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Oversaw Ontario's response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Removed passenger vehicle license plate renewal fees. Raised the provincial minimum wage to $15 per hour in January 2022 and $16.50 in October 2023. Closed the Ontario Science Centre. Involved with Greenbelt scandal. Leased Ontario Place to Therme Canada for redevelopment. [32]
Harris was born in Toronto, Ontario, the son of Hope Gooding (born Robinson) and Sidney Deane Harris. [4] He grew up in North Bay , where his father operated the Wasi Falls Resort fishing camp. Harris attended Waterloo Lutheran University (now Wilfrid Laurier University ) but left after a year.
1616 – Date of an early map of New France, entitled La Nouvelle France, which included much of what would become Southern Ontario. The map is attributed to Samuel de Champlain. [6] 1639 Summer – Construction begins on Sainte-Marie among the Hurons, intended as a central headquarters for the French mission in Huronia. [7]
Born in Etobicoke, Ontario, Ford was the second of four children of Doug Bruce Ford Sr. and Ruth Diane Ford (née Campbell). [2] [3] [4] His paternal grandparents were English immigrants. [5] He graduated grade twelve from Scarlett Heights Collegiate Institute. [6] He then attended Humber College for two months before dropping out with no ...
The future Queen, Princess Elizabeth and husband Prince Philip visit Toronto as part of a cross-Canada tour. [28] December 1: The Toronto-Barrie Highway opens. 1952: July 1: The Toronto-Barrie Highway is renamed as Highway 400: September 8: Ontario's first television station, CBLT, begins broadcasting in Toronto. November 1
Justin Pierre James Trudeau [c] (born December 25, 1971) is a Canadian politician who has been the 23rd and current prime minister of Canada since 2015 and the leader of the Liberal Party since 2013. Trudeau was born in Ottawa, Ontario, and attended Collège Jean-de-Brébeuf.
Born in Newfoundland, Stiles moved to Ontario to attend Carleton University. She worked as a policy researcher before becoming research and policy director with ACTRA . Stiles served as a Toronto District School Board (TDSB) trustee in 2014 and was the president of the federal NDP from 2016 to 2018, before her election as a member of Provincial ...
The Canadian Citizenship Act, 1946 comes into force creating a new, separate, Canadian legal citizenship for all British subjects born, raised, or resident in Canada and automatic citizenship for all those born in Canada after this date. [111] [112] 1949: 31 March