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Several Ontario First Nations are set to become owners of a new nuclear reactor after striking a commercial partnership with the federal and provincial governments.
TORONTO -- A housing advocate has entered the Ontario Liberal Party leadership race.
TORONTO -- Ottawa has endorsed a plan to move Canada's last remaining captive whales to aquariums in the U.S. and Spain.
TORONTO -- Ontario Liberal caucus member Rob Cerjanec has tossed his hat into the party's leadership race.??
TORONTO -- Ontario's solicitor general is defending the new powers he is giving himself to direct police boards to follow provincial priorities.
TORONTO -- Former federal cabinet member Navdeep Bains has entered the Ontario Liberal leadership race.
TORONTO -- Ontario Provincial Police are set to launch a website next year that will name high-risk offenders.
Premier Doug Ford says an Ontario judge's recent decision barring the Region of Waterloo from removing people from a homeless encampment is "cockamamie."
TORONTO -- The Toronto Port Authority says the proposed island airport expansion will cost up to $5 billion.
TORONTO -- Toronto's waterfront secretariat says the province's plans to redevelop Ontario Place and expand the airport on the Toronto Islands will create severe traffic and transit congestion and could lead to degradation of the water quality in the harbour.
TORONTO -- Ontario's solicitor general says the province will expand its jails by 2,500 beds over the next 10 years at a cost of $3 billion to the taxpayers.
TORONTO -- Ontario taxpayers are on the hook for nearly $200,000 over Premier Doug Ford's flip-flop on a $28.9-million private jet purchase, newly released documents from the premier's office show.
TORONTO -- Ontario's minister of colleges and universities says all of the career colleges that offer commercial truck driver training will be inspected in the next six weeks.
TORONTO -- Ontario's auditor general says the province's new artificial intelligence transcription services for doctors are at risk of providing inaccurate information and outright hallucinations.
TORONTO -- Ontario is not effectively monitoring commercial truck driver training and licensing regimes, leading to many unqualified drivers on the roads, the province's auditor general found in a special report released Tuesday.
TORONTO -- Ontario Liberal legislator Lee Fairclough has announced her bid for the party's leadership.
TORONTO -- The province says it will not take over the entirety of the Toronto Islands despite the language of its proposed legislation.
TORONTO -- Premier Doug Ford says six inmates mistakenly released from Ontario's jails remain at large.
TORONTO -- Ontario's solicitor general and his No. 2 have apologized for "inadvertently" saying officials apprehended all 157 criminals who were mistakenly released from the province's jails over the past five years.
TORONTO -- Ontario taxpayers are footing the bill for a $29-million private jet for Premier Doug Ford's use, a purchase opposition leaders say is a waste of money.
TORONTO -- Ontario has bought an almost $29-million private jet for Premier Doug Ford's use.
TORONTO -- Ontario Premier Doug Ford defended his government's plan to build many more jails, saying the billions in cost will be worth it.
TORONTO -- Ontario is planning a massive expansion of jails over the next few decades, The Canadian Press has learned.
TORONTO -- Several environmental groups have launched a constitutional challenge seeking to kill an Ontario law that allows cabinet to suspend other laws.
TORONTO -- Ontario Premier Doug Ford and his health minister are defending the decision to shutter more supervised drug consumption sites.
TORONTO -- Ontario's payout to Elon Musk's SpaceX over a cancelled Starlink contract will remain a secret after the two sides agreed to a confidential settlement, The Canadian Press has learned.
TORONTO -- Three Ontario New Democrats have set off on a road trip from Toronto to the Manitoba border and back to highlight the dangers of northern roads.
TORONTO -- Construction on the roads to the Ring of Fire in northern Ontario should start this year and be completed by 2031, the province announced Monday.
TORONTO -- A proposed mine in Ontario's Ring of Fire region has cleared another regulatory hurdle despite a First Nation's protest.
TORONTO -- Ontario Premier Doug Ford is defending his government's decision to cut back on the amount of financial assistance for post-secondary students.
