TORONTO – Airport chaos: Federal Minister of Transport, Omar Alghabra, called to testify before August 19 by the Transport Committee to explain airport delays and flight cancellations in the main Canadian airports in recent months. →
TORONTO – A correction in the housing market, which has already led to four consecutive months of falling prices in the previously overheated sector of the Greater Toronto Area, could end up becoming “one of the deepest in the last half century.” This is the warning contained in a new RBC report.
TORONTO – Ontario school students will not have to wear masks during the fall semester: the Ministry of Education confirmed it today. The use of protective equipment will be voluntary and masks will be available to students upon request. Rapid tests will also remain available in schools.
The fall semester 2022 will therefore be the first, complete, since the beginning of the pandemic, in which Ontario students will not be forced to wear masks. Unless the situation worsens and the reintroduction of security measures is not necessary. On this, however, the government has not yet expressed itself: the details of a possible “plan B” in the event of an increase in infections are lacking. →
TORONTO – Public education, health, transport, new powers for mayors. These are the major issues that will be addressed in Tuesday Speech from the Throne, when Deputy Governor Elizabeth Dowdeswell will outline the government’s agenda for this new provincial legislature.
TORONTO – History repeats itself. As has been the case for a few weeks, also this weekend, the emergency rooms of numerous hospitals in Ontario remained closed. It happened to the Durham site of the South Bruce Grey Health Centre (SBGHC), georgian Bay General Hospital and Ottawa’s Monfort Hospital that was closed at night to cope with an “unprecedented shortage” of nurses. And last week it was the turn of Perth, Listowel, Seaforth and Bowmanville, where Lakeridge Health temporarily closed its intensive care unit and relocated patients to the Ajax-Pickering and Oshawa campuses.
TORONTO – Italian daily newspaper Corriere Canadese received a letter from Avi Abraham Benlolo (in the pic above), Founding Chairman and CEO of The Abraham Global Peace Initiative, addressed to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Here below is the letter.
TORONTO – It could be the Wild West, but it is in our own backyard. Somewhere along the line, a cynical citizenry accepted the concept that there is no such thing as honourable, ethical, behaviour among those who seek political office in service to the public.
ROME – “The polls say that Fratelli d’Italia is the first party in Italy, and the first party of the coalition will indicate the name of the premier. Let’s see what will happen in the elections, if so… I could be the first woman to lead the Italian government in history and it would be for me a great honor”. →
The BBC television news has reported on Bangladesh’s Hero Alam on yesterday morning! There he claimed, ‘mentally tortured’ and ‘rights are breached.’
TORONTO – “Crisis is the right word.” Joining the chorus of doctors and nurses sounding the alarm is Ontario Health Vice President Chris Simpson. The growing pressure on the province’s health system is not the result of fantasy but a sad reality even if the Ford government continues to deny the evidence minimizing the seriousness of the situation.
TORONTO – Arrogance and manipulation. Posturing and theatrics. If anyone has been following international politics, he/she would know that these are staples on the political menu. None of them are especially harmful in digestible doses but, sooner rather than later, its practitioners are punished by the public.
TORONTO – The housing market in the Greater Toronto Area has no peace: in the month of July just ended, sales fell by 47% compared to the same period last year and by 24% compared to last June. →
TORONTO – The emergency continues. Emergency rooms closed on weekends, struggling wards, nurses and doctors working 16-hour shifts, are just a few flaws in the health system in Ontario as well as in other provinces of Canada. And Doug Ford once again points the finger at the federal government.
