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Ontario’s finance minister defends budget after lower-than-expected tariff impact -
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Focus Ontario: Billions from Balance -
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Environment minister explains conservation authorities amalgamation -
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Ford government moves to make all premier, minister records secret -
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Elementary school teachers in Ontario to receive $750 cards to buy class supplies -
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Metrolinx CEO on lessons learned and moving the region forward -
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Ford says he faced ‘massive pressure’ from colleges, universities to increase tuition -
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Ontario’s Ford government using Google Docs to host policy proposals -
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Ford faces cross-provincial push to back down from Crown Royal ban -
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Ontario Liberals announce Bonnie Crombie will step down immediately -
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Third of Ontario’s Crown Royal workers have found new jobs as plant closure approaches -
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Ontario court rules Doug Ford must turn over personal phone records -
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Ontario grapples with use of AI in schools -
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Ontario’s new auto insurance rules could leave drivers underinsured, critics worry -
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Ford promises more ‘big, large casinos’ in Niagara Falls tourism vision -
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Focus Ontario: Dec. 13 -
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Focus Ontario: 2025 Year in Review -
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Ontario’s investment strategy in the face of unrelenting tariffs -
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TTC, Metrolinx at odds over Eglinton LRT opening -
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Algoma Steel union responds to 1K layoffs after government loan
Author Archives
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Ford government planning to appoint regional chairs, give them sweeping new powersThe same legislation will shrink the size of regional governments in both Niagara and Simcoe County, providing chairs their own version of strong mayor powers.PoliticsApr 2
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Attorney general ‘not commenting’ on Ford’s call for Umar Zameer judge to apologizeThe high-profile case saw Umar Zameer acquitted of first-degree murder in the death Det. Const. Jeffrey Northrup, who was fatally run over in Toronto in the summer of 2021.CanadaApr 2
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MPPs in Ontario receive 4.2% raise now salary freeze has endedLast year, all Ontario parties agreed to a 35-per cent pay raise for MPPs and the creation of a new pension plan after a salary freeze at Queen's Park that lasted 16 years.PoliticsApr 1
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Tourism minister backs Ontario Place plan, saying Therme went through ‘proper checks’New emails unearthed by the Ontario NDP show there was concern within the civil service just days before Therme signed a controversial 95-year lease for land at Ontario Place.PoliticsApr 1
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Ontario won’t give nurse practitioners billing codes, but will bring them into public systemThe federal health minister wrote to Ontario more than a year ago, telling the province to come up with a policy to fund and regulate nurse practitioners by April 1.HealthApr 1
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Number of VPs at Metrolinx grows again, some consultants come on board permanentlyData released through Ontario's annual salary disclosures, known as the sunshine list, reveals there were 124 people at Metrolinx with vice-president in their title last year.PoliticsApr 1
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Adviser warned Ontario to dig ‘deeper’ on Therme finances days before signing leaseNew emails, obtained by the Ontario NDP, offer fresh insights into an incident flagged more than a year ago by the auditor general.PoliticsApr 1
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Launch of Hurontario LRT driving Ontario’s plan for enhanced fare integrationThe Hurontario LRT, also known as the Hazel McCallion Line, does not have an official opening date but, when finished, it will run through both Brampton and Mississauga.CanadaMar 31
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No specifics on how many homes will be built as Ontario earmarks billions in tax breaksWhile the Ford government shares the development industry's enthusiasm about housing construction, the province remains skittish about defining the outcome.PoliticsMar 31
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Ford government ‘paying attention’ to Ontario college presidents earning $500KThe five highest-paid college leaders earned an average of $507,000 in 2025, according to data on the annual sunshine list, a year in which hundreds of staff were laid off.PoliticsMar 31
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Minister insists ‘it all adds up’ as Ontario tables bill with housing, transit tweaksThe new legislation includes a range of measures around official plans, the building code and a suite of highway and transit changes.PoliticsMar 30
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Federal government, Ontario sign $8.8B deal to reduce development chargesMark Carney and Doug Ford were among the politicians at a major event Monday morning to unveil the overhaul of how new housing and its infrastructure are paid for in Ontario.PoliticsMar 30
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Top paid Ontario college presidents averaged $500K each in 2025 as layoffs continueThe province's 24 publicly funded colleges have struggled significantly ever since a federal cap on the number of international students was brought in at the beginning of 2024.PoliticsMar 30
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Cost of Premier Doug Ford’s top staff grew by 11% in 2025The Sunshine List shows 50 individuals in the Premier's Office earned an average of $162,000 in 2025, pushing up the total compensation to over $8 million.PoliticsMar 30
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Ford government says U.S. tariff threat to crush economy ‘didn’t materialize’Despite fearing tariffs would keep Ontario's economic growth to less than one per cent, the province has defied expectations in a budget still filled with red ink.Mar 28
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Ontario finance minister says HST rebate won’t be extended: ‘This is a one-year sale’The marquee feature of the 2026 Ontario budget was a tax break for any homebuyer looking to purchase a newly built house or pre-construction condo.CanadaMar 27
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More than 400K people on Ontario’s sunshine salaries list, OPG highest earnersAll five of the province's top earners worked for Ontario Power Generation, while health-care executives and the public pension board also made the top 10.PoliticsMar 27
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Ontario’s battered housing sector revises its projections down againAs part of its 2022 re-election campaign, the Ford government promised it would solve Ontario’s housing crisis by ramping up the construction of new homes.CanadaMar 26
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Public revenue from alcohol sales drops in Ontario amid LCBO modernizationAccording to the 2026 budget, Ontario will spend $200 million to reduce the markup for products at the LCBO, alongside reducing taxes for local producers.EconomyMar 26
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Ontario moves to cancel SkyDome Act to free up downtown land. It’s not yet clear whyDirectly south of the Rogers Centre, at 305 Bremner Boulevard, sits a section of land owned by the Ontario government and currently used as parking by the baseball stadium.CanadaMar 26
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Ford government runs deeper deficit, punts budget balance amid pessimistic outlookAs the finance minister tabled the 2026 provincial budget on Thursday, he warned that geopolitical change has "reached our shores," requiring the province to spill more red ink.PoliticsMar 26
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Majority oppose Ontario’s freedom of information clampdown, new poll findsResearch conducted by Abacus Data on behalf of CUPE found just 24 per cent of those asked support the new changes, while 60 per cent are against them.PoliticsMar 25
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Ontario not satisfied with federal nurse practitioner clarity it requestedThe federal government had set an April 1 deadline for provinces to have a policy in place to fund all medically necessary services from nurse practitioners.HealthMar 25
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Ford government planning to waive HST on new homes for 1 yearFinance Minister Peter Bethlenfalvy is expected to announce that the provincial portion of the harmonized sales tax will be removed for anyone buying a newly constructed home.EconomyMar 25
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Ford accuses FOI watchdog of ‘politicizing’ transparency clamp-downThe government is facing pushback, including from the IPC, over its plan to give political staff and government ministers near total immunity from transparency requests.PoliticsMar 24
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