While Doug Ford has not endorsed a candidate to be Toronto’s next mayor, how the most prominent candidates are positioning themselves when it comes to Ford could shift not only votes but the crucial f...

After months on his political backfoot, Doug Ford was on the offensive this week, squaring off with Donald Trump in a war of words. Political analysts and experts say the fight plays to the premier's ...

Five communities Premier Doug Ford’s government promised to repay for costs they incurred because of the Greenbelt scandal say years later they are still waiting for the PCs to make good on their pled...

Businesses and labour groups are watching with a mix of anxiety and hope as a key trade moment arrives on Wednesday, as Premier Doug Ford sets off on his third trip in less than a month to meet with U...

The group that represents all 444 of Ontario’s municipalities says Doug Ford’s push to appoint regional chairs is undemocratic and needs to be reversed. But the premier is defending the move this week...

The reality of Premier Doug Ford’s changes to Ontario’s freedom of information system are beginning to take hold as rejections and denials make their way to requesters.

Premier Doug Ford’s government is on pace to sit for the fewest days of any Ontario government over the past five decades in a year when voters aren’t headed to the polls. And experts warn the decisio...

When Paul Calandra stepped to the microphone last week ahead of contract talks with Ontario’s education unions he projected a tone of optimism. A day later, union leaders held a news conference of the...

Ontario’s finance minister says there will be "flexibility" to rules requiring all civil servants to work five days a week in the office during the FIFA World Cup, as unions representing those workers...

The arms-length federal agency that operates Billy Bishop airport says a proposed expansion of the facility could cost as much as $5 billion and will be paid for travellers and not taxpayers.

Doug Ford’s now grounded plan to buy a private jet highlights a trend of softening support for the premier and his government, say some experts and polling analysts, who warn that the controversy coul...

More than a year after the Ford government was to have started a mandatory review of the Greenbelt, Ontario’s municipal affairs minister won’t say where the key study of the ecologically sensitive zon...

Politicians return to Queen’s Park Monday for a shortened spring session, as Premier Doug Ford’s government is set to unveil its eight budget in just days. The legislature returns a month later than u...

Statues on the grounds of the Ontario Legislature will be covered in wrapping to protect them from vandalism ahead of expected protests at Queen’s Park this spring.

Premier Doug Ford is defending his government’s health-care record ahead of his eighth budget, even as the province’s hospitals say they face a billion-dollar structural funding deficit.

A year after winning a third-straight majority government on a pledge to “protect Ontario’ from U.S. tariffs, the fight against Donald Trump continues to fuel Doug Ford’s policy and politics.  And exp...

Premier Doug Ford’s government says it has not signed any new leases or purchased real estate to accommodate 60,000 public sector workers ordered to return to the office five days a week, as unions re...

Transit experts and opposition critics say the Ontario government has to learn from its communications mistakes on the Eglinton Crosstown LRT to ensure the rollout of the remaining pieces of its multi...

Ontario’s Progressive Conservatives will not allow reporters to attend their annual gathering in Toronto this weekend, a move critics say breaks from democratic norms.

Ontario’s workplace safety board is defending an advertising campaign that critics say is designed to improve its reputation, with some saying the funds should be spent helping injured workers.

Ontario sent a blunt message to U.S. booze suppliers when it yanked their alcohol off its shelves last year, pledging to redirect customers to local producers, and those businesses say they’re trying ...

Ontario appears set to push ahead with a ban on declawing cats and debarking and ear cropping dogs, a move animal welfare advocates say is years overdue and doesn’t go far enough.

Ontario’s finance minister says nothing short of full removal of tariffs will bring U.S. booze back to LCBO shelves, doubling-down on a trade irritant that has continued to frustrate President Donald ...

Ontario’s municipal affairs minister says the province will move forward with a much-delayed mandatory review of the Greenbelt, but opposition critics say there's still no word on when the study of th...

