News/Canada/Toronto (Page 49)

Toronto A Toronto woman whose car was stolen three times in the past year — and who had a rental car stolen too — says nobody is taking the problem seriously enough. ‘It’s exhausting,’ says Kristin Shensel, who believes more needs to be done to combat auto theftCBC News · Posted: FebContinue Reading

Toronto People with disabilities and advocates were elated to see Bill C-22, a bill that would create a national disability benefit, passed unanimously in parliament last summer.  Many who cheered on the bill are now concerned the benefit won’t receive enough money to make a real difference to people withContinue Reading

Toronto Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Ontario Premier Doug Ford signed an agreement on Friday that details how the province must spend $3.1 billion in federal funding earmarked for health care. Agreement comes year after feds promised to boost health transfers to provinces Lucas Powers · CBC News · Posted:Continue Reading

Toronto A specialized Peel police task force is investigating 29 extortion cases and has laid charges against five more people in connection with some of those incidents, the service says. Too early to say if extortion attempts connected to established organize crime, police sayLucas Powers · CBC News · Posted:Continue Reading

Toronto Health-care workers across Ontario “are at their wits end” due to an ongoing hospital staffing “crisis” that is taking a toll on the province’s emergency rooms, the president of Ontario Council of Hospital Unions of CUPE said Tuesday. Hundreds held demonstration in Toronto calling on the province to actContinue Reading

Toronto A group of family physicians held a meeting on Monday evening to talk about alternative career paths because it says the practise of family medicine is not sustainable in Ontario. Ontario Union of Family Physicians says family medicine not sustainable in provinceCBC News · Posted: Feb 05, 2024 8:14 PMContinue Reading

Toronto Homeless people in Toronto who had COVID-19 were more than twice as likely to get it again as people who had housing, said lead author Lucie Richard, a senior research associate at the MAP Centre for Urban Health Solutions at St. Michael’s Hospital. Homeless people more likely to haveContinue Reading

Toronto·CBC Investigates An associate of Ontario’s self-described Crypto King was sentenced to five months in jail for contempt of court in Oshawa, Ont. Friday. The sentence stems from a lawsuit against Colin Murphy, 27, filed by an investor trying to recover $120,000 given to Murphy to invest in ‘Crypto King’ AidenContinue Reading

The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled that the Ontario government does not have to disclose Premier Doug Ford’s mandate letters in a unanimous decision issued Friday. “The Letters are revealing of the substance of Cabinet deliberations, both on their face and when compared against what government actually does,” wrote Justice AndromacheContinue Reading