‘The NDP’s potential anti-Poilievre momentum is more than 50 per cent larger than the group open to following the Liberals to stop Poilievre’
A News Release from Data Shows, a professional, non-partisan data gathering venue based in Ontario, Canada
Posted September 10th, 2024 on Niagara At Large
Canada’s NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh and his party could gain significant support in next federal election from voters who have had it with the Liberal’s Justin Trudeau and who want to stop Pierre Poilievre and his right-wing Conservatives from gaining power.
To stop Pierre Poilievre, 55 per cent of current Liberal, Green or Bloc supporters would “definitely” or “probably” swing their support to Jagmeet Singh’s NDP if they were best positioned, according to the most recent poll from Abacus Research.
The NDP’s potential swing group, which represents 17 per cent of the Canadian electorate, would boost the NDP within close range of the poll-leading Conservatives.
The NDP’s potential anti-Poilievre momentum is more than 50 per cent larger than the group open to following the Liberals to stop Poilievre. Only 11 per cent of Canadians drawn from current NDP, Green or Bloc supporters would definitely or probably vote Liberal to stop Poilievre. Continue reading
‘The climate crisis impacts us all. The unnatural storms, fires, droughts and heatwaves across Canada this year will keep getting worse until we transition off of fossil fuels and the pollution they create.’
For 100 years, Ontario has built our system of local public hospitals that operate on a non-profit basis, in the public interest. Under the cover of the pandemic, the Ford government began to make plans to privatize Ontario’s public hospital services, including surgeries and diagnostics to private for-profit hospitals and clinics.
On January 16, 2023, Premier Doug Ford announced his plan to open new private for-profit day hospitals in three cities, expand other for-profit clinics and shunt tens of millions in public funding to private clinics and hospitals.
Niagara Region is inviting public input as it enters phase two of developing the Waste Management Strategic Plan (the Plan), which will set the framework and direction for waste management in the region over the next 25 years.
The Progressive Conservative government led by Premier Doug Ford in July again failed to spur the housing construction starts its own task force reported are needed to bring market balance, according to data from Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation.
About the Greenbelt Foundation – The Foundation operates as an independent, charitable organization, and receives funding from the Government of Ontario and other public and private support to make strategic investments that bolster the richness of life in the Greenbelt. Since 2005, we have invested and leveraged matching dollars totaling more than $47 million through investment in farming, environmental protection and tourism projects to make the Greenbelt a great place to live, work, play, and grow.
September 1st, 2024
Toronto – This August 28th’s announcement by Energy Minister Stephen Lecce is a significant and shocking reversal on electricity planning in Ontario.
Not content with making lame jokes about our crumbling healthcare system, Doug Ford’s latest announcement will put even more strain on our hospitals.
St. Catharines, Ontario – Niagara residents with a chronic illness and their care partners can access a specially trained registered nurse to assist them in managing their symptoms and day-to-day well-being in the comfort of their homes.
The board assists the Commission by reviewing and assessing progress by the governments of Canada and the United States to implement the Agreement, identifying emerging issues and recommending strategies and approaches to prevent and resolve complex challenges facing the Great Lakes, and providing advice on the role of relevant jurisdictions to implement these strategies and approaches
QUEEN’S PARK—Ontario NDP Leader Marit Stiles is calling on Premier Doug Ford to come clean about his role in the Greenbelt scandal as the RCMP investigation continues and key Conservative staffers face questioning.
It was August 1969 and my brother and I were walking to a record store in downtown St. Catharines and in the window we saw this colourful poster featuring a white dove perched on the arm of a guitar.
There has never been a better time to harness the power of the sun for our homes.
Lincoln, ON– The Town of Lincoln is announcing several community engagement initiatives starting in Fall 2024 to rally the community towards a collective, ongoing goal of a healthy urban tree canopy.
From Doug Draper – More than a decade ago and about a decade after I decided to leave my job at what was left of the once-proud St. Catharines Standard, I was asked to write a review for a now-defunct news magazine called Pulse Niagara on a film documentary TV Ontario would be airing on the poor conditions foreign farm workers were suffering in Ontario.
A new report released (this August 13th, 2024) by Environmental Defence, Big Oil’s Big Year –
Toronto, Ontario – A new backgrounder released by Environmental Defence today
*NOTE: City of St. Catharines’ public meetings for proposed Community Improvement Plan amendments have been rescheduled to a special City Council meeting on Monday, Aug. 26 at 6 p.m. in Council Chambers at City Hall. *
Today in not-so-fun-facts: In Ontario, you don’t need any sort of license to operate a private zoo. If you have the money you can purchase a lion, tiger or camel, and charge visitors to come and see it – living conditions be damned.
A July poll commissioned by Environmental Defence, and conducted by Abacus Data confirms that the overwhelming majority of people across Canada — 84 per cent — want less single-use plastic in the grocery store.
Thirty-seven years after American-born James Baldwin’s death in 1987, his books and so much of what he had to say about racial and social justice remain as relevant and as well read today.
In the summer of 1969, when close to half a million young people were grooving to the music of some of the best musical artists at the time at the now-legendary Woodstock Festival in Upstate New York, there was another large music festival that that took place in New York City’s Harlem district that went largely ignored by the mainstream media.
For over a year, temperature records across the globe have been shattered by the one-two punch of the climate emergency and the most recent El Niño event. We’ve had so many broken records that the media hardly bother reporting on them any more.
A Brief Foreword from Doug Draper at Niagara At Large – For all of you who have never really visited the heart of Buffalo – who may have just driven on the beltway to get to the airport or to the Walden Galleria mall or the state thruway and have only been exposed to abandoned and broken down mills and warehouses and housing that has fallen into ruin along the way – GardenWalk Buffalo will take you to neigbourhoods where the architecture and tree-lined streetscape rivals any town or city on the continent.
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