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Ford says he needs the strongest majority in Ontario history in order to effectively deal with the threatened 25 per cent tariffs from U.S. President Donald Trump, and has called a snap election for Feb. 27, nearly 1 1/2 years before the scheduled June 2026 vote.

A northern Ontario First Nation is celebrating the connection to the province’s power grid today after an ambitious transmission line through the North extended its reach.

The disaster assistance program was created in 1970 and as of 2023 had paid out more than $8.5 billion for 283 disasters. Flooding accounted for almost half of those and more than one-third of the funds have been sent since 2010.

That would bring the Bank of Canada's key rate down to three per cent and mark its sixth straight decrease.

The premier said retaliatory tariffs on U.S. imports, part of the federal government's proposed response to Trump's threat, would generate billions of dollars that should be "immediately deployed" across Canada to help people and businesses.

The federal government expects the cost of providing disaster relief funding to balloon to a billion dollars or more each year as the climate crisis advances, according to a new risk management report.

From LNG to drilling in Alaska, here’s everything you need to know about Trump’s energy and climate executive orders

Ontario Premier Doug Ford announced an agreement Tuesday worth more than $20 million to help prepare a remote northern Ontario First Nation for possible mining development in the future.

Ontario voters are headed to the polls more than a year ahead of schedule.

The final report from commissioner Marie-Josée Hogue will also address simmering allegations about the activities of some parliamentarians and suggest ways to better protect members of vulnerable communities from transnational repression.

One of the admitted hitmen who killed former Air India bombing suspect Ripudaman Singh Malik is set to be sentenced for his part in the murder today in a New Westminster, B.C., courtroom.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is travelling to Warsaw today to meet with his Polish counterpart Donald Tusk.

New research highlights companies’ “aligned and coordinated” use of Twitter to deny climate change and delay solutions.

Charlie Angus, a longtime NDP MP, is set to exit stage left after announcing he will not run in the next election. But in quintessential Angus style, he isn’t leaving without making noise.

He says that the party has asked him to return to co-leadership with Elizabeth May after he stepped back from the role in July.