Winnipeg Pride parade blockaded by pro-Palestinian queer activists 

Élie Cantin-Nantel, True North Wire
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Winnipeg Pride parade blockaded by pro-Palestinian queer activists 

Pride and Palestine demonstrators clashed on the streets of Winnipeg just one day into Pride month.

Winnipeg’s Pride parade was met with a blockade by self-identified queer pro-Palestinian activists who claimed there is “no pride in genocide.”

The activists, who said they disrupted the parade “in the traditions of Two-Spirit, queer and trans resistance,” made a series of demands to parade participants.

Demands include ending “complicity with genocide” by, among other things, having parade organizers “refuse to allow Zionist organizations that support the genocidal occupation of Palestine a platform or place in Pride events.” 

They also want the parade to “divest from corporate pinkwashing” by having it “refuse sponsorship and participation in events for corporations and institutions that fund or profit from the occupation of Palestine and climate chaos.”

Activists also demanded that both the police and members of the military be banned from the parade and that the parade’s leadership “centre QTBIPOC leadership” by creating “spaces” for black people and committing to “the radical demands of Black Liberation and Freedom movements.”

“Pride began as a protest against police violence and the criminalization of queer and trans people,” the activists said in a statement. “It has strayed far from its revolutionary roots, so far that today we protest Pride itself and hold accountable those who claim to represent us.”

They believe Pride parades should be “a space of community building toward liberation, of celebration of radical queer and trans joy for all, particularly our BIPOC, unhoused, sex working, migrant, and disabled relatives.”

They added that “queer and trans love is resistance. An anti-racist Pride that rejects colonialism is possible. Our Two-Spirit, queer, and trans elders have shown us that revolutionary Pride is possible and necessary.”

The parade was held up by the queer pro-Palestinian activists for about 20 minutes. 

In a statement to the media, Pride Winnipeg said it has “fully committed to working with all areas of the community, starting with regular consultations moving forward to ensure that our organization and its events represent the voices and the diversity of all 2SLGBTQ+ individuals that we are here to serve.”

Consultations will begin next week.

Winnipeg’s Pride parade was not the only Pride event disrupted by pro-Palestinian activists over the weekend.

Far-left activists in the United States disrupted the Philadelphia Pride parade, holding vandalized pride flags that read “no pride in genocide” and chanting “from the sea to the river, Palestine will live forever.”

New York Post reports that the pro-Palestinian activists were one point screaming “PPP, KKK, IOF they are all the same!” 

The Post noted that while it was not immediately clear what the “PPP” chant referred to, it may have been the Philly Pride Parade, meaning the activists may have been linking the Pride parade to the Ku Klux Klan due to its supposed “complicity” in Israel’s effort to dismantle Hamas.

According to human rights watchdogs, Palestine is one of the worst places in the world to be LGBT.

LGBT database website Equaldex, which measures the current status of LGBT rights, laws, and freedoms as well as public attitudes towards LGBT people, ranks Palestine very low in their score.

According to polling, 95% of Palestinians oppose homosexuality, and 93% say society should not accept homosexuals. 

Homosexuality is also a criminal offense in Gaza, and in the West Bank, the Palestinian Authority police have banned activities by a LGBT rights groups.

Israel, on the other hand, has served as a safe haven for the LGBT people in the Middle East.

Despite this, some Canadian Pride organizers have opted to condemn Israel and show solidarity with Palestine, while other organizers have announced that Conservatives would be banned from their parades this year over Conservative premiers announcing new parental rights and gender policies.

OP-ED: Majority of Canadians want carbon tax scrapped on farms

Gage Haubrich
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OP-ED: Majority of Canadians want carbon tax scrapped on farms

Canada is a big country filled with lots of opinions. It’s tough to talk about which hockey team you should cheer for without voices being raised, let alone getting into politics.

When a vast majority of Canadians think the same way on something, it’s a good idea for the government to stop and listen.

A new poll conducted by Leger shows that seven in 10 Canadians want farmers to get an exemption on the carbon tax for natural gas and propane.

That means members of Parliament need to listen to Canadians and pass Bill C-234, a proposed piece of legislation that gives farmers this exact exemption.

The federal government already exempts the carbon tax from gasoline and diesel used on farms. This bill simply extends that same carbon tax exemption to natural gas and propane.

The new national poll shows support for farmers across the country. Canadians want the carbon tax scrapped on farms.

