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‘Fantastic news’: Ford welcomes ICE plan to order Ontario armoured vehicles | Globalnews.ca Reports emerged this week of U.S. government procurement plans to order 20 Senator vehicles for its ICE officers, a move worth roughly $10 million.

NEW: Ontario Premier Doug Ford says it’s “fantastic news” that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is planning to order armoured vehicles from a company based in Brampton. #OnPoli
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Education minister says school governance overhaul will come in New Year | Globalnews.ca Education Minister Paul Calandra has mused about the future of trustees, as he announced the takeover of several major school boards by Queen's Park, citing mismanagement.

NEW: Ontario's education minister says his planned overhaul of school boards, including potential changes to the role of trustees, won't be ready until the New Year.

He says so far he's heard nothing to change course, though #OnPoli
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Ford says he knew layoffs were coming before loaning Algoma Steel $100M | Globalnews.ca The steel giant announced Monday it would lay off roughly 1,000 workers as a Sault Ste. Marie plant closure is being made to adapt to a “fundamentally altered” landscape.

NEW: Ontario Premier Doug Ford acknowledged that his government was aware that massive layoffs at Algoma Steel were imminent, well before the province agreed to loan the company $100 million in taxpayer funds. #OnPoli
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Low EQAO test results trigger system-wide review of Ontario curriculum | Globalnews.ca While the results represent a slight improvement from the previous school year, the government said the test scores are 'not enough' progress.

NEW: Nearly half of Ontario's Grade 6 students are failing the provincial standards on math, according to newly released testing data, triggering a new system-wide review of the school curriculum and education resources. #OnPoli
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Ontario auditor general finds province not properly overseeing doctor billings | Globalnews.ca Ontario's auditor general is set to release her annual report today, with a major focus on health care.

Ontario’s auditor general has found that the province is not properly overseeing doctors’ billings, including in a few cases of physicians billing for more than 24 hours in a day. #OnPoli
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Crown Royal maker, union reach deal over Ontario plant closure | Globalnews.ca The company behind Crown Royal says it has reached a deal with the union representing workers at its soon-to-be shuttered Ontario plant over its closure.

The company behind Crown Royal has reached a deal with the union representing workers at its soon-to-be shuttered Ontario plant to compensate them for its closure. #OnPoli
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Eglinton Crosstown LRT wraps final testing phase, will soon be handed to TTC | Globalnews.ca The Ministry of Transportation said the line had completed its revenue service demonstration testing and would shortly be handed over to Toronto's transit agency.

NEW: The years-delayed Eglinton Crosstown LRT has finished one of its final testing phases and is on its way to opening, although the government still hasn’t confirmed an official date. #OnPoli #ToPoli
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Ontario government routinely ignoring environmental consultations, AG finds | Globalnews.ca The Ford government is routinely making decisions before environmental consultations have concluded and under-resourcing public education about those consultations, the AG found.

NEW: The Ford government is routinely making decisions before environmental consultations have concluded and under-resourcing public education about those consultations, the auditor general has found in her annual report. #OnPoli
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Ontario may need to throw out millions of dollars in PPE: auditor general | Globalnews.ca During the height of COVID-19, the Ford government signed long-term contracts with Ontario manufacturers for desperately needed masks for health-care workers.

NEW: Millions of dollars’ worth of masks may end up in the trash over the next five years, according to the province’s auditor general, as the Ford government continues to honour pandemic-era contracts for personal protective equipment. #OnPoli
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Ontario forced to slow new medical school plans after ignoring warnings | Globalnews.ca As part of its plans to improve access to primary care, the government announced it would expand the number of places available at Ontario’s medical schools would be increased.

NEW: A lack of planning in the Ford government’s expansion of Ontario’s medical schools forced the province to enroll dramatically fewer students than it had planned, the auditor general has found. #OnPoli
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Ford government sets spending record for commercials ‘promoting’ governing party | Globalnews.ca Auditor General Shelley Spence’s annual review of advertising found, in the fiscal year ending in March 2025, the province spent $111.9 million on advertising.

