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Peterborough supervised consumption site to close as Ontario government ends fundingAccording to Fourcast, up to 320 people use the Peterborough consumption treatment site annually. Staff also perform an average of 18 life-saving interventions every month.HealthMar 16
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Ontario government seeks injunction to block Al-Quds Day rally in TorontoThe annual Al-Quds Day protest is scheduled to take place outside the United States consulate.CanadaMar 13
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How a ransomware attack left an Ontario government health agency scramblingBack in spring 2025, a vendor for an Ontario health agency was hit with a ransomware attack. It set-off weeks of confusion as officials tried to work out who was impacted.CanadaMar 11
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Ontario government home care vendor paid ransom to regain access to its servers: reportIn April 2025, servers belonging to Ontario Medical Supply, which works with Crown agency Ontario Health atHome, were locked after a ransomware attack.CanadaMar 10
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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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Ontario government pressed for action on northern highways after fatal crashesOver just five days in the north, the Chiefs of Ontario said there were five serious incidents on northern highways, which they say uniquely impact their communities.CanadaFeb 24
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Niagara chair resigns after accusations of owning signed copy of Hitler’s ‘Mein Kampf’An Ontario government appointee has resigned as chair of Niagara Region after allegations surfaced that he owned a copy of Adolf Hitler’s "Mein Kampf."CanadaMar 12
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Al-Quds Day protest proceeds after court rejects Ford’s injunction bidA court has rejected the Ontario government’s request to stop an Al-Quds Day protest in Toronto, ruling the province did not meet the legal threshold required to block the rally.CanadaMar 14
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Ontario government directs schools to let students watch Team Canada matchesDoug Ford announced the idea in a social media post on Wednesday evening, saying he had told Education Minister Paul Calandra to work out how schools could make it possible.CanadaFeb 19
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Watchdog leans into ‘firmer enforcement’ over Ford government personal devicesThe Information and Privacy Commissioner is engaged in multiple, escalating battles with current and former members of the Progressive Conservative administration.PoliticsFeb 3
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Don Cherry, 92, receives Order of Ontario appointmentThe Ontario government named the 92-year-old Don Cherry and 29 others as the 2025 recipients of province’s highest civilian honour on Tuesday.CanadaFeb 17
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Diageo confirms ‘ongoing discussions’ with Ford government to avert Crown Royal banFord threatened to remove the Canadian whisky from provincial liquor stores last summer after Diageo announced it would close a bottling plant in southwestern Ontario.PoliticsJan 30
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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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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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Ontario FOI changes will make it ‘less transparent than even the federal government’The Ford government included its restrictions on freedom of information laws as part of its 2026 budget, which will head to committee.PoliticsApr 6
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Ontario school board supervisors charging varying fees, some billing government HSTNew invoices obtained by Global News using freedom of information laws show a lack of uniformity in how supervisors are working and being compensated.PoliticsApr 9
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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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Government won’t say how much it is spending on its ‘Protect Ontario’ commercialsQuestions from Global News to the premier's office asking for a full list of different campaigns and how much they are budgeted for have gone unanswered.PoliticsApr 6
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Ford government pausing its own affordable housing policy, calling it ‘red tape’The Ford government is delaying its own affordable housing measures in several major Ontario cities, calling the rules it wrote 'unnecessary red tape and requirements.'PoliticsJan 15
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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