Doug Ford will be having an official meeting with Olivia Chow on Monday for the first time since Toronto's election back in June. Matthew Bingley has more.
Toronto's ombudsman is launching an investigation into the city's decision to deny refugee claimants space in city shelters and direct them to federal programs. Ombudsman Kwame Addo says the investigation will determine whether the city met its obligations to treat the claimants and asylum seekers looking for a shelter bed with fairness, dignity, respect and care. City officials announced in May that refugee claimants would be directed away from at-capacity shelters to federal programs because T
TORONTO — Ontario's integrity commissioner says there are "insufficient grounds" for him to conduct a full investigation into whether Premier Doug Ford breached ethics rules regarding his daughter's stag and doe party. NDP Leader Marit Stiles had asked Commissioner J. David Wake to issue an opinion on the event, which was attended by some developers ahead of the government's decision to open several parcels of protected Greenbelt lands for housing development. Wake says in a report today that th
The Ontario government is changing course and reversing a contentious land swap for the province's protected Greenbelt, following weeks of pressure and two ministers' resignations.Premier Doug Ford made the announcement at a news conference in Niagara Falls, Ont. Thursday afternoon."I made a promise to you that I wouldn't touch the Greenbelt. I broke that promise. And for that I'm very, very sorry," Ford said."It was a mistake to open the Greenbelt. It was a mistake to establish a process that m
Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow is backing a transit safety plan to hire 178 new frontline staff, mostly by adding more customer service agents at transit stations. Chow says the extra 130 agents at stations along with an additional 30 field supervisors will help deter security incidents and improve response times. She says the plan proposes using a projected $10.3 million in savings this year from the delayed opening of two LRT projects to help bridge a funding gap until council tackles the 2024 budg
TORONTO — Ontario cabinet minister Kaleed Rasheed resigned as minister of public and business service delivery as well as from the Progressive Conservative caucus Wednesday after news reports raised questions about a Las Vegas trip and his connections to a developer that benefitted from Premier Doug Ford's controversial Greenbelt land swaps. Here is a timeline of events in the controversy: Nov. 4, 2022: Municipal Affairs and Housing Minister Steve Clark announces via news release that Ontario wo
The oil industry knew it was responsible for global warming, and lied about it for decades. California is right to look for ways to make them pay in court.
Ontario Liberal leadership candidates tried to set themselves apart at a debate in Toronto on Monday but all expressed a desire to defeat Premier Doug Ford.The debate, the second of five, took place at the Democracy Forum at Toronto Metropolitan University. It was moderated by the Toronto Star political columnist Martin Regg Cohn. Cohn asked the five candidates why they want to be leader and premier. The candidates are Mississauga Mayor Bonnie Crombie, Toronto Liberal MP Nathaniel Erskine-Smith.
Cassidy Hutchinson explains why the then-president said "I’m not wearing this thing" in 2020.
Polish prime minister, Matesuz Morawiecki, has declared that his country is “no longer transferring weapons to Ukraine”. Instead, it will be focusing on “arming Poland with more modern weapons”. As explosive as the announcement is, it is unlikely to change the situation in Ukraine in the short term.
The gaffe comes as Biden, Trump, and members of Congress face criticism for their advanced age.
The advisory comes a day after tensions escalated over the killing of a Sikh separatist.
The disgraced lawyer responded Wednesday on Newsmax to Cassidy Hutchinson's claims.
SPUTNIKVladimir Putin’s backyard just got a whole lot smaller.A year and a half after the Russian president’s rash, illegal, blundering invasion of Ukraine, Russian peacekeepers have been forced to admit defeat in the faraway enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh, handing control back to Azerbaijan after a 24-hour military offensive, which killed a senior Russian officer.For Azerbaijan, which began talks with Karabakh’s Armenian separatist leaders on Thursday to formally take back control of the region, i
The former president shared the gruesome idea on the same day he vowed, if reelected, to send troops to the border and expand his Muslim travel ban.
Former President Donald Trump took to Truth Social to urge the GOP to hold the line on the"very important" government funding deadline on September 30.
Harry Litman said this person could become "dangerous" for the former president.
On abortion and a few other issues, the former president is using all sorts of rhetorical misdirection to avoid being tagged as an extremist.
It was to be Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelenskiy's first in- person appearance at a U.N. Security Council meeting on Moscow's invasion of his country, and Russian Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia objected to him taking the floor before the 15 council members. Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama, serving as president of the tense session, responded with a gibe at Moscow, which has long said the invasion does not amount to a war but was a "special military operation". "I want to assure our Russian colleagues and everyone here that this is not a special operation by the Albanian presidency," Rama, known for a piercing sense of humor, said to muted laughter across the room.
As it currently stands, legislators are still set to get paid if the government shuts down because they can't come to an agreement to fund it.
Several photos published by Russian-affiliated accounts appear to show Army Gen. Sergey Surovikin in Algeria, experts and observers say.
