With eight weeks to go, the heat is on for all the parties, but primarily the PCs and the Liberals.
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Ontario election agenda: What you need to know for April 9
by Adam McDowell
Here’s TVO's daily look at what’s making news in the lead-up to the next provincial election.
Latest news
Progressive Conservative leader Doug Ford had a testy exchange with an audience member at a Somali Canadian Forum event in Toronto on Saturday. Ford said he would support bringing back the Toronto Anti-Violence Intervention Strategy (or TAVIS), a policing program that critics say disproportionately targeted young Black people for carding and scrutiny.
Ford: “I’m in favour, 100 per cent, as a premier, to get involved with the TAVIS program as well. The TAVIS program was good, but then it was cut.” (Later, community activist Waleed Khogali tweeted that Ford has agreed to meet with young men who say TAVIS negatively affected them.)
Last week, Ford was criticized for being the only major party leader planning not to attend the Black Community Provincial Leaders Debate this Wednesday in Toronto, an event that will be hosted by the Jamaican Canadian Association. He’s travelling in northwestern Ontario this week.
No one from the Liberal caucus has announced so far Monday that they’re bowing out of the upcoming election, but the day is young. In case you’ve lost track, 11 Liberal MPPs have discovered a desire to return to private life recently — a high number that might just have something to do with the Liberals’ disheartening poll numbers. Who’s jumping ship? The CBC has a list here.
What to watch for
Finance Minister Charles Sousa is set to make an early-morning announcement at Amsterdam BrewHouse on the Toronto waterfront.
Doug Ford’s travels in northwestern Ontario also include a brewery stop: he’ll have a photo op at Lake of the Woods Brewery, in Kenora. (Ford has previously hinted that, as premier, he might liberalize the sale of alcohol in Ontario; will he reveal more details on that today?) Later in the day, Ford will meet with businesspeople in the paper-mill town of Dryden, then he’ll attend a rally at the local training and cultural centre. The next “Rally for a Better Ontario” will take place Tuesday evening in Thunder Bay.
Sixty medical students from across Ontario will make a house call on Queen’s Park today for the Ontario Medical Student Association’s annual “lobby day.” They’re asking for measures to ensure that every medical student gets a residency (the OMSA says a growing number of doctors-in-training are going without being matched up with a placement, delaying or preventing the completion of their qualifications). So far this year, the NDP and the Liberals have made promises relating to young people and health care, so it might not a bad to time for medical students — who tick both boxes — to make a big ask.
https://tvo.org/article/current-aff...tion-agenda-what-you-need-to-know-for-april-9
Thanks to TVO and Zoing! Caffeine for politicians. Proudly sold by the guy in the unmarked van who parks in the handicapped zone, near the employee's entrance, behind Queen's Park. Cue the steel guitar.
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Ontario election agenda: What you need to know for April 9
by Adam McDowell
Here’s TVO's daily look at what’s making news in the lead-up to the next provincial election.
Latest news
Progressive Conservative leader Doug Ford had a testy exchange with an audience member at a Somali Canadian Forum event in Toronto on Saturday. Ford said he would support bringing back the Toronto Anti-Violence Intervention Strategy (or TAVIS), a policing program that critics say disproportionately targeted young Black people for carding and scrutiny.
Ford: “I’m in favour, 100 per cent, as a premier, to get involved with the TAVIS program as well. The TAVIS program was good, but then it was cut.” (Later, community activist Waleed Khogali tweeted that Ford has agreed to meet with young men who say TAVIS negatively affected them.)
Last week, Ford was criticized for being the only major party leader planning not to attend the Black Community Provincial Leaders Debate this Wednesday in Toronto, an event that will be hosted by the Jamaican Canadian Association. He’s travelling in northwestern Ontario this week.
No one from the Liberal caucus has announced so far Monday that they’re bowing out of the upcoming election, but the day is young. In case you’ve lost track, 11 Liberal MPPs have discovered a desire to return to private life recently — a high number that might just have something to do with the Liberals’ disheartening poll numbers. Who’s jumping ship? The CBC has a list here.
What to watch for
Finance Minister Charles Sousa is set to make an early-morning announcement at Amsterdam BrewHouse on the Toronto waterfront.
Doug Ford’s travels in northwestern Ontario also include a brewery stop: he’ll have a photo op at Lake of the Woods Brewery, in Kenora. (Ford has previously hinted that, as premier, he might liberalize the sale of alcohol in Ontario; will he reveal more details on that today?) Later in the day, Ford will meet with businesspeople in the paper-mill town of Dryden, then he’ll attend a rally at the local training and cultural centre. The next “Rally for a Better Ontario” will take place Tuesday evening in Thunder Bay.
Sixty medical students from across Ontario will make a house call on Queen’s Park today for the Ontario Medical Student Association’s annual “lobby day.” They’re asking for measures to ensure that every medical student gets a residency (the OMSA says a growing number of doctors-in-training are going without being matched up with a placement, delaying or preventing the completion of their qualifications). So far this year, the NDP and the Liberals have made promises relating to young people and health care, so it might not a bad to time for medical students — who tick both boxes — to make a big ask.
https://tvo.org/article/current-aff...tion-agenda-what-you-need-to-know-for-april-9
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