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An Indigenous political organization representing 39 Ontario First Nations says it is “confounded” by a federal decision to hire an international organization to provide advice on unmarked graves. The Anishinabek Nation released a statement today expressing its leadership’s “bewilderment” over Ottawa’s $2-million contract with the Netherlands-based International Commission on Missing …
Read More »More Canadians trusting governments as COVID pandemic fades: poll – National
An annual survey on how trusting Canadians are suggests their faith in governments is rebounding as the COVID-19 pandemic begins to fade. The 2023 CanTrust Index published by Proof Strategies surveyed 1,502 adults online between Jan. 5 and Jan. 13 but cannot be given a margin of error because internet …
Read More »Critics blast Ford government’s continued defence of Bill 124 after new revelations
The Ford government is facing furious criticism after internal documents, obtained by Global News, acknowledged that low wages and Bill 124 have had a negative impact on Ontario’s ability to retain nurses in the province’s health care sector. The internal government documents, which were intended to brief Health Minister Sylvia …
Read More »Who are the GTA developers set to benefit from Ford government’s Greenbelt land swap?
Several well-established developers are among the owners of the 15 parcels of land the Ford government is proposing to open up for housing in the protected Greenbelt in the Greater Toronto Area, a CBC Toronto analysis of dozens of land registry and corporate records has found. The Ontario government announced …
Read More »Could governments win back the goodwill they had during the pandemic? Maybe by building things
A funny thing happened during the depths of the pandemic: a plurality of Canadians felt their governments were having a positive impact on peoples’ lives. It didn’t last. But perhaps governments should be thinking hard now about how they can engender such good feelings, even outside of moments of profound …
Read More »The Liberal government’s single-use plastic ban, explained
This week the Liberal government announced it will ban some single-use plastic items in an effort to achieve zero plastic waste by 2030, but only a limited number of products fall under the ban and some of the prohibitions don’t kick in until 2025. The six categories of single-use plastics …
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