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Randall Denley: Cross Ontario's political parties off your donor list this Christmas

When people are focused on family needs and charitable giving, it’s just tone deaf for political parties to stick their hands out

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National Post

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Ottawa's smooth budget disguises big problems | Opinion

Ottawa's smooth budget disguises big problems | Opinion
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Ottawa Citizen

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Rural Ottawa most vulnerable from loophole in provincial rules | Opinion

Rural Ottawa most vulnerable from loophole in provincial rules | Opinion
12.12.2025 10

Ottawa Citizen

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Randall Denley: Ontario's education minister scorns the system but offers no fixes

Randall Denley: Ontario's education minister scorns the system but offers no fixes

Calandra has raised serious doubts about school trustees, the curriculum, standardized tests, and the level of student achievement

11.12.2025 4

National Post

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Ottawa's future should not be decided by Toronto's new rules | Opinion

Ottawa's future should not be decided by Toronto's new rules | Opinion
05.12.2025 20

Ottawa Citizen

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Randall Denley: AG report ignores real improvements in Ontario health care

Randall Denley: AG report ignores real improvements in Ontario health care

Shelley Spence’s reports give an unfairly negative impression of the provincial government’s progress on health care

05.12.2025 2

National Post

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Randall Denley: Doug Ford can't talk about big progress when he's fixated on little things

Randall Denley: Doug Ford can't talk about big progress when he's fixated on little things

The Ontario provincial government is spending a disproportionate amount of time on policy tweaks and micro-adjustments

28.11.2025 2

National Post

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Randall Denley: Ontario can end sales tax on all home sales without waiting for Ottawa

A full sales-tax rebate would be a smart and gutsy solution to the province’s housing shortage

21.11.2025 2

National Post

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Randall Denley: Federal Liberals are making sure Ontario won't ever get $10-a-day daycare

The bargain-priced child care was over-hyped and underfunded from the start, one of the reasons the Ontario government was the last to sign on to the...

13.11.2025 10

National Post

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Randall Denley: The Ring of Fire won't bring the 'secure' economic future Ontario's government advertises

If digging stuff out of the ground many years from now to send elsewhere is the 'plan to secure our future,' Ontario is in serious trouble

06.11.2025 9

National Post

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Randall Denley: The apartment-tenant lobby scares Ontario away from desperately needed rental reforms

The issue is a tenant’s right to live in an apartment indefinitely on a monthly basis, even after the lease has expired

30.10.2025 4

National Post

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When the public service shrinks, Carney should spare employees with disabilities | Opinion

29.10.2025 2

Ottawa Citizen

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Randall Denley: Another government anti-red-tape campaign is weak medicine for what ails Ontario

23.10.2025 10

National Post

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Denley: If Sutcliffe cares about his housing plan, he'll end Clublink fight

22.10.2025 5

Ottawa Citizen

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Randall Denley: Ontario prioritizing Ontarian doctors for residency training makes perfect sense

16.10.2025 10

National Post

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Randall Denley: In Ontario, burdensome red tape is for employers, not for government contracts

Lack of transparency in job training contracts is a stark contrast to government’s enthusiasm for meddling in businesses' hiring practices

09.10.2025 8

National Post

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Randall Denley: Doug Ford has to move fast on appointed school boards or back off

One might reasonably wonder whether the premier, who is often influenced by opinion polls, isn’t so sure that getting rid of the trustees is a good...

02.10.2025 10

National Post

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Randall Denley: Skills-training in Ontario is in chaos as the college strike drags on

25.09.2025 6

National Post

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Denley: If Sutcliffe cares about his housing plan, he'll end Clublink fight

24.09.2025 10

Ottawa Citizen

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Randall Denley: Ontario's Liberals get serious by dumping Bonnie Crombie

Voters can be forgiven for not knowing what Crombie stood for. That seemed to be a mystery to Crombie, too

18.09.2025 10

National Post

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Denley: Mayor must reform Ottawa's incompetent, sluggish planning department

16.09.2025 8

Ottawa Citizen

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Randall Denley: Championing speeders is an awkward look for law-and-order Doug Ford

What’s the message? Vandalize a speed camera and the premier will take up your case?

