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Editorial - Toronto Sun: Trudeau's carbon tax grab fatally flawed

CBC: Ontario increases hospital funding by $90M to address overcrowding; will fund 1,100 hospital beds before flu season hits

Detroit News: Snyder, Enbridge make deal for Line 5 replacement tunnel; the nearly four-mile tunnel beneath the Straits of Mackinac will keep pipeline from contact with water

CBC: CAQ win shows depth of upheaval in Quebec political landscape

Montreal Gazette: Quebec election: Here's just how wrong the polls were

Global News: A historic vote in Quebec for every party, a tougher provincial puzzle for Trudeau

CBC: Elections Quebec warns of fraudulent calls, texts circulating ahead of Monday's vote

CBC: Quebec election: CAQ tries to crack West Quebec in final push

National Post: Read the speech MP Leona Alleslev delivered before quitting the Liberals and crossing the floor to join the Tories

Reuters: In blow to Canada's Trudeau, Toronto MP defects to Conservative Opposition

CBC: Doug Ford vows to fix 'broken' Toronto City Hall as rare midnight sitting of Ontario Legislature wraps after 7 hours

Ted Morton - National Post: Provinces demanded ‘notwithstanding’ powers for good reason. They should use them

Allan Bonner - Toronto Sun: Enough with the exploding heads, time to unpack the problems with the Ford ruling

Toronto Sun: Midnight debate scheduled for Bill 31 on Monday

Ottawa Business Journal: Cannabis 101: Schools scramble to educate a weed workforce

Brian Lilley - Toronto Sun: Trudeau NAFTA plan outsmarting Canadians out of jobs

Financial Post: Top court makes it more expensive to sue online movie pirates

National Post: Ontario to invoke notwithstanding clause after judge strikes down bill to reduce Toronto council

Huffington Post: Ontario Premier Doug Ford will appeal and overrule Court’s decision on Toronto City Council bill

Huffington Post: Ontario Judge uses 'crickets' in ruling to strike down Doug Ford's city council cuts; seen as unprofessional by experts, under appeal by Province

CBC: Ontario cuts natural gas price after revoking cap-and-trade

Financial Post: 'Take it or leave it': Trump signals hard line as NAFTA talks turn to Canada

Financial Post: 'This should stop the bleeding in Canada': Auto stocks soar despite Trump tariff threats

iPolitics: New Brunswick votes: No carbon tax, Tory leader says

Global News: Andrew Scheer says his India trip won’t involve dancing or celebrity chefs

Yahoo: 'You need to stand with your leader:' Ford rallies federal Tories in Halifax

Randall Denley - National Post: Meet the man in charge of bringing facts back to Ontario politics

Christie Blatchford - National Post: Force 'deeply devastated' as three OPP officers commit suicide in three weeks

Chris Hall - CBC: Party unity the theme of Conservative convention as Scheer faces challenges from within

Global News: Power dam at Cornwall celebrates 60 years of power production

Andrew Coyne - Regina Leader-Post: Why this crazy leap in the dark by Maxime Bernier?

Napanee - London Free Press: ABcann Global announces company name change to VIVO Cannabis

Rex Murphy - National Post: Jagmeet Singh's natty yet ineffectual failure to launch

CBC: Ford once again presses Tory for action on gun violence in new letter

City News: With 97 cranes in the sky, Toronto far ahead of other North American cities; there are currently 400 proposed high rise projects for the city

CBC: Tim Hortons hopes to rebuild its brand with better lid, new marketing campaign

Randal Denley - National Post: Doug Ford has been the breakout action star of the summer

James Bagnall - Ottawa Citizen: The sixth time's the charm for Canopy Growth's Bruce Linton

Maura Forrest - National Post: Alberta First Nation can’t require chief, band councillors to live on reserve: judge

Brampton Guardian: Ontario earmarks additional $100M to battle forest fires across province

James Bissett - National Post: How Canada can actually fix the migration mess on its borders

William Watson - Financial Post: This problem could make Ontario’s public sector get more expensive -- fast

Global News: Site prep for wind turbines was cause of devastating Parry Sound 33 forest fire

