Ontario Education Minister Stephen Lecce says he won't negotiate the details of a counter offer from the Canadian Union of Public Employees' education workers unless they cancel plans to strike on Friday.
``Freedom Convoy'' lawyer Keith Wilson says he told protesters to stay in downtown Ottawa to oppose COVID-19 restrictions after the federal government invoked the Emergencies Act, even though police were warning people to leave the area.
Ontario's chief medical officer of health says he'll be considering whether to make a stronger recommendation on masking in about two weeks after looking closely at data on flu cases.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is criticizing the Ontario government's use of the notwithstanding clause in legislation to impose contracts on education workers and ban them from striking.
Start Me Up Niagara will be running the two facilities for the next few months out of Westminster United Church in St. Catharines and the Coronation Centre in Niagara Falls.
Lawyers for Ontario Premier Doug Ford and a top provincial minister are set to argue in court today in an effort to get the pair out of testifying at the federal Emergencies Act inquiry.
Niagara's two largest school boards are taking a wait and see approach after CUPE education workers announced today they would not be going to work on Friday - despite provincial legislation being introduced.
The commissioner overseeing the Emergencies Act inquiry says Ontario Premier Doug Ford and a top minister have overstated the privilege they enjoy as politicians as they try to get out of testifying at the proceeding.
The Canadian Union of Public Employees says its approximately 55,000 education workers will stage a provincewide protest Friday, meaning they will be off the job despite the government tabling legislation to impose contracts and ban a strike.
Chandra Sharma is worried that changes to the evaluation process that decides whether land is “provincially significant” will result in wetlands being paved over.
Ontario's education minister is planning to introduce legislation today to avert a looming strike by support staff and impose a contract on them, which the union says it intends to fight.