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4 days ago | 
miltontoday.ca | Jessica Cross |Jack Hauen |Katherine DeClerq
EDITOR’S NOTE: This article originally appeared on The Trillium, a Village Media website devoted to covering provincial politics at Queen’s Park.
The Ford government is promising to “protect Ontario” from the impact of U.S. tariffs by tearing down trade barriers between provinces and speeding up permitting and approvals for the mining of critical minerals.
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1 week ago | 
orilliamatters.com | Jessica Cross |Jack Hauen |Katherine DeClerq
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 Ford government is promising to “protect Ontario” from the impact of U.S. tariffs by tearing down trade barriers between provinces and speeding up permitting and approvals for the mining of critical minerals.
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1 week ago | 
thetrillium.ca | Jack Hauen |Jessica Cross
Ontario MPPs have made history by electing the first female Speaker of the legislative assembly.
In a secret ballot vote Monday afternoon, Progressive Conservative MPP Donna Skelly was chosen as the 44th Speaker of Ontario.
She thanked Premier Doug Ford, her fellow MPPs, and her challenger for the role, NDP MPP Jennifer French. She said in her acceptance speech that she was "honoured" and "privileged" to be the new Speaker, but "more importantly," the first female one.
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2 weeks ago | 
haltonhillstoday.ca | Katherine DeClerq |Jessica Cross
Editor's note: This article originally appeared on Parliament Today, a Village Media newsletter devoted exclusively to covering federal politics.
“Do you believe the polls?”
That’s the question Canada’s major federal political party leaders were asked Thursday after a handful of people wearing hooded sweatshirts with that slogan appeared at Conservative Party Leader Pierre Poilievre’s rally in Brampton, Ont. Wednesday night.
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3 weeks ago | 
haltonhillstoday.ca | Palak Mangat |Katherine DeClerq |Jessica Cross
Editor's note: This article originally appeared on ParliamentToday, a Village Media newsletter devoted exclusively to covering federal politics.
U.S. President Donald Trump has called April 2 “Liberation Day” and promised the new tariffs he will announce will “make America wealthy again." But Canadian leaders are warning that they will retaliate and Trump’s tariffs will result in job losses and economic harm in his own country.
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1 month ago | 
burlingtontoday.com | Sneh Duggal |Jessica Cross |Aidan Chamandy |Jack Hauen
EDITOR’S NOTE: This article originally appeared on The Trillium, a Village Media website devoted exclusively to covering provincial politics at Queen’s Park.
Now that the votes are in, the real work begins for Ontario’s political parties.
None of the party leaders held a media availability the day after the election, but all are facing questions about what the results mean for their parties and what they must do next.
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2 months ago | 
haltonhillstoday.ca | Jessica Cross |Charlie Pinkerton
This article was first published by The Trillium, a Village Media publication.
In the first leaders’ debate of the Ontario election, Doug Ford declared he was the only candidate on the stage who believes in building housing.
“They say, ‘We want to build.’ They don't believe in building,” the Progressive Conservative leader said in the debate hosted by the Federation of Northern Ontario Municipalities (FONOM).
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2 months ago | 
burlingtontoday.com | Jessica Cross |Charlie Pinkerton
This article was first published by The Trillium, a Village Media publication.
In the first leaders’ debate of the Ontario election, Doug Ford declared he was the only candidate on the stage who believes in building housing.
“They say, ‘We want to build.’ They don't believe in building,” the Progressive Conservative leader said in the debate hosted by the Federation of Northern Ontario Municipalities (FONOM).
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2 months ago | 
burlingtontoday.com | Jessica Cross |Charlie Pinkerton |Jack Hauen
EDITOR’S NOTE: This article originally appeared on The Trillium, a Village Media website devoted to covering provincial politics at Queen’s Park.
Two former Ford government staffers — including a central figure in the Greenbelt scandal — are being accused of fraud in a lawsuit that alleges they were paid to use “their backchannel contacts and political connections” to get land rezoned for development, but did not follow through on the deal.
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2 months ago | 
haltonhillstoday.ca | Jessica Cross |Charlie Pinkerton |Jack Hauen
EDITOR’S NOTE: This article originally appeared on The Trillium, a Village Media website devoted to covering provincial politics at Queen’s Park.
Two former Ford government staffers — including a central figure in the Greenbelt scandal — are being accused of fraud in a lawsuit that alleges they were paid to use “their backchannel contacts and political connections” to get land rezoned for development, but did not follow through on the deal.
