Ontario

1. 2024-05-01: Former PC Party vice-president appointed as Ontario judge. Province appointed 2 former staffers to a committee that helps select provincial judges in February
2. 2025-04-28: Ontario looking to fast-track judicial appointments, add more judges to courts. Legislation will address backlog of criminal cases, attorney general says
3. 2025-04-30: Ford rants about 'bleeding-heart judges' who are 'overruling the government'. Ontario premier denounced bike lane injunction, suggests judges should be elected like in U.S.
4. 2025-04-30: Doug Ford's judges 'rant' again sparks fears over judicial independence. Premier mused about electing judges and publicly posting justices’ bail records
5. 2025-05-03: Doug Ford’s attack on Ontario judges should not be shrugged off

https://archive.ph/eYHDG

Canadians using Twitter/X are being bombarded by misleading right-wing posts designed to boost Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre and tarnish the reputation of Mark Carney.

The FT’s analysis finds a growing volume of that misinformation is coming not from Russia or China, but the United States.

Posted by Paris Marx at https://mastodon.online/@parismarx/114407387291957572

Remember the Catholic school board that spent 190K on a trip for board members to Italy? They bought a bunch of Vatican art for their schools, had some fancy lunches, etc. on our dime. Another board spent 40K on themselves for a "staff retreat" to the Sky Dome. This story's about the province "stepping in."
Boards in question are:
Brant Haldimand Norfolk Catholic District School Board - the Italy trip
& Thames Valley District School Board in London - sky dome visit

They've appointed a supervisor for Thames Valley (the "takes control" part of the headline), and simply asked Norfolk to pay back most of the money afaik. Here's the bit that I think bears watching:

The province is also launching investigations at the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board, the Toronto Catholic District School Board and the Toronto District School Board over ongoing financial deficits and spending concerns.

Calandra said all three have failed to address ongoing, years-long deficits with no plan to return the books to the black.

"Not to sound like a big tough guy, but to be very clear, the resources that we provide, we're providing record level of funding. We expect that to be made available to teachers so that they can give our students the ultimate ability to succeed."

[...] The province is leaving the door open to taking control of all three boards, depending on what the probes reveal.

https://web.archive.org/web/20250424145609/https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-school-board-investigation-1.7516584