Shawn Jeffords
@shawnjeffords.bsky.social
Municipal Affairs Reporter for CBC Toronto, currently covering Queen's Park. Former Legislative Reporter for The Canadian Press. Writing on municipal and provincial politics.
Ontario could avoid recession this year, even as Trump's tariffs take hold: fiscal watchdog. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Ontario could avoid recession this year, even as tariffs take hold, fiscal watchdog says | CBC News
Ontario’s fiscal watchdog says the province could avoid a recession this year, but the findings of his latest report show the trade war with the U.S. is taking a bite out of Ontario’s economy. The dat...
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November 27, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Ontario could avoid recession this year, even as Trump's tariffs take hold: fiscal watchdog. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Critics call on Ford government to begin mandatory Greenbelt review. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Critics call on Ford government to begin mandatory Greenbelt review | CBC News
A mandatory review of the Greenbelt that was to have started earlier this year has yet to begin, and critics are demanding “substantive guardrails” around the Ford government’s assessment of the prote...
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November 24, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Critics call on Ford government to begin mandatory Greenbelt review. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
A minister under fire, alleged lobbyist connections: Ontario's Skills Development Fund controversy explained. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
ANALYSIS | A minister under fire, alleged lobbyist connections: What to know about the latest Queen's Park controversy | CBC News
The latest scandal at Queen’s Park revolves around the Skills Development Fund – a little known pocket of government funding for organizations to address challenges in hiring, training or retraining w...
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November 17, 2025 at 10:13 PM
A minister under fire, alleged lobbyist connections: Ontario's Skills Development Fund controversy explained. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Return to office for Ontario civil servants 'unnecessarily confusing,' unions say. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Return to office for Ontario civil servants 'unnecessarily confusing,' unions say | CBC News
The return to office last week by thousands of Ontario public servants has been "disrespectful,” “piecemeal” and filled with “unnecessary confusion,” say the workers' unions, who point out some minis...
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October 28, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Return to office for Ontario civil servants 'unnecessarily confusing,' unions say. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Ontario's legislature back for a short session as economic storm clouds loom. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Tariffs, unemployment and a funding controversy: Ontario's legislature is back as economic storm clouds loom | CBC News
Ontario’s legislature returns today for what some experts say will be a short, but packed session, as economic storm clouds swirl over the province and questions linger about a multi-billion dollar sk...
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October 20, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Ontario's legislature back for a short session as economic storm clouds loom. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Ford's PCs outspent rival parties by millions during snap Ontario election. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Ford's PCs outspent rival parties by millions during snap Ontario election | CBC News
Ontario’s Progressive Conservatives outspent their opponents during last winter’s provincial election by more than $6 million, but one of their nearest rivals says the governing party had a “massive h...
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October 14, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Ford's PCs outspent rival parties by millions during snap Ontario election. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Ontario NDP, Liberals parties face difficult rebuilds ahead, experts say. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
ANALYSIS | Ontario NDP, Liberal parties face difficult rebuilds ahead, experts say | CBC News
Ontario’s two largest opposition parties are grappling with dissension within their ranks, and experts say the work to unify their members and rebuild their parties will be difficult and could complic...
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September 25, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Ontario NDP, Liberals parties face difficult rebuilds ahead, experts say. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Marit Stiles faces a leadership review at an Ontario NDP convention this weekend. I spoke with her ahead of the vote. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Stiles faces leadership review at Ontario NDP convention this weekend | CBC News
Ontario NDP members will pass judgment on Marit Stiles's leadership this weekend, a mandatory review that comes just one week after a similar vote by provincial Liberals forced the resignation of thei...
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September 19, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Marit Stiles faces a leadership review at an Ontario NDP convention this weekend. I spoke with her ahead of the vote. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Ontario Liberals face an uncertain future as new leadership race looms, experts say. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
ANALYSIS | Ontario Liberals face an uncertain future as new leadership race looms, experts say | CBC News
Bonnie Crombie is out as Ontario Liberal Leader after scoring a weak mandate in a leadership review Sunday, as insiders and experts say the party will now continue a difficult rebuild while once again...
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September 15, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Ontario Liberals face an uncertain future as new leadership race looms, experts say. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Ontario Liberal Leader Bonnie Crombie says she's 'confident' ahead of leadership review at party gathering this weekend. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Crombie 'confident' ahead of leadership review at Ontario Liberal gathering | CBC News
Bonnie Crombie’s political future will be in the hands of Ontario Liberals this weekend, as she faces a mandatory leadership review to determine if she’ll stay on as head of the provincial party.
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September 12, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Ontario Liberal Leader Bonnie Crombie says she's 'confident' ahead of leadership review at party gathering this weekend. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
No Highway 407 buyback talks have taken place with Ontario, company says. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Doug Ford said Ontario could buy back the 407. The company that owns it says there's been no such talks | CBC News
Ontario has had no talks to buy back Highway 407, despite repeated musings from the Doug Ford government over the past year about potentially re-acquiring the toll expressway to reduce gridlock in the...
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September 8, 2025 at 1:41 PM
No Highway 407 buyback talks have taken place with Ontario, company says. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Slowing housing market will trigger construction job losses, Ontario builders group says. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Slowing housing market will trigger construction job losses, Ontario builders group says | CBC News
Ontario’s sluggish home construction market is beginning to trigger job losses in the trades and hurt the province’s economy, experts say, even as the province moves to refine its housing policy and b...
