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Globe and Mail: Horwath under tougher scrutiny as Ontario’s NDP gains in polls; as a “sanctuary province” Ontario hospitals would be ordered not to ask people for proof of insurance before giving them care

CBC: Trump threatens tariffs of up to 25% on all cars imported into U.S.

CBC: Federal government blocks sale of construction giant Aecon to Chinese interests

CTV: Trump calls Canada 'very spoiled,' 'difficult to deal with' on NAFTA

Joe Warmington - Toronto Sun: PCs plan on exempting Legion branches from municipal property taxes

Global News: NDP now tied with PCs, but 48% of their voters see Tories winning Ontario election: Ipsos poll

Ottawa: Andrea Horwath finally admits NDP platform has huge $1.4-Billion math ‘mistake’

CBC: After days away, officials to decide if Grand Forks, B.C., homes are livable

David Reevely - Ottawa Citizen: Bob Rae-style NDP math: Subtracting when they should have added makes NDP's financial forecasts wrongly rosy

Kingston: Andrea Horwath defends NDP candidate over anti-Remembrance Day, anti-Christmas comments; says her main concern is whether her candidates support NDP platform, not things Ontarians hold dear

Rex Murphy - National Post: Trudeau's desire for global praise comes at the price of Canadian jobs, and Canadian unity

Toronto Star: Both working-class and very broadly defined ‘elite’ voters favour Doug Ford in Ontario election, new poll shows

CTV: Major fires destroy multiple Brandon buildings

iPolitics: NDP’s Horwath rules out corner store sale of beer and wine in Ontario; favours more nanny state, less choice

Another Wynne boondoggle - Globe and Mail: Ontario gets taken to the cleaners in casino deal

Inquinte: 500% permit fee hike by province will hurt local special events

CTV: As gas prices rise in most of Canada, dip expected in Quebec

Globe and Mail: Robbing Peter to pay Paul: Ontario Liberals vow end to auto-insurance rates based on where you live (after failing on past insurance promises)

Gary Mason - Globe and Mail: Stephen Harper comes in from the cold

Lorrie Goldstein - Toronto Sun: The hypocritical attack on Ford’s ‘populism’

CBC: Even environmentalists tell Trudeau his ethanol plan is terrible

BC Aaaarrgghh - CHEK News: A pitcher worth a thousand words: Beer flows into Victoria street from downtown brewery

CBC: 'Master of persuasion': Why Brian Mulroney's NAFTA playbook remains relevant 25 years later

David Krayden - CBC: Canada should not proceed with the legalization of marijuana as planned; the proposed policy is based on highly dubious claims and grossly optimistic expectations

Lawrence Solomom - Financial Post: Even environmentalists tell Trudeau his ethanol plan is terrible

Lorrie Goldstein - Toronto Sun: Trudeau and Co. losing the fight on carbon taxes

Susan Delacourt - Toronto Star: When it’s ‘time for a change,’ can anything change that?

CBC: Armed Forces to help flood relief efforts in B.C.

CTV: Ex-Ontario PC leader Patrick Brown writing book on his 'political assassination'

The Star Vancouver: People with disabilities would be hurt by Vancouver straw ban, say advocates

Rick Bell - Calgary Sun: Pipeline crisis cooks, taxpayers on the hook

Dawson Creek Mirror: Notley reiterates threat to “turn off the taps” to B.C.

Ontario Election: Doug Ford PCs will cut gas taxes by 10 cents per litre

Ontario election - Global News: How will Ontario’s parties tackle the massive provincial deficit?

Lorrie Goldstein - Toronto Sun: Wynne's cap-and-trade scheme sinking Liberals

Ontario election - Global News: Majority of Tory, Liberal and NDP voters prefer spending cuts to deficits: Ipsos poll

National Post: Ontario Liberals will review how Hydro One board members were able to approve $25K raises for themselves

CBC: Alberta business leader scolds Prime Minister for driving off investment; ATCO boss Nancy Southern says decline in Canada's competitiveness is 'heart-breaking'

Christie Blatchford - National Post: Muzzling the media: Reality of Hydro One must lie between its self-accolades and the angry protests

Mike Crawley - CBC: Hydro One's part-time Liberal-appointed board members gave themselves $25K raises; already under fire for sweetening severance package for executives

Ontario election - Global News: PCs at 49% support in 905 and Eastern Ontario; NDP picking off Liberal voters: Ipsos Poll

Financial Post: Minimum wage hike comes at a steep cost. 'We cannot afford to hire them and survive': CFIB

