Ontario voters urged to weigh Ford record amid Trump tariff threat
Premier Doug Ford defends an early election call tied to Donald Trump's tariff threat while Ontario faces a market populist governance model. The piece critiques long term planning, environmental review reductions, finance maneuvers, and scandals like the Greenbelt affair, urging voters to engage beyond 2022 levels as polls approach. Mark Winfield of York University comments.
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Canada must reform agri food policy amid tariff risk
Canadian policy gaps threaten agri food competitiveness as 25 percent US tariffs loom. Dalhousie Dalhousie Agri Food Analytics Lab ranks Canada 13th of 620, with a 13.3 billion trade surplus. Needs: domestic processing, R&D, streamlined regulations, and broader export markets beyond the United States. Sylvain Charlebois notes interprovincial barriers and high logistics costs hamper growth.
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Letter to the editor urges clearer audits to boost budget engagement
Peng You argues Thunder Bay should simplify budgets further and expand public input. He calls for more deputations, random line by line audits, and open access to how funds are spent to build trust and accountability in the 2025 operating budget and beyond.
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