Doug Ford Will Have To Make Deeper Cuts To Meet His Goals, Watchdog Says
By TORONTO — The Ontario government has only found about half of the savings necessary to meet its own budget plan, the province’s financial watchdog says. Another $6 billion will have to be cut from the province’s expenses by 2021/22 for Premier Doug Ford’s government to achieve its projections, the Financial Accountability Office (FAO) said in […]
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Vast Majority Of Ontarians Oppose Ford's Cuts To Legal Aid: Poll
Three-quarters of Ontarians are opposed to the province’s cuts to Legal Aid Ontario, a new poll found. Among those who voted for Premier Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservatives last year, 44 per cent said they oppose the cuts, according to Environics Research, which surveyed 1,332 people by phone last week. The poll was commissioned by the […]
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Federal Parties Shop Around Housing Ideas As Election Looms
OTTAWA — Federal parties are preparing to chase voters with ideas for dealing with what a new survey suggests is a major concern across the country: Housing affordability. The ideas being shopped around to stakeholders in the housing sector include targeted spending towards certain groups, such as veterans, and more spending to increase the supply […]
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Navigating Jealous Feelings Requires Self-Awareness And 'Compersion'
We don’t know about you, but we generally go through life with a lot of questions. Let’s say, for example, you’re at a bar with a group of friends. You’re having a great time, when all of a sudden, out of the corner of your eye, you see your partner talking, shall we say, enthusiastically, […]
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Parenting Advice 'Gems' That Work For Chantal Kreviazuk And Raine Maida
Raine Maida and Chantal Kreviazuk are willing to get brutally honest about the realities of marriage in their documentary “I’m Going to Break Your Heart,” which will premiere on Bell’s streaming service Crave on May 24. So it probably won’t surprise you to know that they’re candid and honest when it comes to parenting, too. […]
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Alberta Wildfire Forces Thousands To Flee As More Winds Are Expected
HIGH LEVEL, Alta. — Fire officials say the winds continue to be favourable as crews battle a large wildfire burning a few kilometres from a northwestern Alberta town. Nearly 5,000 people have cleared out of High Level and nearby First Nations with flames licking at the southern edge of the community, which is about 750 kilometres […]
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Mortgage Stress Test Gets Vigorous Defense From Head Of CMHC
The CEO of Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation is forcefully defending mortgage stress test rules and warning federal policy makers to hold the line amid calls for the measure to be changed. “The stress test is doing what it is supposed to do,” wrote president and CEO Evan Siddall in a letter dated Thursday to […]
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Terry Lake, Ex-B.C. Health Minister, Says Trudeau's Climate Plan Brought Him Off Sidelines
KAMLOOPS, B.C. — Justin Trudeau and the Liberal party’s action plan on climate change has brought one former British Columbia politician out of retirement and back into the arena. At his nomination event Tuesday night for the riding of Kamloops-Thompson-Cariboo, Terry Lake, a former B.C. health minister, described to the prime minister the conditions the […]
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People’s Party Candidate Ken Pereira Compared 'Climate Agenda' To ISIL
MONTREAL — Ken Pereira, one of the first people to blow the whistle on corruption in Quebec’s construction industry, is running as a Quebec City-area candidate in the fall election for Maxime Bernier’s nascent People’s Party of Canada. But instead of being noticed for his public service, the former president of an industrial mechanics union […]
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Former Ontario Health Ministers Condemn Ford's 'Drastic' Public Health Cuts
TORONTO —Ten former Ontario health ministers across the political spectrum urged the provincial government Thursday to reverse its cuts to public health funding, saying work such as preventing disease outbreaks is being put at risk. “Public health helps Ontarians stay healthy, so they don’t need to go to the doctor, or a hospital, saving time […]
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