Albertans lead the way with 76 per cent of them supporting giving a break to farmers, but other parts of the country aren’t far behind. British Columbians are 72 per cent in favour of the relief and even 68 per cent of people in Quebec and the Atlantic provinces support the exemption.

Canadians understand that just like the carbon tax costs them big money to fuel up their cars and heat their homes, it also costs farmers, but on a much larger scale. Without any relief, the carbon tax on natural gas and propane will cost farmers almost $1 billion by 2030, according to the Parliamentary Budget Officer.

That’s a lot of money that farmers are paying on their bills every month and it also hurts their competitiveness because farmers in the United States aren’t paying a carbon tax. Plus, if farmers aren’t paying millions of dollars every year in the carbon tax, it’s likely to help the rest of us out with prices at the grocery store.

And passing bill C-234 is something farm groups have already been calling for. The Agriculture Carbon Alliance, a coalition of 15 farm associations, is pushing the federal government to pass the bill and provide relief to farmers.

That’s because individual farmers are paying up to thousands of dollars every month in the carbon tax. The average livestock farmer can expect a $726 carbon tax bill every month, while crop farmers can look forward to a $2,024 bill according to the ACA.

Greenhouses are the worst off, with an average $17,173 carbon tax bill. In some cases, the carbon tax alone makes up up to 40 per cent of a farmer’s energy costs.

This new poll and the huge carbon tax bills for Canadian farmers should be a wake-up call for politicians in Ottawa to stop sitting on their hands and get farmers some relief, because this legislation has been through the wringer at this point.

Bill C-234 was originally introduced more than two years ago and it finally passed the House in March 2023, where it got unanimous support from the Conservatives, Bloc, NDP and Greens. Three Liberal MPs even voted for it.

But then it got to the Senate.

Unelected senators amended the bill and got rid of much of the relief for farmers. They removed the exemptions for heating barns and decided that the relief should end after three years. The bill in its current form would still see farmers paying $910 million in the carbon tax by 2030, according to the PBO.

Now C-234 is back in the House and MPs need to reject the amendments from the Senate and pass the bill in its original form.

It’s what Canadians want.

It’s time for Ottawa to start listening to Canadians and stop charging farmers carbon taxes that make all of our lives more expensive.

Gage Haubrich is the Prairie Director of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation.

New financial literacy test required for Ontario high schoolers to graduate

Isaac Lamoureux, True North Wire
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New financial literacy test required for Ontario high schoolers to graduate

A new compulsory financial literacy test will bolster Ontario high school students’ ability to manage a budget, save for an asset, invest, and protect themselves from financial fraud.

The provincial government announced Thursday that Ontario high school students will need to pass a financial literacy assessment to graduate. This is part of a sweeping reform to modernize the Ontario Secondary School Diploma for the first time in 25 years.

“This will ensure students graduate with financial competence and a competitive edge to succeed in their life and career after high school,” said the Ontario government in a press release.

Ontario’s Education Minister Stephen Lecce made the announcement after he rang the opening bell at the Toronto Stock Exchange.

“Too many parents, employers, and students themselves tell me that students are graduating without sufficient financial literacy and basic life skills,” Lecce said. 

“As we go back to basics in the classroom, we will introduce Ontario’s first financial literacy graduation requirement, along with the return of a modernized home economics education. By elevating life skills in the classroom, along with better career education and higher math standards for educators, we are setting up every student for life-long success.”

Lecce added that the goal was to ensure that students graduate with practical learning, allowing them to get hired at better jobs and earn bigger paycheques.

The new financial literacy requirement will be integrated into the Grade 10 math curriculum. It will cover practical skills such as budgeting, saving for a home, investing wisely, and protecting against financial fraud. The graduation requirement is set to build on cumulative financial literacy learning from Grades 1 to 9. 

Students must score at least 70% on the assessment to meet the graduation requirement. Those who do not pass on their first attempt will have another opportunity within the same Grade 10 course before resorting to credit recovery programs and other in-school supports.

The changes also announced reinstating a math competency test for new teachers, starting in February 2025. This test, which had been challenged in court for being racist but ultimately upheld, is mandatory for graduates seeking certification to teach in Ontario classrooms. 

Like the students with their new financial literacy test, teachers had to pass the test with 70%, which covered curriculum from elementary and secondary math classes, planning, and assessment practices. 

