It cost Ontario taxpayers an additional $612 million so Premier Doug Ford could expand booze sales in time for his early election, a fiscal watchdog has found.

CTV News has learned through a senior provincial government source that Premier Doug Ford will call a snap election next Wednesday, with voting set for Feb. 27.

Defending jobs "must be the premier's sole focus," said Laura Walton, president of the Ontario Federation of Labour.

Ontarians will go to the polls in February, Premier Doug Ford said Friday while announcing his government's plan to improve transit in Peel Region.

The Financial Accountability Officer wrote in a report Monday that the expansion of beer, wine and coolers to convenience stores, big box stores and more grocery stores will cost $1.4 billion through to 2030, and $612 million of that is due to the sped-up timing.

The Ontario premier says he's ready for a street fight if Trump makes good on threats of a trade war with Canada

Ontario Premier Doug Ford is preparing to take a tough stance against the U.S., threatening economic retaliation if President Donald Trump targets Canada in a trade conflict. Ford has outlined a series of retaliatory measures,

President Donald Trump has issued a “full and unconditional pardon” to Washington, DC, police lieutenant Andrew Zabavsky and officer Terence Sutton for their roles in the death of 20-year-old Karon Hylton-Brown, a case that drew protests on the heels of the murder of George Floyd.

The leader of Canada’s most populous province says he will be calling an election in Ontario because he says he needs a mandate to fight U.S.

Ontario's budget watchdog estimates that the government's decision to speed up the rollout of alcohol sales in corner stores will cost the province more than $600 million.

Doug Ford, Ontario’s Conservative leader, has recently said that President Trump was “going to try to devastate our country” with a plan to impose tariffs on Canadian exports.

Ontario’s take-no-prisoners Premier Doug Ford is threatening to ban U.S. alcohol in stores and cut power to American homes and businesses close to the border in his war on Donald Trump’s threatened tariffs.