Ontario Premier Doug Ford is set to meet with Lieutenant Governor Elizabeth Dowdeswell Tuesday at 3 p.m. to officially start the provincial election period.
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Woman with disabilities nears medically assisted death after futile bid for affordable housing
A 31-year-old Toronto woman who uses a wheelchair is nearing final approval for a medically assisted death request after a fruitless bid to secure an affordable apartment that doesn’t worsen her chronic illnesses.
Ontario Liberals promise to cut all transit fares to $1 until 2024
The Ontario Liberals say that if they form government after the June 2 election they would make all public transit fares $1 until 2024.
The party says the fare reduction would apply to “every transit system in Ontario,” including all municipal services, as well as GO Transit and Ontario Northland.
The Liberals are dubbing their plan “buck-a-ride,” a reference to a popular part of Progressive Conservative Leader Doug Ford’s 2018 platform to offer “buck-a-beer.”
GOLDSTEIN: Ford’s path to victory is to win over Trudeau voters
Premier Doug Ford’s strategy for winning a second majority government on June 2 relies on getting Ontario voters, who supported Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberals in last year’s federal election, to vote for his Progressive Conservative candidates now.
Waterloo school board offering woke workshop for teachers
An upcoming Waterloo Region District School Board (WRDSB) virtual learning symposium will teach teachers how to create “meaningful and reflective” territorial acknowledgements for their schools, as well as inform them what “intersectionality” is all about.
GOLDSTEIN: Instead of serious tax relief, Ford delivers election bribes
If Ontario Premier Doug Ford wins re-election on June 2, he can thank Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
That’s because massive federal financial support for Ontario during the COVID-19 pandemic, combined with soaring inflation which, while devastating to families, increases government revenues, is enabling Ford to indiscriminately throw money at Ontarians in the budget Finance Minister Peter Bethlenfalvy delivered Thursday.
I suspect he will win.
Doug Ford banking on billions in deficit spending as PCs table pre-election budget
Ontario Premier Doug Ford is banking on billions of dollars in infrastructure spending to get him re-elected to a second term in office, relying on continued deficits to fuel campaign promises.
The Ford government tabled “Ontario’s Plan to Build” on Thursday, a 241-page, $198 billion document that serves both as a provincial budget and an election platform for the PC party.
The Ontario Liberals’ proposed handgun ban is opportunistic – and voters can’t afford to fall for it
There must be an alarm that goes off in every Liberal Party war room when polling shows support has fallen to undesirable levels: Attention! Electoral success threatened! Please deploy “abortion,” “gun” or “austerity” attack!
Gun-Grabbing Politicians’ Main Goal Is To Disarm The Minds Of Canadians
The news of Ontario Liberal Party leader Steven Del Duca declaring that he wants to ban the legal purchasing of handguns if he becomes premier caught the attention of conservative media in Canada, which rightfully ripped Del Duca for his anti-firearms positions.
Liberals in ‘striking distance’ of PCs but many Ontario voters still unfamiliar with Del Duca, poll suggests
The Ontario election race appears to be tightening ahead of the formal start of the campaign, with one new poll putting the Liberals only four points back of Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservative party.
The Abacus Data survey of 1,500 Ontarians found that 36 per cent of decided voters plan to cast a ballot for Ford’s PC party in June, compared to 32 per cent who intend to vote for Steven Del Duca’s Liberal party and 23 per cent who said they would vote for Andrea Horwath and the NDP. About six per cent of respondents indicated that they vote for the Green party while four per cent said that they would vote for another party entirely.
Ontario Liberals pledge handgun ban
An Ontario Liberal government would ban handguns provincewide in its first year in office, Leader Steven Del Duca promises.
The ban would include the sale, possession, transport and storage of handguns, he said Tuesday.
Ontario Government Won’t Comment On Progress Of Digital ID Program
The Ontario government is remaining tight-lipped about the progress and rollout of the proposed provincial digital ID program.
The program was intended to launch in 2021, but was delayed due to the development of the province’s proof-of-vaccination app. In November, the government said they would roll the program out in 2022.
But since then, the government has removed reference to the 2022 timeline from the digital ID website.
Prohibiting demonstrations will stamp out social justice activism
The legislation, which would permanently prohibit demonstrations and blockades on “protected transportation infrastructure,” like land or water border crossings and international airports, is, on the face of it, in response to the convoy from earlier this year. This has some superficial appeal given the havoc that things like the blockade of the Ambassador Bridge and the occupation of downtown Ottawa caused.
Ontario government to introduce legislation to cut gas, fuel taxes
Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s government is introducing legislation to temporarily reduce gasoline and fuel taxes.
In a news release issued Monday morning, the province said if passed, the gas tax would be reduced by 5.7 cents per litre and the fuel tax by 5.3 cents per litre for a period of six months beginning July 1.
“Ongoing supply chain challenges and geopolitical conflicts are pushing up the cost of living from gas to groceries,” said Minister of Finance Peter Bethlenfalvy.
Doug Ford Seeks To Make Anti-Protest Emergency Powers Permanent
Ontario has mostly reopened at this point, with mask mandates, lockdowns, and vaccine mandates presumably behind the province, but it seems like Premier Doug Ford’s PC government does not want to let go of all the new powers it granted itself over the last two years.
Bill 100 was tabled by the Solicitor General, Sylvia Jones, who was the same PC MPP who tabled Bill 195, ironically named “The Reopening Ontario Act” which gave Ford the power to lockdown Ontario and add restrictions whenever he wanted.