Mike Crawley

Killing cancer cells with alpha particles could be the next frontier in treatment

Across Canada, there’s a growing number of political leaders proposing to force people into treatment for drug addiction, despite inconclusive evidence about its effectiveness.

How the proposed deal between provinces, smokers and tobacco companies would work

Scurvy is a disease that likely conjures up images of sickly sailors from hundreds of years ago, but doctors in Canada are being warned to look out for the condition now, as a result of growing food insecurity.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservative government is poised to oversee the biggest expansion of green energy that the province has seen in nearly a decade.

Premier Doug Ford’s government is seeking a precedent-setting court ruling on whether Ontario’s regulated online gaming sites can legally allow players in the province to gamble with players outside Canada.

Ontario has the worst recycling rates in Canada for non-alcoholic beverage containers. Billions of cans, plastic bottles and cartons go to landfills or incinerators yearly. The Ford government was seriously considering adopting a new system to improve things, but abruptly U-turned and scrapped it.

Premier Doug Ford’s highly touted plan to boost the number of places where Ontarians can buy booze is drawing little interest from grocery stores.

Here’s a breakdown of how the LCBO currently turns its $2.5-billion annual profit, and how things are expected to change with the Ford government’s reforms.

The Ford government will not bring in a deposit and return system on non-alcoholic drink containers such as pop cans and bottled water, CBC News has learned.

Developers are among the biggest beneficiaries of red-tape reduction measures brought in by Premier Doug Ford’s government, saving hundreds of millions of dollars a year in costs, CBC News has learned.

If history is any indication, unionized LCBO workers will not walk off the job on July 5 when they are due to be in a legal strike position. But the Ford government’s plan to allow all grocery and convenience stores in Ontario to sell beer, wine and ready-to-drink cocktails looms large over the negotiations.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s order to the LCBO to bring back paper bags caught the Crown corporation’s management off guard, emails obtained by Radio-Canada reveal.

If Premier Doug Ford decides to call an early election, political strategists say he'll need to give Ontario voters a compelling reason for why he's sending them to the polls ahead of the scheduled date of June 2026.

Premier Doug Ford’s push to get beer and wine into convenience stores ahead of schedule will cost Ontario taxpayers at least $225 million, but there’s evidence the full price tag could add up to hundreds of millions more.

Premier Doug Ford’s government will try to combat record rates of auto theft in Ontario by slapping lengthy driver’s licence suspensions on people convicted of the crime.

New figures show Ontario’s greenhouse gas emissions jumped for a second straight year, following a pandemic-induced plunge, and have risen back to the level they were before Premier Doug Ford’s government came to power.

Some Ontario academics are waging a campaign against new legislation from Premier Doug Ford’s government that they say would pave the way for political interference on campus.

Premier Doug Ford’s government is facing corporate pressure to change Ontario’s plan that sees industry taking on the full cost of blue box recycling programs, CBC News has learned.

Only one Ontario university will see its international student intake shrink this year while more than half of the province’s public colleges face a drop, under a plan announced Wednesday by Premier Doug Ford’s government.