We Lost A Court Case? What Do You Mean? I Don’t See Any Court Case Here

Who could have possibly seen this coming? The Ford government is trying to use the new powers it buried in the budget bill to dismiss at least eight lawsuits against it, including ones that it’s losing or has already lost. Tell us about the case of Adam Capay. This is a former inmate who was held …

Yes Steve, The Words Cutting And Ford Do Still Appear In The Same Sentence For Other Reasons Now And Then

Ford is cutting 7,000 white-collar jobs No joke, when I saw this, I automatically assumed that the Ford in question was Doug. It isn’t. It’s the car maker. But if you live in Ontario, I’m sure you’ll forgive the mistake. And if you don’t, I hope this helps you better understand what it’s like to …

Ford Government Finally Finds Something It Can’t Cut

Unfortunately, that something is carbon emissions. Premier Doug Ford’s government has done almost nothing on the bulk of the promises in the greenhouse-gas reduction plan Ontario introduced last November, according to a new report by an environmental watchdog group.  The report published Thursday by Environmental Defence examines the seven key actions Ontario pledged to cut carbon emissions in the province, and …

Way To Go, Premier Labels And Tags

I suppose that something like this could probably happen to anybody, but I’m going to take a moment to delight in it because it’s happening to people who spend most of their time doing their best impression of a rudderless ship, drifting from thing to thing, just kind of doing stuff without any sort of …

Government For The People I Do Business With

Yes, this looks pretty fishy. But let’s be fair. Who among us hasn’t taken a meeting with the one member of a hospital board that just happens to have done millions of dollars worth of business with our family’s company without the knowledge of the hospital and then taken two tries for our spokespeople to …

Government For The Hide And Seek Loving People

Ford’s senior officials hoped to keep mandate letters away from public view ‘as long as possible’ CBC News plans to continue fight for marching orders to ministers as Ontario looks to keep them secret There aren’t many good reasons for fighting so hard to keep these out of everyone’s hands, but I’ve come up with …

Ladies And Gentlemen, Noted Man Of His Word, Doug Ford

Doug Ford, less than a week ago. Ontario’s court challenge of the federal carbon tax could be dropped if Andrew Scheer’s Conservatives lose the Oct. 21 federal election, says Premier Doug Ford. A Liberal victory by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau or another party that supports the carbon tax would put Ontario’s case in a different …