
Several government ministers are expected to launch today a new federal dental insurance plan that will provide benefits directly to eligible Canadian residents, though the first claims won't be processed until May.

Next time if you're comfortable with it under always found the personal and household income questions great from Reddit's Ontario polls. It helps you understand why the politics are as they are.
In what world would this make sense? People really need to think these things through.
The NGO claimed it has documented Israeli forces confiscating dozens of dead bodies from the al-Shifa and Indonesian hospitals in northern Gaza, alongside others in the south.
Medical professionals reportedly found vital organs, such as livers, kidneys and hearts, alongside cochleas and corneas, were missing, which the Euro-Med Monitor called "evidence" of potential organ theft.
After death you have 4~ hours to harvest a heart. So they're claiming someone died in Gaza, they got the body to the morgue then Israel captured the hospital, took the bodies and fast choppered them to another medical center, to harvest a heart... all within 4 hours of death.
Should I rush to stop someone who wants to do bad things to themselves? They're an adult.
Ah yes and everyone who has stolen food is just evil and should be jailed because they didn’t want to starve?
Ahh yes food and hard drugs are the same thing. Jesus give your head a shake. You don't need to do drugs.
If youre stuck in the cycle of poverty knowing very well you aren’t making it out, why not do hard drugs? You’re never making it anywhere anyway.
We are 14th in the world for mobility. So how do you figure you're stuck. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Social_Mobility_Index
100% serious why should I care about drug addicts and criminals killing themselves? Let them.
Society made them do illegal drugs? Ohh boy I guess no one has any agency. We're all children and need the state to help us.
And they'd likely be right at that point.
I think you don't understand it. These people made a choice to start using drugs and got addicted. It sucks but they made that choice.
Not sure why the rest of society needs to pay for their shitty decisions.
No one. Just tired of enabling the scourge of our society and disproportionately investing in people who elect to be a drain on us all. Destroying our downtowns and making everyone unsafe.
Meh, opioid addiction is a waste of our time. We should let them figure it out themselves. They're all adults.
Sure, but people quit addictions all the time. Smoking is on a massive decline, drinking too. Somehow the drug that can kill you in an instant is so popular that churches are handing out kits to save them. Insanity.
It's crazy that without these drugs these folks would all be willing to give up their life for a high.
I guess it's not a great advertising opportunity.
Yeah it's insane to me that these failing businesses due to lack of giving a shit will soon have their hand out for Government money and some are eager to prop them up.
Maybe actually have local news, and maybe actually generate interesting stories rather than just printing the AP wire and calling it 'town name press'.
Well not affiliated with them in anyway. But Mullvad will take cash in an envelope for your payment with no record of who you are. Just a thought should this pass. 😂
And then VPN usage explodes just like it did in Utah.
Several government ministers are expected to launch today a new federal dental insurance plan that will provide benefits directly to eligible Canadian residents, though the first claims won't be processed until May.
Blackberry at their peak 20,000 staff
OpenText today 24,000 staff.
One could argue thare ar Canadian Tech companies with larger presence than BlackBerry had. It's just not consumer level things.
Lol, how much money do you think we should give the Public School system? Is the nearing on $400k per classroom not enough? Would it magically get better at $500k? We've done nothing but throw money at this problem with zero results.
I mean, one would argue that the money is for a child's education.. why do you care where it gets spent? We're currently in Ontario spending north of $12,500/per year per child and somehow that's underfunded. A class of 30 kids is getting $375,000/year. With that we hire 1 teacher and if we're lucky 2 EA's which would equal maybe $200k of that $375,000.. so I guess we just accept having $175,000/year in overhead per classroom.
I wish we had school vouchers here. We somehow pay tons of cash per student and somehow have crap still falling apart.
Are the kids alright? Student well-being better at some Waterloo Region schools than others
Parents concerned over 'crazy' back-to-school bills
CAMBRIDGE — Two people — including a five-year-old — were injured in a single-vehicle collision when the driver hit a hydro pole and rolled over on Wednesday.
Man, 29, charged with attempted murder after woman stabbed multiple times in Kitchener
The increased number of tents at the Victoria Street encampment are a ‘growing concern’: Kitchener Mayor Berry Vrbanovic
Driver crashes into another car, a pole and a Kitchener LCBO: WRPS
Region of Waterloo International Airport will have at least seven flights now for rest of summer peak
Mixed-use building would contain about 622 units at former Ziggy’s Cycle location
Three people arrested in armed pharmacy robbery: WRPS
ION trains were not running between Uptown Waterloo and Grand River Hospital in Kitchener on Monday afternoon due to a cited technical issue.
Green Party MP helped shape a law to provide support payments for people with disabilities
Local mayors continue to weigh in as the provincial government gives strong mayor powers to 26 cities in Ontario. Kitchener mayor Berry Vrbanovic said he cannot imagine having to invoke the strong mayor powers. “I have seen some councils that have been dysfunctional,” Vrbanovic explained. “That is n...
Across Canada, the average price of rent climbed back up after pandemic lows, with the monthly rate new tenants face now 20 per cent higher than it was two years ago, according to just-released rental data.
A Loblaws is asking customers to show receipts before exiting and people are pissed
Naloxone kits mandatory in some Ontario workplaces, aimed at saving lives in Thunder Bay and beyond
At least 100,000 Nova Scotians affected by cyber theft of government employee files
Feds warn 2023 on track to be the worst fire season ever seen in Canada