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Canadians rallied around the Toronto Blue Jays ahead of a Major League Baseball game on Saturday that could produce the country's first World Series victory in more than three decades, in a fraught political and economic climate.
The minister of the environment, conservation and parks announced the changes Friday morning, along with the creation of the Ontario Provincial Conservation Authority.
In his first campaign to lead Ontario, Ford started out as a Trump-style populist. But tariffs changed his view and he is now a consistent thorn in the U.S. president's side.
The tense exchange happened after an anti-tariff commercial aired by Ontario infuriated the Trump administration.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford has called on Pete Hoekstra, the U.S. ambassador to Canada, to apologize to Ontario’s representative in Washington
The fact Ford delayed pulling the ad to Monday to allow the ad to air during the first two World Series games irritated Trump. He called the move a “hostile act” and responded by announcing plans to raise tariffs on Canada by an additional 10 percent over the weekend.
Environmental Defence executive director Tim Gray called the legislation a “messy, complicated bill” that attacks progressive housing and transportation policy and centralizes power with the province. The bill will allow Ontario to overrule municipal official plans, trumping planning local authority, he said.
Ontario’s Bill 56 has passed, banning municipal speed cameras. The devices must be removed by Nov. 14. We break down what the new law means for drivers and cities.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford may have sparked a cross-border brouhaha when his government funded and aired an anti-tariff advertisement that infuriated U.S. President Donald Trump, but Ford is now trying to play the role of peacemaker after a high-profile,
Call 1-800-Doug Ford … doctors, come see us,” Ontario Premier Doug Ford told Quebec physicians frustrated by the Legault government’s new doctor-compensation law. The remark, made Wednesday, drew an immediate rebuke from Quebec Premier François Legault,
Canadian officials may have said they were caught off guard last week when U.S. President Donald Trump announced he was cutting off trade negotiations with Canada over Ontario's anti-tariff advertisement,