Chow said 28,000 seniors would be supported by the measures, with 5,000 gaining access to free home support.

Toronto mayoral candidate Brad Bradford has committed to reducing Torontonians’ water bills by 25 per cent if elected.

Canada’s National Observer has decided to publish the segment of the Zoom call that corroborates its reporting.

After Rory White revealed a Toronto mayoral campaign is putting AI-written comments in its supporters' mouths, political insiders were quick to dismiss it as run-of-the-mill politicking. So why does i...

The Victory App, a campaign tool built by the Israeli company LogiVote, prompted users to participate in a mission to post AI-written comments supportive of Toronto mayoral candidate Brad Bradford.

The Victory App, a campaign tool built by the Israeli company LogiVote, prompted users to participate in a mission to post AI-written comments supportive of Toronto mayoral candidate Brad Bradford.

Councillors in Mississauga, Ont., voted 11-0 on Wednesday morning to enact a temporary ban on new data centre development in the city. But in nearby Vaughan, where a multibillion-dollar Microsoft expa...

Municipalities are largely responsible for your health, safety and well-being.

As Prime Minister Mark Carney's government geared up to pitch projects from LNG pipelines to gold mines, hundreds of protesters were downtown in hopes of crashing the night’s opening gala.

‘We were essentially silenced’: current and former Ministry of Environment officials say they were powerless after Doug Ford killed the Endangered Species Act

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Studies show that they cut down commute times and transportation costs for cyclists, and even drivers.

Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow says the province walked away from compromises to restore traffic lanes while keeping bike lanes on major streets.

The websites present crude, AI-generated slop disguised as the voice of real Albertans. But they're made in Florida — and they're not even targeting Albertans directly.

Hail, rain and lightning knocked down trees, closed the Don Valley Parkway, damaged Rogers Stadium and shuttered parts of the subway system.

Amazon, Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, Meta, Microsoft and more all signed onto the framework, which was announced by AI Minister Evan Solomon on Thursday.

A severe thunderstorm warning on Wednesday preceded hail, rain, thunder and lightning that left thousands without power and water running down the streets of the city.

A clearer picture of Toronto’s cycling network, shaped by expert interviews and a Canada’s National Observer analysis of City of Toronto documents, suggests the Ford government’s move to rip bike lane...

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Federal reports warn Kinross Gold’s proposed Great Bear mine in Ontario could release arsenic and require water treatment ‘in perpetuity.’

According to the Pembina Institute, it's cheaper under the current system for a company to let a well sit inactive for years or even decades until the company goes bankrupt or the well can be transfer...

On Tuesday, the government announced it had put out a request for proposals to take out the 19 kilometres of bike lanes in order to replace them with vehicle lanes, which run along Bloor Street, Yonge...

As climate change forces millennia-old Inuit cultures to adapt, the people themselves are at the frontlines of an effort to understand one of its most important ecosystems.

A sewage leak at the community's nursing station prompted Chief Gary Quisess to declare a state of emergency. More than 250 of the community's most vulnerable are staying in a Toronto hotel.

The Ontario government's proposal includes little detailed information and no indication of whether this new framework will complement the data regulations that municipalities have been working toward...

A team of coastal flooding experts are studying the risk presented by impulse waves and how communities could respond.

Ontario's premier was in Guelph at a provincial data centre to announce the province’s framework for its Data Centre Playbook, which is open for public comment for 30 days.

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The Court of Appeal ruled Friday that Bill 212 is “the sort of decision legislatures make routinely without attracting any concerns about the constitutionality of their actions.”

Ontario Premier Doug Ford was in Guelph at a provincial data centre when he announced the province’s framework for its Data Centre Playbook, which is open for public comment for thirty days.

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The moratorium, known as an interim control bylaw, passed unanimously during a special council meeting on Tuesday afternoon after being proposed just one day earlier.

All but one of the 16 elected officials in the city had voted in favour of a bylaw that would put a pause on new data centres in the city for a year. Then, at a council meeting the following month whe...

A proposed one-year pause on data centre applications was supported 11-0; the bylaw is subject to final approval in September.

Data centre companies will have to cover 100 per cent of their energy costs to connect to Ontario's power grid, Energy Minister Stephen Lecce said Tuesday — but some observers say the spike in demand ...

Toronto city council passed a motion on Wednesday demanding that the province repeal Bill 110