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Ontario government spending $112M on advertising, more than ever before: auditor
TORONTO - The Ontario government spent the highest recorded amount on advertising last year, the auditor found, a flurry of public spending the opposition parties accused the government of using to pr...
Dec 02, 2025
Costco becomes biggest company yet to demand refund of Trump tariffs
WASHINGTON (AP) - Costco is joining other companies that aren't waiting to see whether the Supreme Court strikes down President Donald Trump's most sweeping import taxes. They're going to court to dem...
Dec 02, 2025
Canada's competition commissioner leaving job months before term ends
OTTAWA - Canada's competition commissioner is leaving his post two months before his term comes to an end. Matthew Boswell says in a media statement he will end his term on Dec. 17, for personal reaso...
Dec 02, 2025
Multi-agency effort led to seizure of large amounts of fentanyl, other drugs: RCMP
OTTAWA - The RCMP said Tuesday it teamed up with other law enforcement agencies to seize 386 kilograms of fentanyl and significant amounts of other illicit drugs over a five-month period. The Mounties...
Dec 02, 2025
NDP leader says Liberals are being 'dishonest' about the future of pharmacare
OTTAWA - The federal government's response to a report it commissioned on national pharmacare was "shockingly dismissive," NDP interim leader Don Davies said this week as he called on the Liberals to ...
Dec 02, 2025
Budget office sees modest boost in housing supply from Build Canada Homes
OTTAWA - The parliamentary budget office projects in a new analysis that Ottawa's new housing agency will fill only a small gap in the housing market. The Liberals launched Build Canada Homes in Septe...
Dec 02, 2025 Prime Minister Mark Carney speaks to construction workers as he tours a housing development in Ottawa on Thursday, Nov. 6, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Spencer Colby
Ontario wrote off $1.4 billion of personal protective equipment, auditor finds
TORONTO - Ontario wrote off more than one billion items of personal protective equipment at a cost of $1.4 billion since 2021 and is now burning expired products, the province's auditor general found....
Dec 02, 2025
Miller says government needs to start Indigenous consultation on B.C. pipeline
OTTAWA - Heritage Minister Marc Miller says his government needs to "sit down and start working now" on consultation with Indigenous communities and stakeholders about a possible new pipeline in B.C. ...
Dec 02, 2025
Ontario auditor general finds province not properly overseeing doctor billings
TORONTO - Ontario is not properly overseeing doctors' billings, including cases of physicians billing for more than 24 hours in a day - money that could be going toward adding more family doctors, the...
Dec 02, 2025
Treasury board president "looking into" potential changes to return to office rules
OTTAWA - Treasury Board president Shafqat Ali on Monday denied having any knowledge about discussions to potentially order public servants to return to the office full time in 2027. Ali was responding...
Dec 01, 2025
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