Windsorite: Sergio Marchionne replaced at Fiat Chrysler after complications following surgery

Global News: Ontario: More than 50 told to evacuate as forest fire near Parry Sound quadruples in size

Global News: B.C. wildfire crews recalled from Ontario, Quebec as fire situation worsens

Lorrie Goldstein - Toronto Sun: Horwath steers NDP hard to the left

Global News: Inquiry into Royal Military College finds shortcomings, gaps in suicide prevention

New Brunswick: Statement from Premier Ford, Premier Couillard, and Premier Pallister on non-point of entry border crossers

Huffington Post: Canada's cost of living rises at fastest pace in more than 6 years, Statistics Canada says

Global News: Ontario firefighters get help from U.S. crews as more forest fires discovered

Mitch Wolfe - Toronto Sun: The border crossers issue has weakened Trudeau's Quebec base

CTV: Premiers announce agreement in principle on flow of alcohol across borders

Editorial - Toronto Sun: Trudeau political with NAFTA? Say it ain't so!

Global News: Ontario MPP Lisa MacLeod slams ‘bully’ Ahmed Hussen as immigration dispute heats up; Liberal Immigration Minister, a former refugee, calls her “un-Canadian”; she demands apology

National Post: Trudeau is exaggerating what international refugee law compels Canada to do; we're not obliged to provide a hearing to every claimant who shows up at the border

Full text - Ontario Speech from the Throne: A Government for the People

Global News: Fatal transport truck crashes up in 2018, OPP says

Sudbury Star: Ontario: Five throne speech highlights

City News: Internal Toronto police memo warned of potential 'vehicle ramming' attack near CN Tower

CP24: Ford delivers: Hydro One board and CEO out

Global News: Bank of Canada delivers another hike, key interest rate rises to 1.5%

CBC: Two Canadian bus companies say they want to fill void left by Greyhound in West

Bloomberg: 28% of Canadians fear bankruptcy ahead of Bank of Canada decision

Editorial - Toronto Sun: Trudeau owns Canada's refugee border mess

News1130: Bank of Canada expected to raise interest rates on Wednesday

Global News: Canadians told to ‘shelter in safe place’ as violent protests erupt in Haiti, travel warning issued

CBC: Amazon warehouse announcement coming Tuesday for Ottawa

iPolitics: Ford tells Ottawa to pony up $72M to cover costs of illegal immigrants seeking asylum

CBC: Hypocrisy is at the crux of the Trudeau groping allegation; Trudeau and his defenders are asking for a type of consideration previously denied to others

Global News: NDP MP who beat ex-Bloc leader Gilles Duceppe twice won’t run again

Toronto Sun: Homes evacuated due to forest fire near Temagami

Global News: ‘Just outrageous’: Trudeau Government spends $24k on 86 cushions for Mexico City Embassy

Brian Lilley - Calgary Sun: Canadians believe Trudeau has no plan for border troubles he created

CBC: Greyhound Canada to end bus service in Western provinces

Sue-Ann Levy - Toronto Sun: Lawlessness follows druggies into downtown neighbourhoods

CBC: How Canada's small towns are trying to survive and thrive in changing times

Wind Concerns Ontario: Ontario wind farm contracts can be cancelled by new Ford Government: legal opinion

CBC: Trudeau's anti-harassment advisor says he has limited options at this point in Gropegate; including resignation and walking back his zero-tolerance policy on sexual misconduct

Mike Richmond - Mondaq: What the new Doug Ford Government means for the Energy Sector – A detailed analysis

CBC: Woman who accused Trudeau of groping breaks her silence, confirms Trudeau groped her and mumbled an apology only a day later

Financial Post: 'Tsunami-like' downturn: Auto tariffs could raise vehicle prices in Canada by $9,000

Calgary Herald: Humboldt Broncos first responders honoured during Calgary Stampede Parade

Mark Bonokoski - Toronto Sun: Justin Trudeau’s long-simmering disrespect of Doug Ford will cost him

CBC: Auto tariffs would be 'catastrophic' to Canada and cost 100,000 jobs, dealers warn as arrogant Trudeau Govt continues failure in trade negotiations

