Tag: Doug Ford
Londoners to protest health-care funding cuts at Queen’s Park
Article content A Queen’s Park protest over health-care funding cuts will have a heavy London presence. Two busloads of protesters left the city early Thursday
Letters to the Editor: May 3, 2024
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Letters to the Editor: April 27, 2024
Skewed priorities
Baranyai: Ford’s reversals show citizens can effect change
Something Premier Doug Ford probably doesn’t get enough credit for: He knows how to backtrack. As compliments go, it’s undeniably backhanded, yet it’s meant with genuine appreciation.
Doug Ford wants ’100 per cent’ Ontario students at province’s med schools
Premier Doug Ford says he wants all spots in Ontario medical schools to be reserved for students from the province. Ford said Wednesday about 18 per cent of students are from foreign countries. “In my opinion, and we will continue working with the ministry, get rid of the 18 per cent,” he said at an […]
Letters to the Editor: March 27, 2024
Wrong priorities
Doug Ford on Ottawa’s carbon tax: ‘Don’t know what the guy is smoking up there’
Ontario Premier Doug Ford came out swinging Tuesday against the federal carbon tax in a speech to hundreds of grain farmers from across the province who are meeting in London.
Ford draws protesters at ribbon-cutting for new Markdale hospital
Ontario Premier Doug Ford helped cut the ribbon to ceremonially open the nearly $70-million Markdale hospital Thursday, and drew a crowd of protesters. The community has waited more than 20 years for a new hospital and on Sept. 24, a Sunday morning, it will open to the public, replacing the Centre-Grey General Hospital which opened […]
Premier’s pronoun comments an attempt ‘to change the channel’: Union
Ford told the crowd it is the parent’s responsibility “to hear what kids are doing and not the school board.”
Letters to the Editor: August 26, 2023
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