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Green Party calls for new funding for Toronto and other municipalities |
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In response to Toronto city council's 23 to 22 decision to defer their vote on a new municipal land transfer tax, Green Party of Ontario (GPO) Leader Frank de Jong has announced that a Green government would give Toronto its portion of the provincial land transfer tax, and would consider doing the same for all Ontario municipalities.
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Province reversed centuries of education based on faith to adopt a new public system |
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Andrew Chung, Staff Reporter
The intense animosity between people of different faiths was bound to spill on to the ice. Parents, fans, they all encouraged it among the hockey players at school.
It was a grim fact of life in that province under its historically sectarian education system in which the churches ran the schools with money from the public purse. Besides the rivalries, students and neighbours were divided along religious lines, often driven on half-empty buses across town to schools that were homogenous but under serviced.
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Greens in a good spot after first week of race |
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Thomas Walkom
TORONTO STAR
With just one week of the formal Ontario election campaign out of the way, most sensible people aren't yet paying attention to the claims of rival political parties. But if I had to pick a winner for the week, it would be Frank de Jong's Greens.
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The Greens don't fit neatly on the political axis, admitted de Jong. |
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Tobi Cohen
TORONTO (CP) — Make no mistake: Frank de Jong is in it to win it.
So too is de Jong’s Green party, which is no longer the loosely assembled fringe party once pigeonholed as having few policy ideas beyond tackling climate change and doing away with pollution.
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Video: On Sunday, de Jong was pushing his politics at Toronto's Gladstone Hotel. |
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CityNews.ca Staff
For years the fourth party in terms of voter support, the upcoming provincial election offers a prime opportunity for Ontario's Greens to grab a bigger slice of the political pie from the Liberals, Tories and NDP, something many expect them to finally do.
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