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Health care workers have no right to put patients at risk. They have to get...
Some things are so obvious that it feels a bit embarrassing to have to say them out loud.
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Colleges and universities should step up and make vaccination mandatory to...
Ontario’s government has all kinds of guidance for the province’s colleges and universities about reopening this fall.
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The Ford government has a troubling pattern of government for insiders, not...
A few months before the pandemic put life in Ontario on hold, Premier Doug Ford came under fire in the legislature for attending cash-for-access dinners and was accused of being swayed by business...
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Ford government must not leave vaccine rules up to private groups
Once again, the Ford government is shirking its responsibility to protect Ontarians against COVID-19. And, once again, private groups are trying to fill the gap.
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Ottawa spent hundreds of millions on rapid COVID tests. It looks like most of...
We learned last week, thanks to reporting by the Star’s Richard Warnica, that Ontario taxpayers are almost certainly out close to $10 million because of a failed attempt to develop a provincially made...
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Where is Ontario’s back-to-school plan?
For days now, kids have been watching the Olympics and seeing Canadians in all manner of sports — swimming, diving, softball, judo and weightlifting (!) — step onto the podium. And they’ve undoubtedly...
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If employers can’t find workers, they should stop complaining and start...
How very charming of employers to cite as a chief reason for current labour shortages one so unflattering to the workers they apparently need.
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Finally, some leadership on vaccine passports from Quebec and Ottawa
Finally, some leadership on the crucial issue of vaccine passports.
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Workers’ right to privacy must not trump the right to health care
Parents whose children have physical disabilities that leave them immunocompromised have a very long list of things to fight for and worry about every single day.
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ActiveTO is part of building a better city. Let’s keep it
Over the last century the car became both our liberator and tyrant.
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Ontario is already ‘split.’ Ford’s no to vaccine mandates just makes it more...
As Ontario grapples with the fourth wave of COVID-19, the province has unveiled a series of new rules for testing and isolation.
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Show us leadership. The fourth wave is here. The Ford government is wasting time
The fourth wave of COVID-19 is here. There’s no denying it now: Ontario reported 513 new cases on Thursday, the highest since June.
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Erin O’Toole has put the Conservatives on the wrong side of the vaccine debate
Job One for Canada’s political leaders — election or no election — is containing the fourth wave of COVID-19 and finally ending the pandemic. Without that, all the grand visions pushed by campaigning...
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Ford is right on vaccines for MPPs, but O’Toole is failing his responsibility
For once at least, Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservatives have got it right on mandatory vaccines.
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An election is no time to silence public health officials on COVID-19
For 17 long months, through the twists and turns of the COVID-19 pandemic, Canadians listened intently to regular briefings by the country’s chief public health officer, Dr. Theresa Tam, and her deputy...
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Once again on vaccines, it’s deny and delay from the Ford government
There are predictable people, and then there are depressingly predictable people — the category that boasts Premier Doug Ford as a headliner.
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Health workers must be protected from the anti-vax mobs
“They should stay the hell home and stop doing this.”
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We have the tools to crush COVID’s fourth wave, if we’d only use them
We aren’t privy to the deliberations in the inner circle of the federal Liberal party (even though Erin O’Toole once claimed that Canada under Justin Trudeau amounted to “government led by the...
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On vaccines, voters have a clear choice. And the Liberals are getting it right
It’s a bit jarring to hear Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau so loudly champion the importance of making vaccination mandatory for some people, including federal employees and anyone who wants to get on a...
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Unions should join push for mandatory vaccinations
The number one job of a union is to vigorously advocate for the interests of its members, whether that be better wages and working conditions or health and safety measures.
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