The Ford government will give parents in Ontario cash for tutoring to help students recover from learning lost to more than two years of COVID-19 pandemic disruptions. Critics say they should adequately fund public education instead.
The throne speech read by Lt.-Gov. Elizabeth Dowdeswell Tuesday stayed the course set by the Progressive Conservatives’ spring campaign despite rapidly rising inflation and an ever-worsening health-care crisis in the months since the party won a second majority on June 2.
Pride Montreal, the organization that runs the city's annual celebration of LGBTQ communities, is conducting an internal investigation after it abruptly cancelled the official Pride parade on Sunday, August 9, 2022.
Sources close to the government's proposed $5.3-billion dental-care program say the Liberals are planning a temporary solution that involves giving money directly to patients in order to keep their promise to the NDP while they work on a permanent answer.
Condolences from Canadian politicians past and present poured out Monday, August 8, 2022, as they learned about the death of Bill Graham, who served as foreign affairs minister when the country decided against joining the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003.
The birds no longer sing. The fish no longer swim in rivers that have turned a murky brown. The animals do not roam, and the cows are sometimes found dead.
Over the last year, President Joe Biden watched pieces of his domestic agenda get thrown overboard in an effort to keep it afloat. Free community college, child care funding, expanded preschool — all left behind.
Helicopters have begun bringing essential supplies to southern Newfoundland towns cut off from the rest of the island by two out−of−control forest fires.
The Inflation Reduction Act — Joe Biden’s $740-billion package tackling climate, the deficit and health care — is a far cry from his original, even bigger ambitions, but it still represents a major triumph for the U.S. president.