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Premier Ford between budget, Covid-19 and health care in crisis

TORONTO – The 2021 Federal Budget came like a godsend for Doug Ford. And not so much for the individual measures contained in Minister Chrystia Freeland’s Budget Law – which in fact have a national character and which do not promise carte blanche at the expense of the Provinces against the pandemic – but for the possibility of alleviating the media pressure to which the premier has been subjected for almost a week now.

Ford announces 4-week, Ontario-wide lockdown

[GTranslate]TORONTO – The Ontario government is implementing a province-wide emergency brake amid surging COVID-19 case numbers and record hospitalizations, Premier Doug Ford announced today, at the end of a week characterized by controversy, and accusations and for the alleged immobility of the federal executive in the face of the sudden surge in Covid-19 cases throughout the province.

Covid out of control, today Ford will announce new restrictions

[GTranslate]TORONTO – New restrictions on the way to curb the surge in Covid-19 infections. The Provincial Government of Ontario could today announce the new crackdown, in the face of an epidemiological curve that has returned to run strongly in the last 10 days, with the new daily cases above 2 thousand for a week and with intensive care admissions marking the new record since the beginning of the pandemic.