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Tag: Ontario
3 months ago
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Liberal insiders think this former Trudeau cabinet minister can beat Doug Ford

Former federal cabinet minister Navdeep Bains is being touted as a potential Ontario Liberal leadership candidate, so...

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3 months ago
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Antisemitism charges upend Ontario byelection race in NDP stronghold

It was expected to be a smooth cruise to victory in the NDP stronghold of Hamilton Centre but the campaign has been b...

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3 months ago
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Queen’s Park begins first steps in major $1B renovation

Queen’s Park is getting a major makeover. The province on Tuesday introduced legislation that will begin the lengthy ...

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3 months ago
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Doug Ford’s campaign finance law struck down by court

The Ontario Court of Appeal has struck down Premier Doug Ford’s controversial campaign finance law that limits spendi...

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3 months ago
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Behind closed doors, Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservatives raise a record $6M at private fundraiser

Premier Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservatives have quietly held the largest political fundraiser in Canadian history,...

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3 months ago
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Hammered twice by Doug Ford, Ontario Liberals gather with an eye on 2026 election

As more than 1,500 Ontario Liberals gather in Hamilton for the party’s largest convention in a generation, there’s a ...

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3 months ago
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Could this GTA mayor be the leader Ontario’s Liberals need to defeat Doug Ford?

Ontario Liberals are abuzz over the prospect of popular Mississauga Mayor Bonnie Crombie running for the party leader...

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3 months ago
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Insiders, government appointees also attended Doug Ford’s daughter’s wedding

One guest is a lobbyist now working for a company pushing to build on Greenbelt land. Another guest received a provin...

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3 months ago
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Health crisis, Greenbelt scheme: Doug Ford in the spotlight as MPPs return. Here’s what you shoul...

A Greenbelt controversy, a greenhorn opposition leader and an identity crisis in the Green Party. Everything’s going ...

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4 months ago
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Ford, Trudeau and Crombie honour ‘Hurricane Hazel’ McCallion at state funeral: ‘Rest easy, my fri...

Dignitaries and members of public paid tribute to the longtime Mississauga mayor, who died last month at age 101.

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4 months ago
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Ontario’s deficit will be billions lower than Ford government predicted, watchdog says

Ontario should see a “modest” rebound from the slowing economy next year with growing revenues and budget surpluses t...

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4 months ago
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When it comes to cataract surgery, is there more to Ontario’s private clinics than meets the eye?

Premier Doug Ford’s controversial plan to move more surgeries out of hospitals and into independent clinics to clear ...

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4 months ago
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Liberals laughed at Ontario’s new NDP leader. Who’s laughing now?

At the moment of Marit Stiles’s ascension to the NDP leadership, the Liberals have descended into self-immolation, Ma...

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4 months ago
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Ontario is ‘all in’ for sharing health data with Ottawa, minister says

Ontario says it fully supports the Trudeau government’s push for improved reporting of national health care data as p...

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4 months ago
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Dr. Kieran Moore says respiratory infections are stabilizing in Ontario, but urges people to stay...

Breaking a weeks-long silence on the state of respiratory virus levels that swamped children’s hospitals, Moore says ...

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4 months ago
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When David Onley changed jobs, he also changed the job description of lieutenant-governor

The one-time journalist made his mark not just in his viceregal role from 2007 to 2014, but as a role model throughou...

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4 months ago
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The warnings about Doug Ford and private health care are coming true

Since he became premier, Ford has made little secret of his fondness for private health-care companies.

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4 months ago
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Is Doug Ford recklessly poisoning Ontario’s health-care system — or might he help fix it?

The long-awaited announcement that Ontario is expanding independent clinics will trigger the inevitable rhetorical id...

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5 months ago
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Our health-care system is broken. More of the same won’t fix it

At a certain point, patients will lose patience with the political games, Martin Regg Cohn writes.

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5 months ago
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Can Ontario Liberals rise from the ashes?

Rank-and-file members of the Ontario Liberal party, who were highly critical of last year’s campaign, are starting to...