NEW: The Ford government set a record for public money spent on advertising in the build-up to February's snap election, the AG has found.

Those commercials, she said, had a subtext "which promotes the governing party." #OnPoli
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Ontario does not have ability to measure success of its primary care plan: auditor general | Globalnews.ca Ontario’s plan to expand access does 'not consistently have processes in place to plan and oversee programs and initiatives to improve patients’ access to primary care.'

NEW: The auditor general has taken a deep dive into Ontario's plans to connect everyone to primary care. She's found issues with how the government is measuring its success and existing systems to connect people with a family doctor. #OnPoli
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A big step for the Eglinton Crosstown LRT as it officially graduates from revenue service demonstration testing. It took the Finch West about six weeks from this point to its opening date on Sunday. #Onpoli #ToPoli

‘I broke out laughing’: Ford responds to concerns speed signs are too big for poles | Globalnews.ca Almost two weeks after banning automated speed enforcement cameras in municipalities, the Ford government sent enormous school zone signs to municipalities.

NEW: Ontario Premier Doug Ford says he "broke out laughing" when he was told Ottawa and Toronto couldn't fit the giant speed signs the province sent onto their existing polls.

He suggested it was an issue of competence, not the signs. #onpoli #Topoli
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Ontario signs agreement with First Nation to speed up Ring of Fire road | Globalnews.ca On Thursday morning, Premier Doug Ford signed a new agreement with Marten Falls First Nation to move forward with an all-season road connecting it to Ontario's highway network.

NEW: The Ford government has signed an agreement with a First Nations community to speed up a section of the road to the mineral-rich Ring of Fire in exchange for tens of millions of dollars in community infrastructure. #OnPoli
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Ontario tables another omnibus bill. Here’s what’s in it, from road safety to animal testing | Globalnews.ca The new, wide-ranging legislation touches on everything from Ontario's jails, road safety rules, animal testing and contraband tobacco.

NEW: The Ford government has tabled a wide-ranging, omnibus justice bill with new measures relating to bail rules and enforcement in jails, along with enhanced police powers to deal with dangerous driving and a planned ban on some animal testing. #OnPoli
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FIFA's authorized resale platform for #WorldCup2026 tickets (where they encourage resales at any price and take a cut) is officially up and running.

If you want a Category 4 ticket (very back of north/south) stand for Toronto's 1st game, they start at $1,844.

Ontario asks for new trial of 3 men jailed at Maplehurst after charges stayed - Toronto | Globalnews.ca The Ontario government wants three men retried for murder charges after a judge ordered a stay over what he called "tortuous" treatment while incarcerated.

The Ontario government is asking an appeals court to order a new murder trial for three men after a judge ordered the end to their first-degree murder case over what he called “torturous” treatment while incarcerated. #onpoli globalnews.ca/news/1154476...

Ford government says it will cover cost of installing oversized school zone signs | Globalnews.ca Cities say the signs sent to replace speed cameras are too big. The transportation minister believes they should be able to 'figure out how to install a sign.'

NEW: Doug Ford promised giant signs to replace speed cameras in school zones. Well, they've arrived and... they're huge. So big they don't fit onto existing poles.

Cities say they're too big, the province says they were briefed weeks ago. #Onpoli
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Deal reached to allow grocers to avoid accepting beer and wine empties | Globalnews.ca Ontario grocers and The Beer Store have reached an agreement-in-principle on alcohol recycling that will allow the retailers to avoid collecting empties.

Ontario grocers and The Beer Store have reached an agreement-in-principle on alcohol recycling that will allow the retailers to avoid collecting empties at their stores and give a renewed role to the brewers, according to The Canadian Press. #OnPoli
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Ontario manufacturing jobs fall to the lowest point since 1976: budget watchdog | Globalnews.ca The Financial Accountability Officer's economic review found that manufacturing - which represents about 10 per cent of the province's economy - has faced a number of challenges

NEW: Manufacturing jobs as a share of the economy fell to the lowest point since records began, according to the financial accountability office.

