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With the possibility of Roe v. Wade being overturned in the US, it's no surprise that Canadians are asking if abortion could be banned here.

Ontario advocates are exposing the fragility of access to abortion in Canada and the potential erosion of reproductive rights if the U.S. Supreme Court overturns the Roe v. Wade ruling that legalized abortion.

After years of waiting, construction is set to begin on a new West Lincoln Memorial Hospital. EllisDon Infrastructure Healthcare has been awarded the $224 million contract to design and build the new health-care site.

A Kitchener MPP’s bill aimed at countering racism in schools received verbal support at Queen’s Park on Wednesday night.

The DriveTest centre will open at 6080 McLeod Road on Oct. 18 and offer G2 and G road tests seven days a week from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m., according to the Ministry of Transportation.

Ontario investing $4.2 million to support new natural gas connections in Lincoln and Grimsby.

iPolitics By Michael Coren. Published on Apr 23, 2021 4:18pm Conversion therapy is more prejudice than science, more hysteria than study. It’s been discredited by every scientific body worth its name. Conservative MP Tamara Jansen (House of Commons screengrab) It was only a matter of time before the absurd remarks of Conservative MP Tamara Jansen went viral on social media, and it was entirely justified. Addressing a Liberal bill aimed at criminalizing conversion therapy, the MP fo...

Article content What is to be done with Sam Oosterhoff? Ontario’s youngest-ever MPP, 23 years old, twice elected with a majority of votes in Niagara West, parliamentary secretary to the education minister and as unabashed a social-conservative as you’ll find hereabouts, is once again causing Premier Doug Ford headaches. Last time, in October, it was a mass maskless photo-op at a Niagara Falls restaurant, whose owner claimed Oosterhoff’s group repeatedly refused staff requests to follow th...

Article content But Sharpe said the suggestion did not receive a warm reception from the party. “I got the sense they didn’t want it to happen,” he said. “It struck a bad tone with a lot of people. Nobody in Central Nova would have a better shot than Peter. I’d say it knocked a lot of wind out of the sails of a lot of people.” Central Nova is still without a candidate to take on incumbent Liberal MP, Sean Fraser. “It’s stupid. Peter can get you seats in the East,” said one f...

Article content But Sharpe said the suggestion did not receive a warm reception from the party. “I got the sense they didn’t want it to happen,” he said. “It struck a bad tone with a lot of people. Nobody in Central Nova would have a better shot than Peter. I’d say it knocked a lot of wind out of the sails of a lot of people.” Central Nova is still without a candidate to take on incumbent Liberal MP, Sean Fraser. “It’s stupid. Peter can get you seats in the East,” said one f...