Less than half of the province’s “strong mayors” were using their controversial powers in the months ahead of a sweeping expansion of the system to 170 additional communities, according to estimates b...

Ontario’s fiscal watchdog says the province could avoid a recession this year, but the findings of his latest report show the trade war with the U.S. is taking a bite out of Ontario’s economy. The dat...

A mandatory review of the Greenbelt that was to have started earlier this year has yet to begin, and critics are demanding “substantive guardrails” around the Ford government’s assessment of the prote...

The latest scandal at Queen’s Park revolves around the Skills Development Fund – a little known pocket of government funding for organizations to address challenges in hiring, training or retraining w...

The return to office last week by thousands of Ontario public servants has been "disrespectful,”  “piecemeal” and filled with “unnecessary confusion,” say the workers' unions, who point out some minis...

Ontario’s legislature returns today for what some experts say will be a short, but packed session, as economic storm clouds swirl over the province and questions linger about a multi-billion dollar sk...

Ontario’s Progressive Conservatives outspent their opponents during last winter’s provincial election by more than $6 million, but one of their nearest rivals says the governing party had a “massive h...

Ontario’s two largest opposition parties are grappling with dissension within their ranks, and experts say the work to unify their members and rebuild their parties will be difficult and could complic...

Ontario NDP members will pass judgment on Marit Stiles's leadership this weekend, a mandatory review that comes just one week after a similar vote by provincial Liberals forced the resignation of thei...

Bonnie Crombie is out as Ontario Liberal Leader after scoring a weak mandate in a leadership review Sunday, as insiders and experts say the party will now continue a difficult rebuild while once again...

Bonnie Crombie’s political future will be in the hands of Ontario Liberals this weekend, as she faces a mandatory leadership review to determine if she’ll stay on as head of the provincial party.

Ontario has had no talks to buy back Highway 407, despite repeated musings from the Doug Ford government over the past year about potentially re-acquiring the toll expressway to reduce gridlock in the...

Ontario’s sluggish home construction market is beginning to trigger job losses in the trades and hurt the province’s economy, experts say, even as the province moves to refine its housing policy and b...

Ontario’s housing minister says he is open to changing a billion-dollar fund designed to reward municipalities building new homes, but critics say even the tweaks he’s contemplating won’t get shovels ...

Ontario hasn't provided a public update on when a major Mississauga transit line will be completed in more than five years, according to internal documents, as work continues on the light-rail project...

Ontario NDP Leader Marit Stiles says finishing second in the last provincial election wasn't good enough, and that she isn’t taking anything for granted ahead of a mandatory leadership review at next ...

Bonnie Crombie faces a mandatory leadership review at the party’s annual general meeting and, under the organization’s bylaws, needs over 50 per cent support to stay on. But a group of Liberals have e...

Metrolinx’s new CEO will make less than his controversial predecessor, but could be eligible for an annual performance bonus of more than six figures. That’s according to new, previously unreleased in...

Premier Doug Ford says Ontario will try to hit its climate change targets by 2030, despite internal documents suggesting the province is not on track to meet the emissions reduction goals.

Ontario is not on track to hit a key climate change target with less than five years to go, civil servants have told the province's new environment minister — information that appears to contradict hi...

Ontario’s target of building 1.5 million homes by 2031 may not be enough to meet demand, civil servants have told the province’s new municipal affairs minister, saying that 2.1 million homes could ins...

The battle lines in Toronto’s next mayoral election are quietly being drawn as possible candidates - including Olivia Chow and John Tory - survey the field to determine who is in and who is out.

Ontario appears to be months behind on a mandatory review of the Greenbelt, and opposition politicians and environmentalists are asking for a wide-ranging and transparent study of the protected lands ...

Doug Ford says pulling down internal trade barriers will be among his first orders of business when Ontario's legislature resumes next month, and experts say the premier should start by addressing rul...

Fresh off his third straight election win last month, Ontario Premier Doug Ford seems content to watch the fight to form the next federal government from the sidelines, a battle experts say he may not...