Carney says he knows his new riding well, but flubs reference to local neighbourhoods | Unpublished
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Author: Rahim Mohamed
Publication Date: March 24, 2025 - 15:41

Carney says he knows his new riding well, but flubs reference to local neighbourhoods

March 24, 2025
'Did you bother looking at a map of your riding? Bells Corners is not in your riding'


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The Ontario government has been attempting to close about half of the province’s supervised drug consumption sites as it seeks to shift away from harm reduction and instead focus on treatment. The government passed legislation last year to ban such sites next to schools and child-care centres, and has also said it won’t approve new or relocated sites. The closings were slated to happen on April 1, but a judge issued an injunction last Friday that will keep them open until a court challenge is decided, offering at least a temporary reprieve.The province says its push to close the sites...
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The day she was due to open the doors to Kitchener’s supervised drug consumption site, Violet Umanetz went into the supply cupboard and had a little cry.Like so many places, her Southwestern Ontario city was being swept by a wave of drug overdoses caused by the potent synthetic opioid fentanyl. The aim of the site was to give people a place to use their drugs in safety, with clean needles available to prevent infections and watchful attendants to come to their aid in case the drugs overwhelmed them.
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Hundreds of thousands of people across Ontario are still without power on the third day of a spring storm after freezing rain-coated swaths of the province with thick layers of ice.An outage map from provincial utility Hydro One shows more than 390,000 homes and businesses are without power this morning, and nearly 360,000 others are already back online.
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