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Just three years since construction began on the Hurontario light-rail transit line, the provincial transit agency says the 18-kilometre route connecting Mississauga to Brampton will be ready by the end of next year but Mississauga councillors are pushing for it to be expanded further.Renamedthe Hazel McCallion Line last year, the line is set to have 19 stops and offer connections to multiple other transit routes.

The province of Ontario will spend $112 million on bail compliance programs, which will include teams of police officers dedicated to pursuing people who aren't following their bail conditions, Premier Doug Ford announced Thursday.Over three years, $48 million will be available to the Ontario Provincial Police's repeat offenders and parole enforcement squad, which will provide the OPP with about 50 additional people for those units, said Solicitor General Michael Kerzner at the announcement.

A state funeral service lauded with personal stories and anecdotes, smiles and tears, and plenty of emotion was held for Hazel McCallion on Tuesday, Feb. 14. McCallion served as mayor of Mississauga for 36 years before retiring in 2014.She was first elected in November 1978, and went on to serve 12 consecutive terms as mayor; making her the longest-serving mayor in the city's history.

Even John Tory conceded the last week of his political career will forever leave a stain on his legacy.The now former mayor admitted as much as he said goodbye to city hall Friday afternoon in a news conference held less than an hour before his resignation was made official.Standing at a podium a week after admitting to having an affair with a former staffer, he was blunt in his assessment.

Hundreds of Ontario nurses rallied and marched in Toronto on Thursday to call for higher wages, increased hospital staffing, improve working conditions and a better contract.Members of the Ontario Nurses' Association (ONA) took to the streets as mediation continues with the Ontario Hospital Association (OHA) The nurses gathered at Sheraton Centre Hotel in downtown Toronto before they marched north on University Avenue, past what is known as Hospital Row, to the front lawn of Queen's Park.

Torontonians are set to show support for Ukraine Friday at a series of rallies and events across the city on the one-year anniversary of Russia's invasion of the country.Many Ukrainians who have fled their home due to the violence are set to attend and speak out, as well.Events are taking place at city hall and local schools, and later Friday the prime minister and Ontario's premier are in the city to mark the solemn occasion.

Ontario Science Centre staff are "angry and confused" by the province's plans to move the attraction to Ontario Place, their union said Wednesday, in stark contrast to the premier's characterization of their mood.Premier Doug Ford said Tuesday that the employees are "excited" by the prospect of moving from the current east Toronto facility, but the union said that's not the case.

Progressive Conservative MPP for KanataCarleton Merrilee Fullerton is resigning.The former minister of Children, Community & Social Services, was first elected in the 2018 Ontario election.Fullerton announced her resignation Friday afternoon in a tweet and attached a resignation letter in which she expressed appreciation to Premier Doug Ford, her cabinet colleagues and constituents.

Ontario manufacturers would be able to get up to $2 million a year through a new tax credit the government is proposing in its upcoming budget.The 10 per cent refundable corporate income tax credit could be used by Canadian-controlled private corporations with a permanent location in Ontario on qualifying investments in buildings, machinery and equipment for use in manufacturing or processing.

A public library north of Toronto is refusing to display an exhibition by a local artist unless it excludes pictures and statements protesting elected officials Doug Ford and Donald Trump.Photographer and poet Yafang Shi is the creator of Fire II, an exhibition of photographs documenting women's rights marches over several years, set to be displayed on a gallery wall at the Aurora Public Library from March 6 to April 15.

Nearly three years after the Ontario government rolled out its blue licence plates, only to announce it was scrapping them a few months later after visibility issues were raised, no plans have been announced to get the rest of the plates off the roads.In 2021, the Ministry of Public and Business Service Delivery said it was working on a plan to pull the plates, which are hard to read in certain lighting conditions.

Ontario Provincial Police say they're working to determine whether they should investigate the government's plans to open up the protected Greenbelt to development.The Progressive Conservative government has proposed removing land from 15 different areas of the Greenbelt so that 50,000 homes can be built, while adding acres elsewhere.

