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Amazon will cut about 14,000 corporate jobs as the online retail giant ramps up spending on artificial intelligence while cutting costs elsewhere. CEO Andy Jassy, who has aggressively sought to cut costs since becoming CEO in 2021, said in June that he anticipated generative AI would reduce Amazon’s corporate workforce …

Ontario and the federal government are spending a collective $3 billion to build Canada’s first small modular reactors, a new nuclear energy technology to be built next door to the Darlington power plant. Prime Minister Mark Carney, who joined Premier Doug Ford in Bowmanville Thursday to announce the new spending, …

Hundreds of Ontario patients have been sent to U.S. hospitals and clinics for government-reimbursed medical care since 2018, according to exclusive data obtained by CBC News. The costs — over $212 million — were covered by taxpayers money through OHIP, the province’s publicly funded health-care plan. Among the approved applications for out-of-country …

Toronto’s 2026 FIFA World Cup committee wants to spend nearly $11 million on ticket packages for the upcoming games and resell them at marked up prices, with some councillors saying the move would amount to “scalping” with taxpayers’ money. FIFA controls tickets to the games, and as a host city, Toronto has …

During her cancer treatment, Vanessa Percoco felt forced to choose between paying to feel better or making rent. Percoco, 33, of Laval, Que., worked in special education and had just started on a short contract working with some Grade 3 students with special needs. A diagnosis of advanced colorectal cancer in 2022 put those plans …

If there’s one thing Canada’s premiers have always agreed on, it’s that the federal government needs to respect provincial jurisdiction. If there’s a second thing they now agree on, it’s that (notwithstanding their belief that governments should mind their own business) the federal government should spend substantially more on national defence — not least because …

Amid the threat of an early federal election, the prime minister left Ottawa on Tuesday during a chaotic parliamentary sitting week to travel 27 hours to the other side of the world.  Once he landed, Justin Trudeau spent a little less than 48 hours on the ground in the capital …

Ontario’s major political parties have been spending the summer nominating candidates, running “campaign schools,” and canvassing after remarks from the premier this spring fuelled speculation he will call an early election. The province’s next fixed election date isn’t until June 2026, but Doug Ford set off alarm bells in political …

Advocates are calling for a change of strategy to deal with Ontario’s housing crisis as new internal data suggests the Ford government is throwing hundreds of millions at homelessness programs while it cuts what it spends on community housing. Since Ford took office in 2018, Ontario has ramped its spending …