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By Liam Casey The Canadian Press Posted June 9, 2025 12:18 pm Updated June 9, 2025 12:19 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size Two First Nations in and around the Ring of Fire that signed deals with the provincial government are speaking out against a new Ontario law. Aroland…
Ontario Premier Doug Ford says First Nations groups who blockade critical infrastructure will be “dealt with appropriately” as tensions peak over his controversial mining legislation, with expectations it could pass today. Among other changes, Bill 5, or the Protect Ontario by Unleashing our Economy Act, will create so-called special economic zones where a range of…
The Ontario Liberals have tabled more than 4,000 amendments to the province’s controversial Bill 5 in a last-gasp attempt to slow its progress during the final day of committee and force the government to delay passing it into law. Bill 5 is the Ford government’s mining legislation, which has sparked protests from First Nations leaders and…
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…
Very few Ontario grocery stores that are required to accept empty alcohol containers are doing so, leaving the future of the deposit return program in question as The Beer Store closes locations across the province. Only about 70 grocery stores — ones that are more than five kilometres away from a Beer Store — have been required…
Ontario is set to give the minister of education power to more easily put school boards under supervision and require more boards to put police officers in schools. The Canadian Press has learned that Education Minister Paul Calandra will introduce broad legislation today, following weeks of warnings to boards that he would implement tougher oversight. Calandra…
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…
