63 h. ago Ontario asks if ’moon shot’ projects should go ahead under special economic zones

Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s government is moving ahead with its plan to create so-called special economic zones to push forward projects it deems important, and is considering including “moon shot” ideas to qualify. The power to designate parts of the province as special economic zones was created in the controversial Bill 5, a law the […]

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67 h. ago Ontario asks if ‘moon shot’ projects should go ahead under special economic zone law

TORONTO — Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s government is moving ahead with its plan to create so-called special economic zones to push forward projects it deems important, and is considering including “moon shot” ideas to qualify. The power to designate parts of the province as special economic zones was created in the controversial Bill 5, a […]

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69 h. ago The Royal will resume urgent mental health care, 25 years after ER closed

The hospital’s emergency department was closed in 2000 as part of a Ontario-wide hospital streamlining exercise under then-Premier Mike Harris.

Science

3 d. ago ‘He drives me crazy’: Doug Ford says he is going to ‘ignore Trump’ after 51st state threat revived

The Ontario premier's comments came after his meeting with Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in Toronto

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5 d. ago Groups urge PM Carney to act on climate finance risk, 10 years after key speech

MONTREAL — A decade after Prime Minister Mark Carney delivered a famous speech about the financial risks associated with climate change, global organizations called for financial system reforms in an open letter on Monday. The letter signed by Canadian, European, and American environmental groups calls for urgent changes, noting that a decade on, inaction is […]

Society

5 d. ago Doug Ford muses about repurposing speed cameras for surveillance

Ontario Premier Doug Ford is musing about repurposing the speed cameras he intends to soon ban and using them to track down stolen cars and home invasion suspects. Ford has announced his government will introduce legislation next month to prohibit the use of speed cameras across the province. Various regions that use the cameras, as […]

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6 d. ago Explorer le parc Algonquin en Ontario: nature sauvage et inspiration artistique

Fondé en 1893, le parc Algonquin est le premier parc provincial de l’Ontario et l’un des plus anciens au Canada.

Culture

8 d. ago Ottawa says Chinese EV tariff review is ’informal,’ with no specific deadline

OTTAWA — The federal government says it is reviewing its decision to impose 100 per cent tariffs on Chinese EVs — but it can’t or won’t say when the review began, or when it will end. The tariffs took effect on Oct. 1, 2024, and the regulatory order published imposing them said “the government intends […]

Economics

9 d. ago Two GTA mayors disagree with Ford’s decision to ban automated speed cameras

Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow says Ontario Premier Doug Ford has made “the wrong decision” when it comes to his proposed legislative ban on automated speed cameras when MPPs return to work in October. “Speed cameras work,” Chow told reporters Thursday following the Premier’s announcement. “They help save lives. And we know speeding kills. Today, the […]

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9 d. ago ‘It’s just terrible over there,’ Premier Doug Ford says of Marineland

Ontario Premier Doug Ford says the situation at Marineland is "terrible" for the 30 belugas that remain there, the last captive whales in Canada.

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9 d. ago Doug Ford vs. speed cameras: Why Ontario’s premier is cracking down

'This is all about a cash grab off taxpayers,' Ford said while announcing legislation to eliminate automated speed enforcement province-wide

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1 week ago B.C. MP Jenny Kwan urges caution as Canada moves to mend trade relationship with China

Jenny Kwan said she is an "evergreen target" of interference from Beijing and noted the Chinese government has tried to threaten and intimidate other Canadians.

Economics

1 week ago John Ivison: Canada will have to dance with China, but at what cost to the auto industry?

All the signs point to Ottawa offering the Chinese some form of relief on EV tariffs, in exchange for lifting levies on canola, pork and seafood

Economics

1 week ago Ontario minister picks up trade mission pace as tariffs heighten need to diversify

TORONTO — Tariff tensions with the United States and a more pressing need to diversify Ontario’s trading partners are prompting the province’s minister responsible for economic development to pick up the already robust pace of trade missions abroad. Vic Fedeli, who Premier Doug Ford has dubbed Ontario’s No. 1 salesperson, is in southeast Asia right […]

Economics

1 week ago The Ford government legalized speed cameras in 2019. Now, it says they’re a ‘tax grab’

Ontario Premier Doug Ford's government created the framework for cities to introduce automated speed cameras in 2019, but is now pushing to have them eliminated.

Politics

1 week ago MPP Chris Scott arrested, expelled from Ontario PC caucus. Doug Ford ‘informed literally in the parking lot’

When asked about Scott, the Ontario Premier said in an unrelated conference, 'Go to Sault Ste Marie police. I don’t want to interfere in a police investigation'

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2 w. ago Poll says Canadians want Chinese EV tariffs dropped to reduce levies on Canadian canola

But opening up Canada to Chinese EVs would be disaster for Canada's auto sector, cybersecurity, says industry rep

Economics

2 w. ago Automated speed cameras make roads safer, Ontario police chiefs say

Ontario Premier Doug Ford is trying to axe automated speed cameras in towns and cities, calling them a 'tax grab' and suggesting they don't make streets safer.

Events

2 w. ago Doug Ford calls them a ‘tax grab,’ but Ontario police chiefs say speed cameras work

Ontario Premier Doug Ford is trying to axe automated speed cameras in towns and cities, calling them a 'tax grab' and suggesting they don't make streets safer.

Economics

2 w. ago B.C. Premier Eby urges Carney to ‘look west’ but won’t budge on tanker ban

Sankey said private investors are 'once burned, twice shy' after seeing billions in investment dollars fall to the whims of federal politics

Transport