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Liberal MP Nate Erskine-Smith filed a notice of appeal Tuesday to the provincial Liberals, challenging the result of a nomination race that he lost. 

 of the allegations called "notice of appeal validity" that is pushing back against those allegations, saying that the appeal “does not establish grounds to overturn the result.”

Pressure is mounting on Premier Doug Ford to force his Progressive Conservative party to pay the nearly $200,000 in hidden costs associated with the government’s aborted scheme to buy a private jet. 

Under Ford’s Bill 100 passed in early May, the province has new or expanded authority to hire and fire the chairs of Niagara and seven other regions, controversially granting them “strong” powers — now enjoyed only by elected mayors — and shrink the size of regional councils. 

RBC advising Ontario on $500-million ‘resilience bond’ to fund defence projects. 

Ontario cabinet ministers faced tough questions from municipal leaders during the final day of the annual Federation of Northern Ontario Municipalities conference in Timmins. 

Stores in Ontario will be open on Victoria Day for the first time since the Ford government changed the rules governing the statutory holiday, after the premier’s frustration at major malls being closed on Family Day. 

The federal government is injecting more than $20 million into eight businesses and organizations across the London and Chatham-Kent regions to bolster their resilience against global trade pressures. 

The Ontario Secondary School Teachers’ Federation (OSSTF) is calling on the province to eliminate mandatory e-learning courses in high schools, arguing the policy is inconsistent with efforts to reduce screen time and distractions in classrooms. 

 makes the case that MPP Lee Fairclough might be the Ontario Liberal’s best bet.

 writes about how the Ontario Liberals infighting is damaging the party. “When prominent Liberals tell members of the press that they worked in the Scarborough Southwest nomination race to defeat Erskine-Smith and “save the party,” as Tom Allison reportedly did recently, that says a lot more about them than it does about Erskine-Smith,” he writes.

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