Liz Scott can't afford air conditioning in her sweltering two-bedroom apartment in Stoney Creek. She hopes the government will change the law to make landlords maintain a maximum temperature during the summer.
A joint press release Tuesday announced the First Nation had reached an $84.45-million settlement with the federal and provincial governments for “the unauthorized and uncompensated flooding of reserve land.”
The statement, issued Friday, came in the wake of media reports of property owners demanding residents in apartment buildings remove window-mounted air conditioners or face extra payments or eviction as Ontario endures another sweltering summer.
Earlier this week, Victor Lachance and Kirk Albert filed for a judicial review of Ontario’s proposal to build a 235-bed correctional facility in the town of 4,000 about 50 kilometres south of Canada’s capital, in part to relieve overcrowding at the Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre.
A landmark ruling by the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario found the province’s police force violated the rights of 54 migrant workers during a DNA collection sweep in 2013.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford has long touted the benefits of American-style strong mayors presiding over local governments after his days working for his family’s multimillion-dollar label company in Chicago, where he admired the clout of then-mayor Richard Daley.
Ontario is straining under labour shortages in health, early childhood education, long-term care, agriculture, construction, logistics and computing, among other sectors. Why are so many jobs in the province going unfilled?
Eight spirit horses live on Mādahòkì Farm, a tourism and events destination run by Indigenous Experiences, where they are a living representation of the farm’s larger work of reclamation, education and celebration of Indigenous cultures and traditions.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford signalled his government will expand mayoral power provincewide after tabling legislation last week to grant the mayors of Toronto and Ottawa sweeping new authority.