The Ford government is set to increase the speed limit on hundreds of kilometres of its highway network, including large portions of the 401. Beginning […]
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Ford government wins battle to keep health-care staffing shortage figures secret
The Ford government has won a privacy battle to keep the extent of its nursing, personal support worker and physician shortage secret after Ontario’s privacy […]
Dollars and cents: Ontario homelessness spend balloons as community housing craters
Advocates are calling for a change of strategy to deal with Ontario’s housing crisis as new internal data suggests the Ford government is throwing hundreds […]
Renewed tensions over Queen’s Park keffiyeh ban brewing
The Ontario NDP is promising “next steps” in its battle to overturn a ban on keffiyehs being worn inside the provincial legislature. A debate around […]
Ontario hospital workers awarded 6% pay increase, new agreement on agency nurses
Descrease article font size Increase article font size Some 65,000 unionized hospital workers in Ontario have been awarded a pay increase of six per cent […]
Ontario transportation minister pitches 24-hour work to speed up Gardiner construction
As claustrophobic congestion on Toronto’s Gardiner Expressway worsens with years-long lane closures to accommodate road repairs, Ontario’s minister of transportation is suggesting around-the-clock construction could […]
Ontario is changing what developers pay to build. Feds say it means ‘higher taxes’
The Ford and Trudeau governments could be on another collision course over housing policy after Ontario tabled plans to change the fees municipalities are allowed […]
‘The battle is not over’: Opponents of Highway 413 vow to fight controversial project
Opponents of Highway 413 say the “battle is not over” after a deal between the federal and provincial governments was reached to allow construction of […]
Gravy sent to Premier Doug Ford briefly shuts down Ontario government building
Parts of an Ontario government building were briefly shut down and evacuated on Tuesday after a suspicious package sent to Premier Doug Ford turned out […]
Nurse practitioner fees could ‘undermine’ Ontario public health investment: minister
Ontario’s health minister says a proliferation of fee-for-service nurse practitioner-led clinics will “undermine” taxpayer investment in the province’s health-care system as the province looks to […]