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This article was first published by Sudbury.com, a Village Media publication. The Government of Ontario is proceeding with four-laning the final portion of Highway 69 yet to be widened, a trio of provincial ministers announced during a media conference at the northern end of its two-lane section.

Prime Minister Mark Carney left the door open to negotiating further with U.S. President Donald Trump during a day that was punctuated by an escalating war of words among politicians on both sides of the border. Carney made the remarks while announcing an $11 billion contract with Chantier Davie in Quebec to build six new icebreakers for the Canadian Coast Guard.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford has a counter-proposal for Donald Trump in response to the U.S. president's threat to increase tariffs on autos and steel to 50 per cent. "Well, he can kiss my ass, as far as I'm concerned," Ford said in an interview on NewsTalk 1010 Monday morning. Trump levied the threat in a Truth Social screed earlier that morning. "Canada will be treated like a State no longer!" he posted. "On Trade, and in other ways, also, they are among the worst Nations in the World to deal with.

Three years after appointing an associate vice-president of Francophone affairs to consolidate its bilingual mandate, Laurentian University is experiencing remarkable momentum across all of its French-language programs and student services. According to a newly published three-year report (A Collective Commitment to Francophonie: Report on Achievements and Academic Vitality at Laurentian University 2023–2026), Francophone students now comprise over 25% of the total student body.

Leaders in Canada woke up Saturday to find their country in a trade war, as Prime Minister Mark Carney described it after his talks with the United States government collapsed. U.S. President Donald Trump introduced new 50 per cent tariffs on billions of dollars in Canadian exports on Saturday after trade talks failed the night before.

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney says retaliatory tariffs will hit the U.S. starting next month after Canada walked away from what he called a "bad deal." The U.S. introduced new 50 per cent tariffs on billions of dollars in Canadian exports on Saturday after trade talks failed. Carney suspended talks with the United States late Friday and summoned his negotiators back to Ottawa.

OTTAWA — A last-ditch effort to reach a new trade deal before a midnight tariff deadline failed Friday, as Prime Minister Mark Carney suspended talks with the United States and summoned his negotiators back to Ottawa. The decision meant new 50 per cent tariffs on billions of dollars in Canadian exports to the U.S. took effect at 12:01 a.m., and Carney vowed Canada would retaliate with equal measures of its own.

The head of the company picked to redevelop a massive chunk of Lake Muskoka waterfront paid the PC Party $1,000 for an opportunity to dine with the premier while his company was working to land a deal to purchase the provincially-owned property for the project, records show.

Don Valley West MPP Stephanie Bowman was the last of five Ontario Liberal Leadership candidates to jump in the race after the candidate she'd endorsed — Ajax MPP Rob Cerjanec — dropped out. In an interview with The Trillium, she explains why she came off the sidelines and what she believes she brings to the race. She says Mark Carney's something of a "unicorn," but she believes that bankers like him, and her, can make good politicians.

Congestion is often treated as a problem of too few roads. In growing cities, that is increasingly the wrong diagnosis. The underlying issue is how we choose to use the public space we already have. For decades, most North American cities have measured transportation success by how many vehicles are accommodated, rather than by how many people move safely, reliably, and efficiently. If we want to reduce congestion, we need to reframe our thinking to focus on moving people, and not just vehicles.