TORONTO – Once again, the environment is in the “crosshairs” of Doug Ford’s government: after the attempt – notoriously failed – to take land away from the Greenbelt to reach the goal of 1.5 million new homes by 2031, the Province returns to the fray with a new piece of legislation, the Get It Done Act, designed to speed up the construction of new highways in Ontario by shortening environmental assessment timelines. →
TORONTO – There are many issues to be resolved by the Ontario government and by Prime Minister Doug Ford (in the photo, from his Twitter X page – @fordnation): Queen’s Park resumes this week with a flurry of activity, as the repeal of the unconstitutional wage cap law, and the formalization of an about-face on the decision to dissolve the Region of Peel, and the introduction of omnibus legislation, and many others. →
TORONTO – I met Jose Cesario and Paola Madeiros a few years ago on matters relating to the Portuguese community and its integration into the larger Canadian society, in particular, the manners in which it seemed to have established a strong working relationship with the Italian community.
TORONTO – Some Canadian provinces are more “loved” than others by immigrants to Canada: it emerges from a new report by Statistics Canada, entitled “Provincial variation in the retention rates of immigrants, 2022”, which compared the percentages of immigrants present in the provinces one and five years after admission to Canada. The years examined are 2012 and 2016. →
TORONTO – It’s a joke. On the one hand, the federal government has been pushing for months to convince large food distribution companies to adopt a “code of conduct” to regulate prices, threatening them with “penalizing measures”. On the other hand, the same food companies, in turn, declare: “I would gladly adopt the code of conduct, but all the other companies must also adopt it, otherwise nothing will be done”. And, of course, nothing changes. And prices continue to rise. →
