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Provincial government would need a compelling reason, strategists say, or risk voter backlash, Ontario Premier Doug Ford is still leaving open the option of an early election, sources say, after refusing for months to rule out calling a vote that would get ahead [...]

Byline: JEFF GRAY, LAURA STONE Ontario Premier Doug Ford is still leaving open the option of an early election, sources say, after refusing for months to rule out calling a [...]

Farmers in Ontario’s Waterloo Region are fighting back against threat of expropriation as the province pushes to assemble ‘shovel-ready’ land it says it needs to attract global companies, A plan to clear a handful of farmers off 770 acres in Ontario’s Waterloo Region to create an industrial megasite, in the hopes of attracting a future multibillion-dollar factory and [...]

Byline: JEFF GRAY, ESTELLA REN TORONTO, KA'A'AWA, HAWAII -- The man accused of hiding in the shrubbery of Donald Trump's Florida golf course in what authorities say was an apparent [...]

Ryan Wesley Routh has a criminal record dating back more than two decades, including an incident in 2002 in which he barricaded himself inside his roofing business with an automatic weapon, The man accused of hiding in the shrubbery of https://www.theglobeandmail.com/topics/donald-trump/’s Florida golf course in what authorities say was an apparent assassination attempt has a long history of trouble with the [...]

Byline: JEFF GRAY; Staff Standing on a rural stretch of McCowan Road north of Toronto, Dayna Laxton, York Region's invasive species specialist, takes a good look at the frontline in [...]

Byline: JEFF GRAY; Staff The federal Labour Minister has asked the Canadian Industrial Relations Board to put the dispute between Canada's two railways and its union before an arbitrator and [...]

Experts say the referral to the Canadian Industrial Relations Board is complicated by legal rulings around labour disputes and collective bargaining, The federal Labour Minister has asked the Canadian Industrial Relations Board to put the dispute between Canada’s two railways and its union before an arbitrator and end a lockout that [...]

Byline: JEFF GRAY, LAURA STONE Premier Doug Ford defended his move to close more than half of the provincially funded supervised drug-consumption sites in Ontario and replace them with a [...]

The Premier said he doesn’t believe in the sites and has heard numerous complaints from people about needles in parks, schools and by daycares. Instead, he said, the focus should be on treatment, Premier Doug Ford defended his move to close more than half of the provincially funded supervised drug-consumption sites in Ontario and replace them with a network of new treatment centres, [...]

Fred Hahn also faced calls to resign last year after celebrating ‘power of resistance’ following Oct. 7 killings by Hamas, The board of Canada’s largest public-sector union has asked its general vice-president to resign in light of a video he posted to social media earlier this month that sparked accusations [...]

Municipalities say they cannot deal with the homelessness crisis on their own., For the best listening experience and to never miss an episode, subscribe to The Decibel on your favourite podcast app or platform: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, iHeartRadio, Pocket Casts [...]

Byline: JEFF GRAY; Staff The RCMP is interviewing current and former staffers in the office of Ontario Premier Doug Ford as potential witnesses for its criminal investigation into the government's [...]

Byline: JEFF GRAY; Staff Both the Ontario and federal governments need to provide more than the current piecemeal funding they hand to municipalities to tackle homelessness, drug addiction and mental [...]

Byline: JEFF GRAY; Staff Ontario Health Minister Sylvia Jones is defending the cancellation of the province's COVID-19 waste water monitoring program, arguing it duplicates the federal system, which is much [...]

Byline: JEFF GRAY; Staff The Ontario government has abandoned plans to hand a prime spot in its Ontario Place redevelopment to a group that includes LiUNA, a construction union that [...]

Byline: JEFF GRAY; Staff Geoffrey Hinton, the Torontobased computer scientist often called the godfather of artificial intelligence, says he would donate $1-million to repair the Ontario Science Centre if the [...]

Byline: JEFF GRAY; Staff The Ontario government is shuttering the Ontario Science Centre's half-century-old building in Toronto, after structural engineers concluded parts of its concrete roof could collapse this winter [...]

Byline: JEFF GRAY, NIALL McGEE Ontario Premier Doug Ford is calling on the federal government to immediately bring in tariffs that match or exceed those recently imposed by the United [...]

Byline: JEFF GRAY; Staff TORONTO -- Ontario NDP Leader Marit Stiles is expected to tell a rally for supporters at a downtown Toronto hotel on Saturday that her party is [...]

Byline: JEFF GRAY; Staff The Ontario government's deal to accelerate the sale of beer in convenience stores and big-box outlets and to allow it in additional supermarkets will cost more [...]

Byline: LAURA STONE, JEFF GRAY Ontario Premier Doug Ford has unveiled a shakeup to his cabinet on the same day the legislature rose to take an extended break into October, [...]

Byline: JEFF GRAY; Staff After a lengthy standing ovation from all parties in the Ontario Legislature, Sol Mamakwa, the only First Nations MPP in the province, rose to speak in [...]

Byline: LAURA STONE, JEFF GRAY TORONTO -- Ontario Premier Doug Ford says it's time for universities to clear out the pro-Palestinian encampments that have ramped up on campuses across the [...]

Ford says he had talked to B.C.’s Premier David Eby about the issue and that governments should instead invest in drug treatment centres, Ontario Premier Doug Ford says he will fight the City of Toronto’s request to decriminalize the possession of small amounts of hard drugs tooth and nail, after British Columbia’s Premier [...]

Byline: JEFF GRAY; Staff Several Ontario Progressive Conservative MPPs have again opposed their own Premier and vetoed the lifting of a ban on the keffiyeh at Queen's Park, leaving a [...]

Byline: JEFF GRAY; Staff Canada's premiers are warning Ottawa against encroaching on provincial jurisdiction, days after the federal budget unveiled strict conditions their governments must meet in order to access [...]

Byline: JEFF GRAY, LAURA STONE A motion in the Ontario legislature to scrap a ban on the traditional keffiyeh scarf - often worn by Arabs and Muslims but also an [...]

Byline: JEFF GRAY, LAURA STONE Ontario pointed to a slowing economy as it posted a $9.8-billion deficit in 2024-25, almost double the size it predicted just last fall and a [...]

Byline: JEFF GRAY; Staff It's known as the 'kitchen accord,' and Roy McMurtry, who died Monday at age 91, was one of the three politicians who helped cook up the [...]

Byline: JEFF GRAY; Staff Ontario Premier Doug Ford says he has the right to choose 'like-minded' conservative judges and defended his installation of two former senior political aides on the [...]

Byline: JEFF GRAY; Staff Toronto City Council approved a 9.5-per-cent property-tax increase, the largest hike in a quarter century, finalizing a $17-billion budget that Mayor Olivia Chow calls a first [...]