Ontario Premier Doug Ford. Photo by Frank Gunn/CP. The universal health care system has long been sacred for Canadians of every political stripe. However, the strain placed upon the system during the COVID-19 pandemic has created an opportunity for right-wing governments to challenge this conventional wisdom, seeking to expand private
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Canadian Dimension: Ontario’s strong mayor reforms: a new shell for urban neoliberalism
Toronto Mayor John Tory and Ontario Premier Doug Ford. Photo from Twitter. Earlier this month, Ontario’s Lieutenant Governor Elizabeth Dowdeswell affixed her signature to Bill 39, the Better Municipal Governance Act, conferring Royal Assent upon the most substantial reconstruction of local democracy since Confederation. Along with Bill 3, the Strong
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