TORONTO – Judging from the 2023-24 Revised Budget Estimates (RBE) [being] presented to the Board of Trustees yesterday (December 14, 2023, for readers today), the Directorship of Brendan Browne has been nothing short of an unmitigated fiscal mismanagement. (more…)
FLORENCE – A mystery that has been going on for 55 years, eight brutal double murders, an unspecified series of “collateral” deaths and only two final convictions – in fact without overwhelming evidence and based on often contradictory testimonies – for only four of the eight double crimes. It is an endless story, the “monster of Florence”, or the “monsters” who sowed panic in the Florentine countryside, in Italy, between the 70s and 80s, killing couples who went away in the car for a few moments of intimacy and, in some cases, surgically removing intimate areas from women’s bodies. (more…)
TORONTO – Doug Ford’s government will no longer dissolve the Region of Peel. The announcement, made today by Municipal Affairs and Housing Minister of Ontario, Paul Calandra, will cancel plans that would have seen Mississauga, Brampton and Caledon become independent cities by 2025. (more…)
TORONTO – Organized crime groups are attempting to “infiltrate” government agencies and departments and, in some cases, are succeeding, according to reports obtained by Global News, like the one from the Criminal Intelligence Service Canada (CISC), which highlights that 29 organized crime groups have “influence and access” within the public sector, while another 369 groups are trying to achieve the same result. (more…)
TORONTO – This is a typical, daily repeated question in the governing bodies of any country. When the public loses confidence in those entrusted with the governing structure, they begin to look elsewhere. School boards are not exempt from that dynamic.