Reading Time: 3 minutes The premier is ignoring very real problems across Ontario in order to settle a personal vendetta with Toronto city council
Tag: Ford government
Ford’s notwithstanding clause gamble
Reading Time: 3 minutes The Ontario premier set a milestone precedent by invoking the clause in relation to Toronto city council. The fallout could be huge
Key piece of international basic income analysis has been eliminated
Reading Time: 3 minutes An open letter to Premier Doug Ford and Minister Lisa MacLeod concerning the cancellation of the Ontario basic income pilot
Ontario News Now sparks a silly political firefight
Reading Time: 3 minutes The Ontario PCs’s Twitter channel is hardly without precedent: both the provincial Liberals and NDP have created their own “news” channels in the past
Canada shouldn’t stray from climate commitments in face of criticism
Reading Time: 4 minutes We can and should stand firm against outside pressure – principally from the U.S. – and internal pressure from people like Doug Ford
Ontario needs to get cracking to clean up its finances
Reading Time: 3 minutes A variety of factors – from uncertain economic conditions to higher public spending – threaten to push Ontario further into debt
The high-stakes battle between Doug Ford and Toronto city council
Reading Time: 3 minutes It’s entirely possible that the federal government could wade into the pitched fight between the new Ontario premier and Canada’s largest city
Ontario can spur entrepreneurship by cutting personal income taxes
Reading Time: 3 minutes To stop the decline in entrepreneurship in the province, Ontario must refrain from further increases in the province’s top income tax rate
Getting out from under Ontario’s high electricity rates
Reading Time: 3 minutes Premier Doug Ford’s new government should cancel existing renewable energy contracts, not just future deals
Federal carbon tax seems destined to fail
Reading Time: 3 minutes P.E.I. has added itself to the list of carbon tax opponents, following Premier Doug Ford of Ontario. And the list is growing