Premier Doug Ford says Ontario will increase the minimum wage to $15 an hour. He says the wage, which is currently $14.35, will increase on Jan. 1. Ford’s Progressive Conservative government cancelled a scheduled increase from $14 to $15 that was supposed to happen in 2019. The previous year, the Liberal government at the time bumped the minimum wage up from $11.60 to $14 an hour, and businesses complained about the speed with which that rise happened. The Ford government said that increase was a lot for businesses to absorb, so they were cancelling the next scheduled increase to $15 to allow companies to catch up. Increases since then have been tied to inflation, and the most recent increase on Oct. 1 was 10 cents.