April 4, 2017 - QP Briefing

The Funding Portal – Week of March 27

Ontario is the top province this week, securing $1.73 billion. ...

OPG president actually earned more than $2 million last year, document shows

OPG also says there are parts of CEO Jeff Lyash's contract that need to be restructured. ...

Labour Minister: NDP unionization bill ‘misses the mark,’ will be addressed in Changing Workplaces review

A final report for the Changing Workplaces review has landed on Minister Kevin Flynn's desk but it will be 'three or four weeks' before it is made public. ...

Parties trade barbs over calls for improved autism services for students

Patrick Brown criticizes Liberals for lack of funding for special-education needs; Education Minister Mitzie Hunter shoots back that the PC leader "only shows interest in parents and children with autism when he can use ...

‘Particularly egregious’, Wynne says of Toronto landlord who doubled rent

Government will be reforming rent control regulation 'soon,' Premier says. ...

Wynne moving ahead with Toronto’s request to levy hotel tax ‘in the near future’

The Premier could give no specific timeline for when Mayor John Tory will be able to access the new revenue tool. ...

Seen: Liberal MPP wants provincial judges with legal training on sexual assault

The Liberal private member’s bill comes after interim federal Conservative Party leader Ron Ambrose tabled something similar in Ottawa, in order to make sexual assault training for federally-appointed judges mandatory. ...

Seen: A Lego legislature

Speaker Dave Levac laid the first toy brick in a Lego model of Queen's Park Tuesday as part of Canada 150 celebrations. ...

Question period liveblog

What was asked in question period on Tuesday, April 4. ...

Your morning briefing

Your morning roundup of news and agenda items for Tuesday, April 4. ...

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