11.09.2025 5

National Post

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Denley: Trailer Tales — How a spur-of-the-moment decision made the summer special

09.09.2025 10

Ottawa Citizen

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Randall Denley: Premier Ford's pro-union political theatrics won't bring more jobs to Ontario

05.09.2025 10

National Post

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Denley: Ottawa public school board is now under central control, but that can't last

02.09.2025 4

Ottawa Citizen

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Randall Denley: How to fix the housing affordability problem? Cut the sales tax

The most effective solution to high housing prices is painfully obvious, but neither the provincial nor federal government is willing to act

28.08.2025 10

National Post

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Denley: Just who do Queers for Palestine think they are?

26.08.2025 8

Ottawa Citizen

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Randall Denley: I thought Ford wasn't serious about solving the doctor shortage. I was wrong

Despite the strong beginning, one had to wonder what would drive the continued expansion, given all the known negatives

22.08.2025 2

National Post

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Denley: Sens' move to LeBreton Flats is all about land, not about fans

19.08.2025 9

Ottawa Citizen

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Randall Denley: Ford's tax cut ramblings won't make up for the damage Trump's tariffs will do

15.08.2025 4

National Post

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Denley: This plan to save Perth trades school deserves full support

31.07.2025 2

Ottawa Citizen

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Denley: This plan to save Perth trades school deserves full support

29.07.2025 9

Ottawa Citizen

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Denley: Some Ottawa city councillors want a big pay raise. They shouldn't get it.

23.07.2025 10

Ottawa Citizen

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Denley: Development fees are out of whack and hurting new home owners

15.07.2025 10

Ottawa Citizen

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Randall Denley: A gorgeous, revamped Ontario Place is another provincial gift for Torontonians to hate

On top of the plan to build a brand spanking new science centre? How many more of these horrible blows will Torontonians have to endure?

26.06.2025 10

National Post

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Denley: Ottawa's $10.8-billion infrastructure spending gap? Nothing to see here, folks

24.06.2025 10

Ottawa Citizen

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Randall Denley: Ontario's 'historic' spending under Ford sure isn't producing results

20.06.2025 10

National Post

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Denley: Getting rid of garbage — time for Ottawa Council to decide

17.06.2025 10

Ottawa Citizen

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Randall Denley: Ontario's private eye-surgery experiment can give sight to the ideologically blind

Outsourcing provided 32,000 extra cataract surgeries last year; a number expected to double this year. But ideologues try to discredit and undermine...

13.06.2025 4

National Post

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Denley: Greed and deceit robbed Renfrew of better hospital care

11.06.2025 5

Ottawa Citizen

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Randall Denley: Ontario is finally forcing out DEI from schools and universities

It’s welcome news for anyone who thinks that public education should be about learning and diversity of ideas, not a playground for political...

07.06.2025 10

National Post

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Denley: Local government is running amok. Now the city wants to know exactly how much water runs off your property

03.06.2025 10

Ottawa Citizen

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Randall Denley: Ontario ends the Ring of Fire 'consultation' quagmire to finally get it done

We already know people who live on traditional lands in the north are unlikely to welcome mining. They shouldn't be able to veto it

29.05.2025 8

National Post

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Denley: It's about time city council deal with harm done to taxi industry

27.05.2025 10

Ottawa Citizen

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Randall Denley: Ontario's school boards have gotten seriously out of hand

The province has ordered investigations into the finances of three school boards in Toronto and Ottawa

23.05.2025 10

National Post

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Denley: City shouldn't kill ByWard Market's free on-street parking

20.05.2025 6

Ottawa Citizen

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Randall Denley: Ford's budget is more about handouts than besting the Americans

What’s lacking is an overall, compelling plan that will reduce Ontario’s over-dependency on the American economy and boost its mediocre growth

16.05.2025 4

National Post

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Denley: Ottawa's flawed transit system built on what people once wanted

14.05.2025 6

Ottawa Citizen

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Randall Denley: Ontario can't get tough on crime until it gets tough on court delays

09.05.2025 10

National Post

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Denley: Was red light camera revenue really just a cash grab?

06.05.2025 30

Ottawa Citizen

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