Why should lawmakers and lobbyists continue to spend their energy on misguided ag gag laws that attempt to shield the food industry from scrutiny? Wouldn’t the public be better served by laws that ensure both transparency and oversight of farming?

In a release, CUPE said that they also received health and dental benefits, besides enhancements to weekend, evening, and night premiums, and compensation for periods of quarantine or isolation due to outbreaks of communicable illnesses.

Microsoft Canada Inc. was registered to lobby this past week by Chris Barry, their president and corporate vice-president at the Microsoft Corporation.

The price shot up by 14 cents, moving from 164.9 cents per litre to 178.9 cents per litre.

The third-place party wrote to the governing PCs urging them to hold off on any changes that would prevent Ontarians from getting free water testing.

The motion failed after at least one MPP was heard voicing their opposition.

“What we saw in yesterday's federal budget is a government whose spending is out of control, not focused on what matters to the people," Housing Minister Paul Calandra said.

Some patients reported that the clinics informed them of excessively long wait times at public facilities as a way to trick them into taking the for-profit service.

The Ontario and federal governments announced Monday that a court had approved their deal to end litigation over the proposed Greater Toronto Area highway, paving the way for a simplified assessment process for the project.

“We're out there making announcements every single day in every region of this province. We're going to keep making announcements not just here, but everywhere in the province," Ford said, denying the announcement had anything to do with the upcoming vote.

The 28-page document, which comes days ahead of the federal budget, is the minority government’s latest effort to set the agenda on affordability as it loses significant ground to the Conservatives over cost-of-living issues.