We are just weeks away from the provincial election and voters are being besieged with election advertising. Every party is making bold claims of course, but the ruling Progressive Conservatives under Doug Ford are touting their environmental credentials, and that is nothing but offensive and absurd.
EDITORIAL: Ford’s climate fiction (May 2022)
May 17th, 2022 · No Comments
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FOCUS: Liberals bank on star power (Spring 2022)
April 11th, 2022 · Comments Off on FOCUS: Liberals bank on star power (Spring 2022)
Former Trillium CEO, Andrea Barrack, joins race for MPP

By Joshua Snow
EDITORIAL CARTOON: How Nice (Spring 2022)
April 11th, 2022 · Comments Off on EDITORIAL CARTOON: How Nice (Spring 2022)

SEE MORE BY BRETT LAMB:
- EDITORIAL CARTOON: How Nice (Winter 2022)
- EDITORIAL CARTOON: How Nice (Jan. 2022)
- EDITORIAL CARTOON: How Nice (Dec. 2021)
- EDITORIAL CARTOON: How Nice (Fall 2021)
- EDITORIAL CARTOON: Fourth wave funnies! (Aug. 2021)
- EDITORIAL CARTOON: How Nice (Jul. 2021)
- EDITORIAL CARTOON: How Nice (Apr. 2021)
- EDITORIAL CARTOON: Pandemic Response (Mar. 2021)
- EDITORIAL CARTOON: How Nice (Feb. 2021)
- EDITORIAL CARTOON: How Nice (Jan. 2021)
Tags: Annex · Editorial · Opinion
EDITORIAL: A conservative in name only (Spring 2022)
April 11th, 2022 · Comments Off on EDITORIAL: A conservative in name only (Spring 2022)
It’s silly season at Queen’s Park as the ruling Progressive Conservatives seek another mandate from voters this June. And it’s not beneath Doug Ford to attempt to bribe voters with their own money and ignore criticism about behaving in a fiscally reckless fashion.
EDITORIAL: Ford should be first (Winter 2022)
March 14th, 2022 · Comments Off on EDITORIAL: Ford should be first (Winter 2022)
Policing is largely a provincial matter, but faced with massive trucks and bouncy castles clogging up central Ottawa, plus blockades at key border crossings, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had to invoke the Emergencies Act. As usual, Ontario Premier Doug Ford was too focused on the next election to do his job, and he should have to answer for it.
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FORUM: Ford’s antics fill Pink Palace (Winter 2022)
March 14th, 2022 · Comments Off on FORUM: Ford’s antics fill Pink Palace (Winter 2022)
MPPs return to Queen’s Park in final controversial legislative session
By Jessica Bell
Canadian-content rules lowered for Ontario Line
Premier Ford is allowing companies who would like to build vehicles for the Ontario Line to cut their Canadian-manufactured content from 25 per cent to 10 per cent.
EDITORIAL: Ford stalls, families suffer (Jan. 2022)
February 4th, 2022 · Comments Off on EDITORIAL: Ford stalls, families suffer (Jan. 2022)
Under the questionable leadership of Premier Doug Ford, Ontario is now the only province in Canada which has not signed onto the federally funded daycare plan that would see fees cut to $10 per day per child by 2025. The federal formula would give Ontario $10.2 billion over five years which is its per capita share. But Ford says that’s not enough and Ontario deserves more than other jurisdictions.
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FORUM: Omicron demands leadership, not indecision (Jan. 2022)
February 4th, 2022 · Comments Off on FORUM: Omicron demands leadership, not indecision (Jan. 2022)
Ontario suffers while Ford dithers
By Jessica Bell
As the Omicron wave overwhelms Ontario, University-Rosedale residents are facing big challenges. Parents are wracked with the decision over whether to send their children to school. Hospitals are near capacity. You can’t get a PCR test. Surgeries are being canceled. Demand at food banks is at record levels, driven by rising poverty, job loss and inflation. The science is rapidly evolving, people are exhausted, and there is no public consensus on how to proceed.
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EDITORIAL: Doug Ford, the chaos king (Fall 2021)
November 11th, 2021 · Comments Off on EDITORIAL: Doug Ford, the chaos king (Fall 2021)
Frustration. Nonsense. Chaos.
These are just a few words that are used to describe the situation for Ontario businesses following the release of the province’s plan to lift all Covid restrictions for businesses. You’d think there would be more celebration, but it’s hard, given the fact that small businesses are being impacted extra hard by policy that seems designed to hurt them.
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FOCUS: Gleaner sits down with Jessica Bell (Fall 2021)
November 11th, 2021 · Comments Off on FOCUS: Gleaner sits down with Jessica Bell (Fall 2021)
With less than a year before the provincial election our MPP reflects

By Madeline Smart
EDITORIAL CARTOON Fourth wave funnies! (Aug. 2021)
September 8th, 2021 · Comments Off on EDITORIAL CARTOON Fourth wave funnies! (Aug. 2021)

SEE MORE BY BRETT LAMB:
- EDITORIAL CARTOON: How Nice (Jul. 2021)
- EDITORIAL CARTOON: How Nice (Apr. 2021)
- EDITORIAL CARTOON: Pandemic Response (Mar. 2021)
- EDITORIAL CARTOON: How Nice (Feb. 2021)
- EDITORIAL CARTOON: How Nice (Jan. 2021)
- EDITORIAL CARTOON: How Nice! (Dec. 2020)
- EDITORIAL CARTOON: How Nice (Nov. 2020)
- EDITORIAL CARTOON: How Nice (Oct. 2020)
- EDITORIAL CARTOON: How Nice (Aug. 2020)
Tags: Annex · Editorial · Opinion
EDITORIAL: Ford’s flawed passport (Aug. 2021)
September 8th, 2021 · Comments Off on EDITORIAL: Ford’s flawed passport (Aug. 2021)
Doug Ford emerged this week after weeks of summer slumber to announce a “vaccine certificate system” which is both late and lame. He then prorogued the legislature, lest he be answerable to it, and headed back into seclusion.
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EDITORIAL: Ford’s school plan is a fail (July 2021)
August 16th, 2021 · Comments Off on EDITORIAL: Ford’s school plan is a fail (July 2021)
Ontario parents have been eagerly awaiting the “robust” plan for a safe re-entry back to classrooms Premier Doug Ford promised in June. The past year has been brutal for both the education and mental health of Ontario students, as they have spent more time out of classroom than young people in any other part of the country. However, the 26 page document outlining how the government intends to keep students safe does them no favours: it’s late (coming out less than a month before the start of school) and is little more than a carbon copy of last year’s failed plan.