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Ontario’s push to for-profit surgical clinics is bad news for the non-profit public health-care system. (Shutterstock)

February 15, 2023

Ontario’s private surgical clinics: Cheques but no balances when providing health care

Tamara Daly, York University, Canada

Ontario is significantly expanding the number and range of medical procedures performed in privately run clinics. Here’s why that’s so problematic.

Ontario Liberal Leader Steven Del Duca on the campaign trail during the June 2022 election in which he failed to stop Doug Ford. The Liberals only won eight seats and Del Duca stepped down, but the party still has a future in the province. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Aaron Vincent Elkaim

February 14, 2023

Ontario Liberals are down but far from out when it comes to ruling the province

Sam Routley, Western University

While Ontario’s Liberals failed to recapture what they lost in 2018 in the 2022 election, the bigger picture shows this isn’t particularly noteworthy nor damning for the party.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford is joined on stage by his wife Karla at a victory party for his Progressive Conservatives after their return to power with an increased majority. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette

June 3, 2022

Ontario election: Doug Ford’s victory shows he’s not the polarizing figure he once was

Jonathan Malloy, Carleton University

Doug Ford and his party have successively portrayed themselves as competent managers adapting to the needs of Ontario in 2022. Whether their policy record actually holds up is a different story.

The Ontario government tabled legislation Dec.6 which would increase the number of young children who can be cared for at once by home child care providers. The proposed legislation is as part of larger reform measures introduced under the Restoring Ontario’s Competitiveness Act that the province says will cut red tape for businesses. Shutterstock

December 18, 2018

The Ontario government’s plan to loosen child-care rules is dangerous

Petr Varmuza, University of Toronto; Linda A. White, University of Toronto, and Michal Perlman, University of Toronto

Low-income, less-educated parents with non-standard work schedules rely most on home child-care providers whose rules would be relaxed under proposed legislation.

Ontario Conservative leadership candidate Patrick Brown addresses supporters in Toronto on Feb. 18. The former party leader resigned his position after sexual misconduct allegations, only to re-enter the race for his vacated position after refuting the allegations. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chris Young

February 19, 2018

Chaos and confusion for Ontario’s Conservatives

Paul Thomas, Carleton University

The Ontario PCs are reeling from the fallout of Patrick Brown’s removal as leader in January and his subsequent return to the leadership race. Can the party pull it together in time for the June vote?

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