Mark Bonokoski - Toronto Sun: In Ontario "it is easier to get a medically-assisted death than a medical specialist, and easier to buy a handgun on the street than find a family doctor"

CBC: Higher mortgage stress test also putting the squeeze on renewals

CTV: Quebec truckers protest against corruption at construction sites

Montreal - CBC: Cigarette stubbed out in flower pot cause of major fire in downtown Montreal

Ottawa Citizen: Canopy Growth's position as top global cannabis company shaken by merger of two rivals

Kingston Whig-Standard: Canadian prison guards speak out against needle exchange program for coddling inmate drug abusers and infectious disease carriers "instead of investing in care and treatment"

CBC: Vancouver Board of Trade to fly Trans Mountain pipeline supporters to Alberta

Global News: 7 in 10 Ontarians say carbon taxes are just a tax grab: Ipsos poll

Adam Kassam - CBC: Wynne now offering solutions to health care problems her government created

Ross Ayotte - Two Row Times: Holding Wynne accountable; incompetence and broken promises

Andre Marin - Toronto Sun: Heads should roll at Hydro One

Editorial - Toronto Sun: Ontario’s healthcare system needs radical surgery

CTV: Yes, Virginia, politicians CAN lower the soaring price of gas, but some won't; taxes now cost 40 cents per litre in Ontario

CTV: Drivers fume as gas prices across Canada soar; high taxes blamed: "As prices go up, they go even higher here in Canada"

CTV: NDP now in second place ahead of Liberals but Tories retain big lead: Mainstreet Research poll

CTV: Sophie Trudeau pal Jaspal Atwal charged with uttering threats

Global News: ’60s Scoop settlement worth $875M approved by federal judge after Saskatoon hearings

CTV: Tories want action against self-confessed ISIS recruit reportedly living in Toronto

Diane Francis - Financial Post: U.S. and UK's populist, protectionist policies could turn Canada into trade powerhouse

CBC: Conservatives grill Goodale about Canadian ISIS fighter's execution confession

John Snobelen - Toronto Sun: Call off the search for Horwath! she's over there on the far left with the big tax and spend crowd

Global News: In top 10 election issues, Ontario voters don’t trust the Liberals: Ipsos poll

Ontario election - Toronto Sun: Forum Research poll predicts NDP opposition to a PC majority government

Toronto Star: Wynne blames massive overcrowding at 10-yr-old mental health hospital on "too many patients" not government planning incompetence

Hannah Thibedeau - CBC: Beset by bad polls, Wynne calls in a 'fixer' from Ottawa in panic move

Don Braid - Calgary Herald: Truth is, the tide is turning against Vancouver’s mayor and his anti-pipeline allies

CTV: Sajjan says Harper's endorsement of Trump's Iran decision 'not helpful'

CBC: Speaker Chris Collins won't re-offer for Liberals, plans to sue New Brunswick Premier for libel

Chris Hall - CBC: The Liberals spent $233,000 of public money to learn their budget messages aren't getting through to Canadians

Toronto Sun: Ontario taxpayers dole out nearly $2,400 for Asian trade mission party

Global News: Hundreds attend Gord Brown’s funeral in Gananoque

Sue-Ann Levy - Toronto Sun: Largest teachers' union ends love affair with Ontario Liberals

CBC: Canadian Tire buys sportswear company Helly Hansen for nearly $1B

Mark Bonokoski - Toronto Sun: Costs growing for feds open door border

CBC: Tap water was completely off-limits in sector of downtown Montreal; air conditioning valve failure caused back-flush

Global News: Northern debate kicks off Day 3 of Ontario election campaign

BC Local News: Hundreds evacuated as flood waters continue to rise in Boundary region

James Wallace - Toronto Sun: Ford's tax cut helps answer middle class woes

Editorial - Toronto Sun: Liberals are bad, the NDP’s worse

Vivian Bercovici - National Post: Iran's missiles strike in Israel but they can't pierce Trudeau's naiveté

Editorial - Chatham This Week: Why is farmland near GTA more sacred?

