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Byline: LAURA STONE; Staff Ontario's new associate minister of auto theft and bail reform says the provincial government will build as many jails as necessary to keep violent offenders behind [...]

Graham McGregor, who was named to the role in Premier Doug Ford’s cabinet last month, said Ottawa is to blame for what he calls the ‘revolving door’ that lets repeat offenders back onto the streets, Ontario’s new associate minister of auto theft and bail reform says the provincial government will build as many jails as necessary to keep violent offenders behind bars and is calling [...]

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 [...]

Allegations of infighting, impropriety threaten future of Native Women’s Association of Canada, Three regional groups have been expelled from a national Indigenous women’s organization after infighting and allegations of impropriety, which threaten to overshadow this weekend’s annual general meeting. The Native Women’s [...]

Byline: LAURA STONE; Staff The board of Canada's largest public-sector union says it cannot force its general vice-president to resign, after previously calling for Fred Hahn to step down in [...]

The national board of CUPE had urged vice-president Fred Hahn to step down, but Mr. Hahn refused and received the support of the union’s Ontario branch, The board of Canada’s largest public-sector union says it cannot force its general vice-president to resign, after previously calling for Fred Hahn to step down in light of a video [...]

Byline: LAURA STONE, IAN BAILEY TORONTO, OTTAWA -- Jeremy Broadhurst, a prominent senior Liberal for the past two decades, has quit his post as campaign director for the federal Liberals, [...]

Jeremy Broadhurst announced his exit one day after the NDP opened up the possibility of an early election by ending its co-operative agreement with the Liberal government, Jeremy Broadhurst, a prominent senior Liberal for the past two decades, has quit his post as campaign director for the federal Liberals, announcing his exit one day after the NDP [...]

Byline: LAURA STONE; Staff Union leader Fred Hahn is rebuffing calls to step down after a social-media post sparked accusations of antisemitism and prompted his national executive to ask for [...]

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, [...]

Ontario’s Health Minister cited a rise in assaults and violent crimes near the current sites as the reason for the sweeping changes to the province’s drug policy, The Ontario government is shutting down more than half of the supervised drug-consumption sites that it funds as it implements sweeping changes to its addictions policy that will shift the [...]

Byline: LAURA STONE; Staff Ontario is set to unveil its new approach to supervised drug-consumption sites, after a shooting outside a Toronto facility last summer prompted the province to launch [...]

Ford government has promised more ‘accountability measures’ while mayors across the province call for more funding and more action, Ontario is set to unveil its new approach to supervised drug consumption sites, after a shooting outside a Toronto facility last summer prompted the province to launch a review and [...]

Byline: LAURA STONE; Staff Ontario's Education Minister has abruptly resigned, less than three months after taking over the role in Premier Doug Ford's cabinet and weeks away from the start [...]

Byline: LAURA STONE; Staff The Ontario government is capping daycare fees for young children to $22 a day starting next year for operators enrolled in the government-funded program, as it [...]

The province also announced a new funding model for child-care centres, but did not include wage increases or a new pay grid for workers, The Ontario government is capping daycare fees for young children to $22 a day starting next year for operators enrolled in the government-funded program, as it announced a new funding [...]

Byline: LAURA STONE; Staff The Ontario government has hired an American lobbying firm to target lawmakers before and after the fall U.S. election, part of Premier Doug Ford's plan to [...]

Byline: LAURA STONE; Staff The federal government is warning that increasing the number of for-profit child-care operators will create a two-tier system as Ontario pushes for more private providers to [...]

Byline: LAURA STONE; Staff Ontario Premier Doug Ford says the strike at the Liquor Control Board of Ontario should never have happened and blamed the publicsector union representing workers for [...]

Byline: GREG MERCER, MARIYA POSTELNYAK, LAURA STONE BETHEL PARK, PA. -- A week after a 20-year-old engineering student climbed onto a roof in rural Pennsylvania and tried to assassinate former [...]

Byline: ROBYN DOOLITTLE, LAURA STONE BUTLER, PA. -- Butler County Sheriff Michael Slupe says that when his officers were notified about a suspicious person at former president Donald Trump's Saturday [...]

Byline: LAURA STONE, MARIYA POSTELNYAK The provincial government's decision to close the Ontario Science Centre was solidified with the release of a second report about the poor state of the [...]

Ontario Premier Doug Ford says he believes a deal can be reached between the Liquor Control Board of Ontario and striking workers, but he will not revisit his government's plan [...]

Byline: LAURA STONE; Staff Ontario Finance Minister Peter Bethlenfalvy says his government will not back down on its plan to expand the sale of alcohol into convenience stores, which the [...]

Byline: MARIEKE WALSH, LAURA STONE The minority Liberals have rejected a call from some of their own MPs to hold a caucus meeting in the wake of the party's stunning [...]

Byline: MARIYA POSTELNYAK, LAURA STONE It was just a few minutes past 10 a.m. on Friday and Adin Wener, co-owner of Henderson Brewing Company, was already seeing a small crowd [...]

Byline: MARIEKE WALSH, LAURA STONE, KRISTY KIRKUP TORONTO, OTTAWA -- Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will stay on as leader, his government signalled Tuesday as Liberals demanded the party make urgent [...]

Byline: MARIEKE WALSH, LAURA STONE Liberals have held the riding of Toronto-St. Paul's for three decades, but heading into Monday's federal by-election, people in the party say that while they [...]

Byline: LAURA STONE, KRISTY KIRKUP OTTAWA -- The federal government says it will spend $1.2-billion to replace an aging hospital serving Ontario's northern First Nations, after pressure from Indigenous leaders [...]

Byline: LAURA STONE; Staff The mayor-elect of Mississauga says she wants to work with Ontario Premier Doug Ford's government to build more homes and plans to strike a panel to [...]

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: LAURA STONE; Staff Ontario's Education Minister is criticizing school boards for suing the companies behind four major social-media platforms, saying they should have acted much sooner to mitigate online [...]

Byline: LAURA STONE; Staff The federal government and Ontario have reached a housing agreement that will provide the province with $357-million in federal funding this year, ending a months-long disagreement [...]

Byline: LAURA STONE, ADAM RADWANSKI Honda Motor Co.'s $15-billion investment in Ontario's electric-vehicle supply chain will extend into the Niagara region, through a partnership with Japan's Asahi Kasei to build [...]

Byline: MARIE WOOLF, LAURA STONE OTTAWA -- Talks about reducing the number of temporary foreign residents in Canada have kicked off between the federal government and provinces, with the Immigration [...]

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 [...]