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• Ontario Extends Business Closures to Stop the Spread of COVID-19

  April 3, 2020 2:15 P.M.

  TORONTO — Following the advice of the Chief Medical Officer of Health, the Ontario government is reducing the list of businesses classified as essential and ordering more workplaces to close....

  News release | Office of the Premier

• List of Essential Workplaces

  March 23, 2020 8:00 P.M.

  For the purposes of this order, businesses include any-for-profit, non-profit or other entity providing the goods and services described herein. This does not pr...

  Backgrounder | Office of the Premier

• Premier Ford Ready to Partner with Ottawa to Fund Rapid Transit

  March 10, 2020 9:00 A.M.

  TORONTO ― Today, Premier Doug Ford, along with Caroline Mulroney, Minister of Transportation, and Kinga Surma, Associate Minister of Transportation, invited the federal government to join the...

  News release | Office of the Premier

• Ontario Expanding Natural Gas to More Communities

  March 6, 2020 11:00 A.M.

  PORT PERRY — Ontario is expanding access to natural gas throughout rural, northern Ontario and Indigenous communities with the launch of the next phase of the Natural Gas Expansion Progra...

  News release | Energy, Northern Development and Mines

• Associate Minister to Make an Announcement

  March 5, 2020 10:00 A.M.

  Bill Walker, Associate Minister of Energy, will make an announcement in Port Perry about natural gas expansion in Ontario.

  Media advisory | Energy, Northern Development and Mines

• Inquest into the Death of Timothy Desgrosseilliers Announced

  March 4, 2020 2:30 P.M.

  Dr. David Cameron, Regional Supervising Coroner for Inquests, announced today that an inquest will be held into the death of Timothy Desgrosseilliers.

  News release | Solicitor General

• Ontario Leads Business Mission to South America to Expand Business Opportunities in the Mining Sector

  March 3, 2020 1:00 P.M.

  TORONTO — Vic Fedeli, Minister of Economic Development, Job Creation and Trade, is leading a mining manufacturing and equipment focused business mission to Peru and Ecuador from April ...

  News release | Economic Development, Job Creation and Trade

• Province Strengthening Mining Industry, Creating Jobs in Northern Ontario

  March 3, 2020 8:30 A.M.

  Ontario is investing more than $10.5 million in 28 companies that supply products and services to the mining industry. This funding will help create or retain over 180 jobs.

  Backgrounder | Energy, Northern Development and Mines

• Moving Forward with Road Access to the Ring of Fire

  March 2, 2020 12:30 P.M.

  TORONTO — The Government of Ontario, Marten Falls First Nation and Webequie First Nation are taking a major step forward in unlocking jobs and opportunity in Northern Ontario's Ring of Fire r...

  News release | Office of the Premier

• Province Moving Forward to Widen and Improve Safety on Highway 401 Between Tilbury and London

  February 26, 2020 3:00 P.M.

  Today, the province took the next step to deliver on its commitment to improve safety on Highway 401 between Tilbury and London. Ontario is proceeding with an Expression of Interest to procure...

  News release | Transportation