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Let’s get the whole picture on COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic affects us all, but it does not affect us all equally.
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Regional approach for Ontario makes sense, so get on with it
Call it a flexible response to changing information. Or just call it making it up as you go along.
View ArticleThe NHL can’t pass on the COVID-19 requirements everyone else follows
One of the favoured tropes of literature and cinema is the man or woman who, through ambition or desire to win favour, engages in contortions so elaborate he or she is in short order barely recognizable.
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Cities need help now - not wrangling between senior governments
The Ontario government took the opportunity this week to proudly announce that it’s forging ahead with the “signature project in the largest subway expansion in the province’s history.”
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Grocery chains shouldn’t cut pandemic pay before the crisis is over
Loblaw Companies was a leader back in March when it announced a $2-per-hour pay premium for frontline workers during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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We must fight COVID-19, and unreasonable fear of it
The pandemic halting of life and work as we know it has decimated public transit ridership in cities across Canada and around the world. Ridership in Toronto is down 84 per cent. Montreal has lost over...
View ArticleContaining COVID-19 requires a national approach to tracing
Test and trace: for many weeks our public health leaders have been telling us that’s the formula for successfully reopening society and heading off a dreaded second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Clean clothes, decent food: Ontario’s inmates deserve this much
There’s not much to do at Ontario’s Central East Correctional Centre right now other than stare at the walls and eat the food that’s available. There are no visitors, no new books and no rehabilitation...
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Law or not, mask up to avoid a resurgence in COVID-19
We deserve this. We earned it. By following the rules, by putting our lives on hold for a quarter of the year, by doing the right thing.
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Student volunteer grant program is badly flawed
Sometimes a program sounds like such a feel-good no-brainer that it doesn’t get the scrutiny it needs before it’s rolled out the door.
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Masking up: more common sense than science
Wearing a face mask to avoid spreading the coronavirus always made sense.
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Migrant farm workers deserve much better from Ontario
After months of telling people to stay home if they’re sick, or even if they think they might have been exposed to someone who is sick, the Ontario government told one particular group of workers to...
View ArticleThe Fresh Air Fund: a gift of summer joy
Children have already missed out on so much because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
View ArticleCanadians have the big deficit number but where do we go from here?
We knew it would be big and it is: $343.2 billion.
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Premier Ford is promising affordable housing, again. It’s time he delivered
Premier Doug Ford, flanked by his minister and associate minister of transportation, announced a plan last week for “transit-oriented communities” as though that was some new and bold concept.
View ArticleBars vs. schools: Ontario needs to get its priorities straight
So it looks like Ontario has the bar thing figured out. Schools, not so much.
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Ottawa and provinces must deliver on promises they’ve made in recovery agreement
Ah, the honeymoon phase.
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Ford government is abusing its power and undermining public trust
Good for Belinda Karahalios. She’s the Ontario MPP who this week voted against the Ford government’s legislation to expand its emergency powers far beyond what’s necessary, and was promptly kicked out...
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We can’t let COVID-19 destroy economic gains for women
It would take a cynical averting of the gaze from some glaring realities not to learn from the coronavirus pandemic about deep injustices in the way we live.
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COVID app should cover as many people as possible
Wash your hands. Keep your distance. Wear a mask when you should.
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