Isaac Callan
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🔮 Days after passing a controversial law to create special economic zones, where provincial and municipal rules could be suspended, the Ford government cast a wide net looking for ideas on how to actually use its new powers.
🔮 The two, the documents claim, would often spend time together one-on-one.
🔮 Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing Rob Flack wrote to the heads of council “to make clear our government’s expectation” that they would follow a series of rules prioritizing local bids for contracts.
🔮 A local group says that new data from the City of Toronto proves a moratorium on automated speed enforcement cameras could be leading to a massive spike in the number of drivers breaking the limit on a key road.
🔮 That means SeatGeek will now be expected to pay the full $25,000 penalty to Ontario for allegedly failing to ensure tickets are not resold above face value, for failing to disclose the original face value of the ticket, and for facilitating the resale of tickets without proof of original price.
🔮 - Latest U.S. tariffs on Canadian goods take effect, with some changes
- B.C. journalist, harassed by ‘cult-like’ China protest group, wins defamation payout
- Two more plea deals reached in case of Penticton man killed in 2021
- Bell AI data centre in Sask. expanding, set to bring in over $50B in investment
Medics told Global News they transported a man to a local burn centre with serious, life-threatening injuries.
🔮 Some municipalities on the list — including Markham, Vaughan, Mississauga and Halton Hills– have not received any funding from the program since it launched.
“I just don’t think it’s effective; the municipalities that got the money had projects that were in place, that were underway,” Halton Hills Mayor Ann Lawlor told Global News.
🔮 The government implemented the new law, which the Information and Privacy Commissioner said at the time “would diminish the public’s right to information,” immediately.
🔮 The city said parts of the north side of the stadium structure had collapsed, while seats had been displaced and parts of the concert venue are in “condition that may pose a risk” to people’s health or safety.
🔮 According to one briefing from March 2025, officials with the Ministry of Transportation and Metrolinx worried that the problems with the Hazel McCallion LRT might force them to act.
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