Unpublished Newswire
The president of Ontario’s Treasury Board, Caroline Mulroney, is responsible for making sure all of the province’s agencies, boards and commissions are well run. Effective immediately, Mulroney has decreed: All 143 government agencies are subject to a hiring freeze.
In 2018, Premier Doug Ford’s newly elected government mandated a hiring freeze for the public service — a freeze that remains in place to this day. Mulroney’s decision means these measures apply, as well, to provincial agencies, boards and commissions.
“We instituted the hiring freeze across the Ontario public service in...
September 26, 2025 - 09:04 | Donna Kennedy-Glans | National Post
The tiny northern Ontario community of Fauquier-Strickland says it's in a financial crisis with a $2.5-million operating deficit, sending shock waves through the community.
September 26, 2025 - 09:01 | Globalnews Digital | Global News - Canada
The tiny northern Ontario community of Fauquier-Strickland says it's in a financial crisis with a $2.5-million operating deficit, sending shock waves through the community.
September 26, 2025 - 09:01 | Globalnews Digital | Global News - Ottawa
Fader the humpback has been coming back to British Columbia’s waters for the last two decades, but this time the whale was spotted with something extra – more than 130 metres of rope and fishing gear.The whale entangled was first sighted Sunday in the Strait of Georgia by two vessels operated by Vancouver Island Whale Watch.
September 26, 2025 - 08:56 | Nono Shen | The Globe and Mail
CUPW announced their members would be going on strike with immediate effect, adding that the “future of the post office is on the line.”
September 26, 2025 - 08:49 | Uday Rana | Global News - Canada
To pick the perfect apple—or at least one that satisfies the fussy demands of blemish-averse Canadian shoppers—it takes swift hands and a strong back. A commercial picker has less than one second to assess an apple’s colour, size and quality, and then pluck it from a cluster of other fruit without knocking any to the ground. And they have to repeat that process a dizzying multitude of times each day, loading thousands of pounds of fruit into heavy harvest bags that will then be poured into bins bound for cold storage.This, for the past 40 years, has been Roy Campbell’s job. Campbell...
September 26, 2025 - 08:00 | Jason Kirby | The Globe and Mail
