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Descrease article font size Increase article font size Ontario Premier Doug Ford says he expects Metrolinx and the consortium building Eglinton Crosstown LRT to hand the years-delayed transit line over to Toronto’s transit agency in a matter of weeks. Ford made the comments at an unrelated event on Tuesday, where he said the Eglinton LRT…
Ontario has signed a bevy of trade agreements with other provinces at a meeting in Saskatoon between the country’s premiers and the prime minister, as leaders race to try and reduce internal trade barriers in the face of U.S. tariffs. On Sunday, Premier Doug Ford signed memoranda of understanding with his counterparts in Prince Edward…
As tensions over the Ford government’s controversial Bill 5 continue to escalate, Indigenous MPP Sol Makmakwa was ejected from the Ontario legislature after accusing the premier of telling “untruths” to First Nations communities. The government has faced fierce pushback to its proposed law to create special economic zones to fast-track priority infrastructure projects in the…
Ontario Premier Doug Ford is indicating that Highway 401 could be designated as a special economic zone, allowing the province to fast-track its plans to construct a transit and traffic tunnel beneath it, while sidestepping a raft of environmental and municipal laws. The province is currently in the process of passing Bill 5, Protect Ontario…
Opposition politicians are planning to throw a slew of stall tactics at the legislative process to try to delay the Ford government’s controversial new mining legislation — and try and stop it from passing before the legislature rises for the summer. The province is in the middle of passing Bill 5, the Protect Ontario by…
A planned law that would’ve mandated the flying of the Ontario flag at all provincial buildings and banned the desecration of the Canadian flag has been scuttled by the Ford government, Global News has learned, after members of the Progressive Conservative caucus questioned the necessity of the bill. Multiple sources told Global News the proposal,…
The Ford government says it is working on amendments to its most controversial piece of new legislation, but a senior minister says the changes won’t move won’t touch the “essence” of the bill. The Protect Ontario by Unleashing our Economy Act, also known as Bill 5, was proposed by the province to speed up mining…
The Liberals are asking Ontario’s auditor general to launch a value-for-money investigation into the sudden end of a contract signed by provincial transit agency Metrolinx with a consortium to deliver two decades-plus of train services. In mid-May, Metrolinx confirmed it had ended an agreement it signed with a consortium to provide “faster, more frequent” service…
The Ford government is defending its move to give the solicitor general the power to arm as-yet unidentified groups of special constables — and says it delivers on its election promise to “protect Ontario.” Last week, Global News reported how the government had quietly included a clause in its latest omnibus justice legislation that would…
Multiple former Ford government staffers have turned over emails from their personal accounts relating to the Greenbelt and drafting mandate letters, Global News has learned, after the Information and Privacy Commissioner ordered them to search their accounts for communications relating to official government business. Among the staffers to discover emails which they had previously failed…
