Ontario

Ontario's Ministry of Natural Resources says dozens of forest fires remain out of control, with the most pressing in the province's northeast now measuring more than 82 square kilometres.

Premier Doug Ford's government has introduced a new plan at the Ontario legislature to minimize the province's losses following its decision to abandon a joint carbon trading market with Quebec and California.

Lisa MacLeod, Ontario's minister responsible for immigration, says the province is asking the federal government for $200 million to cover the cost of asylum seekers from the United States.

Parks Canada says it has reached an agreement to acquire a privately owned parcel of land in Ontario's Georgian Bay area to expand the Bruce Peninsula National Park.

Three cubs found abandoned in a washroom along the Trans-Canada Highway in Banff National Park have been returned to the wild.

Ontario cabinet minister Lisa MacLeod was conspicuously absent from the podium Friday as Canadian Immigration Minister Ahmed Hussen started ripping into Premier Doug Ford's government.

The sweeping cuts to "unnecessary and wasteful energy projects" are part of the Ontario government's plan to cut hydro rates by 12 per cent, said Minister of Energy, Northern Development and Mines Greg Rickford on Friday afternoon.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford's first throne speech repeated a number of his campaign promises — ending cap-and-trade, eliminating the updated sexual education program put in place by the previous Liberal government, and cleaning up Hydro One.

Ontario's new government will lay out its plan for the province today, July 12, 2018, in a throne speech expected to highlight several of Premier Doug Ford's campaign promises.

Health officials in Central Canada are urging the population to find ways to stay cool after dozens of deaths struck the country's two most populous provinces during a recent heat wave.

The federal minister of immigration objected on Monday, July 9, 2018, to the new Ontario Tory government's references to people claiming refugee status as "illegal border crossers."

Greyhound Canada, for decades a critical link connecting the country's small towns and isolated communities with bigger urban centres, is pulling away for good in the Prairies, B.C. and northern Ontario, leaving activists and Indigenous leaders fearing for the health and welfare of those who live in remote locales.

Ontario residents, and not the newly elected Progressive Conservative government, will receive the proceeds of a carbon price imposed on the province by the federal government, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Thursday, July 5, 2018.

A moment after he swore his oath, Mike Schreiner said he was looking forward to doing politics differently.

Days after Ontario's June 7 election, representatives from several immigration, refugee and settlement agencies gathered to discuss and strategize over the implications of Premier Doug Ford’s leadership would be on their sector. Some feared Ford would cancel the immigration ministry, which is exactly what he wound up doing.