Editorial - Toronto Sun: Let’s turf the Liberals and rebuild Ontario

CBC: NDP MP Christine Moore suspended from duties following veteran's allegations

Global News: Canada’s big banks increase mortgage rates, may prompt Bank of Canada hikes

CP24: Torontonians say Ford won first provincial leaders’ debate; Mainstreet Research poll: Ford 35.1%, Horwath 24.3%, Wynne 19.3%

Global News: New poll says Doug Ford’s Ontario PC Party enjoys commanding lead over NDP, Liberals in "change election"; Ipsos poll: PCs - 40%, NDP - 29%, Liberals - 26%

Neil Macdonald - CBC: Jagmeet Singh says he always believes survivors. Well, here's another one; NDP MP Christine Moore, who alleged improper conduct by a fellow MP, is facing troubling accusations herself

Financial Post: Cries of 'rank hypocrisy' as disclosures reveal B.C. government pension fund invests in Kinder Morgan

Ottawa Citizen: Ford and Wynne talk to the province, Horwath plays to studio audience with high school smirks as Ontario leaders debate offers warm-up for campaign launch

CBC: Fewer than 1% of more than 28,000 irregular asylum seekers have been removed from Canada so far

BBC: Canada working with U.S. in Nigeria to stem asylum claims

Tom Blackwell - National Post: Fiery clashes as Horwath and Ford pummel hapless Wynne in first televised election debate

CBC: Ontario woman arrested, jailed in U.S. for driving with a Canadian licence

Hill Times: Federal Liberals aim Elections Bill at Conservatives advantages, make mockery of voting by enabling voter cards to serve as ID

Maclean’s-Pollara Ontario Election Poll: PCs: 40%, NDP: 30%, Liberals 23%; "results show further room for the Liberals to fall"

CityNews: Doug Ford's PCs lead in new Ontario election poll, Wynne's Liberals in 3rd place

Mike Crawley - CBC: 6 factors that will decide the Ontario election

CTV: Sewage risk posed by rising flood waters in New Brunswick

CTV: Third person dies as a result of Ontario windstorm

Toronto Star: 4,200 Toronto residents still without power two days after monster wind storm

Editorial - National Post: In Kathleen Wynne's world, auditors are fools — and so are voters

CTV: Party leaders to square off in first debate ahead of Ontario election

Global News: Hundreds of thousands in Ontario without power following disastrous wind storm

CTV: Doug Ford says Tanya Granic Allen will no longer represent Ontario PCs

John Ivison - National Post: Left-of-centre Liberals leave Singh's NDP struggling for relevance

Global News: Flooding forces highway closure between Moncton and Fredericton

CBC: Gananoque residents remember MP Gord Brown as one of their own; Member of Parliament praised for his deep roots in the eastern Ontario community

CTV: 'I just can't stop crying': MP Gord Brown mourned by colleagues

National Post: 'Shock, followed by profound sadness' after beloved MP Gord Brown dies suddenly

Global News: Ontario PC Leader Doug Ford backs off Greenbelt development idea

Michael Binnion - Policy Options: We need a common sense climate policy

CTV: Doug Ford promises $1.9B for mental health care if elected

CBC: Kahnawake's controversial 'marry out, get out' policy violates Charter, judge rules

Rick Bell - Calgary Sun: NDP energy boss says turning off taps to B.C. no bluff

CBC: 3 Cree boys dead after being hit by vehicle near Nelson House, Manitoba, says Chief

CBC: Ontario PCs are out-fundraising the Liberals, NDP and Greens combined

Global News: Doug Ford’s Ontario PC Party offering 75% child care rebate if elected

CBC: All 10 of those killed in Toronto van attack identified

News1130: NAFTA: Ministers head home from negotiations, with uncertainty looming

Toronto Sun: Ford promises Tories will cut Ontario hydro rates another 12%

Kelly McParland - National Post: Whoever wins the Ontario election is in for a rough ride

Defense One: Ignition jamming device under U.S. Govt development could stop truck attacks such as in Toronto

Sarnia Observer: PCs pledge to stop Otter Creek windfarm over water contamination concerns

Ben Eisen - Toronto Sun: Ontario election debate should include tax reform proposals

CTV: Britain gifts long-lost Franklin expedition ships to Canada, Inuit

John Ivison - National Post: Asylum-seeker issue helps give Scheer Tories an unexpected Quebec resurgence

CBC: 2 Nanaimo police officers injured after truck crushes unmarked police cars

Brian Platt - National Post: Trudeau defends summer jobs grant to anti-pipeline activists on free speech grounds

Newfoundland - CBC: Liberal Premier removes Eddie Joyce from Cabinet, orders external review of harassment allegations

Tom Blackwell - National Post: Ontario AG’s pre-election bombshell: Liberal government understated deficit by billions of dollars

CBC: Duplicity or just stupidity: Federal program funds summer job to help 'stop Kinder Morgan pipeline'

Andrew Coyne - National Post: Liberals and NDP locked in bidding war for ‘Party of the Left’ title; "Why are the Liberals playing this game? The textbook approach to winning power, after all, is to play to the median voter, not the left wing of the left wing"

Canadian Manufacturing: Ontario dubbed the new ‘public finance dunce’ by Quebec think tank

Auditor General: Full text: Review of the 2018 Pre-Election Report on Ontario’s Finances

Antonella Artuso - Toronto Sun: Ontario deficit will be double what Wynne claimed: Auditor General

Global: Small plane carrying 6 people makes safe emergency landing on Calgary's 36th Street, 5km short of airport after running out of fuel

CBC: Cabinet minister seeks out Liberal leakers with email to MHAs; allegations of harassment and bullying in caucus are beginning to leak outside the walls of government

Global: ‘We’ve made our decision’: B.C. First Nation speaks up for Trans Mountain pipeline

CBC: Conservatives demand Liberals act to halt illegal border crossings from U.S.

