Ottawa’s Trudi Le Caine, onetime doyenne of the arts, deserves credit for championing winter skating on the Rideau Canal. A non-skater herself, she’d watched people…
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Is it absurd to think there were any positives from the protest convoy that rumbled into Ottawa a year ago? Possibly, but let’s try. Sometimes,…
Ottawa has now recorded its 1,000th official death from COVID-19. In a city of more than one million, that represents one tenth of one per…
On Tuesday, Ottawa’s biggest school board will debate a motion to reinstate mandatory masking for students and staff. Many OCDSB trustees feel that, as children’s…
In 2015, then-premier Kathleen Wynne used back-to-work legislation to end a six-week teachers’ strike at three Ontario school boards. She waited until she was convinced…
The Ontario election campaign is barely underway and already the provincial Liberals are promising “buck-a-bus” transit subsidies, and the NDP is biting into dental care.…
The Ontario government’s budget is, like all budgets, an aspirational document. Reality intervenes — a pandemic, say, or surging inflation — and spending plans have…
What happens when all three levels of government decide to set policy on the same topic? Look to the hot mess of affordable housing to…
Is there any area of daily life that governments do NOT think they should meddle in? It may be that two years of bailing out…
Here’s Ontario’s chief medical officer of health, Dr. Kieran Moore, speaking at a news conference Wednesday: “COVID transmission is still occurring and masks can protect…