Ontario politics

Ontario’s “extremely worrisome” recent track record on climate has cost the province nearly $10.5 billion in lost revenues, legal fees and compensation for cancelled contracts, according to a new report.

The pandemic has only made it harder for community groups to run programs on school property, says a coalition pushing to turn schools into community hubs.

Premier Doug Ford said Monday he wants Ontario's energy grid to be "100 per cent" clean. Emissions are expected to triple in the next eight years as his government phases in natural gas plants.

The rising cost of housing in Ontario hit renters and wannabe homebuyers harder in the first two years of the pandemic than in any similar time frame in recent Canadian history, a new report says.

Steven Del Duca's Liberals have established themselves as the clear threat to Doug Ford and they now have three weeks to run him down, writes columnist Max Fawcett. Photo by Nick Iwanyshyn

Doug Ford and the PCs will certainly duck abortion questions and deride them as distracting from “real issues,” writes columnist Supriya Dwivedi.

Ontario's election campaign began in earnest Wednesday with the party leaders promising to either build or cancel a planned highway that would cut through and serve key battleground areas.

Bribing voters with their own money is a time-tested political strategy, but few have ever taken it to the level Doug Ford’s government just did, writes columnist Max Fawcett.

The Ontario Liberals promised Tuesday to cut greenhouse gas emissions by strengthening standards for industry, banning new natural gas plants, providing electric vehicle rebates and offering grants for eco-friendly renovations.

Peel Region will expand its urban boundaries to accommodate expected population growth, bucking a trend of nearby municipalities that have defied the provincial government’s push for sprawl.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford promised to sink more than $25 billion into building highways over the next 10 years as the Progressive Conservative government tabled its budget Thursday.

Ontario’s budget is perhaps most notable for what isn’t contained within its 268 pages.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford has attacked and undermined Ontario’s environmental protections.

Beware the false prophets — and profits — of private health care, writes columnist Max Fawcett.

Doug Ford has clearly decided to throw whatever caution he might have left to the wind and hope for the best — or at the very least, that the worst doesn’t come until after the votes are counted in June, writes columnist Max Fawcett.