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Premier Doug Ford wants Ontario municipalities to ask him to use the notwithstanding clause to disband homeless encampments. Predicts that the courts will prevent efforts to evict encampment denizens without the notwithstanding clause. #onpoli 🔒 thetrillium.ca/insider-news/p…

Bill 223 has passed through the legislature, which means that 10 of Ontario's 17 supervised drug consumption sites will be forced to close. #onpoli

Sylvia Jones once said "people are not going to die" from the closure of supervised consumption sites, but her government didn't actually do an assessment to see if people will die or not. #onpoli The closure bill passed yesterday before the AG report. thetrillium.ca/news/health/on…

Despite their rhetoric about growing manufacturing in Ontario, there are slightly fewer manufacturing jobs than when the PCs came into power in 2018. In that time, the province spent $5.4 billion to create 49,000 manufacturing jobs - $110k each. #Onpoli thetrillium.ca/insider-news/g…

Two different audiences, two different messages. Premier Ford told American news networks how much Ontario loves the US, while warning Ontarians to prepare for a bitter trade dispute. "This fight is coming, 100% on January 20," he said. #onpoli 🔒 thetrillium.ca/insider-news/g…

Ontario premier Doug Ford answers questions from reporters at the Fall meeting of Canada's premiers in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada December 16, 2024. Photography for Reuters

A great photo of myself and other reporters totally respecting the "no questions allowed rule" during a photo op with the premiers this morning They are gathered in Mississauga this morning to discuss Donald Trump's tariff threats. #onpoli A real press conference is at 2 p.m.

This is a major development in the feud between Ontario First Nations and Metis. FNs have been trying to kill Bill C-53 for the better part of two years because they say Ontario Metis' claims of Indigenous identity and rights are fraudulent. #onpoli 🔒 thetrillium.ca/news/indigenou…

Canada has told the Assembly of First Nations that Ottawa has no mandate to negotiate further nationally after chiefs rejected a $47.8B offer to reform the child welfare system, according to a confidential letter obtained by CBC Indigenous. cbc.ca/news/indigenou…

NEW: As Doug Ford’s government planned how to rejuvenate Niagara, a lobbying firm run by a controversial ex-aide to the premier helped Niagara Falls fine-tune its vision, while at the same time working for a developer that's set to play a big part. thetrillium.ca/news/the-trill…

The CEO of Ontario Health atHome has left her job after struggling for months to resolve a medical supplies shortage that continues to plague home care nursing agencies. She also leaves behind an agency apparently riven by employee discontent. #onpoli thetrillium.ca/insider-news/h…

PCs' opponents decry U.S. lobbyists deals as another way Ford's putting 'insiders first' thetrillium.ca/news/politics/…

The Trillium has confirmed this. No tariffs tomorrow. #onpoli

Reporters are left shouting Qs as Ford's team ends presser without taking all questions.

Well, I tried. #onpoli

Odd. While Ontario's Doug Ford refused to share the names of the individuals in the White House who the premiers met with, BC's David Eby was happy to share it.