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Premier Doug Ford insists his best-before date is not coming any time soon. 

Work is officially underway on a portion of the all-season road to the mineral-rich region of northern Ontario known as the Ring of Fire. Global News reports.

Less than three years after making a key campaign pledge to build more than one million new homes in Ontario over the next decade, the Progressive Conservative government internally admitted the goal would be impossible to achieve. 

Premier Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservatives remain the most popular party at Queen’s Park even though seven out of 10 Ontarians think it’s time for a change in government, a new poll suggests. 

Premier Doug Ford broke ground on a 107 kilometre Ring of Fire supply road in Webequie First Nation on Thursday, part of a $40 million deal with the Indigenous community. Completion is set for 2030. 

Six months after Ontario MPPs got the power to perform marriage ceremonies, New Democrat Catherine Fife (Waterloo) was nervously preparing to officiate her sister’s nuptials in the sky at sunset — until high winds grounded the plan. 

The premier’s office says a Ford Fest photo that appeared to have been edited to make protesters look like supporters was the result of “routine” colour correcting. 

Is this the beginning of the end of the Doug Ford era in Ontario? 

 that voters are cooling on Doug Ford, but they aren’t warming up to anyone else.

A roundup of what is making news this Friday, June 26.

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