Queen’s Park needs a facelift. Ontario should give PEI a call
I toured Charlottetown’s newly renovated legislative assembly — and found a project worth learning from.
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William Howard Hearst had many big accomplishments. So why was he a one-term premier?
More than 100 years ago this week, he became leader of the province after his predecessor died — and he inherited a fractured caucus.
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Charles MacDonald worked at Queen’s Park. He still wasn’t equipped to deal with Ontario’s health care system
Charles MacDonald’s nickname is “The Hero” and it’s not hard to see why. In January 1990, when he was 16, the car he was driving skidded on black ice in eastern Ontario near Prescott, was rammed by another driver, and burst into flames. MacDonald sustained burns to 85 per cent of his body. His family…
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Meet the group that wants you to ‘read your way across Canada’
Project Bookmark Canada is giving book lovers a new way to experience CanLit — in the great outdoors.
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How Greg Sorbara changed Ontario politics — and what comes next
The former cabinet minister just turned 80. That doesn’t mean he’s slowing down.
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Why an Ontario mayor is backing out of his re-election bid
Bryan Barker seemed headed for a third term on Manitoulin Island — until he pulled out of the race.
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If the Americans were surprised Canada walked away, they don’t know their history
By Steve Paikin and Dan Dunsky, Contributors, The Toronto Star Dan Dunsky was Executive Producer of The Agenda with Steve Paikin from 2006 to 2015. Assuming Jamieson Greer, Howard Lutnick, Pete Hoekstra and the rest of the American negotiating team had done their homework, last Friday’s decision by Prime Minister Mark Carney to walk away…
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This Hamilton-area farmer wants to teach you where your food is grown
An annual event serves 2,500 Ontarians a free breakfast — and an agricultural education.
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The first Ontario Liberal leadership debate was one to forget
If the candidates want to take down Doug Ford, they’ll need to put on a better show.
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Richard Johnston had a political career unlike any other — and just celebrated a birthday he thought he’d never see
The former NDP MPP turned 80 on the weekend. Does he have any regrets?
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I thought I knew Toronto — until a new plan threw me for a Loop
Connecting 80 kilometres of trails across the city is an ambitious plan. It may pay untold dividends.
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Opinion | Evan Solomon on what we need to protect our sovereignty, and having his birthday on 4/20
Huge advances in artificial intelligence are both thrilling and terrifying people all over the world. As a result, for the past 14 months, Canada has had its first ever minister responsible for AI: Evan Solomon, a former journalist, now rookie MP for Toronto Centre. His mission seems monumental. Steve Paikin: Since you are the first MP to…