Associate Director of Education Policy for the Fraser Institute Paige MacPherson said that research clearly indicates that quality teachers result in strong student performance.

“Few things matter as much as having quality teachers at the head of the classroom. Making sure that teachers are subject matter experts in what they’re teaching is a really good step forward for Ontario,” said MacPherson.

Other significant reforms include a revamp of guidance and career education, with up to $14 million in funding for career coaching for Grade 9 and 10 students. 

“Starting in the next school year, new career coaches with direct experience in high-demand economic sectors will complement the work of guidance teacher-counsellors to support more than 315,000 students. In small group sessions of fewer than six, students will learn about various careers, including local in-demand jobs in the skilled trades,” said the Ontario government.

The Ontario government cited an RBC poll from 2022, where 83% of young Canadians said they needed more information and support on money management, and 68% said they felt overwhelmed and needed help.

The provincial government said that these changes are part of a suite of reforms meant to embrace the back-to-basics agenda.

MacPherson argued, however, that Ontario should focus on the core competencies if they believe in a back-to-basics approach. 

She explained that the OECD’s Programme for International Student Assessment, the international gold standard for math assessments, had shown that students in Ontario have fallen behind. PISA is an international standardized test for 15-year-olds.

Between 2003 and 2022, Ontario’s PISA math scores declined from 530 to 495, a 35-point drop. PISA characterizes a 20-point drop as equivalent to one year of lost learning. Currently, Ontario’s 15-year-olds are almost two years behind where they were two decades ago. 

MacPherson confirmed that this decline predated the COVID-19 school closures. Ontario’s 2012 PISA math score was 514. 

“You can introduce these kinds of life skills into the curriculum, but you should not do that at the expense of forgetting the real back-to-basics education that needs to be in the curriculum,” she said.

Majority of Canadian auto buyers say they’re not considering EV purchase

Cosmin Dzsurdzsa, True North Wire
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Majority of Canadian auto buyers say they’re not considering EV purchase

More Canadians are abandoning the idea of ever owning an electric vehicle. 

A study by J.D. Power has revealed a growing reluctance among Canadian consumers to embrace this automotive technology. 

Despite the touted environmental benefits and the Liberal government’s spending, the study shows a complex picture of the Canadian EV market, with a slight majority of new-car buyers hesitant to make the switch from traditional combustion engines.

The findings come at a time when the automotive industry is at a crossroads, with significant investments being poured into the development of EVs and their supporting infrastructure. 

A whopping 52% of potential buyers said they were “very unlikely” to consider an EV for their next vehicle purchase.

On the other hand, only 28.5% of potential buyers said they were willing to go electric, down from 34% two years ago. 

According to J.D. Power director of automotive practice J.D. Ney, reality is catching up to the market. 

“Auto manufacturers are staking their futures on EVs and investing massive sums in battery manufacturing facilities in Canada,” said Ney. 

“But the reality is that they are still considerably more expensive than comparable gas-powered vehicles, and more education is needed to help shoppers feel comfortable making the transition.”

The hesitancy is attributed to various factors, including the prevalent range anxiety, the perceived inadequacy of charging facilities, and the higher upfront costs associated with electric vehicles. 

These concerns have persisted even though the number of applications for federal EV discounts has seen a dramatic increase, suggesting that while interest in EVs is growing, it is not translating into the expected surge in sales.

This trend is bucking the previous optimism surrounding EV adoption. Just two years ago, a larger percentage of Canadians were open to purchasing an EV, but that number has since declined. 

LAWTON: Trudeau’s defence policy fails to impress Americans

Andrew Lawton
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LAWTON: Trudeau’s defence policy fails to impress Americans

The Liberal government’s new defence policy is being criticized by U.S. politicians as insufficient, with a letter from 23 U.S. senators urging Canada to meet the NATO benchmark of spending at least two percent of GDP on defence. Macdonald-Laurier Institute senior fellow Richard Shimooka joined True North’s Andrew Lawton to discuss the implications of this criticism and what it means for Canada’s role within NATO.

LEVY: Toronto school trustees ignorant to how politicized the classrooms are

Sue-Ann Levy
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LEVY: Toronto school trustees ignorant to how politicized the classrooms are

If there was ever proof that the Toronto District School Board and its unions are steeped in woke progressive rot, it’s the great efforts made by trustees this past week to dispense with a motion to remove politicking from the board’s schools.

