{"id":549134,"date":"2026-03-20T14:18:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T14:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/549134\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T14:18:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T14:18:07","slug":"ontario-plans-to-cap-ticket-resale-prices-at-original-value","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/549134\/","title":{"rendered":"Ontario plans to cap ticket resale prices at original value"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">TORONTO \u2014 Ontario Premier Doug Ford&#8217;s government is planning to amend ticket sales legislation to cap resale prices, seven years after it cancelled similar planned changes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The legislature is set to resume sitting Monday after a 14-week break and the government says it plans to table proposed changes to the Ticket Sales Act in the coming days.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Those changes would make it illegal for tickets to concerts, sports and other live events in Ontario to be re-sold for more than their original cost.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Ford&#8217;s government in 2019 scrapped part of a law from the previous Liberal government that would have capped ticket resale prices at 50 per cent above the original face value.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">But the issue caught Ford&#8217;s attention during the Blue Jays&#8217; World Series run last year, when fans complained about sky-high resale prices for tickets soon after they went on sale.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Live Nation Entertainment, the parent company of Ticketmaster, says it supports the proposed measures.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published March 20, 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Allison Jones, The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO \u2014 Ontario Premier Doug Ford&#8217;s government is planning to amend ticket sales legislation to cap resale prices,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":549135,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,75,713,462,11867,714,82],"class_list":["post-549134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-justice","tag-mlb","tag-ontario-quebec","tag-politics","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=549134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/549135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}