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Health Minister Sylvia Jones said the province accepted the deal on Wednesday after the two sides agreed to add reviews into the deal to ensure long-term sustainability.

The Ford government is out of touch with the economic and environmental realities of natural gas expansion, Ontario Green Party Leader Mike Schreiner and Ontario NDP energy critic Peter Tabuns told Canada’s National Observer.

The proposal to the agency from the Webequie and Marten Falls First Nations was accepted and public comments will be accepted until March 23. The proposed highway will begin 400 kilometres northeast of Thunder Bay and will cross the Attawapiskat River.

Rouleau was unsparing in his criticism of Ford and his government, both for their unwillingness to show up during the convoy itself and their refusal to show up and testify at his inquiry last fall.

The federal government supports calls from the premiers to establish a five-year review of health-care funding, Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos said in a letter to his Ontario counterpart.

On what would have been former Mississauga mayor Hazel McCallion’s 102nd birthday, legions of admirers gathered to celebrate her life at a state funeral.

Canada's premiers will formally accept an offer from the federal government for billions in additional health-care funding, but say they will also insist the money continue to flow for more than 10 years.

The federal Conservatives joined the Bloc Québécois on Monday, February 13, 2023, to try and send a message to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau that it is up to the provinces to decide how to use the notwithstanding clause.

Duclos to sit down with Ontario to negotiate bilateral health deal on Thursday

The federal government has presented a new health-care funding offer that would see Ottawa shift $196 billion to the provinces and territories over the next 10 years in exchange for commitments to massively upgrade health-care data collection and digital medical records.

If anyone needs an example of the dangers associated with cutting back on rules and regulations, they need only look at Michael and Doug Ford’s Ontario, writes columnist Max Fawcett.

Premiers have expressed optimism about striking an improved national health funding deal with the federal government, ahead of next week's meeting with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

Federal New Democrat Leader Jagmeet Singh says he will call on the House of Commons to hold an emergency debate on the privatization of health care.

Habitats, natural resources and recreational greenspace are not as replaceable or moveable as the Doug Ford government's new policies make them out to be, according to conservation experts.

The Ford government’s Bill 23 claims that environmental protections are a hurdle to profits and affordable housing. In actuality, environmental regulations are guardrails, protecting us from a cliff of preventable flooding, environmental degradation, and sky-high infrastructure costs.