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September 3, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Slowing housing market will trigger construction job losses, Ontario builders group says. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Ontario could change how municipalities qualify for housing fund amid market 'standstill'. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Ontario could change how municipalities qualify for housing fund amid market 'standstill' | CBC News
Ontario’s housing minister says he is open to changing a billion-dollar fund designed to reward municipalities building new homes, but critics say even the tweaks he’s contemplating won’t get shovels ...
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August 27, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Ontario could change how municipalities qualify for housing fund amid market 'standstill'. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Ontario hasn't given an opening date for Mississauga LRT since 2019, internal documents say. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Mississauga's LRT was supposed to open last fall. Ontario still won't say when it'll be ready | CBC News
Ontario hasn't provided a public update on when a major Mississauga transit line will be completed in more than five years, according to internal documents, as work continues on the light-rail project...
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August 20, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Ontario hasn't given an opening date for Mississauga LRT since 2019, internal documents say. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Ontario's NDP leader is 'taking nothing for granted' as leadership review looms. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Ontario's NDP leader is 'taking nothing for granted' as leadership review looms | CBC News
Ontario NDP Leader Marit Stiles says finishing second in the last provincial election wasn't good enough, and that she isn’t taking anything for granted ahead of a mandatory leadership review at next ...
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August 18, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Ontario's NDP leader is 'taking nothing for granted' as leadership review looms. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Crombie vows to fight on in face of Ontario Liberal leadership challenge. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Crombie vows to fight on in face of Liberal leadership challenge | CBC News
Bonnie Crombie faces a mandatory leadership review at the party’s annual general meeting and, under the organization’s bylaws, needs over 50 per cent support to stay on. But a group of Liberals have e...
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July 28, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Crombie vows to fight on in face of Ontario Liberal leadership challenge. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
New Metrolinx CEO eligible for potential 6-figure bonus. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
New Metrolinx CEO eligible for potential 6-figure bonus | CBC News
Metrolinx’s new CEO will make less than his controversial predecessor, but could be eligible for an annual performance bonus of more than six figures. That’s according to new, previously unreleased in...
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July 23, 2025 at 12:12 PM
New Metrolinx CEO eligible for potential 6-figure bonus. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Ford says Ontario will do its 'very best' to hit key climate target after documents show it's off track.
Ford says Ontario will do its 'very best' to hit key climate target after documents show it's off track | CBC News
Premier Doug Ford says Ontario will try to hit its climate change targets by 2030, despite internal documents suggesting the province is not on track to meet the emissions reduction goals.
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July 2, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Ford says Ontario will do its 'very best' to hit key climate target after documents show it's off track.
Ontario environment minister said 'we are on track' to meet 2030 climate targets. Internal docs disagree. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Ontario environment minister said 'we are on track' to meet 2030 climate targets. Internal docs disagree | CBC News
Ontario is not on track to hit a key climate change target with less than five years to go, civil servants have told the province's new environment minister — information that appears to contradict hi...
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June 25, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Ontario environment minister said 'we are on track' to meet 2030 climate targets. Internal docs disagree. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Ontario needs to build more than 2 million homes in the next decade: internal docs. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Does Ontario need to build more than 2 million homes over the next decade? | CBC News
Ontario’s target of building 1.5 million homes by 2031 may not be enough to meet demand, civil servants have told the province’s new municipal affairs minister, saying that 2.1 million homes could ins...
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June 23, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Ontario needs to build more than 2 million homes in the next decade: internal docs. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Toronto mayoral hopefuls quietly test the waters ahead of 2026 campaign. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
ANALYSIS | Toronto mayoral hopefuls quietly test the waters ahead of 2026 campaign | CBC News
The battle lines in Toronto’s next mayoral election are quietly being drawn as possible candidates - including Olivia Chow and John Tory - survey the field to determine who is in and who is out.
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June 17, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Toronto mayoral hopefuls quietly test the waters ahead of 2026 campaign. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Launch of mandatory Ontario Greenbelt review months overdue: internal docs. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Launch of mandatory Ontario Greenbelt review months overdue, internal docs show | CBC News
Ontario appears to be months behind on a mandatory review of the Greenbelt, and opposition politicians and environmentalists are asking for a wide-ranging and transparent study of the protected lands ...
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June 10, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Launch of mandatory Ontario Greenbelt review months overdue: internal docs. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Can bolstering provincial trade help thwart Trump's tariffs? Ontario looks at reducing barriers. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Can bolstering provincial trade help thwart Trump's tariffs? Ontario looks at reducing barriers | CBC News
Doug Ford says pulling down internal trade barriers will be among his first orders of business when Ontario's legislature resumes next month, and experts say the premier should start by addressing rul...
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March 27, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Can bolstering provincial trade help thwart Trump's tariffs? Ontario looks at reducing barriers. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Will Doug Ford join the federal campaign? Trump's trade war may pull him into the fight. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
ANALYSIS | Will Doug Ford join the federal campaign? Trump's trade war may pull him into the fight | CBC News
Fresh off his third straight election win last month, Ontario Premier Doug Ford seems content to watch the fight to form the next federal government from the sidelines, a battle experts say he may not...
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March 24, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Will Doug Ford join the federal campaign? Trump's trade war may pull him into the fight. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Conservative strategists expect status quo cabinet from re-elected Ford government. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
ANALYSIS | Conservative strategists expect status quo cabinet from re-elected Ford government | CBC News
Premier Doug Ford's new cabinet will be sworn in Wednesday, and some conservative strategists expect familiar ministers to be sitting around that table as the re-elected Progressive Conservatives try ...
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March 19, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Conservative strategists expect status quo cabinet from re-elected Ford government. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...