TORONTO -- Doug Ford's Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario has reversed course on a media ban at its upcoming convention.
TORONTO -- Fisheries Minister Joanne Thompson says Marineland's plan to move Canada's last remaining captive whales and dolphins to several parks in the United States is a solid one.
Marineland's belugas have cleared a significant hurdle after federal Fisheries Minister Joanne Thompson conditionally approved the export of the theme park's whales to the United States.
TORONTO -- American aquariums say they visited Marineland last week with the goal of providing hope and a future for 30 beluga whales that face euthanasia should they not be moved.
TORONTO -- Marineland has presented a plan to the federal government to ship the last remaining captive whales and dolphins in Canada to several institutions in the United States, The Canadian Press has learned.
TORONTO -- A Toronto hospital network will double its unique permanent housing program for homeless people who frequently visit emergency departments that has seen great success.
TORONTO -- Ontario Premier Doug Ford says he's "ticked off" at Prime Minister Mark Carney over his deal with China on electric vehicles, and the two have not spoken since.
TORONTO -- Ontario government employees are expected to return to the office five days per week starting Monday, despite objections from public sector unions.
TORONTO -- Ontario's integrity commissioner has launched an investigation into Labour Minister David Piccini over the provincial Skills Development Fund.
TORONTO -- Ottawa and Ontario are set to sign a deal Thursday that will reduce the regulatory burden on large projects, including the road to the Ring of Fire, The Canadian Press has learned.
TORONTO -- Ontario's Liberals are pushing Doug Ford's government to sell the province's stockpile of U.S. booze that is sitting in storage.
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TORONTO -- Ontario wrote off more than one billion items of personal protective equipment at a cost of $1.4 billion since 2021, the province's auditor general found.
TORONTO -- Another northern Ontario First Nation has signed a partnership deal with the province to fast track construction on the road to the mineral-rich Ring of Fire.
TORONTO -- Shouts and chants rained down upon politicians at the Ontario legislature Monday as the government passed a housing bill that critics say makes it easier for landlords to evict tenants.
A Norwegian company is investing $3.2 billion to build a synthetic graphite plant in southwestern Ontario.
TORONTO -- The leader of Ontario's official Opposition was kicked out of question period this morning after calling Premier Doug Ford's government "corrupt."
TORONTO -- Ontario Premier Doug Ford says he threatened to beat up a Home Depot shoplifter over the summer.
TORONTO -- Marineland's crumbling infrastructure, staffing shortage and lack of resources have created dangerous conditions for its belugas and they should be moved immediately, a fired beluga trainer says.
TORONTO -- The federal and Ontario governments are urging each other to help 30 belugas at Marineland, which has threatened to euthanize the whales if the park does not receive emergency funds from Ottawa.
Fisheries Minister Joanne Thompson says Marineland's request for emergency funding, in a letter that warned 30 belugas at the park will otherwise be euthanized, is "inappropriate."
Marineland has asked Ottawa for emergency funding to feed and care for its whales, saying euthanasia is otherwise imminent.
TORONTO -- Every time Jason Miles walked out of prison, he would be bigger, stronger and meaner.
TORONTO -- Marineland says it is "profoundly" disappointed by the federal government's decision to deny its request to ship 30 belugas to China.
Ottawa has denied a request from Marineland to send its remaining beluga whales to China, Fisheries Minister Joanne Thompson said Wednesday
TORONTO -- Ontario wrapped up the 2024-25 fiscal year with a significantly lower deficit than initially projected in the budget, yet the province will implement a modified hiring freeze in an effort to control ballooning agencies, Treasury Board President Caroline Mulroney said Friday.
VAUGHAN -- Ontario Premier Doug Ford says the situation at Marineland is "terrible" for the 30 belugas that remain there, the last captive whales in Canada.
TORONTO -- Ontario is set to begin building the road to the Ring of Fire.
TORONTO -- A major transit project in Toronto has been delayed yet again.
Another beluga whale and a harbour seal have died at Marineland, and those deaths have caught the attention of Ontario Premier Doug Ford, The Canadian Press has learned.