Opioid-related deaths have been rapidly on the rise in Ontario since 2015. ...
Author Archives: Charlie Pinkerton
Ontario hospitals’ nursing agency reliance ‘about the same’ as last year: senior official
Numerous groups, as well as the government, are worried about nursing agencies' cost to public health. ...
‘He can’t keep running’: premiers demand Trudeau meet with them about health funding
Canada's premiers are desperate for the federal government to cover a greater share of health-care costs. ...
AG 2022: Company with lobbyist tied to Ford had highest cost, most waste for vaccine delivery
Switch Health was paid more than $17 million by the Ontario government to give about 67,000 vaccinations. ...
AG 2022: Poor coordination and communication hurt Ontario’s COVID vaccination efforts
The auditor general suggested some improvements, despite being generally pleased with how Ontario managed COVID. ...
Ontario NDP strip activist-turned-dissident of membership
Jessa McLean, a two-time federal NDP candidate, became a harsh critic of the provincial party. ...
Top Ontario court strikes down Doug Ford’s public sector wage cap bill
Bill 124 has limited hundreds of thousands of public sector workers to one per cent annual raises since 2019. ...
Ford said he would yank COVID vax passes, mandates mid-convoy: PMO email
And his deputy premier is alleged to have used some salty language in an exchange with the federal public safety minister. ...
Ontario NDP planning for possibility that no one challenges Marit Stiles for leader
Two Ontario NDP sources said it's begun planning for the possibility that no one challenges Stiles. ...
Health minister defends Dr. Kieran Moore for partying maskless
Ontario's top doctor partied maskless with a few hundred people days after asking Ontarians to 'mask up.' ...