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"There's no doubt that the energy (from) the federal election … has created a wind under our wings and has created excitement." - Ontario NDP Leader Andrea Horwath.
In her post-election publicity, Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne promised, among other things, "better support" for those on social assistance. "We will increase Ontario Works and Ontario Disability Support Program rates. . . by one per cent in 2014-15. We will also increase benefits for single Ontario Works clients without children, giving them a total benefit increase of $30 per month in 2014, for a total increase over two years of $50."
Quick-Hide the women and children! Someone let Ontario's Conservatives leader Tim Hudak out of his cage. He is set to wage war on unions, to cut the pay of public servants and put their jobs out to competition to drive down their salaries.
"Ontario's Renewable Energy Standard Offer Program," according
The 2007 Ontario election, the one that returned Dalton McGuinty’s Liberals for a second term, set a record — albeit a dubious record.
Labour Day is fast approaching, meaning the countdown to the Oct. 6 Ontario provincial election is about to begin. This is as good a time as any to take a peek ahead.
The current official abandonment by political parties of concern for the poor, in their focus on "the middle class," calls to mind the Ontario NDP's disregard for the poor going back to the days when they were in power, from 1990 to 1995. At the time, I was working first at Seaton House, a men's shelter and residence operated by Toronto's welfare department, and then as a supervisor in Ottawa's welfare department.
KITCHENER - Mark Cressman is of Mennonite background and he understands how dress can be part of one's faith and culture.
Dear Roger, Over the past few months I have saluted your courage in seeking to open the eyes of New York Times' readers to some of the differences between Zionist propaganda and what the facts on the ground in Israel/Palestine are telling us.
As a medical doctor and psychiatrist, I am struck by the lack of accurate information in the province of Ontario's new sexual education curriculum.
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Rashid Khalidi is the Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University and the author of several books focussing on the Middle East including 'The Hundred Years' War On Palestine'. He explains some of the basic facts of the struggle for Palestinian independence and the creation of the Zionist project of Israel.