Local
The Niagara Regional Police Service (NRPS) is poised to enter this year’s budget season looking for a budget increase of 14.8 per cent, on the heels of an 11.11 per cent increase in 2026.
The police budget was by far the largest line item that drove up property taxes for Niagara Region residents in 2026, and 2027 would be no exception.
At a police board meeting late last week, Chief Bill Fordy argued that a nine per cent increase will be required in 2027 just to keep services as-is, largely due to wage increases that are expected to be agreed to via the collective bargaining process.
Local
Ontario Racing has announced that the Ford government is increasing the province’s support for the horse racing industry by some $35 million a year over the next five years.
Sports
The sport of dodgeball is quickly finding a home in Niagara.
National
On this Canada Day there is an underappreciated and growing risk to our democracy – the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
National
School is out, Parliament has risen, and it feels like summer in the nation’s capital. For Mark Carney, Pierre Poilievre, and Avi Lewis, the next three months are less a recess than a reckoning.
National
For more than 100 years, Ontario was the engine that drove Canadian economic growth. When Canada’s social programs were first created – think Medicare, for example – it was Ontario taxpayers…
Opinion
In a matter of weeks, the United Kingdom will mark the end of Sir Keir Starmer’s premiership and the sixth change of head of government since David Cameron’s swearing in sixteen years ago.
