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Publication Date: October 15, 2025 - 18:20
Ottawa Now - Ford government hints that Health Care Connect waiting list is shrinking, but do the stats back up those claims?
October 15, 2025
The Ford government says it has reached the halfway mark in clearing the province’s Health Care Connect waiting list. The waitlist is a government program that is designed to help Ontarians without a family doctor, matching people with a physician or nurse practitioner. However, the list doesn’t capture everyone without primary care, largely because you have to sign up. Not all Ontarians do. Regardless, the Ministry of Health insists that the program is working. Is it, and to what extent? Kristy Cameron chats with Dr. Alykhan Abdulla, a Manotick-based family doctor, on today’s Ottawa Now.
On October 7, Ontario Court Justice Heather Perkins-McVey handed down conditional sentences to Tamara Lich and Chris Barber for their roles in the 2022 Freedom Convoy. Both Lich and Barber were found guilty of mischief, a criminal charge. While neither faces further jail time, their conditional sentences impose a year of house arrest, followed by six months under a curfew.
“In 45 years of doing this work,” says Lich’s lawyer, Lawrence Greenspon, the Crown and defence have “never been so far apart on sentencing (recommendations) as we were in the Freedom Convoy cases.” Ottawa-based...
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Bill 56 is more than a repeal of speed cameras. It’s a wide-ranging legislative package designed, among other things, to streamline permit approvals and expand labour and health-care worker mobility. But experts say it also raises questions about public safety, environmental oversight and local control.
October 26, 2025 - 06:00 | | CBC News - Ottawa
Whether it was at the draft, the trade deadline, or during free agency, Ross Atkins has always emphasized the importance of values during his decade as general manager of the Toronto Blue Jays.
October 26, 2025 - 05:03 | Globalnews Digital | Global News - Ottawa


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