Mike Crawley

@CBCQueensPark

Senior reporter @CBCNews covering Ontario on TV, radio & web. Dad, runner, XC skier, reader, cookie baker. #GoHabsGo Tips: DM or email [email protected]

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Mike Crawley@CBCQueensPark · Jun 8

Doug Ford's Bill 5 is now law in Ontario. Here's what happens next | CBC News cbc.ca/news/canada/to…

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Mike Crawley@CBCQueensPark · Jul 22

Hi folks, I’m in Washington, filling in at the CBC bureau for the next few weeks. Here’s my first piece, on how CUSMA shields the vast bulk of Canadian exports from Trump’s tariffs. cbc.ca/news/canada/ta…

CBCQueensPark's tweet card. Canadian exporters across a wide range of industries have a way to escape U.S. President Donald Trump’s blanket tariffs. That escape hatch is compliance with the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA),...

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Mike Crawley@CBCQueensPark · Jun 29

My summer reading pile.

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Mike Crawley@CBCQueensPark · Jun 25

Provincial officials have warned Doug Ford's environment minister that the province is not currently on track to meet the government’s own climate change emissions targets for 2030. Scoop from my colleague ⁦@Shawn_Jeffords⁩ #onpoli cbc.ca/news/canada/to…

CBCQueensPark's tweet card. 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...

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Mike Crawley@CBCQueensPark · Jun 21

Booze news: Big supermarket chains want Premier Doug Ford's government to lift Ontario’s ban on grocery stores selling their own brands of wine and beer, such as Costco's Kirkland Signature label. cbc.ca/news/canada/to…

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Mike Crawley@CBCQueensPark · Jun 19

“You can't just keep coming hat in hand all the time to the government, you've got to be able to take care of yourselves," Premier Doug Ford said, referring to First Nations. Today Ford has a meeting with 40 chiefs from northern Ontario on Bill 5. cbc.ca/news/canada/to…

CBCQueensPark's tweet card. NDP MPP Sol Mamakwa, who represents the Ring of Fire region, called Ford's remarks "deeply offensive" and "deeply racist" while speaking on CBC Radio's Metro Morning on Thursday.

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Mike Crawley@CBCQueensPark · Jun 16

Here’s the biography of Premier Doug Ford being handed out to all the reporters here in Boston (in a background document that includes the bios of the other premiers & governors.) Something tells me Ford’s staff didn’t write it. #onpoli

CBCQueensPark's tweet image. Here’s the biography of Premier Doug Ford being handed out to all the reporters here in Boston (in a background document that includes the bios of the other premiers &amp; governors.)

Something tells me Ford’s staff didn’t write it. #onpoli

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Mike Crawley@CBCQueensPark · Jun 16

Doug Ford is one of 5 premiers in Boston today at the invitation of some northeastern U.S. governors. They're looking for allies in the fight against Donald Trump's tariffs. But do these particular governors hold any sway with the White House? cbc.ca/news/canada/to…

CBCQueensPark's tweet card. Five Canadian premiers, including Ontario's Doug Ford, are in Boston on Monday to forge alliances with some U.S. governors against Donald Trump's tariffs. But with only one Republican governor...

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Mike Crawley@CBCQueensPark · Jun 14

Canada now faces the lowest average effective tariff of any major U.S. trade partner, a new report by RBC reveals. Story by ⁦@armstrongcbc⁩ cbc.ca/news/business/…

CBCQueensPark's tweet card. Canadians are rightly angry and scared about what the U.S. tariffs and threats will mean for the economy. When the trade war first began, the outlook was dire. But since then, Canada has swung from...

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Mike Crawley@CBCQueensPark · Jun 12

Housing starts in Ontario are at their lowest level since 2009. #onpoli cbc.ca/news/canada/to…

CBCQueensPark's tweet card. Ontario's housing starts for the first quarter of this year were at the lowest levels since 2009, the province's financial accountability officer said in a report Wednesday.

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Mike Crawley@CBCQueensPark · Jun 11

If anybody involved in 'Project Ontario' would like to tell me more about their plans, I'm all ears. My DMs are open, my email is on my profile. #onpoli

MMike Crawley@CBCQueensPark · Jun 11

Who’s behind “Project Ontario”? It describes itself as a “grassroots movement of conservatives.” It launched quietly on the weekend with a one-page website and an unsigned manifesto calling for more fiscal conservatism in the province. #onpoli

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Mike Crawley@CBCQueensPark · Jun 11

Here’s my story today on “Project Ontario,” the mysterious move to push Premier Doug Ford's @OntarioPCParty government to be more conservative. #onpoli cbc.ca/news/canada/to…

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