‘Canada Is Not for Sale’ — but New Ontario Law Prioritizes Profits over Environmental and Indigenous Rights

First Nations' activist faces charges after Midland festival protest

Johnny Hawke went to Midland parkette to protest Tory government's Bill 5, Simcoe North MPP Jill Dunlop's decision to support it. Situation escalated after police tried to remove banner 'likely due to the inflammatory language on it', mayor says

Public-Private Partnerships Are a Deal With the Devil

Recent experiences with public-private partnerships in Canadian cities, like Ottawa’s light-rail disaster, reveal how the model prioritizes profit over quality, leaving citizens with higher costs and worse services.

Ford’s controversial Bill 5 puts Ontario’s at-risk species at even more risk

The boreal caribou roams more than 1,000 square kilometres each year across Ontario’s northern forests, relying on vast, undisturbed land to find food, escape predators and raise its young.

‘Canada is not for sale’ — but new Ontario law prioritizes profits over environmental and Indigenous rights

Bill 5 and C-5 threaten to bypass environmental safeguards and the duty to consult with Indigenous communities for the sake of short-term profits.

Ontarians have just lost core democratic protections — and few realize it

Bill 5 lets Premier Doug Ford designate any piece of land in Ontario a “special economic zone.” Inside that zone, Ford and his cabinet can override any provincial law.

Ford's controversial Bill 5 puts Ontario's at-risk species at even more risk

The boreal caribou relies on 1,000 square kilometres of undisturbed northern forests in Ontario for habitat. But under Premier Doug Ford’s new controversial Bill 5, that critical habitat has been reduced — on paper — to just a calving site.