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Montreal Gazette: Canada gets failing grade for detaining migrant children: researchers; numbers grow as Quebec inundated will illegal border hoppers

CBC: Manulife cutting 700 jobs, consolidating Canadian operations

CTV: Delta first to fly new CRJ900 cabins with order for 20 Bombardier regional jets

Toronto Star: Green Ontario cancellation leaves homeowners, industry scrambling with earlier deadline; solar installers not unhappy

Howard Anglin - CBC: There's a 150-year-old lesson Trudeau should heed in dealing with Trump's tariffs

CBC: Canada joins Uruguay as ony two countries fully legalizing cannabis; new era starts October 17th

CBC: After Senate vote, retail; sales possible in 8 to 12 weeks; Liberal Senators stripped away amendment that would keep criminal gangs from using offshore tax havens to invest in Canada's cannabis industry

Lorrie Goldstein - Toronto Sun: Wynne’s carbon scheme deserves to die

Edmonton Sun: Canadian Senate votes to legalize pot

Antonella Artuso - Toronto Sun: Ford PCs end Green Ontario Fund rebates from disgraced cap and trade scam

CBC: Scheer Conservatives romp to victory with 52.7% of vote in Chicoutimi-Le Fjord by-election despite major interventions by Trudeau

Toronto Sun: Don Cherry predicts Doug Ford will one day be PM

CBC: Doug Ford's triumphant PCs gather for first caucus meeting; largest govt caucus since 1995

CTV: Cannabis bill back to Senate after Liberals reject Senate amendments; stand-off in store?

City News: Man, 57, charged with first-degree-murder in Yonge subway station death

CTV: House of Commons Liberals reject major Senate changes to impaired driving bill

Global News: Canadian dairy Saputo criticizes Trudeau's 2016 tweak to supply management system, siding with U.S. in ongoing dispute

Global News: Trudeau approval jumps amid Trump trade spat — but it may not last long: Ipsos poll; Scheer would win election held today

Huffington Post: Trudeau carelessly gambles with fire; a trade war with U.S. would knock Canada's economy into recession: Scotiabank

CP24: Ford's public sector hiring freeze excludes essential frontline staff

Lawyer Daily: Unpacking Doug Ford’s plan for Ontario’s energy sector

Toronto Star: Incoming Doug Ford PC administration orders freeze on hiring and discretionary spending in Ontario

Andrew Coyne - National Post: Compete instead of retaliate — the middle path to handling Donald Trump

National Post: 'A lot to offer:' Plans for three universities in the works for three of Canada's northwest territories

Toronto Star: 1,000 York University contract faculty back at work this morning after 3.5-month strike

Bloomberg: Ontario to scrap carbon-cutting plan as scam expands elsewhere

Toronto Star: Metrolinx board member described Wynne Liberals' hydrogen train plan as ‘madness’

Toronto Star: Doug Ford to meet with U.S. state Governors and press for open borders

David Pugliese - Ottawa Citizen: Now Canada to purchase 25 used Australian F-18 jets IF U.S. gives approval

Bloomberg: Magna strikes deal to build electric vehicles in China with BJEVA

Jaime Watt - Toronto Star: Why voters were attracted to Doug Ford

Don Braid - Calgary Herald: A federal tanker ban that doesn't ban tankers. Just Alberta oil

Lawrence Solomon - Financial Post: Trudeau starts a trade war for political points. We’re the casualties

Antonella Artuso - Toronto Sun: Canada in for fight of its life in NAFTA talks

Huffington Post: Canadians who want to play hardball with Trump should look at this map

Globe and Mail: Canadian dollar near one-year low as trade tensions rise

Toronto Sun: Girls, 5 and 9, shot in Scarborough playground are recovering; police seek shooter whose target was in townhouse parking lot

CBC: Japan blocks Canadian wheat after unapproved GMO plants found in Alberta

CBC: Joe Savikataaq is the new Premier of Nunavut, after non-confidence vote ousts former leader

Editorial - Toronto Sun: Let's hope Trudeau follows through on Iran motion vote aboutface

Toronto Sun: 'Name-calling' won't help NAFTA talks: Ford

Global News: Loose-lipped Freeland puts Canadian exports at further risk with more undiplomatic snipes at Trump, this time in Washington

Toronto Star: Premier Doug Ford will recall legislature in July to end York strike, cut gas prices

National Post: 'One of the greatest paradoxes': Indigenous communities grapple with the costs and benefits of legal weed

Lorrie Goldstein - Toronto Sun: Pollsters were credible in predicting Ontario's election

David Reevely - National Post: Ottawa MPP John Fraser gets grim job of being Ontario Liberals’ interim leader

Globe and Mail: Liberal government rejects Senate changes to marijuana bill, vows all Canadians will be able to grow cannabis

CTV: Maxime Bernier booted from Conservative shadow cabinet

iPolitics: MPs slam tense committee meeting with McKenna: ‘It was the worst’

Toronto Sun: Co-hosting World Cup 'once in a generation opportunity' for Toronto: Tory

