The TTC can't run on time; MLSE fights its property tax bill; and Courtney Betty on the SCOTUS Affirmative Action ruling
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Today on NOW and NEXT:News and views with Dave Trafford.July 3rd was the hottest day on the planet since satellite records have been kept in 1979.

• https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-66104822

The TTC is the least reliable transit service in the GTA says the Toronto Region Board of Trade.

• https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/toronto/article-toronto-had-least-reliable-transit-service-in-region-in-2022-report/)

MLSE fights City Hall over its property tax bill

• https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/toronto-property-tax-owing-mlse-1.6896953

Hockey Canada has a new president and CEO.

• https://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/article-hockey-canada-announces-katherine-henderson-as-new-president-and-ceo/

Queen's Park restores the King's Council (formerly the Queen's Coucil) for lawyers. Most of the new KCs are Tories including Carolyn Mulroney, (who's never practiced law in Ontario).

• https://www.thestar.com/politics/provincial/2023/07/04/her-fake-honour-caroline-mulroney-was-called-to-ontario-bar-three-days-before-getting-kings-counsel-title.html

**Netherlands: Phone ban announced to stop school disruptions! **(Why you need to read beyond the headline!)

• https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-66107027)

AND Toronto Lawyer Courtney Betty, CEO of Bettys Law offers his analysis on two controversial rulings by the Supreme Court of the United States.