Source Feed: The Globe and Mail
Author: Jeff Gray
Publication Date: May 6, 2025 - 19:21
Ontario’s proposed ‘special economic zones’ are antidemocratic power grab, opponents warn
May 6, 2025
Legislation that would allow the Ontario government to suspend any provincial law – including environmental or labour rules – in designated “special economic zones” is an antidemocratic power grab, say First Nations leaders, the Canadian Civil Liberties Association, opposition politicians and environmentalists.Premier Doug Ford has said his government’s Bill 5, which passed second reading on Tuesday at Queen’s Park and now heads before a legislative committee, is needed to speed up sluggish mining approvals for critical-mineral projects in the province’s northern region, known as the Ring of Fire.
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In the first 100-plus days of the second presidential term of Donald Trump, American television has fallen into a real rhythm when world leaders pay a call to Washington, D.C., as Prime Minister Mark Carney did on Tuesday.First, the President of the United States produces his own gonzo talk show featuring these international guests in the Oval Office – one shown live on all the news channels and live-streamed on the Internet. Then, later in the day, the late-night talk-show hosts dissect what happened in Trump’s broadcast and try to make jokes about it.
May 7, 2025 - 07:49 | Kelly Nestruck | The Globe and Mail
Set for release on May 13 with Sutherland House Books, Canada’s Main Street: The Epic Story of the Trans-Canada Highway by Craig Baird finally gives this nation-shaping infrastructure project its due. In this excerpt, Baird introduces the ambitious, messy and overlooked saga of the coast-to-coast highway that is the true spine of modern Canada.
The Trans-Canada Highway. We live by it. We drive on it. We depend on it for the goods we use. And yet, we barely think about it. Why?
Is it because, for most of us, the Trans-Canada Highway has always just been there? Something we take for...
May 7, 2025 - 07:00 | Special to National Post | National Post
Senior federal officials have been looking quietly for ways to bring together Canadians who don’t see eye to eye on the economy, immigration and social issues.With a general election looming, officials prepared to meet last November to brainstorm solutions to the problem of social fragmentation, according to an internal presentation drafted by the Department of Canadian Heritage.
May 7, 2025 - 06:55 | Jim Bronskill | The Globe and Mail
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