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Author: Alex Bozikovic
Publication Date: January 10, 2026 - 06:45
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Ford asked for trouble with Ontario Place. The Supreme Court may give it to him
January 10, 2026
For six years, Doug Ford has had a problem named Therme. Since the Ontario Premier agreed to hand over much of Ontario Place to that European waterpark operator, he has been plagued by a crush of allegations – chiefly, of rewriting the rules to serve a pet project and a well-connected business. He’s waved them away like a pesky swarm of flies.
He can’t so easily dismiss the Supreme Court of Canada. In a surprising move this week, the court agreed to hear a challenge of Mr. Ford’s 2023 Rebuilding Ontario Place Act. The move is the message: His aggressive, destructive, expensive remaking of this public park is no longer just weird. It may be unconstitutional.
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February 4, 2026 - 13:57 | Morgan Lowrie | The Globe and Mail
Canadian artist Phil Richards has said he considers portraiture to be “a collaboration between artist and subject.” Perhaps nowhere is that more clear than in a tiny last-minute change in his newly unveiled portrait of former prime minister Stephen Harper.
The portrait includes many details and Easter eggs (more on that in a moment) but at the very top of the image is a collection of flags, one from New Brunswick, the ancestral home of Harper’s family. Barely visible (it’s a fraction of an inch across) is a red banner flying from the ship on the flag.
Richards painted it flying the...
February 4, 2026 - 13:44 | Chris Knight | National Post
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