Ontario

The federal government is launching a review of the Official Languages Act, saying it is time to modernize the decades-old law.

Just five days after Doug Ford's long-time friend and Toronto Police Supt. Ron Taverner, 72, withdrew his name from consideration for the province's top police job, the Ontario government has announced a new choice — one who hasn't met the premier. 

Ontario is weighing a ban on single-use plastics as part of a broader strategy to send less waste to landfills.

Imperial Oil Ltd. will not be charged for a Feb. 23, 2017, incident that saw huge flames shooting from its Sarnia refinery, which residents described as being “absolutely anxiety-inducing.”

In the wake of the news that Doug Ford's friend Ron Taverner withdrew his name from the province's top policing job, National Observer spoke to experts to understand what the process was meant to be and what, if any, accountability measures are available to deal with a conflict-of-interest situation like this.

The federal government's plan to ease the carbon-price burden on small businesses will include rebate payments to cover some of the cost of making energy-efficiency upgrades.

Outspoken Ontario police deputy commissioner Brad Blair is out of a job after accusing Premier Doug Ford of interfering with police operations.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will try to shift the focus from the SNC-Lavalin affair to his preferred campaign battleground — climate change — with the release this week of the Liberal party's first election-year ads.

Ontario researchers say they have discovered how bacteria become resistant to antibiotics, a finding they say could help combat the growing problem.

A political staffer asked the mother of an autistic child whether she could provide some supportive comments about Lisa MacLeod's plans to overhaul the provincial autism funding program, and began an email exchange to follow up. That's when things began to go awry.

Ontario government officials struggle to explain the benefit of new healthcare legislation the Ford administration introduced to parliament on Tuesday, deferring on questions about cost to implement, savings to be had, and targets to improve patient care. 

The Ontario government said on Monday that it was proposing to repeal the Far North Act with the aim of "reducing red tape and restrictions on important economic development projects" in the northern part of the province, including the Ring of Fire, all-season roads and electrical transmission projects.

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. 

Mike Schreiner is making history Wednesday by introducing the Green Party of Ontario's first bill at Queen's Park — one that seeks to protect the Paris Galt Moraine that supplies drinking water to about 130,000 people in Guelph, and more than 200,000 in the region

An 11-year-old girl allegedly killed by her father in southern Ontario was a dreamer, a dancer and a singer who "always saw the good in every situation."