42 h. ago Toronto Catholic trustees plot meeting, consider taking Ford government to court

Trustees at Toronto's Catholic school board are attempting to schedule a rogue meeting to get a legal opinion on their constitutional privileges as they face an overhaul.

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3 d. ago Ford government won’t eliminate French, Catholic trustees but English board has no cover

Constitutional language and religious rights offer some protection to Catholic and French trustees, but the English public system could see them scrapped entirely.

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3 d. ago Ford government declines to say if temporary foreign worker program should end

Premier Doug Ford's office declined to take a position on whether or not the temporary foreign worker program should come to an end amidst growing unemployment in his province.

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3 d. ago Ng: Ford government was right to take over Ottawa public school board

Parents need a responsible board of trustees to govern the education of their children. The Ottawa-Carleton District School Board fell short.

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4 d. ago LILLEY: Ford government won’t scrap school boards, but maybe they should

Province will consider changes to how boards operate but isn't planning to eliminate boards entirely at this point.

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4 d. ago Ontario NDP defends province’s trustees as Ford government dangles axe

The education minister has sidelined the elected officials at some of the province's largest school boards and is mulling a complete overhaul of the power given to trustees.

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4 d. ago Ford government to review policy that only records worst cases of school violence

Only tracked hundreds of violent incidents in schools last year, but individual boards recorded thousands. That's because of the threshold the province applies to reporting.

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7 d. ago WARMINGTON: Doug Ford hints at pulling all Crown Royal parent company’s brands if plant closes

Ontario Premier says Diageo will 'pay dearly' if the company doesn't reverse its planned Amherstburg whisky plant shutdown

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7 d. ago Ford warns Crown Royal maker will ‘pay dearly’ for plant closure

The premier's office couldn't say if Doug Ford was threatening to remove all of the company's products, which include Johnnie Walker, Guinness and Tanqueray, from the LCBO.

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8 d. ago Ford promises new Ontario dangerous driving law in honour of man killed in crash

TORONTO — Ontario Premier Doug Ford says his government will introduce legislation this fall to strengthen dangerous driving laws in honour of a father of three who was killed last month by an alleged dangerous driver. Andrew Cristillo, 35, was killed Aug. 3 in a head-on crash in Whitchurch-Stouffville that also left his wife and […]

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9 d. ago Crown Royal bottling plant ‘caught in the crosshairs’ of parent company’s struggles

The looming closure of an Ontario plant that bottles Crown Royal sparked political blowback this week.

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1 week ago Ford government won’t order LCBO to remove Crown Royal from shelves — for now

On Tuesday, Ford ended a news conference by pouring out a bottle of the Canadian whisky, after its parent company, Diageo, announced it would shutter a plant in Amherstburg, Ont.

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1 week ago WARMINGTON: Crown Royal won’t be ‘Canadian whisky’ if plant moved to U.S.

Workers at closing Amherstburg blending and bottling plant say once American water is used, the famous whisky loses Canuck status

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1 week ago LILLEY: Premier Ford’s protectionism sure sounding like Donald Trump

If the people of Ontario do take Ford up on his call to boycott Crown Royal, they will only be hurting Canadian jobs

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1 week ago WARMINGTON: Ford warns whisky CEO, ‘If you hurt my people, I hurt you’

While Ontario's premier complains this is no way to treat "your best customer' Crown Royal's parent company says decision is "final"

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1 week ago Getting to the bottom of the Crown Royal bottling plant closure as Doug Ford pours scorn on move

Premier empties bottle of whisky on ground to protest decision that will cost Ontario town nearly 200 jobs

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1 week ago Video shows Doug Ford pouring out a bottle of Crown Royal over decision to close Ontario plant

Spirits maker Diageo announced last week that it will cease operations at its bottling facility in Amherstburg, Ont., early next year

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1 week ago Ford dumps Crown Royal bottle in protest of plant closure: ‘They’re hurting Ontario’

Ontario Premier Doug Ford dumped out a bottle of Crown Royal Tuesday in protest of the whisky maker's decision to shutter its bottling facility in the province.

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1 week ago Doug Ford pours out bottle of Crown Royal over upcoming Ontario plant closure

Ontario Premier Doug Ford is reacting angrily to news of the closure of a plant that bottles Crown Royal, pouring out a bottle at a press conference and encouraging others to dump the whisky as well. Spirits maker Diageo announced last week that it will cease operations at its bottling facility in Amherstburg, Ont., early […]

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2 w. ago Statement from TRREB, Cornerstone, OREB, OnePoint, and CLAR on Ford Government Review of RECO

TORONTO, Aug. 29, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Ontario’s five largest REALTOR® associations, representing more than 90 per cent of the nearly 100,000 REALTORS® in the province, support the Ford government’s decision to intervene in the review of the Real Estate Council of Ontario (RECO) following the iPro Realty Ltd. investigation. Our associations welcome a full […]

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