New investigations team will strengthen oversight and resident safety
A News Release from the Government of Ontario
Posted January 15th, 2024 on Niagara At Large
TORONTO — The Ontario government has created a new Investigations Unit to ensure every long-term care resident lives with dignity and experiences the quality of care they deserve.
Supported by an investment of $72.3 million, the new 10-person unit will be an effective deterrent and tool when escalated enforcement is needed to improve compliance and ensure resident safety.
The new unit is now active and will investigate allegations such as: failing to protect a resident from abuse or neglect, repeated and ongoing non-compliance, failing to comply with ministry inspector’s orders, suppressing and/or falsifying mandatory reports, and negligence of corporate directors. Continue reading
“We need a real commitment to renewable energy in Ontario – not window dressing. Please send a message
Do you believe that the 12 local municipalities we have now should be cut down to possibly four or three?
Are they RN’s, nurse practitioners, licensed practical nurses, personal support workers, orderlies? Is he even aware of the differences or does he hope the public is unaware of the differences?
“Less than half an hour into 2024, and Canada’s 100 top-paid CEOs have made more than 200 times what most (workers across Ontario and Canada) will earn in a year. ,,, It’s beyond unfair, and it doesn’t have to be this way.”
“Less than half an hour into 2024, and Canada’s 100 top-paid CEOs have made more than 200 times what most Canadians will earn in a year.
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“We made the Ford Government’s refusal to consider renewable energy an issue the government could no longer ignore. Now we have to make sure that it prioritizes the cleanest and lowest cost options to keep our lights on, instead of polluting gas and high-cost nuclear power.” – Ontario Clean Air Alliance
“It is essential that new homes be built with decarbonization in mind, both to limit their contributions to climate change and to save homeowners the costs associated with retrofitting their home sometime in the future.” – Keith Brooks, Programs Director, Environmental Defence
Stevie Wonder wrote and performed the song ‘Someday At Christmas’ in the mid-1960s while he was still in his teens and the War in Vietnam was ramping up and killing more lives. It’s lyrics tugged at people and the song became a bestseller for Motown Records at the time.
Yet while so many of us gather together with our loved ones for this Holiday, so many other lives around the world are being torn apart and cut short by war.
Our cat Luna also wishes you the best of the season although, being as cat-like as she is, she absolutely refused to wear one of those Santa hats we paid too much for in a pet store.
Toronto, Ontario – Environmental Defence and Équiterre applaud (Canada’s federal) Minister of Environment and Climate Change Steven Guilbeault for finalizing Canada’s Electric Vehicle Availability Standard, which will require automakers to gradually shift to 100 per cent zero-emission vehicle (ZEV) sales by 2035.
Toronto, Ontario – We are relieved to learn that The Beer Store’s successful reuse and recycling program will be preserved. The existing deposit return program keeps hundreds of millions of reusable glass beer bottles in circulation, and even more cans and plastic containers out of landfills and the environment.
NIAGARA, Ontario – Niagara Region’s 2024 Budget process is now complete following last (Thursday, December 14th) night’s Regional Council meeting. The budget continues to support and invest in the programs and services Niagara residents rely on every day.
In total, Council approved the General Levy budget with an increase of $38.6 million in 2024 equaling a 7.02 per cent property tax increase on the Regional portion of the tax bill.
This coming January 1st, 2024 marks the first anniversary of the launch of a new consolidated transit system in Niagara, marking the end of a patchwork of local transit services that fell short of encouraging more people in our region to opt for a bus rather than a car to take them to where they want to go.
TORONTO, Ontario – This past November 22nd the Financial Accountability Office of Ontario (FAO) released its final report in the Costing Climate Change Impacts to Public Infrastructure (CIPI) series. This report projects the budgetary impacts of extreme rainfall, extreme heat and freeze-thaw cycles on public infrastructure in Ontario.
With global temperatures hitting record highs, and extreme weather events affecting people around the globe, this year’s UN climate change conference, COP28, is a pivotal opportunity to correct course and accelerate action to tackle the climate crisis.
“I find Niagara doesn’t have the culture of riding the bus. It (this lack of culture) is inbred (and) it has been that way for a long time,” said Welland Regional Councillor Leanna Villella at a meeting of Niagara Region’s budget review committee this past November 30th.
Toronto – Across Ontario, the frequency and severity of hospital closures is unprecedented and it’s getting worse. That’s the message of a new report from the Ontario Health Coalition that details almost a thousand closures of the most urgent of our local hospitals’ services.
Toronto, Ontario – We are dismayed by the Michigan Public Service Commission’s decision today to grant Enbridge a permit to construct a dangerous oil pipeline tunnel underneath the ecologically sensitive Straits of Mackinac – through the heart of the Great Lakes.
Toronto, Ontario – Nineteen of Ontario’s leading environmental and farm organizations are calling for 
That often-quoted line from the 1967 Paul Newman film ‘Cool Hand Luke’ certainly applies to Ontario Premier Doug Ford and his Conservative government and all the many fast ones they have pulled on we, the people, going back to the first days they were sworn in to office in June of 2018.
With (the federal government’s recent)fall economic statement and the UN climate COP28 starting this November 30th, the Green Budget Coalition today released a comprehensive set of fiscal recommendations for how the federal government can simultaneously address these linked climate and biodiversity crises, while strengthening Canada’s economy and improving affordability and quality of life for people in Canada.
Niagara, Ontario –Miracle is a Christmas-themed pop-up cocktail bar that serves holiday cocktails in a festive setting. With kitschy holiday décor, professionally developed cocktails and the nostalgic energy of the best office party you’ve ever been to, Miracle is sure to get even the grouchiest grinch in the holiday spirit.
The continued slaughtering by poachers of such magnificent animals as Elephants, Rhinos and Tigers – simply because some creeps among our species want their body parts – should, in my view, be treated by Canada and other countries around this world as crimes on par with the deliberate murder of humans.
Nov. 27, 2023 – Niagara Health is warning the public about a scam using its name to try and steal personal information.
It is heartbreaking to watch and even more hard to imagine how horrifying it must be for the men, women and children trying to stay alive at ground zero.
The report looks at how stronger implementation can increase the chances of the next round of NDCs, due in 2025, bringing down greenhouse gas emissions in 2035 to levels consistent with 2°C and 1.5°C pathways. It also looks at the potential and risks of Carbon Dioxide Removal methods – such as nature-based solutions and direct air carbon capture and storage.
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