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A private security and protection company was coordinating the shipment of the $20 million container of gold and other high value items that was reported stolen from Toronto Pearson International Airport last week. In a statement emailed to Global News on Tuesday, a spokesperson for The Brinks Company confirmed it …
Read More »Ford government commits to 95-year lease for private spa at Ontario Place
The company behind a controversial waterpark and spa that’s set to take over a major portion of Ontario Place has signed a 95-year lease with the province of Ontario — a long-term contract that the company argues is necessary in order to recoup its multi-million-dollar investment. Global News has learned …
Read More »2 teen girls repeatedly sexually assaulted by Toronto private school teacher, police allege – Toronto
An arrest has been made after a Toronto private school teacher repeatedly sexually assaulted two teenage girls whom he taught, police say. Toronto police said in a news release Thursday that between January 2012 and June 2020, the man worked as a teacher at Bond Academy Private School, located on …
Read More »Ontario tables health reform bill to expand private clinic procedures
TORONTO — Ontario tabled legislation Tuesday to allow more private clinics to offer certain publicly funded surgeries and procedures, which the health minister said comes with several patient safeguards, although the government doesn’t yet know who will inspect those facilities. Health Minister Sylvia Jones said the legislation will enable the …
Read More »Ford government polling collected opinion on private health care, asked if system in ‘crisis’
As Ontario battled a triple-threat of respiratory illnesses in the fall of 2022, placing overwhelming strain on hospitals province-wide, the Ford government commissioned a public opinion poll on whether or not the health care system was in a state of crisis. The polling, conducted for the Ontario government in late-October …
Read More »Premier Ford, Ontario Health Minister set to make joint announcement
Ontario’s premier and health minister are set to make an announcement this morning. News Source link
Read More »Ontario set aside funds for 2 private hospitals as part of surgery backlog strategy
As the Ford government strategized ways to cut down on the COVID-19 surgical backlog, provincial health officials set aside a small pot of public funding for private hospitals and independent heath facilities, according to documents obtained by Global News. A Ministry of Health presentation on the province’s surgical and diagnostic …
Read More »Private funeral in Barrie, Ont. to be held Wednesday morning for slain OPP officer
BARRIE, Ont. — A private funeral is set to be held this morning for an Ontario Provincial Police officer who was shot dead in an ambush attack last week. The OPP says the service for 28-year-old Const. Grzegorz (Greg) Pierzchala will start at 11 a.m. at the Sadlon Arena in …
Read More »Residents at downtown Winnipeg seniors home fear rent increase with sale to private buyer – Winnipeg
Residents at a not-for-profit downtown Winnipeg seniors housing complex say they’re worried about what’s going to happen if a tentative plan to sell the building to a private out-of-province buyer goes through. Residents at Lions Place learned from a letter slipped under their doors late last week about an agreement …
Read More »Private school in B.C. Interior replaces French with Nsyilxcən
An independent school in Kelowna, B.C., has swapped out French as its second language of instruction and replaced it with an endangered language of the local Westbank First Nation. The switch happened earlier this month at Studio9 School of the Arts, a K-to-12 school that has Indigenous and non-Indigenous students. …
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