Anti-Semitic teaching materials at a Toronto Islamic school; Northern Ontario’s mayors speaking out against privatizing Ontario Northland; rural Ontarians upset about the end of slot machine revenue sharing... We recap a week when Ontarians didn’t get along with each other.
This week in the Inside Ontario blog: the Ontario NDP convention; negotiations with the elementary teachers’ union (or the lack thereof); safe injection sites; a gas company pleads guilty to price fixing; cell phone contracts; and Northern Ontario’s fight to keep ten federal seats.
Original research shows the frequency that the Roman Catholic mass is said in languages other than English in Toronto. What languages are used most often? What does this say about Toronto’s Catholic community?
This week Inside Ontario: What a GTA casino could mean for Niagara Region; coming changes to Ontario’s feed-in tariff system for green energy; a Toronto Star investigation questions if the Toronto police have documented every young black man living in the city; Catholics divided over gay-straight alliances; and a St. Patrick’s Day riot in London, Ontario.
Tell Vic Toews that online political protests – for good or bad – may be the new normal. Even in Canada’s relatively sleepy political culture.
Recapping the number one story in Ontario this week.
Allan Bonner, political communications consultant with Allan Bonner Communications, reflects on Canada’s evolving national identity
This week Inside Ontario: the Ottawa job market tries to decrease its reliance on the federal civil service; wind turbines create opposition, and jobs; Tony Clement says that keeping Ring of Fire mineral processing in Ontario is a provincial responsibility; and the Order of Ontario.
The Ontario Hospital Association responds to a blog post we did with the Ontario Health Coalition on the new provincial Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (FIPPA).
Sean Madden, president of the Ontario Undergraduate Student Alliance, on how undergraduate student leaders think mental health services could be improved on campus.















