Your morning roundup of news and agenda items for Friday, April 29. ...
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Your afternoon recap
Smokey Thomas renews his call for a cabinet minister to get canned, and Monte McNaughton goes after corporate subsidies. ...
Environmental Defence report urges province to put deposit on plastic bottles
Less than half of plastic bottles sold in Ontario end up in recycling bins, the report notes, but that number is around 80 per cent in provinces with a return deposit program. ...
Your morning briefing
Your morning roundup of news and agenda items for Wednesday, April 27. ...
Your afternoon recap
The Premier weighs in on a taxpayer rebate for a $1.1-million Porsche, and tells Bloomberg she's not so optimistic about CPP expansion. ...
Over 1,100 municipal complaints already lodged with ombudsman
The office has so far resolved them through informal mechanisms rather than investigations, said Paul Dubé in his first speech since taking office earlier this month. ...
Liberals set out schedule for public hearings on fundraising reform
The letter from Government House Leader Yasir Naqvi also re-emphasizes that the Liberals won't be giving in to the opposition's demands for a more independent process ...
Calling for OMA negotiations, province releases data on top-billing doctors
The government says 10 per cent of doctor billings are claimed by less than 2 per cent of the doctors, and one eye specialist billed $6.6 million in a single year. ...
Your legislative tip sheet
New bills, regulations, and other legislative miscellanea. ...
Premier and attorney general agree — eventually — that Loku report should be made public
Although Attorney General Madeleine Meilleur had first said only future SIU reports might be made public, by the end of the day she clarified her stance to say that includes the report into Andrew Loku's shooting. ...
What was asked in question period
For Thursday, April 21. ...
Your afternoon recap
The PCs are slamming a proposal to put wind turbines near the Collingwood airport, and Toronto's mayor is floating the idea of a new or renovated convention centre. ...
Waste reduction bill debated in committee — but most details still to come
Witnesses brought forward a large number of recommended amendments, but they pointed out that the real meaning of the legislation won't really be apparent until the regulations are developed. ...
Your legislative tip sheet
New bills, regulations, and other legislative miscellanea. ...
Your morning briefing
Your morning roundup of news and agenda items for Wednesday, April 20. ...
Your afternoon recap
Three opposition leaders team up on fundraising reform, and the attorney general takes heat for not having read the police watchdog report into Andrew Loku's shooting. ...
Your legislative tip sheet
New bills, regulations, and other legislative miscellanea. ...
Purchase: The changing nature of public service
Columnist Bryne Purchase reflects on how Treasury, once the clearinghouse of hard-fact analysis and advice, has been replaced by 'spin' and outside advisers while power is centralized in the premier’s hands. ...
Your afternoon recap
Jack MacLaren goes for sensitivity training, and Kathleen Wynne proposes an MPP code of conduct ...
Ontario preparing to legalize commercial ride-sharing insurance
The proposed reforms would allow ride-sharing services to qualify for the same broad insurance coverage that taxi and limousine companies get. ...
Bills this week
Bills scheduled to come before the legislature and committees this week. ...
Wynne: MacLaren’s raunchy jokes ‘fuel misogyny’
The Premier stopped short of explicitly calling for MacLaren to be removed from the PC caucus, but said it would be 'a very different conversation' if he were a Liberal. ...
André Marin’s lawsuit takes aim at Ombudsman’s Office
The former ombudsman's lawsuit outlines allegations of disputes over travel claims, his personal email account and Internet domain names registered with his own name. ...
Seen: Highway 401 to get $81M expansion through Mississauga
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Your legislative tip sheet
New bills, regulations, and other legislative miscellanea. ...
Your afternoon recap
Families of students who attend demonstration schools packed the legislature, and former PM Brian Mulroney gave some tips to the PC caucus. ...
Province still undecided on religious exemptions for physician-assisted death
The College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario already has interim guidelines on physician-assisted death, but is also awaiting a provincial framework. ...
Last piece of ORPP legislation introduced
Two sets of workers are still in ORPP limbo until federal tax and pension laws are changed: non-crown federally-regulated workers and the self-employed. ...
Your afternoon recap
Jack MacLaren leads reporters on a chase through Queen's Park, and the province announces all four demonstration schools will stay open for at least a year longer. ...
Province goes back to drawing board on child-care age groupings
Sandals said the feedback on the proposed changes brought out many concerns about whether it would work with the existing physical space and staff levels at child-care centres. ...
Your legislative tip sheet
New bills, regulations and other legislative miscellanea. ...
Your morning briefing
Your morning roundup of news and agenda items for Wednesday, April 13. ...
Your afternoon recap
An emotional debate on autism services in the legislature, and another solitary-confinement controversy in the Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre. ...
New lobbying rules to take effect in July
The new rules include more investigative powers for the integrity commissioner and tougher penalties for lobbying violations. ...
Your legislative tip sheet
New bills, regulations and other legislative miscellanea. ...
Liberals propose total ban on corporate, union donations starting next year
Premier Kathleen Wynne outlined a series of proposals on Monday, including new spending limits for elections, by-elections, leadership campaigns and third-party advertising. ...
PCs to oppose ranked ballots bill unless referendums required
The resistance comes from the party that, 20 years ago under Mike Harris, imposed a massive amalgamation program on municipalities in the face of widespread local opposition. ...
Your legislative tip sheet
New bills, regulations and other legislative miscellanea. ...
What was asked in question period
For Monday, April 11, 2016. ...
Brown lays out six-part plan to reform political financing
Economic Development Minister Brad Duguid was blunt about his thoughts on PC Leader Patrick Brown and his plan: "What a hypocrite." ...
Your afternoon recap
More mud-slinging in question period over donation practices, and a buried report on business support programs gets dug up. ...
Your legislative tip sheet
New bills, regulations and other legislative miscellanea. ...
Your morning briefing
Your morning roundup of news and agenda items for Thursday, April 7. ...
More than half of Liberal donations come from corporations
From 2002 to 2014, the Liberals received 43 per cent of their donations from individual donors, while the PCs were at 54 per cent and the NDP was at 79 per cent. ...
Your afternoon recap
A PC MPP is under fire for making a sexual joke at a cancer fundraiser, and former NHL superstar Eric Lindros swings by the legislature. ...
Details released for trade mission to Israel and the West Bank
The mission, focused on the life sciences sector, will run from May 15 to 20 and visit Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Ramallah and Bethlehem. ...
Wynne lays out new conditions for ‘high-value’ Liberal fundraisers
The premier said the events will be publicly disclosed and that ministers will not be fundraising "with stakeholders solely of their own ministry." ...
Your afternoon recap
The Doug Ford Show comes to Queen's Park, and the health ministry takes a $100-million hit over the climb-down on seniors' drug plans. ...
Your legislative tip sheet
New bills, regulations and other legislative miscellanea. ...
PTSD legislation passes third reading unanimously
Labour Minister Kevin Flynn said the experience of other jurisdictions shows there shouldn't be a flood of first responder PTSD claims after the law takes effect. ...
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