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What The Toronto Star’s Lobbying Investigation Misses

Investigations into long-term care show why the system needs to be made public. But journalists stop short of completing this circle.

While COVID-19 was spreading throughout long-term care, lobbyists were successfully pushing Doug Ford to make their clients richer.

Riding a Greyhound was never luxurious, but the loss of affordable transportation, and the Toronto Coach Terminal, is still a tragedy.

Workers are already being harmed by extreme heat caused by climate change. They need protections immediately.

While the UCP treats the poisoned drug crisis as a chance to pander to its base, people who use drugs are dying.

The federal and Alberta governments have given the oil industry at least $23 billion since 2018, much of it since the pandemic began.

Reducing climate destruction and harm from needlessly fatal road accidents is more important than corporate or consumer freedom.

No labour movement worth its salt was ever built on tepid alliances with workers’ smiling enemies.

The police force has weaponized public health laws against those calling for police defunding, and protesting for Palestine.