TORONTO – Ontario Premier Doug Ford has not yet clarified whether school board trustees—the elected officials representing local school boards—will appear on the ballot when residents across the province vote in municipal elections this fall.
TORONTO – Since the funds that school boards receive from the Province are not always used to purchase the classroom supplies teachers need, and because teachers often pay for them out of pocket, the Ontario government has decided to take action, announcing the “Classroom Supplies Fund,” a new program that will provide elementary school teachers with $750 each per school year to directly purchase materials for their classrooms.
TORONTO – In 2025, the average wait time for a patient to see a specialist and begin treatment was 28.6 weeks: long, and above all… costly. According to a study by the Fraser Institute, wait times for medical care in Canada last year cost nearly 1.4 million Canadians $4.2 billion, averaging $3,043 per patient in lost work hours and reduced productivity.
TORONTO – Ontario hospitals are warning that uncertainty over healthcare funding and insufficient current resources to address issues like hallway overcrowding are creating serious financial stress among facilities and healthcare workers. But Premier Doug Ford defends his government, saying – at a recent hospital announcement in Niagara Falls – that “what we’ve done is nothing less than a miracle to our health-care system” and highlighting that his government has spent tens of billions of dollars on new healthcare investments in recent years.
TORONTO – The effects of slowing population growth are beginning to emerge in some sectors of the Canadian economy, more than a year after the federal government reduced its immigration targets.
