Ontario Archive
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Patient complaints against Ontario doctors take too long to resolve and cost too much: government report
Posted on 30.04.2018 | No CommentsThe College of Physicians and Surgeons should appoint a patient advocate to help those who file grievances, and set up a mediation system, the report urges -
Picture-perfect forgery? Art world awaits court decision on alleged fake Norval Morrisseau painting
Posted on 20.04.2018 | No CommentsSince the early 2000s, persistent allegations of a fraud ring peddling fake Norval Morrisseaus have cast suspicion on countless paintings hanging in public galleries and in private collections -
Ontario’s Debt Down The Rabbit Hole
Posted on 10.04.2018 | No CommentsI have written in the past about the duplicity of the Ontario Liberal budgets in speaking only of net debt. The 2018-19 provincial budget was released on March 29 and I will comment briefly on how it handles the topics of debt and deficit. But first a... -
Ontario father who died in Mexico ‘had a need to spread love’
Posted on 19.03.2018 | No CommentsAn Ontario man killed in a motorcycle accident in Mexico is being remembered as a happy, outgoing, big-hearted father of four who had a contagious, booming laugh and did all he could to help others in both countries in which he lived. -
Sources say Doug Ford has won Ontario PC leadership, but official announcement still delayed
Posted on 10.03.2018 | No CommentsResults were expected around 3 p.m. -
Elliott camp accuses Doug Ford of ‘erratic’ and desperate behaviour as PC leadership nears end
Posted on 05.03.2018 | No CommentsElliott's campaign team called Ford's charges baseless and disturbing after he accused her of making a backroom deal with ex-leader Patrick Brown -
Patrick Brown intends to drop out of Ontario PC leadership race, campaign sources say
Posted on 26.02.2018 | No Comments'The last few days … have been exceptionally unbearable,' said the campaign official. 'Family trumps everything … They don’t feel safe any more' -
Party source says Patrick Brown must undergo Ontario Tories vetting only because he was stripped of his riding nomination
Posted on 20.02.2018 | No CommentsAs an approved candidate for re-election in Simcoe North, Brown would otherwise have been exempt from the assessment, the source said -
Local politicians, city officials to spend night sleeping in cars for United Way
Posted on 15.02.2018 | No CommentsThe dedicated do-gooders and friends will be in the Boston Pizza parking lot at 860 Talbot Street from 8 p.m. Thursday night until 8 a.m. Friday. -
Caroline Mulroney pledges to make up for billions in carbon-tax revenue by cutting government waste
Posted on 09.02.2018 | No CommentsShe highlighted hydro rates as a key affordability issue, and suggested the Ontario PCs would need to 'fix the structural problem' of the system -
Nursing home wait-list soars to 32,000 as Ontario long-term care group demands more beds
Posted on 25.10.2017 | No CommentsThe largest group of long-term care operators in Ontario is calling for a dramatic increase in spending on nursing homes. -
Ban on ‘loud’, ‘intimidating’ protester from town property overturned as unconstitutional
Posted on 27.08.2017 | No Comments'A protest does not cease to be peaceful simply because protesters are loud and angry,' the Appeal Court said
