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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 »RCMP ‘in touch’ with Ontario government staff in Greenbelt investigation
Descrease article font size Increase article font size Investigators with the RCMP have begun reaching out and making appointments with civil servants at the Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing as they probe the government’s handling of the Greenbelt land removals. The Mounties revealed in early October that its Sensitive …
Read More »Doug Ford says he didn’t direct inclusion of land in urban boundary expansions
By Staff The Canadian Press Posted October 31, 2023 10:01 am Descrease article font size Increase article font size Ontario Premier Doug Ford says he did not instruct staff to include specific developer-owned lands in expansions of urban boundaries that would have allowed building in those areas. The government announced …
Read More »Ford wedding guests received as many zoning orders as Liberals issued over 15 years: NDP
As the Greenbelt scandal threatens to infect more of Ontario’s housing policies, opposition politicians are turning their attention to a controversial zoning tool heavily used by the Ford government. NDP Leader Marit Stiles is set to unveil a lengthy list of favourable development decisions granted to builders who attended the …
Read More »Former conservative insider brought in to look for Ford government Greenbelt conflicts
As Premier Doug Ford weathers the Greenbelt scandal and RCMP investigation, his government has turned to a well-known political insider to identify potential conflicts of interest that could land the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party in hot water. Global News has confirmed that Deb Hutton, who served as a one-time chief …
Read More »How a sliver of land connected to a Ford-friendly union was removed from the Greenbelt
A small piece of land owned by a LiUNA employee was one of the parcels removed from the Greenbelt, Global News has learned, leading to new questions about the Ford government’s removals process and whether relationships with the government played a role. LiUNA, the Labourers International Union of North America, …
Read More »Ontario expected to introduce bill to return lands to the Greenbelt
TORONTO — Ontario’s municipal affairs and housing minister is expected to introduce legislation today to return parcels of land to the protected Greenbelt. Premier Doug Ford’s government announced in November 2022 that it was removing 15 sites from the Greenbelt in order to build 50,000 homes. But after months of …
Read More »Guilbeault suspending urban park study after Ford’s Greenbelt reversal
By Staff The Canadian Press Posted September 25, 2023 6:09 am Descrease article font size Increase article font size OTTAWA — Federal Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault is expected today to stop a study of the Rouge National Urban Park that was launched after Ontario Premier Doug Ford opened nearby protected …
Read More »Ontario legislature resumes; opposition parties say Greenbelt questions linger
By Staff The Canadian Press Posted September 25, 2023 6:13 am Descrease article font size Increase article font size TORONTO — Ontario provincial politicians are heading back to the legislature today after its summer break that saw a whirlwind few weeks of developments in the Greenbelt controversy. Premier Doug Ford …
Read More »Ontario legislature resumes after Greenbelt about-face, minister resignations
Ontario’s legislature resumes sitting Monday on the heels of two cabinet ministers’ resignations, a cabinet shuffle, and a major policy reversal – and that was just in the past week. Politicians will return to the business of the legislature after its 15-week summer break that saw the release of two …
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