Politics

TORONTO — Ontario is set to clamp down on bad employers with big fines. Labour Minister David Piccini says his government will introduce legislation next week that will see fines increased for violations of the Employment Standards Act.

OTTAWA — A new poll suggests a majority of Canadians feel their right to freedom of speech is in danger. The Leger online survey found 57 per cent of respondents who said free speech in Canada is under threat.

TORONTO — Residents of a Guelph, Ont.

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Elissa Slotkin had less than half an hour to reckon with a retirement announcement that would reshape Michigan’s political landscape.

NEW YORK (AP) — He's visiting Manhattan construction sites, decrying local crime and holding court in his gilded Fifth Avenue penthouse.

Premier Doug Ford's Progressive Conservative candidates won both Ontario byelections by convincing margins.

PHOENIX (AP) — Democratic Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs has relegated a Civil War-era ban on most abortions to the past by signing a bill Thursday to repeal it.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama officials on Thursday approved legislation to ensure President Joe Biden will appear on the state’s November ballot, mirroring accommodations the state made four years ago for then-President Donald Trump.

NEW YORK (AP) — Jurors in the hush money trial of Donald Trump heard a recording Thursday of him discussing with his then-lawyer and personal fixer a plan to purchase the silence of a Playboy model who has said she had an affair with the former presi

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi’s Republican-led Legislature completed a last-ditch effort Thursday to revive a bill to regulate transgender people’s use of bathrooms , locker rooms and dormitories in public education buildings.