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Roughly three months into his third consecutive majority mandate, Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s championing of Canada in its trade war with the U.S. has helped his star shine brighter. But a majority of poll respondents say the province is on the wrong track.
The latest Ontario Report Card from Leger found that almost half of residents (47 per cent) — and more than half of all men (52 per cent) — approved of the work Ford has done, compared to a third of respondents for NDP Leader Marit Stiles and Liberal boss Bonnie Crombie (33 per cent each). The pollster said Ford’s favourability was...
June 5, 2025 - 07:00 | Kenn Oliver | National Post
In 2011, the Government of Canada contracted American tech giant IBM to build a new system to manage its payments to civil servants. Beset by bugs, delays, and cost overruns, the new Phoenix pay system was finally unveiled in 2016. And it was a disaster. Civil servants were overpaid, underpaid, or not paid at all. The boondoggle racked up $3.5 billion in additional costs and forced the government to draw up plans to purchase an entirely new pay system. That, too, has been delayed.
In 2020, Ottawa launched ArriveCAN: a nimble, Swiss Army knife of an app to allow travellers to submit...
June 5, 2025 - 06:30 | Justin Ling | Walrus
As a Quebecer, I have always had an ambivalent, if not uneasy, relationship to Canada. The province’s deep sense of being distinct, of speaking a language most of the rest of the country doesn’t always bother to understand, marked me. Even as much of my early life in my family’s Montreal home was lived in Italian, we often consumed culture in French. After school, I watched Passe-Partout, Bobino, and a series starring a glum clown called Sol. My father, who arrived in the city in 1967, was never fully comfortable in English, and preferred his blockbusters dubbed. That meant Bruce Willis...
June 5, 2025 - 06:29 | Carmine Starnino | Walrus
Good morning. Investors are scrambling to keep up with Trump-fuelled market swings – more on the below, along with Ontario’s controversial Bill 5 and the Bank of Canada’s rate hold. But first:Today’s headlinesCarney faces pressure to retaliate against Trump’s steel and aluminum tariffsCanada’s Strong Borders Act would give law enforcement access to internet subscriber information without a warrantThe Oilers thrill the home crowd with a comeback win in Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Final
June 5, 2025 - 06:23 | Danielle Groen | The Globe and Mail
Fritz Alphonse Jean, de facto president of Haiti, is calling from a well-appointed office in the Villa d’Accueil, temporary home of the Haitian government. It is an island of calm in what Mr. Jean calls the country’s “situation of war.”The machinery of state has been forced to largely relocate from the National Palace, a grand neoclassical building in Port-au-Prince that typically houses the country’s leaders, because of regular gunfights between heavily armed gangs and the habitually underpowered police.
June 5, 2025 - 06:00 | Eric Andrew-Gee | The Globe and Mail
Recently appointed federal cabinet minister Rebecca Chartrand harassed a former employee at Winnipeg's RRC Polytech over a period of several months in 2019, according to an external investigation commissioned by the college and conducted by a Winnipeg law firm.
June 5, 2025 - 06:00 | | CBC News - Canada
