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Mar 5, 2025 | 
northernontariobusiness.com | Alan S. Hale
Even with the United States trade war casting a shadow over the event, Indigenous participation in the mining industry was the hot topic at this year's Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) conference in Toronto, which wrapped up on March 5.
At least one major deal was signed between a mining company and First Nations this week.
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Mar 3, 2025 | 
burlingtontoday.com | Alan S. Hale
EDITOR’S NOTE: This article originally appeared on The Trillium, a Village Media website devoted exclusively to covering provincial politics at Queen’s Park.
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Mar 2, 2025 | 
thetrillium.ca | Alan S. Hale
Despite the Progressive Conservative government's promises to fast-track the building of roads to the proposed Ring of Fire mining development in northwestern Ontario as a way to build "Fortress Am-Can" with the United States, current estimates suggest the final leg of the all-season road to the project site won't be completed until sometime between 2035 and 2040.
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Feb 24, 2025 | 
torontotoday.ca | Alan S. Hale
EDITOR’S NOTE: This article originally appeared on The Trillium, a Village Media website devoted to covering provincial politics at Queen’s Park. Early in the election campaign, David Lepofsky opened his door in Eglinton—Lawrence and was greeted by the voice of a young man campaigning for local Progressive Conservative candidate Michelle Cooper.
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Jan 28, 2025 | 
haltonhillstoday.ca | Alan S. Hale
EDITOR’S NOTE: This article originally appeared on The Trillium, a Village Media website devoted exclusively to covering provincial politics at Queen’s Park.
The Progressive Conservative government announced a plan to solve the province's doctor shortage Monday, just one day before the premier is set to trigger a provincial election campaign.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
thetrillium.ca | Alan S. Hale
Premier Doug Ford went into Wednesday's first ministers' meeting in Ottawa calling for all premiers to put the needs of the country as a whole before the needs of their "individual jurisdictions" so that Canada can have a unified response to the threat of sweeping tariffs from the United States.
But that didn't happen.
Instead, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith proved to be the one holdout.
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Dec 16, 2024 | 
thetrillium.ca | Alan S. Hale
Last week, federal Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Gary Anandasangaree told the Indigenous Affairs and Northern Affairs Committee that Ottawa will not be moving ahead with legislation that would recognize the Métis Nation of Ontario (MNO) as having Aboriginal rights over territories across northern Ontario.
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Dec 12, 2024 | 
burlingtontoday.com | Alan S. Hale
EDITOR’S NOTE: This article originally appeared on The Trillium, a Village Media website devoted exclusively to covering provincial politics at Queen’s Park.
After signalling for months they were planning to put forward a bill to remove homeless encampments from parks and other public spaces, the Progressive Conservatives put forward their plan for doing so on Thursday.
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Dec 11, 2024 | 
thetrillium.ca | Alan S. Hale
In January 2023, Solicitor General Michael Kerzner promised the chiefs of the Nishnawbe Aski Nation (NAN) that he would let Indigenous police services opt into having the same investigative powers, service standards, governance model and funding mechanisms as non-Indigenous police within a year.
But in the end, it took almost two years.
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
thetrillium.ca | Alan S. Hale
The Progressive Conservative government has announced that it is bringing forward legislation to crack down on homeless encampments by giving municipalities new powers and funding to allow cities to disband them.
But after weeks of floating — and defending — the possible use of the notwithstanding clause to allow cities to disband encampments, Ford is now saying it may not be necessary.
