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Premier Doug Ford’s decision to buy a pricey taxpayer-funded jet in the middle of an affordability challenge is a “toxic combination” that could erode the public’s confidence in his government, one provincial pollster says. Ford said the purchase of the $28.9 million Challenger 650, which he planned to use for government-related travel across the country and into the United States...
Ontario Premier Doug Ford says he had a “very productive” meeting with the prime minister on Monday afternoon after days of criticizing his trip to China. Ford’s relationship with Mark Carney has been strained in recent days, after Canada agreed to allow 49,000 Chinese-made electric vehicles into the country in return for an easing of tariffs on agricultural products. The...
Police in Ontario have opened a formal investigation into a company that received government money, including funds from the controversial skills development fund, after being forwarded the results of an audit by the province.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford is escalating his fight with British-based alcohol maker Diageo, threatening to “leverage” the purchasing power of the LCBO and pull Crown Royal and Smirnoff vodka off store shelves. Ford has been on a warpath against the company after it announced the closure of a bottling plant in Amherstburg, currently scheduled for February 2026, affecting 170 employees...
The Ford government has negotiated a break fee to cancel its $100 million contract for Starlink internet, Global News has learned, officially ending its deal with Elon Musk-owned SpaceX. The now-defunct agreement between Ontario and SpaceX was first signed in November to provide satellite internet to roughly 15,000 homes in the north of the province.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford says Prime Minister Mark Carney must make sure not to get “bullied” in his first meeting with United States President Donald Trump at the White House on Tuesday. Ford made the comments at an unrelated event on Monday, where he said he was confident in the prime minister ahead of his first trip to meet face-to-face...
Prime Minister Mark Carney called new 25 per cent tariffs set to be imposed by U.S. President Donald Trump on all vehicles made outside the U.S. next month a “direct attack” on Canadian workers. “We will defend our workers, we will defend our companies, we will defend our country and we will defend it together,” Carney said Wednesday evening.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford says he is suspicious of a 30-day tariff reprieve for automakers, which he believes could be used to try and tempt companies to move their operations south of the border. Speaking at Queen’s Park on the second day of Canada’s tariff battle with the United States, Ford said he and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau were aligned...
Moments after U.S. President Donald Trump revealed his intention to apply steep tariffs to Canadian exports, Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s office fired off an internal email to Progressive Conservative staffers saying the government needs an even stronger mandate to effectively battle the American president. The internal memo, obtained by Global News, is yet another sign that Ford is set to...
The Ford government’s planned legislation to remove homeless encampments in downtowns and enhance police powers on public drug use won’t be tabled until the end of the week and isn’t expected to pass into law until sometime in the new year. On Thursday, Ontario Premier Doug Ford announced a plan for legislation designed to remove homeless encampments, offer new funding...
President-elect Donald Trump says a surprise meeting with Justin Trudeau at his Florida home was “very productive,” after the prime minister flew down to discuss the growing threat of American tariffs on Canadian goods, the border and national defence. On Friday evening, Trudeau landed in Florida and travelled to Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club for a hastily arranged dinner and discussion with...
A historic Liberal victory in Monday’s New Brunswick election may not be the boost Justin Trudeau needs, according to local experts, who believe the provincial race was a referendum on the outgoing premier and not the embattled prime minister. Susan Holt’s Liberals beat out Blaine Higgs’ incumbent Progressive Conservatives in Monday’s election, denying the latter his seat in the legislature...
Ontario’s Progressive Conservatives are taking the public’s temperature on a possible early election call, Global News has learned, offering yet another sign that Premier Doug Ford is preparing to trigger an election ahead of schedule. Despite the four-year mandate Ford won during the 2022 provincial election, sources said the PC Party has been weighing the risks and benefits of heading...
The Chief of Staff to Ontario Premier Doug Ford routinely relied on a personal email address to facilitate government-related communications, Global News has learned, despite his assertions to Ontario’s Integrity Commissioner that government work is always conducted using an official email address. Global News has viewed dozens of emails sent to and received from Patrick Sackville using a Gmail account...