Anthony Furey

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FUREY: Want to save Ontario? Bring back Ford Nation

It should not go unnoticed that the place Ontario Premier Doug Ford gave his apology from on Thursday was the backyard of his late mother, Diane Ford.

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April 22, 2021 Columnists

A Ford Nation banner hangs as supporters gather to hear Ontario Premier Doug Ford speak at Ford Fest in Vaughan, Ontario on Saturday September 22, 2018.

FUREY: Ontarians were pushed too far — they finally pushed back

“What the hell just happened in Ontario?!” a friend from Alberta asked me Monday morning. Good question.

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April 19, 2021 Columnists

A soccer field is closed by order of the province of Ontario in Mt. Brydges, Ont., Monday, April 19, 2021.

FUREY: The Ford government backed down — but where was the apology?

What they should have also done was admit they were wrong and apologize to the people of Ontario, writes Anthony Furey

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April 18, 2021 Opinion

It was no surprise that Ontario Premier Doug Ford walked back some of his earlier rules, writes Anthony Furey.

FUREY: We're ignoring the very real psychological trauma being inflicted on Canadians

The other week I shook hands with someone I was meeting for the first time. It just kind of happened naturally — both extending our hands at the same time — because, well, like most human beings I’ve been doing it for many years and it’s kind of a polite thing to do.

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April 17, 2021 Columnists

Many Ontario police services refuse to enforce Ford government's new random stop laws

After the Ontario government announced Friday they were giving police the power to randomly stop pedestrians and motorists on the streets, multiple police services have come forward saying they will not be making use of these new powers.

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April 17, 2021 Ontario

Ontario Premier Doug Ford puts his mask on after speaking at a press conference at Queen's Park, in Toronto, Friday, April 16, 2021.

Ontario parent started a legal challenge against school closures

“Public protests are not working. Contacting my MPP has not done anything. I feel completely powerless. But here, there’s a bureaucratic appeals procedure that I can try.”

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April 12, 2021 Ontario

A grade six classroom is pictured at Hunter's Glen Junior Public School (Toronto District School Board) on Sept. 14, 2020.

FUREY: Lockdowns cause immense harm — why keep doing them?

Ontario Premier Doug Ford said a lot of things on Wednesday, as he announced a crushing lockdown stricter than the previous ones. But what he didn’t say much about is the harm that’ll inevitably follow from those measures.

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April 7, 2021 Columnists

Store shop closed due to COVID-19 lockdown.

FUREY: 'Very few' examples of in-school transmission, says top doc

As the medical officers in Peel, Toronto, and other parts of Ontario were busy shutting down schools, the province’s chief medical officer was explaining how there’s hardly any transmission of COVID-19 actually going on within the schools themselves.

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April 7, 2021 Ontario