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Why bike lanes should remain on Ontario’s roads
In late 2024, the Ontario legislature passed Bill 212 giving the provincial government significant control over municipal bike lanes. The law requires municipalities to ask the province for its approv
March 3, 2025 | 9:59 am

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Are unions really shifting toward Conservatives? Here’s a closer look at their Ontario election endorsements
Ontario Premier Doug Ford has secured a third consecutive majority government for the Progressive Conservative Party. Despite attacks on public sector unions through laws deemed unconstitutional and e
March 3, 2025 | 9:52 am

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We can’t afford Doug Ford’s nuclear fantasy
York University Professor Mark Winfield of the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change and co-chair of the faculty’s Sustainable Energy Initiative discusses Doug Ford’s "increasingly grandiose infra
March 3, 2025 | 9:47 am

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Canada’s productivity strategy needs to centre workers
As Canada moves into 2025, its productivity still lags, despite efforts by the federal government to address the issue in the 2024 federal budget. Canada’s productivity has declined in nine of the las
February 26, 2025 | 3:25 pm

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Why Trump’s Gaza reconstruction proposal is unlikely to work
There have been many conversations around U.S. President Donald Trump’s Gaza proposal to permanently displace Palestinians from Gaza to neighbouring countries and turn the strip into a luxury resort d
February 26, 2025 | 1:28 pm