TORONTO – Honda Canada will to build an electric vehicle battery plant near its automotive manufacturing plant in Alliston, Ontario, where it also plans to produce electric vehicles. According to The Canadian Press, the federal and Ontario governments will make an official announcement this week. (more…)
TORONTO – Much may be riding on trustee Theresa McNicol’s proverbial “day in court”, on April 23. Her story, is, as the saying goes, “a tangled web”. On the face of it, McNicol will be asking the Divisional Court to quash a York Catholic District School Board (YCDSB) decision to sanction her behaviour towards several (five) of her colleagues.
OTTAWA – GC Strategies partner Kristian Firth appeared on April 17th at the bar of the House of Commons to receive an admonishment from Speaker Greg Fergus and answer questions from MPs about the scandal of the app ArriveCan.
TORONTO – I recently had the opportunity to discuss the hit Netflix Documentary “What Jennifer Did” with its Producers, Jeremy Grimaldi and Paul Nguyen. The Documentary is about Jennifer Pan, a young Canadian girl from Markham Ontario found guilty in 2014 of conspiring to kill her parents. Jeremy Grimaldi is a Crime Reporter and Award Winning Author who’s been reporting/investigating the case for over a decade. Paul Nguyen is a Filmmaker and Social Activist who’s served as a role model and mentor for at-risk youth in his Toronto community.
TORONTO – The Minister of Education, Stephen Lecce, in three short weeks has gone from being the hero of the Progressives (teachers’ unions, government workers, “human rights activists”…) to the target for the disgruntled, impatient or entitled. They are characterized by the culture best described as embodying the mentality of “what’s ours is ours and what is yours is negotiable until it becomes ours or is controlled by us”.
