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…
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The best of times, the worst of times, etc
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…
Observations from #OLPLDR
Sometimes there are no words.
Sandra
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…
P3s for Dummies: Part III — Fool us once, twice, fool us some more
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…
Convention kickoff!
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…
Newspaper Comments Highlight Canadian Racism
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…
Ethnic profiling has no place in the Ontario Liberal Party
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…
Liberals. We’re big on policy.
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…
Excited for OLP!
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…
Throw National Post a Lifeline
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,…
Refugee Health: Medical students freeze outside waiting for Matthews
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…
48 hours until OLP convention kick off
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…
In Brief: Hospital cuts as transfers, Pupatello’s ego gets the better of her
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…
Climate Change Is Here
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…
SunTV Applies for Welfare
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,…
Visible tattoos and piercings on hospital staff okay — arbitrator
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…