TORONTO – Unrepentant, scornful and dismissive. There is no better way to describe the contents of [trustee] Theresa McNicol’s letter to the York Catholic District School Board (YCDSB) after it censured her and applied penalties for what it considered discriminatory behaviour and demeanour unbecoming of a trustee and hurtful to her colleagues of Italian descendancy.
TORONTO – The heads of Canada’s major food chains will return to Ottawa to speak to MPs after the Agriculture Committee unanimously voted on an NDP motion to have them return and explain their plans to stabilize food prices. Which they should have already done, after the meeting held in recent months with the federal government which had threatened the same chains of “sanctions” – in the form of fiscal measures – in the absence of a price containment plan: threats that evidently never materialised, as prices remained high. (more…)
TORONTO – Doug Ford’s government’s about-face on the Greenbelt is starting to produce the first “side effects”: two Ontario municipalities are asking the provincial government to reimburse them for more than $400,000 in costs incurred during the procedures for removing some land from the Greenbelt, now cancelled. (more…)
TORONTO – Mary Lake Shrine of Our Lady of Grace is a popular “Religious Retreat Centre”, located some thirty (30) kilometers north of Toronto, on Keele St., in the township of King, North of Vaughan, York Region. Originally “structured as a country home by Sir Henry Pellat, the builder/owner of Casa Loma, in 1920.
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