The biggest cheerleader to continue politicking — the majority of it in the past seven months rabidly antisemitic during class hours and using board resources — was Jewish longtime trustee Shelley Laskin, who yet again proved she has been in office far too long.

The motion — brought forward by courageous trustee Weidong Pei before the policy and governance committee — called for a report, (just a report for heaven’s sake!), to trustees by the end of September that sets boundaries for teachers and other staff to put an end to the use of classroom time and board resources to engage in political activism.

It also asks the board to provide guidelines that would prohibit public speakers visiting schools from engaging in political activism under the guise of free speech and bar staff from incorporating political activism into their teaching practices.

This kind of motion was long overdue considering union-driven political activism has been part of the board fabric for years and years — whether it has been fighting Mike Harris, pushing gender ideology and critical race theory, or most recently supporting Hamas.

Trustees on the committee even admitted they receive hundreds of emails every year opposing the politicization of the TDSB classrooms. Not that they’ve done a damn thing about it.

Trustee Michelle Aarts, another with a PhD who seems to lack solid reasoning skills and hates anyone with an opinion other than her own, said she gets emails like this every year. The most recent, she claimed, were “transphobic.”

“These bigoted voices are louder every year… they’re from extremist groups,” she said.

The politicization all came to a head following Oct. 7. Trustees and the board’s activist director have turned a blind eye to high school students leaving class to protest; to the bullying of Jewish students at school; and especially to the pro-Hamas activism in the classroom.

Jewish students and teachers have felt that no one has their backs. Academics have taken a back seat to political grandstanding.

Not surprisingly, the motion lost seven to two, voted down by the cabal of progressives who have facilitated the rot. 

Associate director Leola Pon – whose salary jumped from $213,519 in 2022 to $280,657 in 2023 (in my view to buy her loyalty) – claimed the motion was a “vast overreach” and “not appropriate or necessary” considering TDSB has a “very strict set of policies” to ensure educators know their boundaries.

Who is she fooling? You can have all the policies in the universe but if they’re not enforced – as has occurred under the stewardship of education director Colleen Russell-Rawlins – you have radical teachers essentially thumbing their noses at the idea of respect for all students.

Before the motion even came to the committee on May 29, Laskin (who doesn’t even sit on the committee) made it known to anyone who would listen that she didn’t approve of Pei’s efforts to return classrooms to some sanity.

In an email to a Jewish constituent, obtained by True North and in similar comments to the committee, she said as a Jewish trustee she is against the motion.

She called the language in the motion “far right” and said it would only “further divide” board students. (I’m not sure how much further they could be divided).

Then laughingly, as if she was operating on a different plant, she claimed that they have a “complaints protocol” to deal with inappropriate staff behaviour and that the board addresses “bullying and harassment” against all identifiable groups.

“Teachers already understand their professional boundaries,” she sniffed snarkily. “The ethical standards are clear.”

Then she – with gall typical of an entitled leftist trustee – contended that they need “more resources (money)” from the education ministry to deal with these “difficult conversations.”

I reached out to Laskin to ask why she threw her own community under the bus. She contended that I’ve “misrepresented her views” on this issue.

“I am deeply disturbed that incidents of antisemitism continue in our schools that leave Jewish students and teachers feeling vulnerable,” she said. “I know we must do more to combat antisemitism, and all hate in our schools. I just don’t believe this particular motion was the way to go about doing it.”

Then she claimed to me that she has “publicly fought against antisemitism and all forms of hate” and continues to do so.

That said, I don’t recall her standing up against any kind of the antisemitic hate we’ve seen in TDSB classrooms since October.

That’s because, as the acrobatics around Pei’s motion have yet again proven, these trustees are beholden to the largely antisemitic unions who protect bad teachers.

Trustees pander to the loudest voices, no matter whether they’re doing the right thing, and most are not insightful enough to understand how DEI enables antisemitism.

As Laskin’s behaviour showed, they bully those who challenge the status quo.

When someone like Aarts talks about extremist voices, she really should examine her own behaviour – which is totally out of touch with the silent majority.

This is yet another reason why the ministry should take over the board and clean out the progressive rot.

A “nuclear renaissance” could help Canada reach net-zero, climate group says

Clayton DeMaine, True North Wire
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A “nuclear renaissance” could help Canada reach net-zero, climate group says

A climate policy group says going all-in on nuclear power can help the federal government reach its net-zero goals, but not without a couple of key steps.

