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Doug Ford’s political opponents are criticizing the premier, who they say “burned through” almost $200,000 in the few days the government owned a private jet, as details of the purchase emerge. 

Honda Canada has indefinitely suspended its ambitious $15-billion electric vehicle supply chain project in Ontario, casting uncertainty over one of the country’s largest EV manufacturing investments. 

The Ontario Liberals have scheduled an arbitration hearing for May 20 at 6 p.m. to review an appeal filed by Nate Erskine-Smith over the party’s heated Scarborough Southwest nomination contest. An internal analysis of "notice of appeal validity" obtained by QP Briefing and dated May 12, pushes back forcefully against those allegations, arguing the appeal “does not establish grounds to overturn the result.” 

Ontario is increasing its core education funding — which covers everything from staffing to special education to transportation — by about $318 million for the next school year, with unions and critics warning it is not enough to stop cuts. 

Toronto continues to have the highest auto theft claim costs in Ontario but Brampton could be closing the gap, according to a new report. 

The number of people misrepresenting themselves to get student grants and loans in Ontario has risen dramatically in recent years, though it continues to be a fraction of the funds handed out by the government. 

Sudbury MPP Jamie West, who is the NDP’s shadow minister of labour and energy and mines, was joined by Sudbury health and safety advocates at Queen’s Park this week. 

Ontario's solicitor general says the province will expand its jails by 2,500 beds over the next 10 years at a cost of $3 billion to the taxpayers. 

Ontario’s new and more restrictive freedom-of-information laws have quashed another request, this time for documents that may have given a glimpse into potential hospital cuts. 

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 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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