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EV road trip: Taking the scenic route to Prince Edward County
The 2022 Jaguar I-Pace parked in Brighton, Ont. during a road trip to Prince Edward County.
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Parks Canada to monitor grizzly cub orphaned when mother fatally hit by truck
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Where development clashes with conservation
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Is it legal to text and drive if I’m in a Tim Hortons drive-through?
A Tim Hortons employee hands out coffee from a drive-thru window to a customer in Mississauga, Ont., on March 17, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette
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Communities across B.C. brace for potential flooding this weekend and next week
Highway 1 is pictured during a fly over the flood damage in Abbotsford, B.C., November 23, 2021. Another patch in British Columbia's damaged highway system has been completed as the province reopened Highway 1 through the Fraser Canyon on Monday. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan Hayward
politics
Highway 413 is proposed to carve through farmland in Caledon, Ont., reversing years of effort to contain sprawl, critics say
Dan O’Reilly, living on the farm that’s been in his family for 180 years, holds a framed photo of his grandfather standing in the spot he h now stands on, is photographed on May 18, 2022. Fred Lum/The Globe and Mail. His property is 1.5 km away from the planned route of the proposed Highway 413, which he is against.
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Ontario election: Doug Ford defends delayed Ottawa visit, plugs highway widening
Conservative leader Doug Ford makes a campaign stop in Ottawa on Monday, May 30, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
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The construction of Highway 413 would negatively impact the environment, not help it, say scientific researchers
Signs against the proposed Highway 413, placed on Dan O’Reilly’s property in Bolton, Ont., are photographed on May 18, 2022. Fred Lum/The Globe and Mail.
politics
Ontario election today: NDP, Liberals, Greens promise to repeal cap on public sector wage increases
An Elections Ontario sign is seen at University - Rosedale voting location at the Toronto Reference Library on June 7, 2018. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Marta Iwanek
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Ontario’s proposed Highway 413 outside of Toronto paves a divide between farmers, developers
Philip Armstrong, centre, stands with his partners and family; nephew Lucas Armstrong, left, and son Richard Armstrong, right, at their family dairy farm, Armstrong Manor Farm, in Caledon, Ontario on Tuesday May 24, 2022. They is preparing for his new neighbour, the proposed Highway 413. Aaron Vincent Elkaim
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Truckers laud Highway 413′s potential improvements for Peel Region while opponents warn environmental toll could erase benefits
Truck driver Jagroop Bhandal photographed on an overpass in Milton on Saturday May 7, 2022. Bhandal's route, from Milton to Oshawa, has become frustrating because of traffic. He supports the proposed Highway 413, a major election promise of Ontario PC Leader Doug Ford. Baljit Singh/The Globe and Mail
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Two senior Mounties exempted from cross-examination at mass shooting inquiry
RCMP officers maintain a checkpoint on a road Portapique, N.S. on Wednesday, April 22, 2021. RCMP say at least 22 people are dead after a man who at one point wore a police uniform and drove a mock-up cruiser, went on a murder rampage in Portapique and several other Nova Scotia communities. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Andrew Vaughan
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Ahead of the Ontario election, suburban activists take on the proposed 413 highway
Janet Duval, a local climate activist in Georgetown, Ontario, and who is against the proposed Highway 413, is photographed on May 16, 2022. Fred Lum/The Globe and Mail. An anti-413 sign is placed on the lawn outside her Georgetown, Ontario home.
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COVID-19 disrupts Ontario election campaign as NDP’s Andrea Horwath, Greens’ Mike Schreiner test positive
Ontario NDP Leader Andrea Horwath greets supporters as she leaves an NDP campaign rally in Brampton, Ont., Saturday. May 14, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Cole Burston
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Forest fire in northeast Ontario community forces residents to evacuate
politics
Ontario election: Five highlights from the televised leaders’ debate
Ontario Progressive Conservative Party Leader Doug Ford, left to right, Ontario New Democratic Party Leader Andrea Horwath, Ontario Liberal Party Leader Steven Del Duca and Green Party of Ontario Leader Mike Schreiner debate during the Ontario party leaders' debate, in Toronto, Monday, May 16, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Frank Gunn
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Liberal candidate for Brampton East contradicts Del Duca on Highway 413
Ontario Liberal Party Leader Steven Del Duca speaks during the Ontario party leaders' debate, in Toronto, Monday, May 16, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Frank Gunn
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Ontario Progressive Conservatives tout expansion of GO train service to Bowmanville
Ontario Premier Doug Ford speaks at a campaign event in Pickering, Ont., Wednesday, May 5, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Frank Gunn
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Ontario leaders debate Ford’s controversial Highway 413 in kick-off to 2022 election campaign
Ontario Premier Doug Ford attends a photo opportunity on a construction site in Brampton, as he starts his re-election campaign, on Wednesday, May 4, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chris Young
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One dead, one injured in plane crash west of Calgary
A small aircraft lies in a field next to the Trans-Canada Highway, within sight of the Springbank airport, after a fatal crash in Cochrane, west of Calgary, Alta., Friday, April 22, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Dave Chidley