Water prices increasingly unaffordable for low-income households
As utilities upgrade their systems, some households are facing steep rate hikes...
Don’t be alarmed: emergency alert system test coming Wednesday
OTTAWA — Don’t be alarmed — it’s only a test.
Provincial and territorial emergency management systems will send test signals to your wireless device Wednesday,...
Ontario government introduces bill to update rules for realtors
TORONTO — The Ontario government has introduced a bill to update regulations for realtors that includes new enforcement tools, rules on business structures, and more disclosure of...
Trudeau pressed to ensure less restrictive assisted-dying law a priority
OTTAWA — Even before he swears in his new cabinet, Justin Trudeau is being urged to ask his new justice minister to move swiftly to make Canada’s...
Ontario high school teachers vote for strike as minister calls for...
TORONTO — Education Minister Stephen Lecce called on Ontario’s major teachers’ unions to enter into mediation Monday, as one took another step toward a...
Ontario to open more pot stores in the new year, do...
TORONTO — Ontario’s cannabis retail system will be expanded in the new year as more stores will be opened to increase competition and combat the black...
Don Cherry’s xenophobia forces Canada to grapple with tough questions
Don Cherry, seen here in 2014 as Rogers unveiled its team for the network’s NHL...
Don Cherry debacle highlights the whiteness of hockey
Youngsters play pond hockey in Ottawa on Christmas Day 2018.
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Lead-tainted water: How to keep homes, schools, daycares and workplaces safe
Health Canada has some of the strongest limits on lead in the world, but they can’t be effective without testing and a plan to...
Teachers’ federation votes for work-to-rule strike action
Ontario’s elementary teachers will start a work-to-rule campaign on Tuesday that they say will not affect students.
The Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario says their...
Opinion: 2020 draft budget too rich for my blood
By: Karen Wolfe
I’m thinking the 2020 draft budget brought down by the Town of Georgina on October 23rd is going to result in a...
‘The Social’ cast member Jessica Allen clarifies Cherry comments
TORONTO — A correspondent on the Canadian daytime talk show “The Social” has clarified her hot-button on-air comments about Don Cherry’s firing from “Hockey Night...
Ontario trumpets digital health strategy with video visits, online bookings
MISSISSAUGA, Ont. — Ontario Health Minister Christine Elliiott says in about two years, patients will be able to book more appointments online and review...
Reaction to Don Cherry marks ‘a divisiveness in Canadian social life,’...
TORONTO — When sociology professor Kristi Allain saw that “Hockey Night in Canada” commentator Don Cherry was fired for on-air, anti-immigrant remarks Monday, she...
Ontario starts merging health agencies, fires nine LHIN executives
TORONTO — Ontario is starting to merge the province’s major health agencies such as Cancer Care Ontario and eHealth under one umbrella and firing the...
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