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Both former premiers stated they weren't surprised by each other's opposing endorsements.
April 23, 2025 - 21:57 | Klaudia Van Emmerik | Global News - Canada
'I don’t feel safe in my house,' the homeowner's daughter said. 'I feel like there’s potential for something worse to happen.'
April 23, 2025 - 21:55 | Victoria Femia | Global News - Canada
Philippe de Gaspé Beaubien was known as the “Mayor of the Fair” at Expo 67, the hugely successful world’s fair held in Montreal in 1967 to celebrate Canada’s 100th birthday. Mr. Beaubien, who died at his home in Quebec’s Laurentian Mountains on April 9 at the age of 97, was lured away from his entrepreneurial life at 35 to become the event’s director of operations.When he started, it wasn’t certain that Expo 67 would be ready on time. There were federal politicians who weren’t keen on it, including Walter Gordon, finance minister in Lester Pearson’s cabinet. Even Mr. Beaubien’s own...
April 23, 2025 - 21:44 | Fred Langan | The Globe and Mail
In a move to counter alleged financial mismanagement by school boards, Ontario is taking control of one school board in London that sent executives on a retreat to Toronto that cost nearly $40,000 last summer, and launching financial investigations into three other boards.A fifth board, which made the controversial decision to send trustees to Italy to buy religious art for two schools last year, will be required to submit an implementation plan to meet the government’s fiscal and governance expectations.
April 23, 2025 - 21:10 | Dave McGinn | The Globe and Mail
The Vancouver Police Board must look into an officer’s allegation that arrest quotas have been issued as part of Mayor Ken Sim’s “Task Force Barrage” initiative in the Downtown Eastside, British Columbia’s police watchdog says.An e-mail from the anonymous whistle-blower is on the agenda for Thursday’s meeting of the board along with a corresponding letter from the Office of the Police Complaint Commissioner asking the board to take action.The letter from the commissioner says it received a complaint from an officer on March 8, calling Task Force Barrage a politically motivated crackdown...
April 23, 2025 - 21:01 | | The Globe and Mail
Proposed legislation from Premier Doug Ford that he says would unleash Ontario’s economy by speeding up permits for mining and other projects would also dramatically weaken the province’s endangered-species legislation, environmentalists warn.The changes, included in a bill unveiled last week and aimed at boosting growth in the face of U.S. tariffs, would give cabinet final say over which animals and plants are designated for protection, instead of a committee of experts, and narrow the legal definition of habitat essentially to an animal’s nest.
April 23, 2025 - 21:01 | Jeff Gray | The Globe and Mail