CTV: New Brunswick to ban chocolate milk and juices in public schools

Global News: Wilfrid Laurier TA Sheherd sues university for $3.6M over alleged ‘inquisition’

Mark Bonokoski - Toronto Sun: Shocker! Resurfaced editorial slams Justin Trudeau as a groper

Singapore - CTV: Trudeau's criticism will cost Canada 'a lot of money,' says Trump, expressing ire at two-faced Canadian PM

Montreal Gazette: More charges laid against Canadian military’s top judge — case will proceed to court martial

Toronto - CTV: Elderly couple not required to mow traffic island, mayor says

Toronto Star: Much of Elizabeth Wettlaufer’s stained record not reported to College of Nurses; killed 8 patients

J.J. McCullough - Washington Post: Why Trudeau doesn’t have the high ground on trade

CBC: Amid nickel boom, Vale moves forward with underground mine at Voisey's Bay

CBC: Ontario could feel the pain if Trump makes good on auto tariff threat — but no one knows how much it'll hurt

Reuters: Bombardier joint venture wins $4.9B Los Angeles Airport contract

Global News: Doug Ford says he stands ‘shoulder to shoulder’ with Justin Trudeau following Trump tirade

Toronto Star: Inquests to focus public attention on homeless men who died after years on Toronto streets

CTV: For 12th straight time, this riding predicted the Ontario election outcome

Toronto Star: Doug Ford to join transition team for ‘working meeting’ at Queen’s Park Sunday

Don Martin - CTV: Party leaders who ignore Ford Nation's rise do so at their own peril

Editorial - National Post: Abject defeat is a good look for Ontario's arrogant Liberal party

Toronto Sun: Rise of populism in Ontario election fuelled by economic anxiety: pollster

John Ivison - National Post: In Trudeau's nightmares, he is stalked by robust, right-wing populists

Mark Bonokoski - Toronto Sun: Ontarians laid waste to the Liberals who laid waste to them

Tom Blackwell - National Post: Ford win was a sure thing, thanks to the 'literally thousands' of targeted online ads, says campaign official

Montreal Gazette: Trump yanks support for G7 statement, tweets Trudeau is dishonest

National Post: Ford Nation and the future of Canadian conservatism

Editorial - Toronto Sun: Populism put Ford in driver's seat, not swing to right

Montreal Gazette: Couillard insists he can work with Ontario premier-elect Doug Ford

Edmonton Journal: Extortion: Police, military banned from further Edmonton Pride parades by organizers after protesters halt event

National Post: Liberals hopeful that Ford might let them keep their official party status despite not winning enough seats

Brian Platt - National Post: Exit poll suggests Wynne's early concession speech may have saved Liberal seats

CBC: Tornado touches down as thunderstorm moves northeast across Alberta

John Michael McGrath - TVO: Who were Ontario election night’s real winners and losers?

Randall Denley - Ottawa Citizen: Ford resonated with voters – he deserves a chance

Mike Crawley - CBC: Doug Ford's PC government will move on these 5 promises quickly

Global News: Ontario Premier-designate Doug Ford takes office on June 29

Global News: Canadian economy shed 31K full-time jobs in May

iPolitics: Ford’s transition team features powerful federal Conservative duo

CBC: 'We have taken back Ontario': Doug Ford leads PCs to majority government

Liz Braun - Toronto Sun: Wynne resigns as party leader

Sue-Ann Levy - Toronto Sun: The dirty tricks they've played

Kelly McParland - National Post: The Liberals don't know why Wynne is unpopular. Maybe I can help with that

Hamilton - CP24: Police arrest 3 more suspects in March's Locke Street anarchist vandalism spree

CTV News: Ottawa Liberal candidates dealing with Wynne's concession

Paul Wells - Macleans: As the Ontario campaign enters its home stretch, Ford’s PCs appear to be solidifying their hold in key 905-area ridings

CBC: Embattled Bloc Québécois leader Martine Ouellet resigns

CTV News: System for enforcing recreational pot remains hazy

Toronto Sun: Doug Ford embroiled in family feud over brother's estate

Brockville Recorder: Dozens hurt as tour bus goes off Hwy 401 and hits rock cut in Prescott

CBC: Trudeau whines about his NAFTA negotiating failures and resultant steel and aluminum tariffs in U.S. TV admission he's in over his head

CBC: Wynne pinpoints the moment she realized she couldn't win

Ekos poll: Ontario on track for a majority PC Govt as NDP falls back after moment in spotlight

Global News: PCs hold commanding lead in Hastings-Lennox and Addington, NDPs best Liberals for second place: poll

Toronto Star: In rural Ontario, ‘the overriding mood is anger’

National Post: Ontario's choice is clear, if less than ideal: A Progressive Conservative government; Ontario PCs are at least — unlike the other two parties — not in total denial about the many things broken in the province today

Editorial - Ottawa Citizen: The Progressive Conservatives should form the next Ontario government

Global News: Here’s who might replace Kathleen Wynne as Ontario Liberal leader if she’s ousted after loss

CBC: Biting the political bullet, Wynne clears path for Liberals to campaign out of her shadow; last-ditch bid for coalition?

