TORONTO – Food bank use in Ontario has reached another record, with over one million people relying on emergency food services a full 8.7 million times in the past year. This new figure, another negative record, is highlighted in the latest report from “Feed Ontario” published Monday. →
TORONTO — The Ontario government has decided to take control of another School Board, the Near North District School Board (NNDSB), after a ministerial review confirmed “deep-rooted dysfunction and mismanagement that have eroded public confidence”. The Education Minister led by Paul Calandra, therefore, after having placed a series of education boards under supervision, is now also using newly broadened powers of oversight and authority enabled by last month’s Royal Assent of the Supporting Children and Students Act, 2025, and, through these, has placed the NNDSB under his direct control.
OTTAWA — Canada is cutting, for the first time, its contribution to the Global Fund, a major program for fighting infectious diseases in the world’s poorest countries. And the head of the United Nations HIV/AIDS program, Winnie Byanyima (in the pic above, from her Twitter profile – @Winnie_Byanyima), is urging Prime Minister Mark Carney to reverse his government’s planned cuts to foreign aid and global health funding.
TORONTO – 23,746 deaths, including 10,634 in Ontario, 6,290 in Quebec, and 4,620 in British Columbia. This isn’t a war report, and perhaps it’s even worse, given that we’re talking about patients who were on waiting lists for surgery or diagnostic procedures. In a healthcare system worthy of any civilized country, they would have been operated on and/or treated promptly; in Canada, instead, the wait for the surgery/treatment was so long that, in the end, they died. →
TORONTO – Hard times ahead for “bail-jumpers” in Ontario: the provincial government led by Doug Ford will soon introduce legislation that would require an accused person or their surety to provide a cash security deposit in the full amount ordered by the court. This initiative would improve bail compliance, keep violent, repeat offenders behind bars and make it easier for the province to collect forfeited bail payments when bail conditions are violated.
