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Ontario NDP Leader asks watchdog to investigate Ontario Place deal for waterfront spa
The Ontario government has released the terms of its 95-year lease with European company Therme for the spa and waterpark it plans to build at Ontario Place, and it shows the province has promised 1,600 parking spaces for the private facility. Markings for construction crews are seen at Ontario Place in Toronto on Friday, November 3, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chris Young
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Ontario government to investigate Catholic school board’s $145,000 trip to Italy
Ontario Minister Education Minister Jill Dunlop, walks to a press conference at Queen’s Park in Toronto, on Monday, Feb 26, 2024. An increasing number of Ontario school boards are reporting deficits and are using or even depleting their reserves, according to internal Ministry of Education briefing documents. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Arlyn McAdorey
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Ontario to speed up environmental assessments, property acquisitions for Highway 413
Ontario's transportation minister says he plans to introduce legislation that would speed up property acquisitions for highways such as the planned Highway 413 and accelerate that project's environmental assessment. Signage for newly-announced Highway 413 is seen during a news conference in Caledon, Ont., Tuesday, April 30, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Cole Burston
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Ontario municipalities say new legislation on bike lane approvals is overreach of power
Ontario's municipalities say the upcoming legislation requiring provincial approval to install bike lanes that remove a lane for cars is a "significant overreach" of power. A cyclist rides on the designated Bloor Street bike lane in Toronto on Thursday, October 12, 2017. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette
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Ontario’s top court orders new hearing for youth-led climate change case
The Ontario Court of Appeal is seen in Toronto, Monday, April 8, 2019. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Colin Perkel
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School board art trip to Italy that cost $145,000 questioned by Ontario Education Minister
Ontario Minister of Colleges and Universities Jill Dunlop sits at the Ontario Legislature in Toronto, on Tuesday, May 28, 2024.Ontario's Ministry of Education is investigating a Toronto District School Board field trip that saw students from 15 schools attend a protest on mercury contamination that is affecting a First Nation community in the north.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chris Young
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Ontario set to ban new bike lanes installed without provincial approval
A cyclist on Harbord Street, Toronto, September 20, 2023.
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Ontario taxpayers fork over $4.3-million to settle legal costs in Bill 124 cases
Ontario taxpayers have forked over $4.3 million in legal fees after the province lost two court cases defending a wage-cap law that was struck down as unconstitutional, The Canadian Press has learned. Nurses and their supporters protest Premier Doug Ford and Ontario's Bill 124 on the sidewalk in front of the constituency office of PC MPP for Ottawa West-Nepean Jeremy Roberts in Ottawa, on Friday, March 4, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang
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Ontario failing to adequately enforce rules on dirt excavated during construction, critics warn
A filled dump truck departs a condominium construction site in downtown Toronto on Nov. 2, 2022. Photos by Matthew McClearn/The Globe and Mail
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Ontario Liberals, behind the PCs on fundraising, to make year-end pitch at leader’s dinner
Ontario Liberal Leader Bonnie Crombie attends the International Ploughing Match in Lindsay, Ont., Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chris Young
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Ontario government engineers start work-to-rule campaign in contract dispute
Queen’s Park is seen in Toronto, Monday, Feb. 20, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Frank Gunn
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The economic cost of ‘free’ roads is high. The political benefits are higher
Tony Keller
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Tenant’s rights group labels investor province’s top ‘renovictor’
Rental signs are seen in Toronto, Ont.,, on Thursday April 20, 2023. (Christopher Katsarov/The Globe and Mail)
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Ontario MPP seeks paid provincial holiday for National Day for Truth and Reconciliation
Deputy Leader of Ontario NDP Sol Mamakwa gives remarks at a press conference announcing intention to litigate against the Government over contamination of Grassy Narrows, in Toronto on Tuesday, June 4, 2024. Ontario's only First Nation representative at Queen's Park will soon table a motion in his own language to declare the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation a paid provincial holiday. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Christopher Katsarov
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Doug Ford’s proposed tunnel under Highway 401 is transparently political
Marcus Gee
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Hope, history and hubris: Why it’s hard to walk away in politics – even from a dumpster fire
Shannon Proudfoot
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Ontario pushes for stricter bail rules with new cabinet role
Justice of the Peace Julie Lauzon is being returned to the bench following a Court of Appeal ruling in her favour finding the punishment she received for writing a 2016 column criticizing Canada's bail system was unjust. The Ontario Court of Appeal is seen in Toronto on Monday, April 8, 2019. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Colin Perkel
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Doug Ford is driving Ontario down the wrong road
The Editorial Board
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TDSB trustees want Ontario to speed up probe after students appear to attend pro-Palestinian protest
A Toronto District School Board sign is shown in front of a high school in Toronto on Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2018. Canada's largest school board has voted to make its required English credit for Grade 11 students a class focused on Indigenous works. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Frank Gunn
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Delays, municipal fees behind slow home construction in Ontario, report finds
Construction site of townhouses is pictured in the east end of Toronto on February 21, 2024 (Laura Proctor/The Globe and Mail)
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