Latest Provincial Political News

Latest Provincial Political News

Premier Doug Ford attends a luncheon hosted for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Poland Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki in Toronto on June 2, 2023. New Democrats have twice demonstrated that they can’t win power but there are Liberal leadership contenders up to the task, Martin Regg Cohn writes.

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Martin Regg Cohn: Who can play dragon slayer and defeat Doug Ford? Here’s where we’ll find them

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Should people have access to their partner’s violent history? Ontario is one step closer to making it happen

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As wildfires worsen air quality, Doug Ford urges Ontarians to avoid campfires — but stops short of a fire ban

Ontario bails out nursing home over $1.7M cost of caring for resident with obesity

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Paul Bernardo prison transfer ‘inexplicable,’ says public safety minister, as Doug Ford calls for Corrections boss to quit or be fired

Stellantis halted construction in Windsor of its $5-billion joint venture with Korea-based LG Energy Solution on May 15.

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Stellantis considering Ottawa’s enriched subsidy offer as Windsor EV battery plant hangs in the balance

York Catholic Education has decided to not fly the Pride flag at the school boards head office in Aurora. By refusing to raise the Pride flag at their main office, Catholic school trustees in York Region are giving Ontario a lesson in the politics of religious intolerance and intransigence, Martin Regg Cohn writes.

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Martin Regg Cohn: York’s Catholic school trustees are abusing their power by refusing to raise the Pride flag. Their day of reckoning is coming

No major political party has yet found the political will to dismantle this province’s separate school system but that can change, Martin Regg Cohn...

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Doug Ford says schoolgirl killer Paul Bernardo ‘should rot in a maximum-security prison,’ as surprise transfer undergoes review

Ontario is singled out in an electricity regulator’s report warning two-thirds of North America is “at risk of energy shortfalls this summer” should temperatures spike.

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If the hot weather keeps up, Ontario is ‘at risk’ of power shortages this summer, report finds

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Quebec Premier François Legault speaks to officials while forest fires are raging as he visits the crisis operation centre in Quebec City, Wednesday, June 7, 2023. Quebec's wildfire fight is focused today again in the province's northern regions where fires have reached the doorstep of a small municipality in the western Abitibi region.

Quebec fires: fierce fight in Normétal as flames within 500 metres of municipality

Quebec’s forest fire prevention agency says it is confident the small community can be protected and that winds in the region are less strong than...

Quebec expands law for doctor-assisted death, permits early requests for procedure

More evacuations in Quebec as record-breaking fires continue to burn

Industry, conservationists welcome Ottawa’s delay on B.C. salmon farm transition plan

Quebec Premier François Legault, left, responds to the Opposition during question period, Wednesday, June 8, 2022 at the legislature in Quebec City. The members of Quebec's national assembly have voted to increase their base salaries by $30,000.

Quebec provincial politicians vote to increase base pay by $30,000

Judge rejects Montreal homeless camp injunction, site to be dismantled by June 15

Quebec Premier Francois Legault checks the map where forest fires are raging as he visits the crisis operation centre, in Quebec City, Monday, June 5, 2023. Legault is visiting the community of Sept-Iles, meeting civil security officials and forest firefighter teams.

‘A situation that’s unprecedented.’ Quebec confronted with over 150 wildfires

B.C. officials push back against safe supply critics and their ‘polarizing rhetoric’

Launch of search for graves at former Yukon residential school triggers raw emotions

Identity, not ideology, key to Alberta political divide, survey suggests

Uncertainty remains for Halifax-area evacuees as wildfire 100 per cent contained

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Chantal Hébert: Pierre Poilievre is wasting his chance to become prime minister

It is increasingly difficult to divorce the Liberals’ resilience from the repeated failures of the latest Conservative leader, Chantal Hébert writes.

Activists in Canada aim to carry torch for Hong Kong’s silenced Tiananmen vigil

Bridge that closed on Quebec’s north shore, isolating communities, to partly reopen

Statue of Queen Elizabeth repaired and reinstalled, two years after vandalism

A helicopter drops water on a hot spot at a wildfire in Tantallon, N.S. in this Thursday, June 1, 2023 handout photo.

Halifax-area residents board buses to view dozens of homes destroyed by wildfires

Independent probe into Montreal’s Lakeshore hospital ER includes 135 recommendations

Quebec government moves to ban planned obsolescence, ensure products can be repaired

Northwest Territories releases strategy to address homelessness

B.C. Health Minister Adrian Dix speaks during an announcement at Langara College in Vancouver, on Monday, January 9, 2023. Pharmacists in British Columbia will have more responsibilities starting June 1 in an effort to improve access for those without a family doctor and ease the stress on an overburdened health-care system.

B.C. pharmacists set to treat minor ailments, prescribe contraception starting June 1