David Rider
City Hall Bureau Chief at The (Toronto) Star
Aging journo with the calves of a 15-year-old and a love of the absurd. Also, Toronto Star senior political reporter. Please email tips to drider(at)https://t.co/itPuVYWp6V
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1 week ago |
thespec.com | Noor Javed |David Rider
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has not moved to the GTA, it just seems that way as he goes door to door with candidates, searching for a pathway to the Prime Minister’s Office. After three elections in which Halton, Durham, York and Peel voters elected enough Liberal MPs to be dubbed the “Greater Trudeau Area,” opinion polls as recent as January suggested the seat-rich 905 belt was ready to swing back to Conservative domination.
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1 month ago |
stcatharinesstandard.ca | David Rider
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thespec.com | David Rider
When Liberal Leader Mark Carney chose to run in an Ottawa riding, he cemented Toronto’s curious 158-year run of never having a prime minister with a seat in what is now Canada’s most populous city. Rumours swirled that Carney would run in either Toronto, Ottawa or Edmonton until Saturday’s announcement that he will contest Nepean, a reputedly safe Liberal seat that borders Carleton, where his Conservative rival Pierre Poilievre is seeking an eighth term.
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thespec.com | David Rider |Omar Mosleh
As some health sites where people can safely use illicit drugs close their doors, and one prepares to challenge the provincial law shutting them down, preliminary figures suggest Ontario has experienced a recent drop in overdose deaths. The human loss has been staggering amid an overdose epidemic that began around 2015 when fentanyl, a highly potent and addictive synthetic opioid, grew in the illicit drug supply.
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thespec.com | Omar Mosleh |David Rider
With the approach of the province’s March 31 deadline to close some supervised consumption sites, it’s unclear if the Ford government’s hubs offering other vital services will be ready in time for the transition. At least one Ontario site, in Guelph, said it still hadn’t signed a funding agreement and won’t be able to offer the full range of services included in the province’s Homelessness and Addiction Recovery Treatment (HART) Hub model by April 1.
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