Ontario

Move comes as other groups awarded additional retroactive pay including nurses, hospital workers

CBC News

Hospital CEOs hold 1st news conference since Oct. 23 attack

Jennifer La Grassa · CBC News

By The Canadian Press

Premier Doug Ford's government gives a for-profit clinic more funding to perform certain OHIP-covered surgeries than it gives Ontario's public hospitals to perform the same operations, CBC News has learned.

What a crazy surprise. Who would have thought that paying an organization to do the same thing as another while also making a profit would cost more?

Seems like the Landlord and Tenant Board isn't the only part of our justice system falling apart due to provincial neglect.

“At a time when many companies are posting record profits, it is only fair they communicate transparently about how they pay workers,” Labour Minister David Piccini said in a statement.

Premier Doug Ford has long insisted that he and his office was not involved in picking which Greenbelt and rural properties to approve for housing development, but there's growing evidence calling that claim into question.

I went to the Ontario Hydro calculator to look at switching from oil heating to electric (natural gas not available here). This calculator says that I can save about $400 per year by switching. I have much doubt about this. Has anyone actually done this switch? Do you believe this?

Edit: some more info I should have provided:

First of all, I believe this would be for a forced air electric furnace. This should easily swap in for my oil furnace, I would just have to add a 220 line.

I live in central Ontario. I don't have or need/want air conditioning, so there is nothing to save there.

I am not sure about a heat pump for my case, since it would not be used in the summer and they become less efficient as it gets colder. I am not sure I can rely on a heat pump as my only heating source.

Par Inès Rebei • ON FR TFO

English story:

https://thesudburystar.com/news/local-news/mayor-outlines-12-million-plan-to-renew-greater-sudburys-downtown

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/sudbury/downtown-building-purchase-sudbury-1.7007401

By The Canadian Press

"Minister Calandra's latest flip flop makes it abundantly clear; we have only scratched the surface of the damage this government has done."

Sarah Jama, an MPP from Hamilton-Centre, has been removed from the Ontario NDP caucus. This decision was made by NDP Leader Marit Stiles due to Jama's unilateral actions that undermined the collective work and trust of her colleagues. Some of her actions were reported to have contributed to unsafe work environments for staff.

This decision coincides with ongoing censure proceedings by the Doug Ford government regarding Jama's comments on the Israel-Gaza war, where she called for an end to "Israeli apartheid" and faced accusations of having a history of antisemitism.

At this point, it might be more efficient to start reporting on anything that the Ford government does that isn't a cynical, abjectly corrupt effort to enrich his friends.

What a disgrace.