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Doug Ford releases a Kathleen Wynne budget
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Evening Update: Ontario budget pledges balanced books next year while warning of economic uncertainty
A man walks in front of Queen’s Park in Toronto, Monday, Feb. 20, 2023. A Progressive Conservative member of Ontario's provincial parliament has resigned from caucus. Premier Doug Ford's office says in a release Friday that Vincent Ke, the member for Don Valley North, will sit as an Independent. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Frank Gunn
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Ontario to end paid sick day program, create new manufacturing tax credit in Thursday’s budget
Ontario Premier Doug Ford, centre, and employee Perry Bastiani, left, demonstrate an island drain assembly next to Ontario Finance Minister Peter Bethlenfalvy, right, as they tour the Oakville Stamping and Bending Limited facility in Oakville, Ont., on Wednesday, March 22, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette
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Ontario budget to include $224-million to build, upgrade training centres, Ford says
Ontario Premier Doug Ford looks on as the legislature resumes at Queen's Park in Toronto on Tuesday, Feb.21, 2023. Ontario's top court has struck down third-party election advertising rules introduced by Premier Doug Ford's government as unconstitutional. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Frank Gunn
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Feds warn Ontario they could shut down development near Rouge Park
Ontario Premier Doug Ford listens to members of the media during a press conference in Ottawa, on Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2023. Ontario's integrity commissioner says he's setting aside a request from the NDP to issue an opinion on Premier Doug Ford's daughter's stag-and-doe event. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Spencer Colby
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Ontario Integrity Commissioner pauses inquiry into Ford wedding, stag-and-doe party
Ontario Premier Doug Ford listens to members of the media during a press conference in Ottawa, on Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2023. Ontario's integrity commissioner says he's setting aside a request from the NDP to issue an opinion on Premier Doug Ford's daughter's stag-and-doe event. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Spencer Colby
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Gardening seems like a metaphor for so much in my life
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Ontario’s 2025 accessibility goals ‘impossible’ without urgent action, report finds
Ontario Premier Doug Ford wis shown at Queen's Park in Toronto, Tuesday, May 3, 2022. A new report says Ontario will not meet its goals of making the province accessible for people with disabilities by 2025 unless its leadership urgently intervenes. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Frank Gunn
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Ontario public health units press province for more stable funding
Ontario Premier Doug Ford answers a question on health care as the legislature resumes at Queen's Park in Toronto on Tuesday, Feb.21, 2023. Ontario's public health units are calling on the government to stop using one-time funding to bridge a gap it created four years ago, and to provide them with a predictable source of money as they address a backlog of services built up over the COVID-19 pandemic. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Frank Gunn
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Ontario has enough land for two million new homes without touching Greenbelt: report
Property at 12045 McCowan Rd. in Stouffville, Ont. is photographed on Jan 16, 2023. Fred Lum/The Globe and Mail. The land is one of several that was bought shortly before an announcement of housing being built on the Greenbelt. Provincial opposition leaders are asking for a probe.
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NDP asks for investigation into Doug Ford over fundraising party, daughter’s wedding
Ontario NDP Leader Marit Stiles speaks for the first time as party leader as the legislature resumes at Queen's Park in Toronto on Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2023. Stiles is asking Ontario's integrity commissioner to issue an opinion on whether Premier Doug Ford's actions surrounding his daughter's stag-and-doe event were improper. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Frank Gunn
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Premier Doug Ford defends plan for private surgeries as Ottawa promises review
Marit Stiles, incoming leader of the Ontario NDP, provides new information related to the integrity commissioner’s Greenbelt investigation during a press conference at Queen’s Park in Toronto, on Wednesday, February 1, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette
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Ontario tables health bill that would shift surgeries to private clinics
Ontario Premier Doug Ford answers a question on health care as the legislature resumes at Queen's Park in Toronto on Tuesday, Feb.21, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Frank Gunn
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Doug Ford faces sharp questions about relationships with developers as legislature resumes
Queen’s Park in Toronto, Monday, Feb. 20, 2023. The Ontario legislature is set to resume sitting after a two-month winter break that began in December. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Frank Gunn
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Doug Ford is meddling with Toronto again
Marcus Gee
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Ontario’s response to trucker convoy in Ottawa ‘troubling,’ report finds
Ontario Premier Doug Ford leaves following a meeting on health care with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Canada's premiers in Ottawa on Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2023 in Ottawa. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
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It's not time to change Toronto leadership: Doug Ford
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Hamilton Centre byelection called to fill former NDP leader Andrea Horwath’s seat
