Saugeen Nation Sends OPG Back to Square One, Voting 86% Against Nuclear Waste Site – The Energy Mix
While Kincardine was a the plan
“willing host”, the proximity of the planned site, a permanent bunker
located 680 metres underground, “sparked a backlash elsewhere in Canada
and the United States,” The Canadian Press writes, in a post republished online by CTV News. “Politicians, environmentalists, and scores of communities expressed opposition.”
Doug Ford’s tax break for minimum wage workers falls short, study reveals | CBC News
Premier
Doug Ford cancelled the $1 per hour increase to the minimum wage that
was scheduled to happen on January 1 this year. That’s when the
Progressive Conservatives brought in the Low-income Individuals and
Families Tax Credit (LIFT.)
Doug Ford’s latest attempt to kill the electric car will cost Ontario
Ontario families deserve so much better than a government that drags us
backwards. Instead of burning public money to rip out charging stations,
we should be investing in green technology, green jobs and helping
people choose green transportation. We should be looking at more
electric vehicle charging options, not fewer.”
To defend such legislation, the government must persuade a court that its actions have a “pressing and substantial purpose.” That’s the legal test established by the Supreme Court of Canada to justify violating the right to free collective bargaining enshrined in the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
A day of school lost here and there to rotating strikes almost certainly doesn’t meet that bar, according to legal experts.
“There’s a difference between a pressing and substantial purpose and an inconvenience to the public,” said Kevin Banks, director of Queen’s University’s Centre for Law in the Contemporary Workplace.
About
an hour after the 7:24 a.m. ET alert, Ontario Power Generation (OPG),
the plant’s operator, tweeted without explanation that the warning “was
sent in error.” The Ontario government also later acknowledged the
mistake, blaming human error, and issued an apology.