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The first casualty of war is the truth — at least that is how the old saying goes.

It appears that the truth is a casualty in the war over the Ford government’s attempts to bring about budget sanity, reform health care or even put booze in corner stores.

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There was a false story on Wednesday claiming that the Ford PCs were going to end OHIP coverage for all Ontarians travelling outside of Canada.

As Mark Twain is credited with saying, a lie gets halfway around the world before the truth can put on its pants.

The reality is they are looking to cancel one specific program — the Out-of-Country Travellers Program — which serves few people, is for specific cases and costs a ton to administer.

Most of us won’t see a change to our trips to Florida or elsewhere, not that you would know it from some of the TV and radio news broadcasts that likely scared every snowbird that heard them.

Then there is the back and forth between provincial government and municipalities — really the City of Toronto — over public health funding.