Ontario provincial government reaches deal with education workers, avoid strike

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TORONTO — A strike that would have closed hundreds of schools across Ontario was averted Sunday night as the province reached a tentative deal...

Feds fight ruling on compensation for failures in First Nations child...

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OTTAWA — First Nations chiefs are expressing outrage and disappointment at the federal government’s decision to appeal a Canadian Human Rights Tribunal ruling ordering Ottawa to...

Ontario government reverses cuts to child benefit, children’s aid services

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TORONTO — Ontario is reversing funding cuts to a child benefit program that helps low-income families and refugee claimants as it conducts a broader review of...

YRDSB will close schools Monday if education workers strike

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TORONTO — Hundreds of schools across Ontario are set to close their doors on Monday if the province’s education workers go through with a threatened strike,...

Meet Your York-Simcoe Candidates: Cynthia Wesley-Esquimaux, Liberal

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What can you do to lessen the financial burden on middle-class families?  The Liberal government has made historic investments over the past four years to help...

UN seat not top priority, Scheer says after pledging foreign-aid cuts

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OTTAWA — Andrew Scheer wants the world to know the Conservatives would bring Canada back — in a very different way. “It’s time for Canada...

Ontario considering alternative to pot wholesale model: sources

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TORONTO — Ontario is considering alternative cannabis distribution models and intends to launch a consultation process in the coming weeks, according to sources familiar...

Re-elected Liberals would still run big deficits, despite new taxes

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OTTAWA — Justin Trudeau tried to make virtue out of red ink Sunday as he released a Liberal platform that promises to impose new taxes on wealthy individuals,...

Ontario education workers begin work-to-rule campaign as contract talks degrade

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TORONTO — Tens of thousands of education workers across Ontario have begun a work-to-rule campaign in a bid to pressure the provincial government into making concessions...

Scheer offers tax credit for green home renovations after Trudeau attacks

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OTTAWA — Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer pivoted his campaign to the environment on Wednesday, announcing a tax credit for homeowners who make energy-saving renovations following a scathing attack...

Canada’s wireless speeds would rank 12th in world if only rural...

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TORONTO — The international research firm Opensignal reports that rural parts of Canada get much slower wireless services than in cities — but they’re still...

Beyak thumbs nose at Senate orders on racist letters about Indigenous...

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OTTAWA — Racist letters about Indigenous Peoples have finally been removed from Sen. Lynn Beyak’s website — but only because Senate officials erased them after Beyak...

Case of 11 disqualified Ontario pot shop licence applicants in court...

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TORONTO — An Ontario court is expected to hear the case today of 11 people who won the chance to apply for a cannabis...

Fallout from Trudeau’s brownface photo bombshell sure to dominate campaign

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OTTAWA — It won’t be campaigning as usual for Justin Trudeau today as the Liberal leader grapples with the fallout from a bombshell that...

Ford acknowledges problems with anti-carbon-tax stickers, vows to get it fixed

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Ontario Premier Doug Ford says the government’s provincewide campaign to criticize the federal carbon tax just isn’t sticking. That’s because the stickers decrying the tax,...