Premier Doug Ford’s government will not support a New Democrat’s bill to make the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation a statutory holiday in the province, the Indigenous affairs minister said Thursday.

The Opposition NDP is calling on the Ontario government to support a private member's bill that would see Sept. 30 become a Truth and Reconciliation statutory holiday in the province.

New Democrat deputy leader Sol Mamakwa says the proposed Day of Reflection on Indian Residential Schools every Sept. 30 would make Ontario a better place.

A region in northern Ontario has been chosen as the site to hold Canada’s nuclear waste in a deep geological repository. The Nuclear Waste Management Organization announced its decision today, saying the people of both the town of Ignace and Wabigoon Lake Ojibway Nation have demonstrated their willingness to move forward.

TORONTO — A region in northern Ontario was chosen Thursday as the site to hold Canada’s nuclear waste in a deep geological repository, a critical milestone in a $26-billion, decades-long project to bury millions of used fuel bundles underground.

Northwestern Ontario has been chosen for Canada's first deep geological repository, a multibillion-dollar project that aims to eventually store the country's nuclear waste. In an announcement Thursday morning,