BRAMPTON – The city of Brampton, home to Canada’s largest Indian community, has become a real powder keg. On one side, criminal groups like the Bishnoi Gang (an Indian organization listed as a “terrorist entity” by the Canadian government last September, as we wrote here), and on the other, the creeping, latent, but constant “war” between Sikhs (particularly, the separatists seeking independence for their region, Khalistan, from India) and Hindus, have made Brampton a high-risk place, where crimes of all kinds are increasingly occurring. And for this reason—while not naming any of the ethnic groups—Mayor Patrick Brown has decided to take up pen and paper and write to both the federal and provincial governments to ask for help.
TORONTO – Minister Calandra’s appointment to the Education portfolio, the province’s second biggest department, started with a bang and great promise last Spring. The message was clear: no nonsense, back to basics, student oriented, accountability to parents, transparency in expenditures and accountability…
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 — Il governo dell’Ontario ha deciso di assumere il controllo anche del Near North District School Board (NNDSB) dopo che una revisione ministeriale ha confermato “disfunzioni e cattiva gestione radicate che hanno eroso la fiducia del pubblico”…
TORONTO — Tempi duri in arrivo, in Ontario, per i “furbetti della cauzione”: il governo provinciale introdurrà presto una legge che obbligherebbe l’imputato o il suo garante a versare la cauzione subito, in contanti, per l’intero importo ordinato dal tribunale: questo, secondo il governo guidato da Doug Ford, migliorerebbe il rispetto della cauzione, manterrebbe dietro le sbarre i criminali violenti e recidivi e renderebbe più facile per la Provincia riscuotere i pagamenti della cauzione non pagati in caso di violazione delle condizioni della cauzione…
