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TORONTO — Ontario Premier Doug Ford is calling on Stellantis to “live up to their promise” to Brampton workers after the automaker was reported to be moving production slated for an assembly plant to Illinois. In a statement, Ford says he has spoken with Stellantis to stress his “disappointment with their decision to prioritize investment […]

TORONTO — The union representing more than 10,000 full-time college support staff at Ontario’s 24 colleges has reached a tentative agreement after nearly five weeks on strike. Terms of the proposed settlement were not immediately available. The Ontario Public Service Employees Union says picket lines will come down today and the details of the tentative […]

TORONTO — A union representing autoworkers at the Brampton Assembly Plant in Ontario says Jeep production that had been slated there is being moved to Illinois. Unifor says the move is included in a plan announced by automaker Stellantis on Tuesday to expand U.S. production by 50 per cent over the next four years. It […]

TORONTO — Oliver Ekman-Larsson and John Tavares each had a goal and two assists as the Toronto Maple Leafs snapped a two-game slide by downing the Nashville Predators 7-4 on Tuesday. Auston Matthews had a pair of goals, including one into an empty net, while Jake McCabe and Bobby McMann provided the rest of the […]

OTTAWA — The office of federal Housing Minister Gregor Robertson says the Liberal government remains committed to cutting municipal development charges in half, after the minister was vague about fulfilling the promise at a news conference in Toronto on Tuesday. Robertson was asked if the government was still going to cut the fees to lower […]

TORONTO — Seven people were injured, four of them critically, after a natural gas fire broke out at a building under construction in Toronto’s north end Tuesday morning. Police say emergency crews responded to a report of an explosion inside a building on Esther Shiner Boulevard near Provost Drive around 9:30 a.m. Toronto paramedics said […]

TORONTO — Ontario is spending $75 million to broadcast a new anti-tariff ad in the United States, aimed at Republican voters. The advertisement uses audio of former U.S. president Ronald Reagan speaking in 1987 about tariffs, saying they do not work in the long term. Premier Doug Ford says Reagan, his favourite American president, will […]

TORONTO — Ontario Premier Doug Ford says he threatened to beat up a Home Depot shoplifter over the summer. Ford told an audience at the Empire Club in Toronto that bail needs to be strengthened because criminals have become emboldened. The premier relayed a story from the summer when he said he ditched his police […]

As debate around speed cameras in Ontario heated up this summer, residents may have received suspicious text messages saying they had been caught speeding by the cameras and needed to pay a fine. The text messages claimed to be from “Service Ontario” and threatened to suspend the receiver’s driver’s licence if a payment wasn’t made. […]

TORONTO — Two Canadians who were on board a Gaza-bound flotilla that was intercepted by Israeli forces say their experience in detention was “horrific” and they are relieved to finally be home. Ontario residents Khurram Musti Khan and Mskwaasin Agnew were among six Canadians on board the Conscience vessel that was intercepted on Oct. 8. […]