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Ontario drivers woke up to an average fuel price of 170.2 cents per litre on Thursday and Premier Doug Ford was among those frustrated by the gas price increase. During a question and answer period at a stop in Oakville, Ont., Ford went off on gas prices, mentioning concerns about …
Read More »Ontario gas tax cut extension to cost $500 million over 6 months
The Ford government is set to spend half a billion dollars to extend the provincial gas tax cut for another six months, according to the Ministry of Finance, putting the total cost of the affordability measure at $3.2 billion. The gas tax cut was first implemented in 2022 as a …
Read More »Nova Scotia budget expected to focus on health care, cost of living – Halifax
By Staff The Canadian Press Posted February 29, 2024 8:36 am 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size Nova Scotia’s Progressive Conservative government will today table its third budget since being elected in August 2021. The past two budgets have focused heavily on bolstering the province’s …
Read More »Traffic agents cost Toronto thousands every week. Why does the city need them? – Toronto
Toronto is spending thousands of dollars every week to place men and women with whistles on street corners as gridlock in the city reaches breaking point. A long-running municipal program puts city-trained staff and Toronto police officers at intersections to keep wayward drivers in line, in an attempt to quell …
Read More »Canadian Cancer Society urges Ontario to cover cost of take-home medication
Kirsten Watson was weeks away last year from losing access to potentially life-saving medication — a situation she found herself in because Ontario does not cover the cost of take-home cancer drugs. The 43-year-old is on medication to help prevent a recurrence of breast cancer after being diagnosed in 2020. She lost …
Read More »Nearly 1 in 4 Canadians skipping pills, not renewing prescriptions due to cost: poll
Nearly one in four Canadians are struggling to pay for prescription medications and are skipping pills or foregoing refills, a new poll has found. The poll, commissioned from Leger by Heart and Stroke and the Canadian Cancer Society between Jan. 24-29 found of the 2,048 adults surveyed, 22 per cent …
Read More »Trudeau and family vacationing in Jamaica ‘at no cost,’ PMO clarifies – National
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s office is clarifying that he and his family are vacationing in Jamaica “at no cost at a location owned by family friends,” after initially saying the family was paying for their stay. The Prime Minister’s Office said in a statement on Wednesday that the federal ethics …
Read More »Minister to overrule Ontario Energy Board, says decision will raise cost of new homes
The Ontario Energy Board strayed “out of their lane” with a decision that would increase costs for new homes heated with natural gas, the province’s energy minister said Friday as he promised to overturn it. But environmental groups said the OEB’s decision was a huge win for the environment and …
Read More »Climate change could cost Ontario billions as planet heats up: watchdog
Ontario’s financial watchdog is repeating warnings that the province’s roads, hospitals and other infrastructure are vulnerable to the high costs of climate change if significant changes are not made. The Financial Accountability Office of Ontario (FAO) released a report Wednesday outlining how the province could need to spend billions of …
Read More »Cost, lack of insurance keeping Canadians from seeing the dentist: StatCan – National
With the federal government’s early steps for a dental care plan expected to be announced before the end of the year, new data from Statistics Canada suggests more than one in three Canadians had not visited a dentist over the span of 12 months between 2021 and 2022 — and …
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