{Power/Lines] In the crass lead-up to an election, governments will roll out freebies to people who might be thinking of voting them out. The Ontario government, under Kathleen Wynne’s leadership, has alienated voters with high electricity bills which, in places where homes are heated with electricity and the hydro bill is not included in rent, have caused immense hardship.
In response, the government has announced that young people will now get prescription drugs for free. This is great in a sense: pharmacy costs should be included in medicare, as they are for hospital patients. But upon examination it’s a bit […]
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