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Ontario’s fiscal update shows a government trying to undo damage from...
TORONTO — Ontario’s Progressive Conservative government is reaching into its pockets for hundreds of millions of dollars to undo some of the damage caused by...
Ontario government to provide annual fall economic statement today
TORONTO — Ontario is releasing its fall economic statement this afternoon amid concerns of potential cuts.
Premier Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservatives have said the key fiscal update will detail...
Ontario public elementary teachers vote 98 percent in favour of strike
TORONTO — Public elementary teachers and education workers in Ontario have voted 98 per cent in favour of a strike, the union representing them said Friday,...
Ontario legislature resumes with new tone after longest break in nearly...
TORONTO — Ontario’s legislature returned Monday from an extended summer break, with politicians on their best behaviour in a delicate detente following a divisive...
Ontario government closes door on possible amalgamations following review
TORONTO — Municipalities should be allowed to decide how best to handle their own regional affairs, the Ontario government said Friday as it assured local...
Scheer, Trudeau, Singh haggle over potential minority government outcome
OTTAWA — With four days before Canadians go to the polls, the leaders of three biggest parties are arguing over how the country will...
‘Putting out a fire you set:’ critics wary of Tories’ reduced...
TORONTO — Ontario’s 2019-20 deficit will be lower than the $10.3 billion the Progressive Conservative government projected in their spring budget, Finance Minister Rod...
UN seat not top priority, Scheer says after pledging foreign-aid cuts
OTTAWA — Andrew Scheer wants the world to know the Conservatives would bring Canada back — in a very different way.
“It’s time for Canada...
Elizabeth May seeks to blow past political pack with platform roll...
OTTAWA — Green Leader Elizabeth May pushed past the political pack Monday by introducing a wide-ranging set of new policy promises while her rivals...
Federal government posts $14B shortfall in 2018-19
OTTAWA — The federal government ran a $14-billion deficit in 2018-19, according to its latest annual financial report, the third year in a row with a...
