LUCAN, Ont. - Ontario Premier Doug Ford says Boris Johnson will do a "great job" as Britain's next prime minister.
Ford praised the new leader of Britain's Conservative Party at a news conference in Lucan, Ont., this morning.
He says Johnson is "a no-nonsense type of person" who will "get the job done."
The premier says he would like to meet Johnson if he ever travels to the United Kingdom.
Johnson overwhelmingly defeated rival Jeremy Hunt in a vote of party members.
"Daesh or ISIS in Iraq or northeast Syria has been defeated in the sense that they are no longer a quasi-state," said Brig.-Gen. Colin Keiver
The federal bill, which now only requires royal assent to become law, will phase out the practice of holding cetaceans — such as whales, dolphins and porpoises — in captivity, but grandfathers in those that are already being kept at two facilities in the country.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said his government is starting the regulatory work to ban toxic single-use plastics because the garbage infiltrating the world's waterways is out of hand.
That's less than half the almost 2 1/2-megatonne reduction target the Tories originally announced in 2017.
Organizers say Shelby and two other heroic hounds — all rescues — are being recognized for life-saving acts of perseverance and intuition.
Aird Flavelle told the convention that the party received more than $710,000 in individual donations in 2018, which was unheard of for a year with no election.