Ontario won’t have charter schools, board closings or mergers, pledges education minister
Saturday, December 6th, 2025
Education Minister Paul Calandra said Friday that… “There will be no closing of school boards in whatever we do… We’re not amalgamating school boards. I’m not bringing in charter schools. I’m not merging the public system and the Catholic system together… But… nothing has convinced him that the ”$43 billion Ministry of Education budget should be delivered by trustees across the province of Ontario.”
Tags: Education, jurisdiction, participation
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Ford government is an obstacle to highly affordable, high-quality child care
Thursday, December 4th, 2025
Ontario’s auditor general reported the Ford government failed to create the number of child care spaces it promised, even as overall demand has tripled. Much of this failure is down to Conservatives’ fixation on for-profit child care… The result? Thousands of families are still without child care.
Tags: child care, Education, ideology, participation, poverty, privatization
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Ontario judge grants international medical school grads a temporary lifeline
Thursday, December 4th, 2025
An Ontario judge has given a temporary lifeline to international medical school graduates who would have been excluded from qualifying for the first round of matching for medical school residency placements under the province’s controversial new rule… More than 92 per cent of the spots are filled in the first iteration of the matching…
Tags: Health, immigration, jurisdiction, rights
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Auditor’s report slams Ford government over health care
Tuesday, December 2nd, 2025
Premier Doug Ford’s government is ailing on health care by failing to get more Ontarians a family doctor, ensure prompt appointments and oversee OHIP billings… “the ministry, in conjunction with Ontario Health, did not consistently have processes in place to plan and oversee programs and initiatives to improve patients’ access to primary care” the report said.
Tags: budget, featured, Health, standard of living
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I have lived on three continents and I know what is preventing Canada from thriving
Sunday, November 30th, 2025
A healthy economy sustains strong public systems. Our goal has never been growth at any cost, but growth that keeps health care accessible, schools excellent and a safety net for those who need it. Prosperity and fairness are not opposites; they rise together when rules are fair and ambition has room to run. Immigration belongs in that frame.
Tags: economy, globalization, immigration, participation, standard of living, youth
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We keep repeating the same, depressing tale when it comes to pipelines
Friday, November 28th, 2025
When global momentum toward renewable electricity and electrification is increasing, and with wind and solar being the cheapest forms of electricity in history, the federal government should be focusing on projects that spread the benefits to all people in Canada, not just fossil fuel billionaires… An east-west power grid with renewable energy will do exactly that.
Tags: economy, ideology, Indigenous, jurisdiction, standard of living
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Alberta is turning public hospitals into private businesses. Will Ontario follow?
Friday, November 28th, 2025
Ontarians who can afford it buy their way to faster care, while patients living paycheque to paycheque are left with even longer wait times as the public system is drained of staff by higher-paid private work. This is gradually shifting Ontario away from universal, equitable care toward a system where health justice hinges on income.
Tags: economy, Health, ideology, jurisdiction, participation, privatization
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I’ve studied housing for over 15 years. These Canadian towns are showing us how to fix the crisis
Tuesday, November 25th, 2025
Too often we frame housing simply as a question of how much we need and defer to the market to build it. Instead, we need to focus on what kind of housing and for whom… The crux of the problem is that housing currently serves two conflicting goals: as shelter and a human right for all; and a commodity from which to make money for some.
Tags: featured, homelessness, housing, ideology, jurisdiction
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Federal budget creates a massive educational opportunity for Doug Ford
Tuesday, November 18th, 2025
Ontario’s universities have the lowest per-student funding of any province in Canada… crumbling infrastructure and outdated instrumentation… reductions in support staff, early retirement incentives, and hiring freezes for new faculty. Such actions have resulted in Ontario having the worst student-teacher ratio of any province in the country. Moreover, larger class sizes, fewer teaching assistants, and stripped-down learning opportunities have quickly become the norm on many university campuses.
Tags: budget, Education, featured, jurisdiction, standard of living, youth
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I was recruited to join a private health centre as a doctor. Here is why I said no
Tuesday, November 11th, 2025
Health care in Canada was built on solidarity, on the idea that access to care should be based on need, not ability to pay. Every doctor and nurse diverted to private-pay clinics is a resource taken away from the collective effort to rebuild universal primary care. There is no justification for pawning the family dishware, so that a lucky few can eat with silver spoons… primary care should be unhurried and personal. That vision doesn’t require $4,000 membership fees.
Tags: economy, Health, ideology, jurisdiction, privatization
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