A new study examining the effect of development on biodiversity and species-at-risk in a massive national park could shut down part of Ontario's plan to build housing in the area, says Federal Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault.Guilbeault says the study will be done as soon as possible on Rouge National Urban Park in the Greater Toronto Area.

Canada's national security agency briefed the Ontario premier's chief of staff after allegations of election interference by China were tied to a member of his caucus, Premier Doug Ford said Tuesday.Vincent Ke, a provincial representative for Don Valley North in Toronto, resigned from the Progressive Conservative caucus earlier this month after the allegations surfaced in a Global News report.

The Ontario government has announced the construction of a Volkswagen electric vehicle (EV) battery manufacturing plant in St. Thomas, on Talbot Line near Yarmouth Centre Road, close to the city's airport.The announcement was released Monday by the office of Vic Fedeli, the province's minister of economic development and trade and is the first public confirmation of the deal that has long rumoured to be in the works.

Premier Doug Ford says Ontario will adopt new "as of right" rule that allow health-care workers registered in other provinces to start working here right away.Ford and Health Minister Sylvia Jones made the announcement in Windsor Thursday.They also announced $30 million for Windsor Regional Hospital to expand its cardiac and cancer care services.

Sylvia Jones holds a news conference as hospitals in the province strain under pressure from widespread multiple respiratory illnesses.Ontario Health Minister Sylvia Jones is set to make an announcement and take questions from media in Toronto Thursday.You can watch the news conference live in this story beginning at 9 a.m.

Steve Clark, minister of municipal affairs and housing, addresses members of the media at Queen's Park in Toronto on Oct. 25, 2022.Clark has said he wants to work with municipalities to reach their housing targets.(Evan Mitsui/CBC) Ontario's minister of municipal affairs and housing is set to make an announcement on the province's housing supply "crisis" this afternoon.

The Ontario NDP is requesting that the province's integrity commissioner investigate whether Premier Doug Ford violated ethics rules when developers with financial interests in government decision-making reportedly attended his daughter's "stag-and-doe" and wedding.NDP Leader Marit Stiles filed the complaint to David Wake's office on Thursday.

The province's proposal to open up protected lands, which was released earlier this month, aims to build homes on more than a dozen tracts of land now in the Greenbelt, while adding roughly 2,000 acres of protected land elsewhere.This is all part of the province's plan to build 1.5 million homes over the next decade to alleviate Ontario's severe housing shortage.

Ontario is significantly expanding the number and range of medical procedures performed in privately run clinics as the province deals with a surgical backlog made worse by the COVID-19 pandemic.The change will be introduced over three phases.The first will see surgical and diagnostic clinics in Ottawa, Kitchener-Waterloo and Windsor perform an additional 14,000 cataract operations each year, representing about 25 per cent of the province's current wait list for the procedure.

Ontario is willing to accept some strings from the federal government if they give the province more health-care funding, Premier Doug Ford said Wednesday.Premiers and health ministers across the country have demanded more help by way of the Canada Health Transfer.They want to see Ottawa cover 35 per cent of health-care costs across the country, up from the current 22 per cent.

Now that Ontario education workers have voted in favour of a new contract with the Ontario government, the focus shifts to the province's other major education unions.Contracts expired at the end of the summer for the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), the Elementary Teachers' Federation of Ontario (ETFO), the Ontario Secondary School Teachers' Federation (OSSTF), the Ontario English Catholic Teachers' Association (OECTA), and the French-language union Association des enseignantes et des enseignants franco-ontariens (AEFO).

Ontario's premier says the province's auditor general should "stay in her lane" after she hired undercover operatives to test money laundering protections at casinos.Doug Ford says Lysyk should focus on value-for-money audits and stay away from sting operations.(Image by Stefan Schweihofer from Pixabay ) Ontario's premier says the province's auditor general should "stay in her lane" after she hired undercover operatives to test money laundering protections at casinos.

CUPE members and supporters rallied outside of Queen's Park in Toronto on the first day of a strike earlier this month that closed schools in boards across the province.(Carlos Osorio/CBC) The Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) has filed another strike notice, leaving education workers poised to walk off the job again in Ontario, according to both the province's minister of education and the union.