to bring their party back to power after three straight election losses.
The main takeaway from multiple party insiders – including those helping to run leadership campaigns – was that the federal Conservatives need to emulate Ford’s blue-collar messaging and build a new voter coalition to take on Justin Trudeau’s Liberal Party.
Well maybe not really, private sector unions represent only a small segment of the workforce. The public service union predator class are wed to the Libs and NDP.
Natpo – Deja blue: Doug Ford PCs roar to a second majority win in Ontario
Premier Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservatives scored a commanding victory in Thursday’s Ontario election, capturing another majority government as the leaders of the opposition NDP and Liberals announced they were resigning after bitterly disappointing results.
Globe – Ontario election: Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservatives win second majority
Premier Doug Ford has easily won a second majority government after a roller-coaster term dominated by the COVID-19 pandemic, with both NDP and Liberal leaders resigning in the face of failures by their parties to mount serious challenges to the Progressive Conservative juggernaut.
His party was leading or elected in 83 seats, a gain of seven seats from its results in 2018, with 41 per cent of the popular vote.
Star – Doug Ford trounces the competition as Steven Del Duca and Andrea Horwath resign as party leaders
Ford more years.
Ontario voters gave Premier Doug Ford another four-year term Thursday in a resounding election victory for the Progressive Conservatives that reduced the size of the NDP opposition and left the Liberals banished to the political wilderness.
Both NDP Leader Andrea Horwath and Liberal Leader Steven Del Duca resigned their posts.
CBC – How Doug Ford’s PCs won their 2nd straight Ontario election
Doug Ford’s journey to winning the Ontario election and securing a second straight majority really began on St. Patrick’s Day in 2020, the day he declared a state of emergency over the COVID-19 pandemic.
Until that moment, Ford’s Progressive Conservative government bore the aroma of a one-term wonder, mired in nepotism scandals and so unpopular that the premier got booed at the otherwise joyful Toronto Raptors victory parade.
Global – Ontario Progressive Conservatives win another majority government
The Ontario Progressive Conservatives have won a second consecutive majority government, with PC candidates having been elected in 83 ridings.
That’s seven more than in the previous election and well above the minimum 63 required for a majority.
CTV – Doug Ford re-elected as Ontario premier with majority government
Doug Ford has been re-elected as premier of Ontario with a majority government, CTV News declares.
Polls closed across the province at 9 p.m. on Thursday and shortly after CTV News declared the Progressive Conservative leader the winner of the 2022 election.
At Toronto Congress Centre in Etobicoke, Ford celebrated his second mandate to wild applause and shouts of “four more years.”
I heard voter turnout was estimated at 45% down significantly from the 57% turnout in 2018.
NatPo -Ontario election live updates: Voting extended at 27 polling stations in Ontario, delaying counting in 19 ridings
Ontario Election 2022 live results – here and here
I’ll leave this post a sticky till morning.
I have an early day again. Up at 6 am to blog & out the door at 10 am. Pick up the Sister-in-law and visit with my brother in the hospice for the afternoon.
With Ontarians hitting the polls today, the election will not only determine the province’s next premier, but also the political fates of all the party leaders.
Steven Del Duca, for example, has said that regardless of tonight’s election results, he will stay on as Liberal leader. But despite his intentions, it will likely be his party’s showing — and his own battle within his riding — that may very well determine whether he remains at the helm.
The election no one cared about.
