The Ontario government says it has agreed with satellite internet provider Starlink – owned by billionaire Elon Musk – on the terms to end a $92-million contract with the company that Premier Doug Ford had vowed to rip up in retaliation for U.S. tariffs during his winter re-election campaign. But the province would not reveal how much taxpayers will have to pay to get out of the deal.

Ontario Minister of Energy and Mines Stephen Lecce, whose department was overseeing the contract, confirmed on Wednesday that talks to end it had finished and that the province was now aiming to find a Canadian company to replace Starlink. He declined to say how much the cancellation cost.

Voters in next month’s Alberta by-election, in which Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is looking to win back a seat in Parliament, will use write-in ballots after a record number of candidates put their names forward in the race, according to Elections Canada.

The ballots won’t have the names of the more than 200 people running in the contest, Elections Canada said Monday. Instead, voters will be given a single page where they can write in the name of their chosen candidate.

Some sexual-assault survivors and legal experts say that restorative justice could be an alternative for complainants to find closure and accountability, in the wake of the Hockey Canada verdict that left many advocates reeling.

Justice Maria Carroccia acquitted five former junior hockey players of sexual assault on Thursday after a trial that had the complainant, known publicly as E.M., spend seven days under cross-examination by the defendants’ lawyers.

Premiers said they plan to take more control over immigration as Ontario Premier Doug Ford criticized the federal Immigration Minister and said he would be issuing his own work permits in the province.

At the conclusion of a three-day premiers’ meeting on Wednesday, provincial and territorial leaders called for an increase to economic immigration levels to meet their labour needs and said they would use powers under the Constitution to seize more control over immigration, including to issue work permits.

British Columbia Premier David Eby says it’s not clear that Canada will end up striking a deal with the U.S. as the two countries negotiate a new trade and security pact under President Donald Trump’s Aug. 1 deadline.

Mr. Eby, who attended the summer gathering of Canada’s premiers in the Ontario community of Muskoka this week, said Prime Minister Mark Carney briefed the premiers on the status of negotiations with the U.S. on Tuesday.

The premiers will be gathering in Ontario cottage country this week for a meeting focused on Canada’s continuing response to President Donald Trump’s tariff threats, and an update from Mark Carney on the state of trade and security negotiations with the U.S.

It will be the first sit down between the Prime Minister and provincial and territorial leaders since Mr. Trump threatened to impose 35-per-cent tariffs on Canadian goods outside the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, which are currently subjected to 25-per-cent tariffs.

Prime Minister Mark Carney says securing a truce in the long-running Canada-U.S. softwood-lumber dispute is a top priority as Canadian producers brace for even heftier U.S. levies as early as September.

Mr. Carney said he hopes this could be part of an overall agreement to end the trade war with the United States – a deal he conceded earlier this week would likely not remove all of President Donald Trump’s tariffs from Canadian goods.

The Ontario government has taken control of four school boards including in Toronto and Ottawa, a move the province says stems from concerns over large deficits, depleting reserves and widespread mismanagement.

Education Minister Paul Calandra announced Friday the appointment of supervisors at the Toronto District School Board, the Toronto Catholic District School Board, the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board and the Dufferin-Peel Catholic District School Board, following investigations earlier this year.