Ontario Premier Doug Ford sent a letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau earlier this week asking for billions of dollars worth of investments as both governments work towards their 2024 budgets. In the letter addressed to Trudeau, sent on March 14 and shared by the Premier’s Office, Ford outlines additional priorities where he is hopeful for either a financial commitment or a legislative change. Here’s what the premier is asking for: Money for infrastructure: The big ask in the...
Canada’s housing minister openly mocked Ontario Premier Doug Ford on social media Friday over his concerns over fourplexes. Throughout the week, the premier has made it clear that he does not support a provincial mandate to build fourplexes in residential neighbourhoods—something that both the Ontario Housing Affordability Task Force and the federal government have recommended. Later, he clarified he was just against four-storey “towers.” “You have to differentiate between putting four...
The Doug Ford government says there will be no “Phase 2” for Ontario Place after documents revealed there was a proposal that would involve paving over part of Lake Ontario. Heavily redacted documents released by the Ontario New Democratic Party from September 2020 revealed maps showing up to 25 acres of “potential future development opportunity” on a water-forward section of the East Island. The documents say that “Phase 2” of the Ontario Place plan would involve retail and restaurant...
A Quebec minister is being scrutinized for questioning traffic on provincial roads, with public transit advocates and experts arguing not enough is being done by the government.
Tanika Ray, who previously worked as a backup dancer for Diddy, claimed in an Instagram post Wednesday that she experienced a "horrific" incident during her employment in the mid-1990s.The former "Extra" host, 52, made the confession after watching journalist and TV commentator Touré, 53, reveal on Joy Reid's MSNBC show that he once had a good relationship with Diddy to ask the record label boss to hire his relative as an intern.However, he further claimed that the rapper subsequently dumped the...
It’s “absurd to focus solely on lives saved” if the cost is “societal destruction,” yet politicians do that “in the name of fighting climate change,” said Bjorn Lomborg.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen called out China's ramped-up production in solar energy, electric vehicles and lithium-ion batteries, calling it unfair competition that "distorts global prices" and "hurts American firms and workers, as well as firms and workers around the world." GOP LEADERS UNLEASH ON JANET YELLEN OVER $110B ENERGY TAX HIKE Yellen, who is planning her second trip to China as Treasury secretary, said Wednesday in Georgia that she will convey her belief to her...
Ontario Premier Doug Ford has ruled out allowing municipalities to build fourplexes, despite it being one of the province’s housing affordability task force recommendations and a mandatory factor federal infrastructure funding. “It’s off the table for us,” the premier said at a news conference on Thursday. “You go in the little communities and start putting up four-storey, six-storey, eight-storey buildings right deep into the communities, there's going to be a lot of shouting and...
New undersea cables and power lines could add up to £30 a year to energy bills, a new plan suggests.
Former U.S. Attorney Chuck Rosenberg joins The Weekend to discuss how Judge Aileen Cannon's lack of experience is impacting Trump's classified documents case.
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Report criticises government agencies for not working together and says the estimated $6.9bn cost of the event was ‘overstated’Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastThe scrapped 2026 Commonwealth Games have cost Victoria more than $589m, the state’s auditor general says, in a report that calls the project a “waste of taxpayer money” with “no discernible benefit”.The scathing report investigated the Victorian...