A church in Greater Sudbury, Ont., says vandalism to a well-known statue is just one of many problems it’s been having.
The statue of Mary and baby Jesus was damaged last month at Ste-Anne-des-Pins Catholic Church on Beech Street. The same statue was damaged six years ago, and the temporary repair at the time made national headlines.
The province developed a functional vaccine passport system that was tested by at least one focus group six months ago, despite Solicitor General Sylvia Jones’s rejection on Wednesday of a mechanism to verify Ontarians’ vaccination status.
Equalization payments aren’t just a problem for western Canadians, a new poll suggests, with a majority of Ontario residents finding the federal government’s redistribution of provincial wealth to be unfair.
According to documents posted on the education ministry’s website, a new approach to math is needed to combat the field’s inherent white supremacy.
Politicians are well-known for speaking out of both sides of their mouths.
At no time did we see more of that behaviour than during the past 16 months of the COVID-19 pandemic when we expected our politicians to show some modicum of leadership.
Sadly, for the most part, that leadership has been lacking in so many areas.
When asked whether they support a federal government bill to promote and demote content in the results of search functions on social media sites like YouTube and Facebook, 62% of Ontario residents said they oppose this initiative. Of those, 41% said they strongly oppose the government having this power, while only 6% strongly support it.
We recently returned to the lovely little city of Peterborough, Ont., where the local constabulary take a very dim view of any sort of merriment in this day and age of COVID-19. You might recall our previous trip to Peterborough in April. We were there to cover an anti-lockdown protest staged at Confederation Square.
An investigation started after a video surfaced which shows a PRIDE flag in flames on the ground in what is believed to be in Mississauga.
Waterloo Region, which includes Kitchener, has seen a high number of cases in the past week. Health officials say the highly transmissible delta variant is playing a role in the spread of the virus, although it can take weeks to confirm that a variant of concern is specifically the delta variant. The delta variant, also known as B1617, is the variant first detected in India.
Describing Ontario’s electricity pricing system as a train wreck doesn’t do it justice.
That’s because it isn’t just one train — it’s the entire railroad — as a new report by the C.D. Howe Institute, Power Surge: The Causes of (and Solutions to) Ontario’s Electricity Price Rise Since 2006 makes clear.
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.
In the wake of the killing of the Afzaal-Salman family in London, Ontario, Muslim Canadians told VICE World News Islamophobia is palpable in their daily lives, but not enough people care.
Keewaywin First Nation in northern Ontario will no longer recognize Canada Day as a celebration and will instead mark it as a “day of mourning” until the federal government investigates the grounds of all former residential schools.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservative government is following the same failed financial policies of the previous Dalton McGuinty-Kathleen Wynne Liberal governments of 2003-18, according to a new study by the Fraser Institute.
