Reading Time: 3 minutes The idea might have some intuitive appeal but misses the bigger point – Toronto needs more housing
Category: Ontario
Uncertainty discouraging mining investment in Canada
Reading Time: 3 minutes Spending on exploration – the lifeblood of the industry – dropped for the fourth consecutive year and is at its lowest point since 2005
No prosperity without a return to the Chretien Consensus
Reading Time: 4 minutes Governments across Canada rejecting policies that worked for a set of alternatives that have consistently failed
Ontario PCs still searching for real hydro and education policy options
Reading Time: 3 minutes PC leader Patrick Brown is still in the dark when it comes to hydro and education policy, proving he is not yet ready to form the next government
Touchdown: an NFL franchise in Canada would score big
Reading Time: 3 minutes A Toronto team would easily sell out. New advertising revenue, jobs and industries would be created. Hotels, restaurants and bars would flourish
How political activists have weaponized “duty to consult”
Reading Time: 3 minutes First Nations in Ontario are challenging routine maintenance work on the Canadian Mainline, which carries natural gas from western to eastern Canada
Right idea, wrong messenger, for education reform in Ontario
Reading Time: 3 minutes A federal Tory candidate’s policy proposal would end a decade of silence on school choice in Canada
Ontario government’s plan: let Toronto traffic get worse
Reading Time: 3 minutes By burying the latest modest road-pricing scheme, Queen’s Park virtually guarantees worsening traffic congestion in the GTA for the foreseeable future
Deeper deficits spurred by increases in public school spending
Reading Time: 3 minutes Provincial governments have been spending more money to educate a smaller number of students
Test results highlight a deeper problem in Ontario schools
Reading Time: 3 minutes When the results are seemingly ignored – when educators haven’t brought about year-over-year improvements – then parents should demand action