For me, it'd have to Bill Davis, very much a progressive conservative, very Red Tory: Massively expanded universities, created the Environment Ministry, appointed the first woman to Cabinet, expanded French language services, created TVO, brought in rent control, along with many others things. I'd like to hear from others, though, on who you consider the best premier and why.

I’m looking for some advice while weighing the pros and cons of moving from Ottawa to Toronto

I’m 29F, child feee, single, and I grew up in Toronto. Moved to Ottawa about 6.5 years ago when my family relocated here during covid and I followed after graduating uni. I always saw it as a transitional thing but almost 7 years later I’m still here. I have a great job here and am very close to my family that lives here. However, I’ve never made any close friends here and almost all my closest friends are in Toronto. More than anything, every time I go back to visit, I feel at home and comfortable. I’ve found more recently that everytime I leave the city to head back to Ottawa I feel a sense of sadness and longing to be back in Toronto. But I worry about being away from my family I’m so close to (although I guess it’s just a drive/train ride away). The thing is I’m not UNHAPPY in Ottawa, I just think I could be happier in Toronto… but I fear I’m having a grass is greener mindset??

I don’t work remote but I work in healthcare and could probably get a job at one of the hospitals in Toronto relatively easily given my experience. My income would be around 120-130 a year which I think would be sufficient to live comfortably as a single women with just a dog in the city.

I realize this might be the last time in my life that I’m this free with this little responsibility (I.e. no partner or children) and I wonder if leaving my family in so close with is worth it for the change.

Happy to hear any advice or stories of anyone who’s made the same move. Did you regret it? If you moved away from family you are close with, do you regret that??

Thanks :)

Ontario: departing family doctor is charging around $250 cash for a USB of our family’s medical records, and won’t transfer them to the incoming doctor. Is this legal?

My family has been seeing a doctor at a small local clinic in the GTA for the last 6-7 years. All of our health records are kept at this clinic. It has only one doctor, and they are leaving.

They are pushing us to take all our records on a USB drive. We asked them to transfer the records to the new doctor who will be taking over the clinic, but they said the software is owned by them, so the records won’t be transferred. they quoted $250 for the whole family, payable in cash only.

I offered to follow them to their new practice, but they say that they haven’t decided on a clinic or location yet.

My questions:

1. Is it legal to charge this fee, and to require cash?
2. Can they refuse to transfer our records to the incoming doctor because they own the software?
3. Has anyone dealt with something similar? What did you do, and did the CPSO (College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario) or the Privacy Commissioner help? I don’t have any issues with this physician but requests like this make me think are they legal ?

thanks in advance .

Marinela Trickett (a psychotherapist in Guelph) has launched a petition to make OHIP include mental health (namely, psychotherapy) coverage. As someone who has personally faced many barriers (financial or otherwise) in accessing mental health services, this is something that could be life-changing, and I'm sure many others share these experiences. If this is something you want to see happen, please help sign the petition! IMPORTANT: The Ontario Legislature only accepts original hand-written signatures. Please print the document and physically sign it, and help get other people to sign too!

Completed petition forms can be mailed to Trickett Psychotherapy, 34 Harvard Road, Unit 2, Guelph, ON N1G 4V8; if cost is an issue, I will be more than happy to personally pick it up and mail it for you!

Petition press release: https://ohipforpsychotherapy.ca/press.php

Show your support online (note: the phsyical petition is still the only legally-recognized means): https://ohipforpsychotherapy.ca/#sign

Petition (English) to print: https://ohipforpsychotherapy.ca/docs/petition-ohip-psychotherapy-EN.pdf

Petition (French) to print: https://ohipforpsychotherapy.ca/docs/petition-psychotherapie-OHIP-FR.pdf

Disclaimer: I am not affiliated with Marinela Trickett. This is something I'm doing on my own time because I believe in how meaningful it is.

Mississauga, Hamilton, Windsor, Milton all had in incumbents lose mayoralty. 2 of those are understandable due to age

Is this unusual or par for the course

Hoping that someone here can provide clarification ...

I transferred my vehicle to a family member and they decided to get their own plates - my license plates had seen better days. A week after this transaction, I realized that I should 'deregister' my old plates. Taking my paper plate permit to Service Ontario, I was told that I had to surrender my physical plates as well.

This is confusing because a month earlier, we did a similar transfer with another vehicle (in another town) and had the old plates cancelled but allowed to keep the physical ones.

Anyone run into a similar situation? TIA