Created in 1999, the constituency of Burlington, a district with a population of 123,180 residents and growing, has been represented mostly by members of the Progressive Conservative Party. Jane McKenna, current MPP, first represented the riding when she was elected to office in 2011. She held the riding for the PC until the Liberals took over the constituency between 2014-2018.
TORONTO – From tomorrow goodbye to masks in Ontario. At least in most facilities including schools and kindergartens. The breakthrough was announced last week by Chief Medical Officer of Health of Ontario Kieran Moore due to the general improvement in the epidemiological situation. To abandon this personal protective equipment in the public transport sector, long-term care, retirement homes and other health facilities, reception centers, prisons and homes for people with developmental disabilities, instead we will have to wait a little longer, to be precise until April 27th.
ORLANDO (Florida) – “I see the fanatics of ‘cancel culture’, not only in the violent squares but also in the institutions, remove statues, modify books and cartoons, change the names of the streets out of a sense of guilt towards a common history that they would like to rewrite. Will we surrender in front of this? No, we will not. We will fight it head on”. This is one of the passages of the speech that the honorable Giorgia Meloni, president of the ECR (the European Conservative Party) and leader of Fratelli d’Italia, gave in Orlando, Florida, at the political conference of the American Conservatives and Republicans, held over the weekend, to which she was invited by the CPAC to participate as a speaker among the most important political leaders on the international scene.
Breaking with tradition, the Halton Catholic District School Board (HCDSB) has reversed its position and voted in favour of flying the rainbow flag in June to mark Pride month. The HCDSB is the latest Catholic school board in Ontario to do so after having previously voted to not do so.
TORONTO – Fewer tampons, fewer cases. The drop in new infections recorded today, 887 against 1,184 on Sunday, bodes well for only a few seconds: the time to look at the number of tests performed, that is 25,981 against 31,735 on Sunday. The positivity rate, in fact, rises from 3.2% to 3.5% in twenty-four hours and the moving average of daily cases calculated over seven days is now equal to 940, an increase both compared to today (926) and compared to as of a week ago (783). Three deaths were also recorded today, bringing the total number of deaths since the start of the pandemic in Ontario to 10,027. (more…)
