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Daily Archives: May 20, 2016

Home May 20, 2016

Pickering nuke plant extension to cost $307M, may prove ‘uneconomical’: OPG

Environmental groups have also pointed out that OPG's Pickering nuclear plant, just east of Toronto, is no spring chicken. ...

Energy and the Environment, News
20.05.2016 Geoff Zochodne 0 0

Your morning briefing

Your morning roundup of news and agenda items for Friday, May 20. ...

Morning Briefing, News
20.05.2016 Geoff Zochodne 0 0

Seen: Five hard-to-understand formulas for free cap-and-trade emission allowances

After the bill containing the outline of the province's cap-and-trade system passed third reading  this week, the Liberal government has now firmed up the other details of the carbon-pricing program. The finalized cap ...

News, Seen, Heard, Happening
20.05.2016 Geoff Zochodne 0 0

Happening: Bill to create highway texting zones passes second reading

A private member's bill that would establish safe texting zones on highways passed second reading this week in the legislature. Introduced by PC MPP Vic Fedeli, Bill 190 (otherwise known as the Safe Texting Zones Act) ...

Seen, Heard, Happening
20.05.2016 Sabrina Nanji 0 0

People on the Move

The Ontario Energy Board recently announced a few tweaks to its leadership. Board member Christine Long has been appointed as the OEB's second vice-chair. A Toronto-based energy-sector lawyer, Long has been a board me ...

Careers, News, People on the Move, Recent Appointments
20.05.2016 QP Briefing Staff 0 0

Patrick Brown and John Tory meet for first time

The two leaders were to meet at City Hall on Friday afternoon to talk transportation, cutting red tape and boosting tech start-ups along the Toronto and Kitchener-Waterloo corridor. ...

News
20.05.2016 QP Briefing Staff 0 0

Proposed third-party advertising rules to cap scary voice-over spending

If any of the biggest third-party advertisers of the 2014 election have plans for a repeat performance, new election finance legislation should put a damper on them, somewhat. ...

News
20.05.2016 Jessica Smith Cross 0 0

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