Ontario NDP Leader Andrea Horwath speaks to supporters during her campaign event in Hamilton, Ont., Thursday, June 2, 2022. Ontario Premier Doug Ford has called a byelection for next month to fill the Hamilton seat left vacant by Horwath.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Tara Walton
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Toronto Mayor John Tory submits formal resignation despite Ford, others urging him to stay
Toronto Mayor John Tory speaks in the Toronto city hall council chamber during the Budget meeting, on Wednesday, February 15, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chris Young
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Developers at Doug Ford’s daughter’s wedding only deepen the mystery over his Greenbelt decision
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No, Mr. Ford, it’s not okay to host a party where developers come with cash
Campbell Clark
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Ford denies wrongdoing over developers attending daughter’s wedding and stag and doe
Ontario Premier Doug Ford answers questions following a press conference at a Shoppers Drug Mart pharmacy in Etobicoke, Ont., on Wednesday, January 11, 2023. Ontario Premier Doug Ford says he was cleared by the province's integrity commissioner who found no wrongdoing after developers attended his daughter's stag and doe event last summer.bTHE CANADIAN PRESS/ Tijana Martin
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Canada, Ontario, investing in largest battery storage facility in Six Nations
Ontario Premier Doug Ford speaks to members of the media during a press conference in Ottawa, on Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2023. Ford says he will be asking for more money and a longer term from the federal government on home care and long-term care as negotiations on a new health-care deal continue. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Spencer Colby
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Work left to do on health care deal with Ottawa, Ford says after meeting
Ontario Premier Doug Ford speaks to members of the media during a press conference in Ottawa, on Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2023. Ford says he will be asking for more money and a longer term from the federal government on home care and long-term care as negotiations on a new health-care deal continue. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Spencer Colby
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Ontario to accept new health care funding from Ottawa, health minister confirms
Ontario Health Minister Sylvia Jones makes an announcement on healthcare with Premier Doug Ford in the province in Toronto, Monday, Jan. 16, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Frank Gunn
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Ontario financial watchdog says the province is underspending on health
Ontario Premier Doug Ford speaks with media before making his way to a meeting on health care with the Prime Minister, Tuesday, February 7, 2023 in Ottawa. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
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Key take-aways from new proposed federal health funding
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ServiceOntario expanding online options, soon to include marriage licences
Ontario Premier Doug Ford attends a news conference at the Michener Institute of Education in Toronto, Thursday, Dec. 1, 2022. Ford is set to hold a press conference today, where he is expected to announce that the province will perform thousands more surgeries in private facilities in an effort to tackle the growing backlog. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chris Young
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Health care deal should come shortly after Feb. 7 meeting with Trudeau, Ford says
Ontario Premier Doug Ford speaks as he holds a press conference in Brampton., Ont., on Friday, January 27, 2023. Ontario Premier Doug Ford says he's disappointed the federal environment minister indicated he'd consider intervening in the province's Greenbelt development plans.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette
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Ontario government more than doubles construction funding for nursing homes
Construction of the Humber Meadows Long Term Care Home, is photographed on Mar 15, 2022. Fred Lum/The Globe and Mail. Built on property belonging to the Humber River Hospital, the home should be completed by 2023.
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Ford ‘disappointed’ with federal Environment Minister’s Greenbelt comments
Ontario Premier Doug Ford speaks as he holds a press conference in Brampton., Ont., on Friday, January 27, 2023. Ontario Premier Doug Ford says he's disappointed the federal environment minister indicated he'd consider intervening in the province's Greenbelt development plans.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette
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Ontario Premier Doug Ford ‘very confident’ in health-care deal with Ottawa, softens stance on funding demand
Ontario Premier Doug Ford speaks as he holds a press conference regarding the Toronto Metropolitan University's new School of Medicine in Brampton., Ont., on Friday, January 27, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette
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How Doug Ford can turn carbon taxes conservative
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Private facilities will bring much needed competition to Canadian health care
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Ontario to remove registration requirement for out-of-province health care workers
A health-care worker is seen at Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children, on Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2022.<i data-stringify-type="italic" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(29, 28, 29); font-family: Slack-Lato, Slack-Fractions, appleLogo, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(248, 248, 248); text-decoration-thickness: initial;">Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children says it has taken down two websites after detecting "potential unusual activity," the latest disruption to Canada's largest pediatric hospital weeks after it was hit by a ransomware attack.&nbsp;</i>THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chris Young