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5 months ago
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It’s easy to see how the Liberals lost to Doug Ford. It’s harder to see how they win back power

The party faces a long and winding road to political rehabilitation, Martin Regg Cohn writes.

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5 months ago
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Mélanie Joly taps former McGuinty chief of staff to be her top aide

A one-time chief of staff to former Ontario Liberal premier Dalton McGuinty is poised to be named as chief to Foreign...

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5 months ago
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Ontario NDP move up rubber-stamp vote to confirm MPP Marit Stiles as leader

Ontario’s New Democrats will pass the torch to incoming leader Marit Stiles on Feb. 4, a month earlier than planned a...

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5 months ago
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Opinion | Here’s what I got wrong about Doug Ford

I failed to fully account for the premier’s affability and electability among the biggest share of voters — and the u...

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5 months ago
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Ontario to swap original brand-name drugs with cheaper ‘biosimilar’ drugs for seniors, people on ...

Ontario is moving more seniors and people on social assistance from original brand-name drugs for conditions like inf...

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6 months ago
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Ford government says controversial new policy hasn’t yet shortened waits for hospital beds

Ontario has freed up 3,414 hospital beds this fall by moving elderly patients who no longer need acute care into nurs...

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6 months ago
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Why Ontario’s new plan for a greener electricity grid puts it on a ‘collision course’ with Ottawa

Phasing gas generation out of the Ontario’s system will require ‘ingenuity and the implementation of new technologies...

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6 months ago
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Slide in mask use and COVID-19 vaccinations will put more strain on beleaguered hospitals, Ontari...

Not enough people are masking on public transit or getting shots for COVID-19 and the flu as the holiday season arriv...

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6 months ago
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Ontario has said the Bradford Bypass would be four lanes. Documents suggest the province is plann...

The highway, which will cut through Ontario’s Greenbelt, is needed to clear congestion and accommodate growing commun...

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6 months ago
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Opinion | Doug Ford appointed unqualified party loyalists to fill key tribunal spots. Now Ontaria...

Ontario’s premier has shamelessly made juicy patronage appointments to the province’s tribunals, Martin Regg Cohn wri...

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6 months ago
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Sending sick children to faraway hospitals is ‘not ideal,’ Ontario’s health minister acknowledges

Health Minister Sylvia Jones acknowledges it is “not ideal” that kids are being sent to hospitals far from home becau...

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6 months ago
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Opinion | Does the lieutenant-governor have a message for Doug Ford?

Elizabeth Dowdeswell may be an advocate for democracy, but it’s up to us to protect it, Martin Regg Cohn writes.

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6 months ago
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360,000 Ontarians to be notified about vaccination data breach, government says

About 360,000 people in Ontario will soon get notices their personal information was part of a November 2021 data bre...

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6 months ago
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Doug Ford increases controversial ‘strong-mayor’ powers for Toronto and Ottawa

The strong mayor just got even stronger. Toronto Mayor John Tory can now pass bylaws with just one-third support of c...

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6 months ago
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Ontario pharmacists allowed to prescribe COVID-19 treatment Paxlovid

Pharmacists in Ontario will be able to prescribe the antiviral drug Paxlovid starting Monday, making it easier for pe...

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6 months ago
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Doug Ford defends Greenbelt land swap, says Liberals also made changes

With his Progressive Conservatives embroiled in controversy over a Greenbelt land swap, Premier Doug Ford is lashing ...

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6 months ago
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‘You lose your job, you lose your livelihood’: NDP will push for reform of Ontario program that h...

Transportation Minister Caroline Mulroney declined interview requests. A Star/IJB investigation found MCR system is p...

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6 months ago
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Six things to know about Ontario’s controversial medical condition report system

A program meant to make the roads safer is suspending the licences of some drivers who pose no threat.

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6 months ago
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Opinion | Doug Ford will pay the price for overplaying his hand

The only fiscal crisis facing Ford’s government was in the realm of political rhetoric, Martin Regg Cohn writes.

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