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How Ontario is limiting wage increases, paid sick days for front-line workers
Chelsea Nash | A coalition of Ontario unions have filed evidence in their legal challenge against Bill 124.
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Ontario Premier Doug Ford announces the launch of COVID-19 testing program at Pearson Airport. Image credit: Premier of Ontario Photography/Flickr
Doug Ford's COVID plan? A whole lot of nothing
Rick Salutin | Doug Ford and his government have given up on doing anything to deal with COVID-19, and are waiting for the vaccines to enact what the government won't.
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Premier Doug Ford announces the launch of long-term care staffing plan. Image credit: Premier of Ontario Photography/Flickr
Rise of 'private ownership on steroids' fuelling Ontario long-term care crisis
Linda McQuaig | The greatest danger in long-term care may be posed by the emergence of "financialized" enterprises that focus relentlessly on cost-cutting to drive ever-higher profit margins.
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Doug Ford reverts to anti-environment self
Karl Nerenberg | Conservation authorities have long had a central role in regulating development in Ontario. The Ford government's 2020 budget bill eviscerates their power.
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Ontario Premier Doug Ford. Image: FordNation/Facebook
Despite anti-interventionist bluster, Doug Ford is the 'nanny state' personified
Rick Salutin | Like former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher, Ontario Premier Doug Ford attacks the so-called "nanny state" while embodying it in word and action.
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Doug Ford at a public announcement on October 23, 2020. Image: Doug Ford/Twitter
Kindly 'uncle Doug Ford' is no friend of Ontario's public education system
Linda McQuaig | The pandemic has allowed Ontario Premier Doug Ford to dramatically transform his image from a bully siding with big business to kindly "uncle Doug."
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Ontario Premier Doug Ford gives a press briefing on September 23, 2020. Image: Doug Ford/Twitter
Doug Ford should take a serious shot at himself
Rick Salutin | Ford puts blame for the mess we're back into on individuals. But the difference between them and him is they didn't have the capacity to alleviate or screw up the lives of a whole province.
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Doug Ford gives a press briefing on August 21, 2020. Image: Doug Ford/Twitter
Ontario school reopenings show the old Doug Ford is returning
Rick Salutin | We're back at Toronto City Hall and the Raptors' victory rally. Cue the boos at Ontario Premier Doug Ford's name.
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To fix the long-term care crisis, we must hold government and ourselves to account
Jordan Grimsley | Responsibility for the crisis in long-term care exposed by the COVID-19 pandemic resides at a much higher level than the worker making $15 an hour.
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Ontario Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr. David Williams answers questions during a news conference on May 29, 2020. Image: Screenshot of Premier of Ontario Video/YouTube
The tricky tale of Doug Ford and Ontario's chief medical officer
Rick Salutin | Ontario isn't doing well in the daily reality show where chief medical officers of the provinces perform.
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Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer in Parliament, April 11, 2020. Image: Andrew Scheer/Facebook
Andrew Scheer's party and the ugliest amendment ever moved
Rick Salutin | Thanks to the Conservatives, Canadian students will now have to prove they're searching for work in order to receive emergency support during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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COVID-19 exposes gaps in for-profit driven long-term care
Dennis Gruending | COVID-19 has crashed the long-term care system, and much blame lies with for-profit corporations in the sector and Conservative politicians Doug Ford and Mike Harris.