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‘It goes way overboard’: Ford calls OPP on protesters who brought guillotine to Queen’s Park I had to say the obvious thing in the title, but now I need to have a word with whomever did this and anyone who thinks it might be a good idea to do some similar thing in the future. …
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Everything here is true, frightening and absolutely insane. We’ve never had a premier like Doug Ford before. Here’s why I don’t get it whatsoever, but clearly there are people in this world who like Doug Ford and think he’s doing a good job. If you do happen to be one who believes his government is …
Goldman Sachs CEO says firm reflecting on how it hired, promoted ‘a criminal’ in 1MDB case The person Solomon referred to was Tim Leissner, a Goldman partner who pleaded guilty to U.S. bribery charges in August for his role in helping raise funds through bond offerings for a Malaysian state investment fund known as 1MDB. …
The answer, it seems, is good bad. It’s become quite popular which is good, but because it’s become so popular the town is rolling out changes to make it more shitty and less convenient for the people who need it the most, which is bad. In 2017, the growing Toronto exurb of Innisfil, Ontario, became …
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Am I a cranky old man, or is it reasonable to expect that by the time a kid gets to high school she should be able to call in her bomb threat to the right place even if the names maybe look kind of similar? A bomb threat to the Wilkinson School in El Granada, …
As is usually the case with these things I’m open to hearing why this isn’t a stupid idea, but it strikes me that basing more than half of a college or university’s provincial funding on factors like how many students graduate, how many of them wind up employed and how much money they make is …
I’m totally on board with this sentiment, minus the rioting and property damage. Obviously folks can do what they want with their own money and we should certainly do our best to preserve our history, but why is there suddenly so much private and public cash available when there’s never enough to build housing for …
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Gym, tan, laundry… vote?: Ontario asked to consider weekend, holiday elections Report on June 2018 provincial election makes recommendations aimed at boosting voter turnout Don’t get me wrong. More flexibility absolutely can’t hurt. But I don’t think that’s the biggest issue we’re up against here. If we really want to solve the turnout problem, we …
I’m curious. Was he actually stuck up there and then decided spur of the moment that it would be cool to drive off in a firetruck, or was the plan all along to lure a firetruck up there so that he could drive off in it? Man calls 911 to be rescued from bluffs, then …
It’s pretty obvious to anyone with eyes, ears or a brain that Canada’s flooding problem has gotten worse in the last few years. So naturally, now is the perfect time to cut a province worth of conservation authority funding in half. Ontario conservation authorities say the provincial government has cut their funding for flood management …