No wonder people compare healthcare in Ontario to sending your pet to the vet. TORONTO - Ontario Health Minister Sylvia Jones and her ministry are refusing to divulge the amount of money that seven patients in the province have been fined for refusing transfers from a hospital to a long-term...

Ontario family furious over $400 a day hospital fine for not not moving to a LTC home. A few weeks ago, Michele Campeau faced what seemed like an impossible decision: move her mom from a hospital bed to a long-term care home the family hated or pay $400 a day to remain at the health-care...

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's Conservative Party is set for a heavy defeat at a national election expected this year, according to a seat projection published on Wednesday which showed the opposition Labour Party winning more than 400 seats. The YouGov model, which predicts results in...

Cracking down on the bedridden. What a great look, Ontario Seven people in Ontario have been fined for refusing transfers from a hospital to a long-term care home not of their choosing. A law enacted in 2022 requires hospitals to levy fines of $400 a day on patients who can be discharged but...

"Axe the tax! Axe the tax!" LOL Five farm tractors caused a multi-vehicle collision en route to a carbon tax protest site in the Crowsnest Pass on Monday, RCMP said. In a release sent Tuesday, police said 50 vehicles were at an approved protest site in the Crowsnest Pass but the tractor...

Ontario Appeals Court rules Ontario government's Bill 124 is unconstitutional. Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s law that imposed wage restraint on public sector workers violated their collective bargaining rights and is unconstitutional, the province’s Appeal Court ruled Monday. The law, known as...

Oops. The House of Commons imposed a $500 penalty earlier this year on Conservative House leader Andrew Scheer after he broke the rules by filming a partisan video in his parliamentary office, CBC News has learned. The violation is mentioned in the Oct. 26 minutes of the Board of Internal...

Metrolinx will be providing an update on the beleaguered Eglinton Crosstown LRT project this morning and will offer a sneak peak of the line’s largest station, which remains under construction. Later this morning, officials with the provincial transit agency will provide a progress update for...

The Ford government budgeted more than $2 million to promote its controversial redevelopment of Ontario Place as public criticism mounted earlier in the year. https://globalnews.ca/news/10154782/ontario-place-advertising-ford-government/

Oh well, there's nothing anyone can do about this carnage. Toronto Police say multiple pedestrians were struck by a vehicle in the city’s east end on Wednesday, and at least two suffered life-threatening injuries. Police said the pedestrian-involved collision happened in an apartment building...

Ontario Premier Doug Ford met face to face with Hamilton developer Sergio Manchia about removing his land from the Greenbelt in 2021, documents reveal. The documents contradict what Ford has previously said about his involvement in the controversy, including he has "no recollection" of meeting...

Just wishing and hoping that Trudeau would resign for the last ten years has not been sound conservative policy, though, is it? Otherwise, Trudeau would have only been a one termer. That seems to be the failure of the CPC.

I have read hundreds of Justin Trudeau political obituaries in the last ten years. Only last month, conservative pundits were sure that Trudeau was going to resign becaue of the break-up of his marriage. Please continue.

How developers secretly influenced the Ford government to open up the greenbelt for housing. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/auditor-general-greenbelt-lobbying-1.6934275

Ontario Premier Doug Ford will be speaking alongside Housing Minister Steve Clark in Mississauga on Friday, days after a scathing report found the government’s Greenbelt plans “favoured” certain developers. At the recommendation of the auditor general, the Premier’s Office has requested the...

At least they didn't try to put the blame on Dalton McGuinty. Ontario's integrity commissioner is considering a request from Premier Doug Ford's government to investigate if the housing minister's chief of staff broke any ethics rules connected to the province's choice of Greenbelt land to open...

Developers could see an $8 billion increase to value of land now open for development The Ontario government's process for choosing protected Greenbelt land to open up for housing development was heavily influenced by a small group of well-connected developers who now stand to make billions of...

Toronto's Vision Zero strategy is moving in the right direction, say advocates and experts, but it has yet to meet its goal of ending traffic fatalities and serious injuries on city roads. So far this year, 25 people have died on Toronto's roadways, the latest data from the city shows. That...

A new proposal by the Ontario government would see regulations added that the province says will better protect workers in Ontario by limiting heat stress and heat-related illnesses, as temperatures across Canada and the globe continue to rise due to climate change. The proposed bill, published...

Sixty of 300 digital screens that are meant to display when the next Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) bus is coming are not working, with some not functioning for weeks, according to the TTC. Shoshanna Saxe, an associate professor in civil engineering at the University of Toronto, said while...