Are Trump’s tariffs starting to bite or is Ontario’a industrial plan not working? Or both? #OnPoli
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Ontario watchdog ‘intervening’ after solicitor general ignores transparency orders | Globalnews.ca There have been several instances in recent years where the IPC has told the solicitor general's office to release information, only for the government to ignore the decree.

NEW: Ontario’s transparency watchdog has been forced to “intervene” after the solicitor general’s office repeatedly ignored orders to release information.

It’s part of a trend which has also raised questions about political interference. #OnPoli
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Doug Ford doubles down on ‘find a job’ comment after omnibus rental bill passes | Globalnews.ca As protestors were escorted from the chamber, Ford appeared to shout at one of them to 'find a job' from his seat within the legislature.

NEW: Ontario Premier Doug Ford is doubling down after telling someone in the public gallery to “find a job,” claiming they were a paid, professional protester. #OnPoli
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Ford says he will audit ‘left-wing radical groups’ opposed to government legislation | Globalnews.ca Ford's warning came after members of the tenant advocacy group ACORN interrupted the legislature to protest a controversial omnibus bill that shortens some eviction timelines.

NEW: Ontario Premier Doug Ford is threatening to audit all provincial spending to determine whether public-sector unions are “funnelling” money to “left-wing radical groups” that staged a protest inside the Ontario legislature. #OnPoli
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Ontario to introduce lifetime ban for people convicted of fatal dangerous driving | Globalnews.ca Part of the legislation will include measures called Andrew's Law in memory of a father of three who was killed in a collision earlier this year.

NEW: The Ford government is planning to introduce a lifetime ban for those found guilty of dangerous driving causing death, part of a broader justice bill set to be tabled Tuesday afternoon. #OnPoli
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‘Get out of the City’: Safe injection site worker testifies at Damian Hudson murder trial - Toronto | Globalnews.ca Khalila Mohammed, a former community health worker who worked at a safe injection site for drug users in July 2023, testified Monday at the Damian Hudson murder trial.

Eye opening from @cmcdonaldglobal on the relationship between a supervised injection site worker and drug dealer.

At a murder trial, she testified she was once told “that drug dealers are part of our community and without them, we don’t have clients.”
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Opposition asks integrity commissioner to investigate Ford’s embattled labour minister | Globalnews.ca The Ontario NDP is calling on the province's integrity commissioner to investigate the labour minister over a $2.5-billion skills program that favoured certain applicants.

NEW: A couple of months after the auditor general report was released, the Ontario NDP has asked the integrity commissioner for an investigation into David Piccini and the skills of development fund #OnPoli
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Ontario plans to release delayed EQAO results next week, after ‘deep dive’ | Watch News Videos Online Watch Ontario plans to release delayed EQAO results next week, after ‘deep dive’ Video Online, on GlobalNews.ca

WATCH: EQAO test results will be released next week, the minister said, after they were delayed for him to take a "deep dive" #OnPoli
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Toronto reports more visible drug use after supervised injection sites closed down - Toronto | Globalnews.ca The City of Toronto is reporting an increase in visible drug use in the wake of the Ford government's decision to pull funding for several safe-injection sites earlier this year.

NEW: Months after many supervised injection sites were shut down, Toronto is reporting an increase in “visible substance use on the street" and “open use of substances in public spaces.” #ToPoli #ONpoli
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Ontario plans to require bail cash up front as part of new justice bill | Globalnews.ca Attorney General Doug Downey says he believes that measure and others announced today would improve bail compliance.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s government is set to table legislation that would require people accused of a crime and granted bail to provide a cash security deposit up front, rather than paying later if they break their bail conditions. #OnPoli
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