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Opposition parties are again calling on Ontario Premier Doug Ford to fire Labour Minister David Piccini over his handling of a $2.5-billion job training fund mired in controversy. The Ontario NDP and Liberals said Wednesday they are outraged by the auditor general's findings earlier this month that the process by which projects were selected for the Skills Development Fund (SDF) was "not fair, transparent or accountable." For a third-straight day, the fund dominated Question Period

Bradley served at Queen's Park from 1977 until 2018, when he returned to local politics. He had first been elected to St. Catharines city council in 1970, when he was 25, and was again elected to represent that city in Niagara Regional Council 48 years later. Soon after, council elected him regional chair, and the provincial government reappointed him to the position in 2022.

This is a cash grab off taxpayers. Nothing more, nothing less, he said, adding he offered to personally demonstrate for mayors how to slow traffic. I will stand in an area where you want to calm the traffic, and I'll show you how to calm the traffic instantly. It's not that they don't know how to do it. They don't want to do it because it's a cash grab.

Ontario's two largest opposition parties are grappling with dissension within their ranks, and experts say the work to unify their members and rebuild their parties will be difficult and could complicate their missions to defeat Doug Ford in the next provincial election. Both the Ontario New Democrats and Liberals emerged from party conventions this month with questions looming about their respective futures.

WindsorNew Ontario Premier Doug Ford had harsh words for Diageo, parent company of Crown Royal whisky, on Tuesday. Last week the company announced it would be closing its Amherstburg, Ont., bottling plant in the new year, prompting the suggestion that Ontario should pull product from the shelves. At an unrelated announcement in Kitchener, Ford produced a bottle of Crown Royal and dumped it out while lambasting the company's decision.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford says he will maintain his ban on American booze despite Canada dropping some retaliatory tariffs in the ongoing trade war with the United States. Ford says he will drop the ban on selling U.S. alcohol at the Liquor Control Board of Ontario when U.S. President Donald Trump removes tariffs placed on Canadian goods or when the two countries strike a new free trade deal.

Ford emphasized that First Nations should not keep approaching the government for financial help, indicating a desire for autonomy in economic development.

"We do not stand with Ontario in support of Bill 5," Gagnon said in a statement. "We do stand in support of the other First Nations in Ontario who are opposed to Bill 5 and working to have it thrown out."

"The Ministry has yet to formally initiate the mandatory review of the Greenbelt Plan, which was supposed to start earlier this year, raising concerns among critics."

Scarborough Coun. Michael Thompson testified that he never touched the complainants and denied any sexual assault allegations, asserting that no one was inebriated.

Integrity Commissioner J. David Wake's report emphasizes that Mr. Mutton's actions undermine transparency and public confidence, leading to a two-year lobbying ban.