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Danielle Hudspeth was just a hungry customer eager to fill her stomach when she visited Hogtown Smoke in Hamilton’s Stoney Creek area earlier this year. The 22-year-old left the restaurant with an offer to work as a server later that week, on St. Patrick’s Day. After just one day on …
Read More »Small Ontario town rallies to replace Pride decorations after flags cut up, destroyed
People in the town of Minto, Ont., are supporting the local LGBTQ community after Pride decorations were cut up and destroyed in acts of vandalism that police are calling hate-motivated crimes. Between June 4 and 13, Pride flags at schools in Listowel, Harriston, Drayton and Mapleton were torn down, cut up and shredded, …
Read More »‘It changed my life’: How an Ontario university tuition levy helps students affected by war become grads
Alik Sarian uprooted her life twice for her university education. On Tuesday, she will be one of hundreds of students receiving a bachelor of science degree at Wilfrid Laurier University during convocation ceremonies, and says she has her classmates to thank. Sarian is originally from Aleppo, Syria. In 2016, she moved with …
Read More »Ontario sisters still waiting for random COVID-19 border test more than a week after returning from trip
At first, Tori Nixon thought the email was a scam. In it, the federal government wrote that either Nixon or her sister had been selected for a mandatory random COVID-19 test at Toronto Pearson Airport on May 29, but that it had not been completed — and that they could face …
Read More »Who’s in, who’s out: Plenty of new Ontario MPPs, some notable departures
It was already known that around 30 members of Ontario’s legislature would not be contesting Thursday’s provincial election, mostly from retirements, though a few were turfed from their party’s caucus during the last term. Throw in some upsets for candidates who did seek to be re-elected, and it guarantees some …
Read More »What the election could mean for the ‘out of control’ price of homes in Ontario
The crushing cost of buying a home in Ontario. That’s the top issue for voters ahead of the June 2 election, based on input from the CBC News audience and backed up by thousands more who filled out Vote Compass. The result is not especially surprising, given that the province’s own …
Read More »Why the COVID-19 pandemic isn’t a bigger factor in the Ontario election campaign
You may have figured a global pandemic that upended Ontario businesses, schools and health care for two years, infected millions and led to the deaths of 13,000 people would totally dominate the provincial election campaign. But you’d be wrong. While PC Leader Doug Ford’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic during …
Read More »These Ontario residents didn’t receive a storm alert — and want to know why
Speaking from his home in Lakefield, Ont., Ed Paleczny is still visibly shaken from the terrifying moments he shared with his wife last weekend, as they watched a storm rip apart the timber-frame cottage they were sheltering inside. “Until you’re in a house with the roof being ripped off and …
Read More »Ontario Liberals, NDP insist they can deny Doug Ford his majority in campaign’s final stretch
Just nine days remain in the Ontario election campaign, not a lot of time for the race to shift dramatically, but Liberal and NDP strategists claim it’s enough time. Both those parties hoped that they would have definitively left the other in the dust by this point in the campaign, …
Read More »Roommate or tenant? The question is at the heart of Ontario rental dispute that led to viral video
A bitter dispute between two people who were living in the same London, Ont., house has become the subject of a viral video, fuelled by resentment and anger directed at landlords in Ontario’s highly competitive housing market. Mikayla Koevoets rented part of a three-bedroom house in east London with a …
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