Toronto Star: She was ‘the best grandma anyone could ever ask for.’ More victims of van rampage identified

CBC: University of Alberta stands by Suzuki honorary degree as donors withdraw, Albertans protest

Global News: Before a B.C. teen died of an overdose, doctors prescribed him opioids. His parents weren’t told

CTV News: Restaurant Brands announces 'Winning Together' plan to improve Tim Hortons

Terry Glavin - National Post: We search for patterns after events like Toronto attack on pedestrians, but there may be none

National Post: Videos show lone Toronto police officer arresting suspect after van driver kills pedestrians: 'This guy is a hero'

CBC: U of A engineering dean 'betrayed' by decision to award honorary degree to David Suzuki

CTV News: Elections Ontario investigating PC complaint about Wynne announcements

CBC: Tories demand government explain how much a carbon price will cost Canadians

Vancouver Sun: Feds to post deficits $8B bigger than expected over next two years: PBO report

CBC: Former Ontario PC leader Patrick Brown seeks $8M in defamation suit vs. CTV

CBC: 'Suspicious circumstances' at Sopinka courthouse, stay away: Hamilton police

Toronto Star: Canadian’s death in Peru linked to slaying of Indigenous elder, authorities say

CP24: Man and woman dead after BBQ explodes in Mississauga

CBC: Ontario PCs appoint candidates in 11 ridings just weeks out from election

CP24: New poll puts Ontario PCs in 'super-majority' territory, NDP as opposition; 46% of decided or leaning voters said on April 18 that they would support the Ontario PCs if a vote were held that day

Toronto Star: Tories cry foul over award of Ontario polling contracts to Liberal campaign manager

Global News: U.S. woman sentenced to life in prison in Valentine’s Day shooting plot at Halifax mall

CTV: Liberal campaign co-chair half-apologizes after using crude language to describe Ford in a debate

CBC: Wine industry, business groups disappointed by Supreme Court's interprovincial beer ruling

CBC: How 'Free the Beer' ruling could impact the B.C.-Alberta pipeline war

Huffington Post: All in the Liberal Family; Facebook exec Kevin Chan defends his access to Trudeau cabinet; but not registered as a lobbyist

CBC: MPs call Facebook on the carpet to answer a question: can it be trusted?

Toronto Star: Hydro One board should resign over secret changes to CEO’s compensation deal, Ford says

Kelly McParland - National Post: Ontario Premier predicts 'vicious' election campaign, then gets vicious; afraid to run on record

CTV: No damage or injuries reported after minor M3.6 earthquake hits southwestern Ontario

National Post: Ontario PC leader Doug Ford says he would end subsidies to parties, calls it ‘political welfare’

Sportsnet: IOC declares Canadian weightlifter Christine Girard is 2012 Olympic champion

Toronto Star: ‘There must be a better way’: More medical grads expected to be jobless after graduation than ever before

Ottawa: Supreme Court gets it wrong, rules no free trade between provinces; you can't buy beer and cross a provincial border if province says you can't

Napanee Beaver: Plans revealed for Napanee redevelopment project on historic Gibbard Furniture factory site

Lorne Gunter - Toronto Sun: The motivating factors behind our pipeline crisis

Toronto Sun: Ontario’s power-price crisis -- how it happened and who got hurt

Globe and Mail: Queen urges Commonwealth to name Prince Charles as its next leader

Bloomberg: That gorgeous Toronto condo you signed up for? They just scrapped it

CTV: CN Tower closed for 4th consecutive day due to falling ice risk

Tom Blackwell - National Post: Failed Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne calls Doug Ford a Canadian Trump as campaign turns 'vicious' — but is it a winning strategy? Not when your incompetence is well-known and loathed

CTV: Quebec man who caused flight to return to Montreal ordered to pay $17,450

Guelph Today: Stone Road Mall to cut hours in attempt to combat negative impact of minimum wage hike

Moody's downgrades Ontario's credit rating to negative from stable

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