Clean Prosperity, a group that advocates for the “decarbonization of the Canadian economy,” wants policymakers to take a multipronged attack against the “certainty and cost issues” surrounding the country’s move toward clean energy. Switching to nuclear power is one option to bring Canada closer to its international commitments and net-zero carbon emission goal, the organization says in a list of recommendations to federal and provincial policymakers.

The group outlined several issues the nuclear industry faces and summarized them into two categories it wants the government to address: cost and policy uncertainty.

“Solving for both cost and certainty is vital for expanding Canada’s nuclear fleet across three potential reactor classes: large, small, and micro,” the report said.

The group found that currently, nuclear energy generation has high upfront capital requirements and construction costs, longer project timelines than its alternatives, potentially snow-balling effects from one delay cascading into many, and  “market distortions” and “weak price signals” they say are exemplified by “low carbon prices for heavy industry.”

The report proposed three solutions for Canada’s provincial and federal governments to adopt, which would help facilitate a nuclear renaissance and move the country toward a future with net-zero carbon emissions.

The first was for the governments of Canada to provide an “ambitious and stable policy” to aid the buildout of a fully-scaled fleet of “dozens or hundreds” of reactors.

One of the proposed solutions was to “fully expose electricity generation to carbon pricing,” making other forms of energy generation more costly while putting nuclear on a “level playing field.” The group urged governments to make clear decarbonization policy objectives to signal to industries with high energy requirements that they must switch to nuclear in the long run.

“Nuclear and nuclear-ambitious provinces should clarify their long-term electrification and decarbonization policy objectives — ideally beyond 2035,” the report said.

Clean Prosperity’s report seeks target dates and clear deadlines that industries must meet to achieve a net-zero grid, also recommending a phase-out of current financial support, which it says rewards efforts rather than results in moving towards nuclear energy.

Clean Prosperity’s final recommendation was for governments to “prioritize fleet-based approaches” when deploying commercial nuclear reactors of all sizes.

“Advanced reactors need to become progressively less expensive to build over time. To accelerate this process, policymakers should prioritize approaches that seek to build as few reactor models on as few sites as possible, in large quantities,” the report said.

Clean Prosperity said Canada should have a  “small portfolio” of different types of large, small and micro-sized reactors.

“This will help new advanced reactors become progressively less expensive to build. The first and best chance for a strong start to a potential nuclear renaissance is the successful completion, on time and on budget,” it said.

“Nuclear reactors are long-lived, large-scale, high-capacity assets that produce zero-carbon electricity with low land-use requirements and manageable risks related to safety, waste and security.”


The report’s authors said nuclear power is valuable for provinces seeking to electrify their economies and decarbonize their grids. Clean Prosperity believes nuclear energy is worth the investment.

Private clinics reduced wait times in Saskatchewan by 47% between 2010 and 2014: study

Isaac Lamoureux, True North Wire
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Private clinics reduced wait times in Saskatchewan by 47% between 2010 and 2014: study

A past Saskatchewan initiative to outsource publicly funded medical work to private clinics could serve as a lesson for other provinces, a study argues. 

However, the risk is that lessons of an improved healthcare system will be forgotten only a decade after they were learned. 

The research, released Thursday by the Fraser Institute, revisits the Saskatchewan Surgical Initiative ten years after it concluded. The initiative reduced median wait times from referral to treatment from 26.5 weeks in 2010 to 14.2 weeks in 2014, a reduction of 47%. By 2015, immediately after the initiative’s conclusion, the wait time fell further to 13.6 weeks, the lowest recorded by any province that year.

During the four years, the median medical wait time from when a patient was referred from their family doctor to a specialist fell to 14.2 weeks, resulting in Saskatchewan transitioning from having one of the longest wait times in the country to one of the shortest. Wait times across the country did not fall in other places during that time frame.

The Saskatchewan Surgical Initiative used private clinics to perform publicly-funded procedures, such as non-emergency but necessary surgical procedures like knee and hip replacements. Contracting publicly funded care to third parties helped expand the province’s surgical capacity. 

There were many rules and regulations regarding this private contracting, such as the cost of services being equal to or less than what is offered by the publicly delivered health system. The initiative also included centralized pooling of surgical referrals and specific wait time targets and guarantees.

While the Fraser Institute’s previous research showed that procedures in private clinics cost 26% less than they would have in a hospital, more recent research done by Second Street showed that per-procedure costs in private surgical centres were between 35% and 45% less costly than in public hospitals.

