“This decision directly harms business and private investment in our city, said Keanin Loomis, the president and CEO of the Hamilton Chamber of Commerce.
Moments after Andrew Scheer announced on Thursday, December 13, 2019, his intention to resign as Conservative party leader, speculation turned to who will replace him.
Budget cuts by the Ontario government may bring an end to the use of legal aid support to help vulnerable people fight the global climate change emergency. Doug Ford's government triggered the cuts in its first provincial budget last April as it slashed funding to Legal Aid Ontario by 30 per cent.
Legal Aid Ontario is cutting jobs and "exploring regulatory changes to support service improvements, efficiencies and cost savings" after the Doug Ford government delivered the biggest budget cut in the agency's history.
Ontario's legal aid agency will consult the public on ways they can continue serving the province's low-income population after Ontario Premier Doug Ford delivered the largest cut to the organization in two decades.
Ontario residents who need a lawyer but cannot afford one may soon be affected by dramatic cuts announced on Thursday in the Ford government's first budget. This is among a series of sweeping changes that the government says is part of "modernizing" the justice system and saving money.
Doug Ford is dismantling a support service designed to give municipalities more say over city development and empower Ontarians in local decision-making — a move critics are calling another blow to local democracy and a win for developers.
"I was eight years old and I was at the rally with my T-shirt," said Ontario MPP Amanda Simard in an emotional speech to the legislature. "And now, 20 years later, we're still fighting to preserve the rights that we have gained."
Following a chorus of outrage over plans to eliminate the office of a French-languages commissionner and cancel plans for a French-language university, Ontario Premier Doug Ford has offered an olive branch to the province's francophones, announcing a new ministry and proposing amendments to controversial legislation.
In the wake of Ontario Premier Doug Ford's decision to cancel francophone services in the province, Federal Tourism and Official Languages Minister Mélanie Joly said "I think Mr. Ford needs a history lesson about bilingualism and the linguistic duality of the country. I invite him to look at history books.”
Ontario Attorney General Caroline Mulroney should step down rather than go to bat for Premier Doug Ford’s use of a loophole in the Constitution to override democratic rights, say some prominent critics.
Ontario Attorney General Caroline Mulroney was conspicuously absent as her premier told reporters on Monday afternoon that he planned to suspend constitutional rights in Toronto following a stunning rebuke from the courts.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford's Progressive Conservative government says it is going to ask the courts to stop the Trudeau government's efforts to fight climate change.