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MONTREAL — Six days before the nail-biting 1995 Quebec referendum that nearly tore the country apart, Jean Chrétien told his ministers to keep their cool. The prime minister acknowledged that day that Quebecers might vote to separate from Canada on Oct. 30. He told his cabinet it wasn’t the time to discuss the consequences of […]

TORONTO — Canadian politicians are calling on Stellantis to fulfil its commitment to workers at the company’s assembly plant in Brampton, Ont., after the automaker announced plans to shift Jeep production slated for the plant to the United States. Ontario Premier Doug Ford said the company has a duty to live up to its promise […]

TORONTO — When Hudson’s Bay filed for creditor protection and closed its stores, it left thousands of pieces of art and artifacts the retailer owned in need of a new home. Later this year, some will learn their fate. Here’s how the auction process will unfold. What pieces are available? The retailer had 4,400 items […]

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 […]