Opinion
Editorial: Sudsy Ford focus?
The weather, for the most part, has improved to a near summer-like feel. For many, enjoying a cold one on a hot day is part of season. Enjoying an alcoholic beverage or two will now […]
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Opinion
Editorial: Leave the kids alone
Not one teacher will lose his/her job. That is what voters were told by candidate Doug Ford in the 2018 provincial election. Less than a year later, school boards across Ontario are seeing a higher-than-normal […]
Opinion
Editorial: The party budget
The Ontario government tabled the first budget of premier Doug Ford’s mandate on April 11 and it is the largest budget in provincial history. Ford’s budget spends nearly $5 billion more than his predecessor, Kathleen […]
News
Street-scape may become reality sooner than planned
MORRISBURG – Morrisburg’s new street-scape vision and traffic roundabout may arrive sooner than planned. On March 12th, the provincial government announced a $30 billion infrastructure funding program. The first round of that funding is dedicated […]
Opinion
Editorial: A Buckley’s budget
Budget season is not over. The federal budget will be tabled next week, and the provincial budget is due April 11th. As Canadians are going to the polls this fall, the federal budget will be […]
Opinion
Editorial: Breaking a broken system
Since changes made by Premier Kathleen Wynne in 2016, children diagnosed with Autism have had to face long wait lists for government-supported therapy. Those wait lists were originally to be between three-to-six months. In many […]
Opinion
Editorial: Targeting the right needs
Over the past several weeks, the provincial government has made several announcements about funding for hospitals across Ontario: just in the last week alone, over $900-million worth. Those announcements however are not really targeting all […]
Opinion
Editorial: Promise delivered?
Ontario Premier Doug Ford has taken to social media over the past week claiming the recent drop in gas prices to below a dollar per litre is a promise fulfilled by his government. When the […]
Opinion
Editorial: Our hopes for 2019
Another year has come and gone and with it, there have been many changes. Instead of looking back on the past year, The Leader prefers to look forward at what, we hope, will occur in […]
Opinion
Editorial: Changing with the times
Monday’s announcement of General Motors’ closure of its Oshawa assembly plant, and the loss of nearly 3,000 jobs to that region, is a story all too familiar to residents of Eastern Ontario especially here in […]