Politics

TORONTO — The Ontario Liberals have asked the integrity commissioner to investigate the province's decision to backtrack on an environmental assessment of a massive landfill expansion project backed by Progressive Conservative donors.

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker has signed a first-in-the-nation executive order to block the federal government from collecting personal health data related to autism, a direct rebuke to the Trump administration .

OTTAWA — Parliamentarians will be "playing games with First Nations children's lives" if they fail to quickly introduce and pass legislation to ensure access to clean drinking water, the Assembly of First Nations national chief said Monday.

ST. JOHN'S — A judicial recount got underway Monday in a rural Newfoundland riding where the Liberals finished with a 12-vote lead.

The Episcopal Church's migration service is refusing a directive from the federal government to help resettle white South Africans granted refugee status, citing the church's longstanding “commitment to racial justice and reconciliation.

ST. JOHN'S — Newfoundland and Labrador's premier says his government will end the province's controversial tax on sugar-sweetened beverages.

OTTAWA — Climate activists and energy leaders say Prime Minister Mark Carney will need to make some hard choices on whether to bolster the country’s oil and gas sector as means of achieving economic stability.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — In solidly Republican Kentucky, resistance to President Donald Trump's trade wars has sprung up from a cross-section of key business sectors, GOP Sen. Rand Paul said Monday.

WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans have unveiled the cost-saving centerpiece of President Donald Trump's “big, beautiful bill,” at least $880 billion in cuts largely to Medicaid to help cover the cost of $4.5 trillion in tax breaks.

TORONTO — Ontario hospitals spent more than $9 billion on nurses and other staff from for-profit agencies in a 10-year period, a new study concludes.