Andrew Coyne - National Post: Did he or didn't he? Trudeau needs to start making sense

Toronto Sun: Young woman 'was not entirely comfortable,' Trudeau says of groping allegation; won't comment on independent investigation into the allegations

Global News: Woman who accused PM of groping may have had ‘different’ experience admits Trudeau

CTV: Canada looks to deepen involvement in Mali by sending up to 20 police officers

Toronto Sun: Bell, Rogers slash Toronto internet prices

Global News: Trudeau says he ‘did not act inappropriately’ in latest comment on groping allegation; when will victim come forward?

Global News: Heat-related deaths seem concentrated in Quebec, but there’s more to the story

Lifesite: Trudeau’s hypocrisy in dealing with ‘groping’ allegations shows what he really thinks of women

Global News: U.S. auto tariffs could cut Canadian production by almost 1 million cars: CIBC

Global News: Animated maps show Canada has so much more to lose in a trade war than the U.S.; over two-thirds of Canada’s exported goods were sold to the U.S. in 2017

National Post: Canada’s embassy in Haiti taken for $1.7M by gang of swindlers and fraudsters, internal report reveals

Flare: Justin Trudeau addressed those sexual misconduct allegations — But we’re not buying his response

CTV: 'New low in trade relationship,' expert says of Canada-U.S. tariff showdown; Canada has much more to lose in Liberal-mismanaged mess

Tom Parkin - Toronto Sun: Trudeau's weakness with centre-left swing voters is an NDP opening

CP24: Heat wave will come to an end on Friday: Environment Canada

Yahoo: Six dead in Montreal as much of Canada remains under blanket of hot, humid air

updated National Post: 'Speeding towards failure': MMIW inquiry lawyer resigns, citing government interference

Toronto Star: Brain-injured diplomats feel ‘abandoned’ by Ottawa

CBC: Stephen Harper spotted leaving White House West Wing

Huffington Post: Trudeau publicly addresses 'groping' allegation from 2000

Toronto Sun: Doug Ford sworn in as Ontario Premier, reveals smaller Cabinet

CBC: Don't retaliate against U.S. with tariffs, Calgary Chamber of Commerce implores Ottawa

CTV: Ford becomes Ontario Premier Friday, but work on key promises already underway

CBC: Stephen Harper expected to meet Trump's top economic adviser in Washington amid trade tensions

CBC: Canada's retaliatory tariffs are coming — and they will hurt Canadians as prices rise

iPolitics: ‘We won’t win a trade war with the U.S.,’ Bernier warns

CTV: Stephen Harper to visit White House on July 2nd

CTV: 'America First' approach will outlive Trump: Harper

CTV: Suspended Vice-Admiral Norman to be removed as Canadian military's second-in-command

Toronto Sun: Trudeau, Toronto City Hall caused refugee crisis

CBC: Federal government quietly writes off loan — but won't reveal sum or say who got it

CTV: Ontario homeowner acquitted in shooting death of man who broke into his truck

Don Braid - Calgary Herald: Trudeau Liberals quietly rig equalization for five more years

Candice Malcolm - Toronto Sun: Liberals' carbon tax racket is coming to an end

Toronto Star: Toronto can’t handle influx of illegal refugee claimants, Mayor Tory tells Ottawa

Global News: Study predicts Trans Mountain pipeline purchase will add to federal deficit

Gatestone Institute: Canada supports, infantilizes Jihadis; "Canadians who go abroad to commit terrorism – predominantly jihadists, in other words – have a "right to return" according to government documents obtained by Global News"

Toronto Star: Ford swearing-in ceremony will include outdoor festivities for the public

Global News: Equalization debate re-emerges ahead of ministers’ meeting in Ottawa

CBC: Syncrude outage expected to ease pipeline congestion, boost heavy oil prices

Kelly McParland - National Post: Why must Trudeaus always anger the west? No, really. What's up with that?