When the initiative began, 15,352 patients were waiting more than three months. By the initiative’s conclusion, only 3,824 patients were waiting longer than three months, a reduction greater than 75%. During the initiative, the number of patients waiting more than six months decreased by 84%. 

“Wait times then increased substantially after SSI ended,” reads the report.

Following the initiative’s conclusion, the number of patients waiting more than three months increased by 575% between March 2015 and February 2020. Patients waiting more than six months increased by 1,171% during the same timeframe. Worse still were the patients required to wait more than a year and a year and a half, which increased by 1,185% and 1,198%, respectively. 

The median wait time among all patients from booking to treatment fell from 49 days in March 2010 to 28 days in February 2015, a decrease of 43%. 

The 90th percentile wait time, a measure for which 90% of patients receive their treatment, fell from 332 days to 109 days between March 2010 and 2015, a decrease of 67%.

While wait times plummeted during the initiative, the report said that this change could not be attributed to a change in spending. When calculating for % change in per-capita inflation-adjusted spending, the period between 2010-2014 only saw a 0.8% average annual change in provincial healthcare spending. 

“The success of the Saskatchewan Surgical Initiative offers valuable lessons for policymakers across Canada—and hope for patients—that the unacceptably long waits that plague healthcare systems nationwide can be reduced meaningfully with sensible reform,” said Nadeem Esmail, Fraser Institute senior fellow and co-author of the report: 10 Years On—Revisiting the Saskatchewan Surgical Initiative.

The report’s authors suggest that other Canadian provinces struggling with backlogs for surgeries and long wait times can learn from Saskatchewan’s approach by adopting it or implementing an “enhanced and bolder version of it.” 

“What the SSI does clearly demonstrate is that, even in a limited and restricted setting, private for-profit clinics can have a positive and significant impact on the patient experience and can serve as a vital partner in wait-time reduction strategies,” concluded the report.

Recent US tariffs will impact Canada’s role in the critical mineral sector

Cosmin Dzsurdzsa, True North Wire
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Recent US tariffs will impact Canada’s role in the critical mineral sector

The rush to dominate the critical mineral supply has hit a new vein with both the U.S. and Chinese governments making a flurry of announcements that could impact Canada’s future as a major supplier. 

Key private and government movers in the arena have been busy in recent weeks as China plans to flood the market with critical minerals such as graphite to undercut attempts by competitors to bolster domestic production. 

Earlier this week, Canadian Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland denounced Beijing’s “intentional, state-directed economic policy” to overproduce critical minerals as harmful. 

“We cannot let Canadian industry be wiped out by Chinese oversupply and overcapacity,” said Freeland. 

Historically, China has dominated the global critical mineral supply but policymakers in Washington hope to exploit North America’s rich abundance of critical minerals and foil China’s attempts to lock out Western competitors. 

To achieve this, the Biden administration introduced a 25% tariff on natural graphite beginning in 2026 as well as a 27% tariff on synthetic graphite from China beginning June 14. 

“My customers in the U.S. now have way more benefit to buy from us compared to my customers in Canada,” Noveau Monde Graphite CEO Eric Desaulniers told The Logic. 

But it’s not all good news for Canada. 

“The side effect will be that we’ll sell all our production in the U.S. That’s not ideal for the Canadian side,” explained Desaulniers. 

Canadian industry leaders have already begun making moves to take advantage of the policy landscape.

In Ontario, Kingston and Greater Sudbury announced a new partnership called the Kingston-Greater Sudbury Critical Minerals Alliance to delineate cooperation on critical mineral mining projects. Sudbury is already in the process of building a $900 million ore processing facility for cobalt. 

The U.S. government has also partnered with counterparts in Ottawa to fund a graphite project in Quebec with a $32.5 million co-investment announced earlier this month for Fortune Minerals Ltd. 

LAWTON: What Doug Ford’s booze liberation means for Ontarians

Andrew Lawton
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LAWTON: What Doug Ford’s booze liberation means for Ontarians

Last week, Doug Ford announced that Ontarians will be able to buy beer, wine, and ready-to-drink cocktails from convenience stores and gas stations by the end of summer, as the Ford government is expediting its timeline initially set for 2026. Free My Booze founder Grant Dingwall joined True North’s Andrew Lawton to explain why he believes this move is a step in the right direction for Ontario’s alcohol retail landscape.

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