Tag: campaign
Q+A: Ex-premier David Peterson on Doug Ford, Donald Trump and the peril of polls
David Peterson offers an insider’s view of the Ontario election, the recent tariff scrap with the U.S. and provincial election campaigns.
U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariff economics don’t make sense
“I look at the (Donald)Trump administration’s behaviour over the last week and the only word that accurately describes it is: stupid,” New York Times’ David Brooks wrote in a recent column.
Ontario Election 2025: Candidates talk up jobs, healthcare, affordability
With the threat of Trump tariffs temporarily on hold, talk on the Ontario campaign trail has branched out to other issues. Progressive Conservative leader Doug Ford visited workers in Etobicoke on Friday, continuing a trend of courting the union vote, something Tories did not traditionally seek in the past. NDP leader Marit Stiles discussed healthcare […]
All-candidates meetings being planned in Grey-Bruce area ridings
Upcoming all-candidates meetings in Grey-Bruce will give the public a chance to hear from the candidates on a variety of topics, including health-care, climate and the environment and agriculture. Local groups and organizations have begun to organize meetings, held to inform and educate voters prior to the Ontario election on Feb. 27. The Grey Bruce […]
Climate misinformation is rife on social media – and poised to get worse
By Jill Hopke, DePaul University
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The decision by Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, to end its fact-checking program and otherwise reduce content moderation raises the question of what content on those social media platforms will look like going forward.