Robert Benzie

With Premier Doug Ford’s government roiled by a Mounties’ probe, the opposition Liberals demanded to know if the treasury would be on the hook for the fees of lawyers already being retained.

Some 27 current and former Liberal MPPs are urging party members to elect Mississauga Mayor Bonnie Crombie because she “clearly spooks Doug Ford and his cabal of Conservatives.”

Premier Doug Ford is scrapping planned changes to municipal boundaries in a flip-flop related to the $8.28-billion Greenbelt land swap scandal.

Naqvi, the Ottawa Centre MP and one of the front-runners in the Dec. 2 contest, said he would not be running away from his past.

Thousands of internal government documents linked to Premier Doug Ford’s $8.28-billion Greenbelt land swap scandal reveal political staff directed bureaucrats on municipal boundary changes — often ignoring expert advice.

Thousands of internal government documents linked to Premier Doug Ford’s $8.28-billion Greenbelt land swap scandal reveal political staff directed bureaucrats on municipal boundary changes — often ignoring expert advice.

The Mountie’s Sensitive and International Investigations unit is examining “allegations associated to the decision from the province of Ontario to open parts of the Greenbelt for development.”

Red ink and a Greenbelt scandal. That’s the colour of the ominous picture being painted for Premier Doug Ford’s embattled Progressive Conservatives in the fall economic statement.

Fresh from exposing Ford’s $8.28-billion Greenbelt land swap scandal, the provincial auditor general is now probing the Ontario Place redevelopment.

The heat is being cranked up on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s carbon-pricing plan with premiers pressuring him to give more relief to cash-strapped Canadians.