To bring it back to MPP expenses, this is how we end up with the spectacle of confused MPPs suddenly discovering they owe the fisc thousands of dollars: the government decided to arrange its ...

Doug Ford is, appropriately enough, taking fire this week for his government’s chosen level of funding for fighting forest ...

Todd Smith remembers getting the phone call from Premier Doug Ford. It was ostensibly good news — many politicians would be thrilled to be promoted from energy minister (with a budget of $7 billion) ...

When the beaver was adopted as Canada’s national symbol in 1975, Hamilton-Wentworth MP Sean O’Sullivan, who created a private member’s bill to promote the idea, noted that “there must be more to life ...

Monday saw two major housing policy announcements. One, in Etobicoke, saw Prime Minister Mark Carney flanked by Premier Doug Ford and Toronto mayor Olivia Chow — inarguably some of the most important ...

Ask Eric Lombardi why he’s thinking about running for the Ontario Liberal leadership, and that’s the answer you’ll get. In fact, when we got together last week, he repeated it, with added emphasis: “I ...

Jamie Bradburn is a Toronto-based writer/researcher specializing in historical and contemporary civic matters.

It’s simply the most exclusive club in Ontario’s history: of the tens of millions of people who have lived in the province since 1867, only 25 men and one woman have sat behind the premier’s desk.

An incomplete list of the businesses owned by the Ontario government would include: a liquor outlet, a pot distributor, several casinos, not one but two train companies, a public broadcaster (ahem), ...

Trevor Noah takes a unique look at the world through its most popular game. More than any other sport, football functions as a mirror to society. Sometimes...Trevor Noah takes a unique look at the ...

OPSEU, one of the province’s largest public sector unions with 180,000 members, may have snatched a kind of victory from a very real defeat. The union has been bargaining with Ontario’s colleges on ...