Ontario limits cellphones, social media in schools

Ontario to up wildland firefighter health coverage

Don't use phones in class, Ford tells students

Strategists say this week's byelections come with high stakes for Premier Doug Ford and Liberal Leader Bonnie Crombie.

Ford announced Sean Webster, the unsuccessful PC candidate in last summer's Kanata-Carleton byelection, will be in charge of the provincial government's new regional office in Ottawa.

“We need more scanning machines for containers leaving our country and going elsewhere with people’s cars in them,” Ford said on Monday. “Let’s beef that up.”

Teacher unions and school boards say there's not much new in the updated funding model, and that the government failed to address their main demands.

Honda Canada Inc. was registered to lobby this week by president and CEO Jean-Marc Leclerc. The registration lists a number of lobbying goals

"Unfortunately, the [federal] government doesn't have the courage to force the Port of Montreal to accept these," Brown said earlier this week.

Sarah Jama, who sits as an independent for Hamilton-Centre after being booted from the NDP caucus last year, wore a keffiyeh draped over her shoulders during question period.

No matter the outcome of next week's byelections, "figuring out how to be both 'different' from Doug Ford and 'the same' is going to test all of Bonnie Crombie’s leadership skills."

Honda CEO Toshihiro Mibe told QP Briefing on Thursday that the company would have to boost the number of foreign workers from Japan “momentarily" as it expands its Alliston facility.