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Tens of millions of dollars are allocated to arts festivals in this year’s federal budget, which recipients say is a welcome infusion of cash for the beleaguered sector. The budget sets aside $23 million over three years for the Toronto International Film Festival and $15 million this year for the Shaw Festival …
Read More »Ford shut down internal push to raise university, college tuition: Docs
Ontario Premier Doug Ford shut down internal recommendations to raise tuition rates for college and university students, Global News has learned, as the post-secondary sector deals with financial upheaval and questions about future viability. Confidential government documents, leaked to Global News, reveal that the Ministry of College and Universities was …
Read More »Ontario ministers referring to ‘attainable’ housing but docs show word has no definition
More than a year after Premier Doug Ford and his cabinet ministers began promising to build more “attainable housing,” internal documents show the government hasn’t worked out what the term actually means. Shortly after taking over as housing minister in September, Paul Calandra was tasked with creating an official meaning …
Read More »Raccoons ‘aggressively’ seized from ‘squalid’ Ontario sanctuary, competing court docs claim
Content warning: This story contains graphic descriptions that some readers may find disturbing. The Ontario government and a raccoon sanctuary it raided are trading accusations over the future care of the animals and the conditions they were living in. Court documents submitted by Mally’s Third Chance Raccoon Sanctuary and the …
Read More »Ford government considered Ontario Science Centre move as early as 2021: docs
The Ford government was already considering relocating the Ontario Science Centre before civil servants were asked to write a business case that endorsed the decision, new documents unearthed by the Ontario NDP suggest. A briefing note prepared for the Minister of Tourism, Culture and Sport in August 2021 includes talking …
Read More »Sarah Jama’s censure an ‘abuse of power,’ NDP tried to muzzle her: legal docs
Hamilton Centre Independent MPP Sarah Jama says the motion that effectively censured her at Queen’s Park is an “abuse of power” by the province and alleges that her then-party, the Ontario NDP, failed to support her right to free speech, forbade her from further comment and even accused her of …
Read More »Senior Ford government cabinet ministers barely using work phones, docs show
As government lawyers attempt to shield Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s personal cellphone records from being publicly released, new documents show several prominent ministers in his cabinet had large stretches of inactivity on their official devices when critical government decisions were being made. Freedom of information requests submitted by Global News …
Read More »Sault Ste. Marie shooter was previously charged with assaulting officer, court docs show
SAULT STE. MARIE, Ont. — The man who killed four people — including three of his own children — before turning a gun on himself in Sault Ste. Marie had been charged four years ago with assaulting a police officer, court records show. Family have identified the gunman behind this …
Read More »‘Huge wake-up call’: Quarter of Ontario hospitals are in poor condition, docs reveal
Ontario’s network of publicly owned hospitals is in significant need of investment and repair, internal government documents reveal, with more than a quarter of all hospitals in the province listed as being in poor condition. Global News can also reveal that five health-care buildings across Ontario also have a repair …
Read More »Man arrested in cold case of woman found in Ontario ‘dumped her body’ in river: docs
A man charged with murdering a woman who was found dead in eastern Ontario decades ago told police investigating the cold case that he dumped her body in a river, U.S. court documents show. The details of Rodney Mervyn Nichols’ conversation with Ontario Provincial Police at a Florida retirement home …
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