Dan Karpenchuk
WBFO Canada Correspondent-
Efforts in Canada to get the country’s big grocery chains to sign on to a code of conduct have finally paid off. The five big grocers control about 75 percent of the Canadian market.Now as Dan Karpenchuk reports, the final to holdouts, Walmart and Costco have agreed to sign off.
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Ontario won’t be dry for the rest of the summer and the next couple of years. Government-run liquor stores in the province reopened Tuesday after a two-week strike.
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A torrential downpour hit Toronto on Tuesday making it seem more like the monsoon season in the South Pacific. Over several hours about four inches of rain poured onto the city cutting electricity, flooding basements, and stranding motorists. Dan Karpenchuk reports that the city experienced more than a month’s rain in three hours.
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Yet another twist in Ontario’s Greenbelt land swap controversy, as Premier Doug Ford's housing minister resigns.
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After months of criticism from experts, lawmakers, and the public, Ontario says it will ban ads for online gambling that feature athletes and celebrities.
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There may be ‘some’ labor peace in the education system in Ontario this fall. Ontario and the secondary school teachers’ union have agreed on a process to avoid a strike.
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Ontario Premier Doug Ford insists that no one had any preferential treatment in his government’s decision to open the Greenbelt, a protected area of green space in southern Ontario to developers. He was defending the decision after this month’s report from the province’s auditor general.
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The move comes after widespread criticism that governments were not moving fast enough to deal with the problem, which saw many refugees sleeping on the streets of Canada's biggest city.
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Some advocates are calling it a huge shame. They say asylum seekers are among the homeless sleeping on the streets of Toronto. Others are calling it a human rights disaster.
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After weeks of uncertainty, a deal has finally been reached for automaker Stellantis to build a battery plant in Windsor.