Toronto Sun: Liberal legacy: Toronto's 5-murder weekend, including random drive-by killing of woman returning from funeral

CBC: Mali 'far messier' than other peacekeeping missions, says Canada's defence chief

Global News: 16 Malians reported killed in attack on ethnic Fulani village

CTV: A dozen Canadian peacekeepers arrive in Mali as yearlong mission begins

Global News: NAFTA’s fate could change timing of 2019 federal election: expert

CTV: Can landlords ban you from smoking marijuana? It depends on the province

CBC: Singh admits holding NDP seats in Quebec won't be easy

Bloomberg: Canada’s economy just wobbled but rate hikes are still in the cards to keep capital from flowing south to higher returns

Chris Varcoe - Calgary Herald: Canada's economy 'under attack' by U.S., says national chamber head

Toronto Sun: Activist left gearing up for fight with Ford

Bloomberg: Molson Coors is the latest beermaker to consider adding buds to suds

Andre Marin - Toronto Sun: Ford off to the races

CBC: Ontario doctors to return to bargaining table after incoming government reaches out

National Post: Is an alleged groping by Trudeau in 2000 a #MeToo moment or better left swept under the Liberal privilege rug?

Andrew Coyne - National Post: A snap election? Unlikely, but with the obstacles ahead, Liberals may be tempted

London Free Press: Trump letter to Trudeau expresses ‘growing frustration’ over Canada’s failure to meet NATO spending commitments

Calgary Sun: 'I'm not going to be the last': Okotoks rancher cleared of firearms charges says rural crime problem 'not going away'

John Ivison - National Post: Canada's new chief justice keen to drag Supreme Court into the light

Global News: Applause in courtroom as charges dropped against Okotoks property owner in rural shooting

CTV: Unexpectedly weak data on inflation, retail sales cloud central bank's next step

Vancouver Sun: B.C. selects Shopify to set up legal online cannabis sales

CBC: Police seize 78 guns, lay more than 1,000 charges after street gang raids; 60 guns alone seized from trunk of car on 401 travelling from Cornwall, Ontario border smuggling crossing to Toronto

CTV: Liberals set hiring, procurement rules for federally-funded projects across Canada; recent immigrants given priority over native-born Canadians

CBC: Tom Mulcair's parting words to NDP: party should be 'worried' about the future

Toronto Star: Facing possible expulsion from the U.S., many former DREAMers could qualify to come to Canada, Trudeau told

iPolitics: Jenni Byrne tapped to be Ford’s principal secretary, Premier’s office takes shape

CTV: 'Tectonic dance': Hundreds of tiny tremors detected under Vancouver Island

CBC: 'Free the roads': Wai Young joins Vancouver's race for mayor on anti-bike lane platform

Saskatoon Star-Phoenix: In formal complaint, Canadian Red Cross says Liberal MP abused volunteers at emergency shelter

Chistie Blatchford - Calgary Herald: I may have smoked weed in the ’60s, but I'm not celebrating its legalization now

CBC: Legalization comes with risks: Doctors reminding public that health effects of cannabis use are real

CTV: Laurier facing $1.5M defamation lawsuit from best-selling author and professor Jordan Peterson

CBC: Number of Canadians choosing medically assisted death jumps 30%

Justin Ling - The Guardian: Canada uses massive U.S. anti-terrorist database at borders

iPolitics: Ottawa Liberals miss election lesson that destroyed their provincial cousins; vow to impose Ontario carbon tax when Ford scraps cap-and-trade; Ontario has sovereign power to break any contract and Ottawa should know that

Toronto Star: Ford Conservatives ready to hit the brakes on controversial electric vehicle rebates

CTV: Doug Ford wants consultations on cannabis sales in Ontario

Toronto Sun: OPP lay nearly 700 charges against truckers in one day; pull 63 defective trucks off the road

CBC: Toronto police arrest nearly 70 in overnight raids targeting Five Point Generalz street gang; seize drugs, weapons in raids

Toronto Star: Early morning raid on organized crime involved 800 officers, Toronto police say

CBC: Canada aims to curb number of migrant children held in detention

National Post: 'A complete and utter failure': Bill for Trudeau's blunder-filled India trip tops $1.5M

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?

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