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A roundup of news and agenda items for Friday, October 3.

Moon-shot: Your morning QP Briefing

Ontario asks if 'moon shot' projects should go ahead under special economic zone law

Ontario MPP facing domestic assault charges takes leave despite calls for resignation

Ottawa denies Marineland request to export its remaining beluga whales to China

Northern Ontario officials call on feds, province to stop Kap Paper mill closure

Ontario to miss emissions reduction goal by an even wider gap than it admits: auditor

City clears encampment from Toronto park for second time in a few days

Ontario skills training funding not fair or transparent, auditor finds

Ontario falling short of child-care fee, space creation, staffing goals: auditor

Project Ontario bills itself as a coalition of small-c conservatives, frustrated centrists, and disaffected PC voters who believe the Ford government is coasting on its popularity while avoiding difficult, but necessary, policy decisions on housing, education, and healthcare.

Inside Project Ontario's first meeting, and what they want from the PCs

Regulator fast-tracked licences for builders under investigation and failed to screen financial risks, even as complaints soared 1,000 per cent.

Ontario’s home builder watchdog letting risky builders slip through, auditor finds

Toronto Climate Week launches in effort to grow Canadian clean tech hub

Ontario auditor to issue reports on child care, skills development fund

Ontario's minimum wage going up to $17.60 per hour today

Ottawa says it will 'keep working' with Ontario paper mill to resume its operations

Ontario weakens recycling rules, though by less than originally proposed

Reflection is important, but it must be accompanied by action — and there’s no time more important to make progress on it than right now. All of our futures depend on it.

National Day for Truth and Reconciliation: The hard work of doing the right thing

Ford, set to ban speed cameras, muses about cameras to fight crime instead

Northern Ontario paper mill to idle operations, citing lack of financial support

One of the most pressing needs to support a demand he constantly hears from constituents, according to Mamakwa, is a permanent provincial office to support the repatriation of Indigenous children who died in the residential school system but were never returned to their families.

On this Truth and Reconciliation day, MPP Sol Mamakwa urges the province to support repatriation of residential school victims

"We have continuously pushed the federal government to come to the table as an equal partner, standing up for Canadian forestry jobs and treating Ontario forestry workers fairly," read a statement from Ontario Natural Resources Minister Mike Harris and Associate Forestry Minister Kevin Holland.

Ontario government urges Ottawa to 'come to the table' to help save northwestern Ontario paper mill

Ontario Liberal Party starts search to replace outgoing leader Bonnie Crombie

Niagara regional chair and former longtime MPP Jim Bradley dies at 80

The Canadian Cancer Society was registered this past week by Alexandra Hilkene and Tea Cirovic, consultants with Enterprise Canada, for a myriad of lobbying goals.

Who's Lobbying for Whom: Canadian Cancer Society wants to talk to Ontario lawmakers

, commissioned by the Residential Construction Council of Ontario (RESCON), estimates that waiving the provincial portion of the HST would cost the government $895 million annually. But it would unlock nearly $6 billion in housing savings across the market by making it more financially viable to build and purchase homes, particularly rental housing. The province doesn't seem to have its own numbers.