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Business and political leaders in Canada say there will be pain if Donald Trump follows through on his pledge to impose a 25 per cent tariff on all Canadian goods, but they note the hurt will happen in his country as well.

The leader of Canada’s most populous province says all of the country’s provincial and territorial premiers want Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's federal government to negotiate a bilateral trade deal with the United States that excludes Mexico

Two years and multiple housing laws since the Ford government promised to build 1.5 million new homes in a decade to solve Ontario’s housing crisis, key indicators suggest home construction is grinding to a trickle.

The first LCBO strike in the history of Ontario has begun, marking the closure of government-run liquor stores across the province.

Doug Ford on Thursday accused people of bringing “problems from everywhere else in the world” to the province after a recent shooting at a Toronto Jewish girls school.Ford made those sharp comments alongside Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at a news conference in the city, days after students and staff at Rabbi Yaacov Vidal of the Bais Chaya Mushka Elementary School said they were shaken by what happened, but undeterred.Toronto police told Global News Thursday the investigation remains ongoing, and no arrests have been made.There is no indication from police at this time that any of the suspects involved were immigrants, as Ford appeared to suggest, adding: “Before you plan on moving to Canada — don’t come to Canada if you’re going to start terrorizing neighborhoods like this.”“We have zero tolerance for this anywhere in Ontario. It doesn’t matter what race, what religion you’re from, I’d be saying the exact same thing if it was another community as well, but enough is enough,” he said.“You’re bringing your problems from everywhere else in the world, you’re bringing it to Ontario and you’re going after other Canadians – as the prime minister said: unacceptable.”Police later told Global News it does not track and or disclose the immigration status of suspects or victims.

The federal government and the government of Ontario have reached a $357-million deal under the National Housing Strategy.

The Chief of Staff to Ontario Premier Doug Ford routinely relied on a personal email address to facilitate government-related communications, Global News has learned, despite his assertions to Ontario’s Integrity Commissioner that government work is always conducted using an official email address.

The federal government has rejected a request from Toronto to decriminalize the possession of small quantities of drugs for personal use after an increasingly bitter public spat over the city’s ask.

Honda Motor Co. Ltd.’s announcement last week that it’s building a $15-billion “vertically integrated” electric-vehicle and battery-cell manufacturing complex in Ontario has opened a new chapter in the country’s industrial strategy for the energy transition.

Japanese automaker Honda is putting $15 billion into their Ontario operations with a new electric vehicle manufacturing plant in Alliston, Ont. with a joint $5 billion coming from the federal and Ontario governments.

gas prices is fuelling road rage in some parts of Canada on Thursday.Many motorists filling up at the pumps are facing higher prices — some up as much as 22 cents from yesterday in parts of Ontario, for instance.Data from GasBuddy’s live gas price tracker shows prices were 10.9 cents higher across Ontario for an average of $1.73 per litre by 4 p.m. Eastern Thursday, as compared to the previous day’s average.Prices for gas rose by a similar degree in Toronto, but in southwest Ontario towns such as Sarnia, GasBuddy says the cost of gasoline has jumped 22.3 cents to $1.79 per litre as of 4 p.m.

On paper, Kingston, Ont., is doing everything the provincial government has asked it to do on housing — and more.The city was told to get building work underway on 587 new homes in 2023 as part of the province’s push to build 1.5 million new homes. By the end of the year, Kingston had achieved 250 per cent of its target, with 1,465 housing starts.The benchmark price for a home in Kingston in February 2024 was $543,800, down 0.3 per cent from the same time last year.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford has compared controversial auto theft advice from a Toronto police officer to welcoming Santa Claus at Christmas.

Canada’s immigration minister is pushing back against provincial assertions that the federal government didn’t consult with Ontario over the international student cap that upended the post-secondary sector.

Jyoti Gondek, Calgary’s mayor, is the latest politician to raise concerns over comments made Monday by federal Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault in which he reportedly said his government “has made the decision to stop investing in new road infrastructure.”

Steven Guilbeault insists the federal government is funding new road projects, despite comments earlier this week suggesting otherwise which have infuriated Conservative premiers.On Monday, the environment minister told a crowd in Montreal “our government has made the decision to stop investing in new road infrastructure,” according to quotes published in the Montreal Gazette.“There will be no more envelopes from the federal government to enlarge the road network. The analysis we have done is that the network is perfectly adequate to respond to the needs we have.”When pressed by reporters two days later, Guilbeault said he “should have been more specific.”“Of course we’re funding roads,” he said Wednesday.

The Ford government is set to introduce automatic renewals for licence plates in Ontario as police report a surge in the number of drivers with expired credentials.

Bonnie Crombie has been declared the new leader of the Ontario Liberal Party.

OTTAWA — Bank of Canada governor Tiff Macklem warned premiers who publicly asked the central bank to not raise interest rates last month that their requests could undermine the institution’s independence.

The pace of the global transition to electric power depends on the future of a remote region in Canada known as the Ring of Fire. Located underneath a distant, swampy expanse of spruce forests and meandering rivers in Northern Ontario that is cut off from major roads, the Ring of Fire is seen by industry and government officials as one of the world’s most important untapped sources of nickel, copper and cobalt—metals essential for making the batteries that power electric vehicles.

OTTAWA — Federal Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault is expected today to stop a study of the Rouge National Urban Park that was launched after Ontario Premier Doug Ford opened nearby protected lands to development.