After more than two years fighting COVID-19, some medical experts in Ontario say the province has entered a sixth wave.
“There are more cases now than there were a week ago and two weeks ago,” infectious disease expert Dr. Isaac Bogoch said Tuesday.
“We can call this a wave. We just don’t know the size of the wave. But it’s here.”
Six months after Ontario’s tourism industry was promised $100 million to help it recover from the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, not a penny of that money has flowed to businesses.
The delay leaves hundreds of tourism operators across the province in limbo as they try to prepare for what they hope will be their busiest summer in three years.
When most people think of organized crime, they probably picture Tony Soprano’s “waste management” gig, the various drug cartels, or the body counts racked up by the Mafia in cities like New York and Chicago in decades past. But for the people living in Canada’s most populous province, organized crime takes a very different but very real form: Towing. Yes, towing. Criminal enterprises have run rampant across Ontario’s towing industry since at least the early 2000s, and the situation has resulted in unlawful tows, firebombs, and even murders across the greater Toronto Area.
Dr. Nili Kaplan-Myrth, an Ottawa-based doctor, feminist and strong supporter of mandates and restrictions, criticized the move to give Ontario residents and students the choice to wear a mask, calling the decision political.
“The end of mask mandates was driven by politics, disinformation, and ideology, not by sound health policy or science,” she tweeted.
There were more people who fled Ontario to other provinces and territories in 2021 than have left the province since 1981. And they left because of harsh lockdowns, the cost of housing and the ability to work from home.
Ontario will continue to suffer its fate as the northern edge of the great rust-belt. Free trade started it, bad provincial energy policy accelerated it. Covid policy helped of course and the final nails in the coffin will be US protectionism and Justin’s economy killing green-scams.
Former MonAvenir Catholic School Board (CSC) high school science teacher Chanel Pfahl is being investigated by the Ontario College of Teachers (OCT) for remarks and postings she made opposing critical race theory in schools.
“This is what teachers in Ontario are being investigated for nowadays,” said Pfahl in a tweet on Tuesday. “It looks like I will be needing a lawyer.”
Premier Doug Ford’s approval rating has dropped to its lowest point in two years, with June’s provincial election now just months away.
A provincewide call to action on the alleged privatization of health care will see a series of emergency summits held across Ontario over the next month.
Kicking off next week in Ottawa and running in 20 different cities across the province over March and April, the Ontario Health Coalition — a network of over 400 member organizations including seniors’ groups, unions and non-profit community agencies — will host a series of summits to launch the “biggest fightback we have ever mounted.”
The Ontario Progressive Conservative government has been a major disappointment to conservative Ontarians on multiple fronts since they were elected to a majority government back in 2018. Spending has not been brought under control, wasteful green technology programs have not been scrapped, and small businesses and civil rights were trashed due to draconian government lockdowns and restrictions during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Licence plate stickers in Ontario are destined for the ash heap of history, thanks to the Ford government’s commitment to repeal those pesky annual fees.
Families are facing rampant inflation and soaring living costs. Premier Doug Ford’s announcement will save the typical two-car family $240 a year.
It’s a good first step, and now the Ford government needs to deliver much more substantial relief.
Ontario premier Doug Ford is sitting on his hands while Alberta premier Jason Kenney is delivering relief for taxpayers.
Earlier this week, Kenney announced his government would cut provincial gas taxes by 13 cents per litre in the face of skyrocketing oil prices. For a family filling up their minivan, Kenney’s tax cut means nearly $10 of savings at the pumps on every fill-up.
Ontario is seeking public input on how to address systemic racism and hate in our province.
We want your feedback on how the government can address immediate needs and make lasting systemic change to combat racism in the province, eliminate violence and hate, and empower communities, youth and families.
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Police just pepper sprayed me. I was several feet away from their front line and had obeyed every order to move back. pic.twitter.com/A43nQNEvDI
— Andrew Lawton (@AndrewLawton) February 18, 2022
The police advance moments before I was maced. pic.twitter.com/w7gQHwbQO6
— Andrew Lawton (@AndrewLawton) February 18, 2022
Ontario Premier Doug Ford, likely seeing the terrible optics after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau implemented the Emergencies Act, has started backpedaling on vaccination as the way to end the restrictions in Ontario.
For over a year Ford has been pushing for mass vaccination as the only way for life to go back to normal in his province, while also standing firmly by Trudeau on his attacks on the Freedom Convoy and use of the Emergencies Act.
Suddenly after witnessing the terrible international media coverage of Trudeau’s use of emergency powers on the night of the 14th, Ford woke up the next morning and started questioning the logic of vaccination for stopping the spread of the virus.
Ontario’s reference to the COVID-19 situation as the impetus for restructuring society echoes the statements of the Chairman of the World Economic Forum and his organization’s globalist ‘Great Reset’ agenda.
