From the Windsor Star: Delegates looking long term
Team Wynne, for the last several days, has been insisting at every opportunity that she should be Premier because she a) has a seat and b) would reopen the Legislature…
Team Wynne, for the last several days, has been insisting at every opportunity that she should be Premier because she a) has a seat and b) would reopen the Legislature…
Political conventions tend to bring out the best of its party members – renewal, camaraderie, etc. But some of the worst, too. Like what happened last night. You may know…
Sometimes there are no words.
I’ve been proudly volunteering on Sandra Pupatello’s campaign from the very beginning – which seems much longer ago than it actually is – and what I can tell you about…
Ontario has been leading the country in pursuing private deals to finance, develop and maintain public infrastructure projects, including a significant number of major hospital redevelopments. Last week we looked…
Today’s a busy day! I was at MLG earlier to register for the Ontario Liberal Party convention and pick up some Sandra swag. Ran into Minister of Finance Dwight Duncan…
The comments sections on some newspapers and online news sites can be infamously bad. The Calgary Herald’s commenters, many of them frequent enough to be “top commenters”, put on a…
Here’s a story we don’t see every day: South Bruce Grey Health Centre is cutting two of its four senior management positions as part of its efforts to deal with…
If you’re a member of the Ontario Liberal Party, you have been bombarded in recent weeks with emails, campaign literature and phone calls. It’s a part of any campaign and…
This past weekend, at the Liberal Party of Canada in British Columbia policy conference, we passed many important progressive policy resolutions. Instead of doing the typical partisan thing and talking…
After some fear that the Ontario Liberal Party would be excluding us blog heads from #olpldr, mercifully we’re going to be strongly represented there. Much I will live tweet, but…
I haven’t encountered a Kelly McParland article that I can say I agree with. His latest, about Elizabeth May’s attempt to subvert the stalemate in Parliament amongst the opposition parties,…
There were hard lessons learned today about how democracy is practiced in this province. About 60-70 protesters, most young medical students, spent more than an hour and a half today…
Hard to believe that in three days we will have a new Ontario Premier. I was a huge fan of Dalton McGuinty – and will continue to be – but…
Pop quiz: who wrote this: “Our government expects – as do health care providers – that this change will exacerbate the health conditions of patients with chronic conditions and those…
Do you know those coal plants powering Saskatchewan? What if they became legislatively ‘stranded’. How would that hurt the pocketbook, eh? Would SaskPower’s claim that they are looking out for…
Sun TV’s lone “success” story of the past year, was the role they played in launching Justin Trudeau’s leadership campaign Things are not looking bright over at Sun TV: OTTAWA,…
The Ottawa Hospital was attempting to fix a problem that didn’t exist when it unilaterally imposed a new dress code on employees according to a recent arbitration decision. Most contentious…