As the Premier of Ontario swears in a new cabinet , over 160 health workers from across the province have signed onto an open letter calling on the government to legislate at least 10 paid sick days immediately. This is especially pressing given the looming expiration of the Worker Income Protection Benefit (WIPB) at the end of July. ...
Ontario Greens Leader Mike Schreiner called for an Ontario extreme heat preparedness plan as temperatures across the province continue to soar amid the climate crisis.
“Ontario urgently needs an extreme heat preparedness plan,” Schreiner said. “As the climate emergency worsens, summers are getting hotter and hotter. And as we saw last summer in British Columbia, extreme heat can be deadly and catastrophic. ...
On his return from an all-party delegation to Europe for the 105th anniversary of the Battle of Vimy Ridge, Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound MP Alex Ruff responded to our enquiry about the Emergencies Act Inquiry.
"I’m looking forward to the findings of this inquiry into the Emergencies Act; however, if Prime Minister Trudeau refuses to waive Cabinet confidence into why the Liberal government invoked the Act in the first place, I’m not certain ...
Green Party of Ontario leader and Guelph MPP Mike Schreiner made the following statement in response to the new report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC):
“How many more damning reports that tell us it’s ‘now or never’ to act on climate do we need before the Ontario government starts taking the climate emergency seriously? ...
At the local Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound Liberal nomination meeting on Thursday, Selwyn Hicks was acclaimed as the candidate for the upcoming provincial election. The following are excerpts from his acceptance speech.
"In the spring of 1972, at the age of nine, my two sisters (who are with us tonight) and I arrived in Canada on a plane that crash-landed into Toronto. True story. The front wheel of the plane was stuck and ...
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