CBC: Andrea Horwath won't rule out possibility of coalition; changes tune again, would mean Wynne might remain at controls

CBC: Malaysia's Petronas to take 25% stake in Kitimat, B.C. LNG project

Lorrie Goldstein - Toronto Sun: Horwath now open to coalition government with Wynne

Soo Today: Canada gums up border with foolish array of tariffs after Freeland and Trudeau drop NAFTA ball, allegedly over simple sunset clause

Halifax Chronicle Herald: Canadians try to show unity behind continuing trade failures of Freeland and Trudeau, as Trump takes off gloves a week before G7 in Quebec

Toronto Star: Mayor Tory calls Toronto shootings ‘shocking’ amid wave of gun deaths

Huffington Post: Canadian dollar tanks amid bad news from Trump and StatsCan

CTV: Pace of economic growth slowed in first quarter: StatsCan

Jonathan Malloy - Globe and Mail: How Ontario’s NDP is setting itself up to repeat history

CBC: Charity bike ride turns tragic when driver crashes into cyclists

CBC: Canada watches Washington as Trump plans to go ahead with steel, aluminum tariffs on EU

Global News: Canada beefs up steel, aluminum dumping restrictions ahead of U.S. decision on tariffs

Sue-Ann Levy - Toronto Sun: Andrea Horwath makes more excuses for offensive candidates; "NDP lunatics are already running the asylum"

Global News: Canadians don’t understand best-before dates, which leads to more food waste: report

Reuters: How Kinder Morgan won a billion-dollar bailout on Canada pipeline

Liz Braun - Toronto Sun: Ontario PC's on track for 77+ seat majority as NDP sags, says large new Forum poll

Global News: Liberals ignored green energy advice that could’ve saved Ontarians billions, lead engineer says

CTV: Horwath 'proud' of misogynist son; t-shirt message slurs women

Ontario PC Party shows all its cards: 'Plan for the People' shows costs, benefits and economy-boosting impact of sweeping Party platform

CTV: Feds spending $4.5B to buy Trans Mountain pipeline

Global News: NDP lags, PCs retake lead in Ontario election after final debate: Ipsos poll

CTV: Tories top Liberals in latest Nanos federal ballot tracking

Adrienne Batra - Toronto Sun: Horwath reveals true colours in debate

Adam Radwanski - Globe and Mail: With a target on her back, Andrea Horwath struggles in the spotlight during final debate; came off as annoying ideologue

Sudbury Star: Candidate controversies mount for NDP

Campbell Clark - Globe and Mail: Canada defends Michaëlle Jean at its own peril

Toronto Sun: PC Government would reintroduce 'buck-a-beer' to Ontario, promises Ford

Mark Bonokoski - Toronto Sun: Ontarians do not need NDP déjà vu of incompetence again

Don Martin - CTV: Slow and steady Scheer starting to win the race

Gord Henderson - Windsor Star: A Horwath government should be feared; "Horwath first loyalty is to labour movement and not to the taxpayers and certainly not to those — like students and public transit users — who get hung out to dry by marathon public sector strikes"

Global News: India cabinet minister condemns Mississauga blast at Indian restaurant, says he raised terrorism issue during Trudeau's India visit

CBC: Loonie sinks to two-week low: Is this the start of another big drop? Going down will force up interest rates, imperilling personal and public finance across Canada

National Post: From Hitler memes to 9/11 truthers, Ontario NDP candidate controversies grow as party enters spotlight

CBC: Trudeau's decision to vote in Ontario election angers Quebec MP

Global News: 20 close ridings that could decide Ontario election

Global News: New U.S. automotive tariffs would only be ‘foolish’ if they included Canada: Unifor boss

CBC: Saskatchewan judge rules province must allow people to remove gender markers from birth certificates

Lorrie Goldstein - Toronto Sun: Horwath fails the test of leadership

CBC: NDP MPP illegally forces his staff to work on election and constituency association matters says staffer's complaint to Elections Ontario

CBC: Andrea Horwath says she believes voters in Hamilton won't rush to judgment over complaints made against local NDP MPPs by their employees

Toronto Star: Ontario party leaders condemn Mississauga bombing

Toronto Star: Horwath says NDP is ‘looking into’ Scarborough candidate accused of sharing Hitler meme

Global News: Amazon to open Ottawa-based distribution centre, creating 1,000 jobs: reports

Global News: Toronto-area restaurant bombing: What we know about suspects

Toronto Sun: 2 sought in IED blast at Mississauga Indian restaurant

Financial Post: Vancouver to pay Kinder Morgan for legal costs after B.C.'s top court hands company twin victories

Global News: Ontario NDP upswing puts Tories in danger of losing majority, seat projections show

CTV: 2,000 people forced from homes as 51 fires rage across Manitoba

CTV: Aecon shares plunge nearly 15% after Ottawa blocks sale to Chinese firm

CTV: Horwath puts kibosh on more selling of beer in other than LCBO locations

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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