EXCLUSIVE: The Ford government has spent five years, and an untold amount in taxpayers dollars, fighting to keep their 2018 mandate letters a secret. Here - in full - are all 24 sets of directives, leaked to and verified by Global News. https://t.co/weFCiyIFGn #onpoli

NEW: The years-delayed Eglinton Crosstown LRT has officially achieved substantial completion, the government of Ontario says, the final major hurdle on the way to opening the line. https://t.co/faDqsfdrpe #onpoli

Stiles says the premier is "pulling the wool over people's eyes" because the share of manufacturing jobs in Ontario's workforce. The PCs say the NDP is "twisting" the numbers. #onpoli

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Premier Doug Ford, being grilled on jobs in Ontario, says the Leader of the Official Opposition, Marit Stiles, should "get a pink slip" #onpoli

The CFIB says just 6% of small businesses in Ontario have tapped into the Ford government's controversial Skills Development Fund because the "application guide is 43 pages long" forcing business owners to hire people to apply. The CFIB also says the Ontario Trade Together fund

The CFIB says 34% of small biz said they would hire more people and 44% would expand their business if they saw a tax cut. "That would lead to economic growth on its own," the CFIB argues, calling the tax cut an investment rather than a loss in revenue.

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During pre-budget consultations at Queen’s Park, the Canadian Federation of Independent Business tells the Ford government cutting the small biz tax rate would help 326k as a tariff measure. 51% told the CRIB they would use the additional savings to compensate employees more.

Ontario's Education Minister acknowledges that if his ministry was "doing it right," EQAO test scores would be higher. The province is now going to hire an advisory panel, to look at improving standardized test scores. #onpoli #onted

NEW: Premier Doug Ford says the government had two choices on Algoma Steel: "We either save, you know, two-thirds or we don't save anything." #onpoli

BREAKING: Ontario Premier Doug Ford acknowledged that his government was aware that massive layoffs at Algoma Steel were imminent, well before the province agreed to loan the company $100 million in taxpayer funds. "The Titanic was sinking." https://t.co/7owx4KjbUR #onpoli

While EQAO results represent a slight improvement from the previous school year, Calandra said the progress is “not enough” and acknowledged that, after seven years in power, the Ford government shoulders part of the blame. https://t.co/8Hj2WE5sXL #onpoli

NEW: Edu Minister Paul Calandra says he has yet to provide advice to cabinet on the elimination of public school board trustees - meaning no action this calendar year. He says he still wants to eliminate the positions (in the public system) but wants to do more homework on the

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“I was taken aback by these results,” Minister Calandra says. “Half of our kids aren’t meeting benchmarks.” Calandra has been reviewing the results since September but only released them today. The panel members will be announced in the new year.

NEW: With underwhelming EQAO scores, the Minister of Education is acknowledging that the Ford government’s own education strategy isn’t delivering the results the PC party was looking for. The government will now hire an advisory panel to review the tests, curriculum and

Weeks after they were delayed by the Education Minister, EQAO results will finally be released today. https://t.co/9YFs7bXOP3 #onpoli

The Ford government has been steadily burning expired PPE, according to Ontario's AG, and the province appears to be married to mask production contracts -- even though roughly 80% is going to waste. #onpoli

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Ontario's doctors continue to use an "archaic" OHIP billing system that isn't capable of catching red flags, according to the Auditor General, meaning $400-600 million in potentially suspect billings aren't being foung. #onpoli

NEW: EQAO results, delayed by the Minister of Education, will be released tomorrow at 9am. #onpoli #onted

NEW: The Ford gov't spent a record amount on public advertising ahead of February’s snap election, the auditor general has found, pushing commercials with a message that “promotes the governing party.” https://t.co/LsXY6iaVRQ #onpoli

Millions of dollars’ worth of surgical and N95 masks may end up in the trash, according to the province’s auditor general, as the Ford government continues to honour pandemic-era contracts for personal protective equipment. https://t.co/WCsTeON4CJ #onpoli

NEW: As the Ford government pushes ahead with a four-year plan to connect everyone in the province to primary care, the auditor general has found it does not have a co-ordinated framework for the policy or the ability to measure whether primary care is actually accessible to