The cost of the Ford government’s redevelopment of Ontario Place has ballooned by more than $1.8 billion and the process for selecting new tenants for […]
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Ontario Auditor General to release latest annual report
Toronto·COMING UP LIVE The controversial redevelopment of Ontario Place into a mega-spa will be among the topics covered in the latest report from the province’s […]
Bonnie Crombie promises Ontario Liberals would find everyone a family doctor in 4 years
Ontario Liberal Party Leader Bonnie Crombie promised on Monday that if elected premier, she would ensure that every resident in the province has access to […]
Ontario mulling having prosecutors approve criminal charges before police lay them
Seven years ago, criminologist Christopher Williams released a report urging reform on how criminal charges are laid — to provide relief to Ontario’s backlogged justice […]
3 million Ontarians at risk of losing family doctor to retirement, provincial Liberals say
More than three million Ontarians could be at risk of losing their family doctor to retirement with thousands of family physicians over the age of […]
Canada’s 988 suicide prevention line taking around 1,000 calls a day and saving lives, service says
As the 988 national suicide prevention helpline marks its one-year anniversary, the three-digit helpline is making a difference in helping to prevent suicides, experts say. […]
Ontario proposes fast-tracking drug consumption site bill, skipping public hearings
The Ontario government is proposing to push through a bill that would close 10 supervised consumption sites without holding any public hearings, a move advocates […]
Ford to respond to Trump’s threat of 25% tariff on Canadian goods
Ontario Premier Doug Ford is set to hold a news conference Tuesday morning, hours after U.S. president-elect Donald Trump said he would slap a 25 per […]
Ford says he has ‘zero tolerance’ for intimate partner violence, but not yet declaring it epidemic
Ontario Premier Doug Ford says he has “zero tolerance” for intimate partner violence, but stopped short of saying his government would push through an opposition bill […]
Why won’t Ontario track the reasons why criminal charges are dropped or stayed?
Five years ago Ontario’s auditor general recommended the province start tracking the reasons criminal charges are withdrawn by prosecutors or stayed by judges — to […]