By Kenyon Wallace Doctors at McMaster University are hoping a revolutionary electronic health record system developed on campus will become the gold standard for how patients interact with health care systems across the ...
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. . . at Queen's Park, across Ontario and elsewhere. * A downtown Toronto casino could spur $2 billion in capital investment, OLG chair Paul Godfrey told the Toronto Board of Trade Friday. “This would be one of the lar ...
Hospital to audit energy use
By Kenyon Wallace Guelph General Hospital is getting serious about its use of energy. The hospital is partnering with technology firm Honeywell to conduct an audit of almost every facet of its energy use. The goal is t ...
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. . . at Queen's Park, across Ontario and elsewhere. * The Upper Canada School board says teachers are continuing to provide extracurricular activities for almost 30,000 students at all of its 86 elementary and secondar ...
Punishing medical errors – aye or nay?
By Dr. Edmund Kwok An interesting story came across my desk recently. Apparently, some states in the U.S. have moved towards a punitive model in trying deal with medical errors and adverse outcomes – this particular sto ...
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. . . at Queen's Park, across Ontario and elsewhere. * Liberal MPP Mike Colle will introduce a private member’s bill Thursday to stop “gas and dash” theft of gasoline. The bill will propose a requirement that people pa ...
Ann Cavoukian: An important first step
By Ann Cavoukian I would like to congratulate the city councillors in Markham who recently decided to start posting their expenses online every month in an effort to promote greater openness and transparency in governme ...
Belleville turns FIT into cash
By Kenyon Wallace The City of Belleville is pushing ahead with its ambitious plan to capitalize on the provincial government’s lucrative feed-in-tariff program. Mayor Neil Ellis sought – and won – city council’s approv ...
Who's lobbying for whom
The following lobbyist consultants have registered with the Office of the Integrity Commissioner during the past week. In each case, the name of their client is provided. TUESDAY, SEPT. 18 Ian McKinnon on behalf of Can ...
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. . . at Queen's Park, across Ontario and elsewhere * They didn’t need to go to the International Plowing Match to sling mud – there's plenty of that at Queen’s Park – but the Legislature was closed Tuesday so all three ...
Tony Dean: Headaches in agency land
By Tony Dean Finance Minister Dwight Duncan last week slammed the Municipal Property Assessment Corporation for spending $170,000 on a one-day retreat for the corporation’s 1,300 employees. As the name implies, municip ...
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. . . at Queen's Park, across Ontario and elsewhere. * Kathleen Wynne is the leading contender to take over as Ontario Liberal Leader and Premier if the job were to become vacant, a new poll says. Premier Dalton McGuin ...
Tony Dean: Freeze just part of strategy
By Tony Dean Provincial government legislation freezing teachers’ salaries, curbing sick pay accumulation and scaling back salary grid increases became law this week with support from the Progressive Conservatives. The ...
Hospitals split over VRE isolation
By Kenyon Wallace Hamilton Health Sciences says it will continue to isolate patients with the superbug Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococci even though some Ontario hospitals are abandoning the practice. Some hospital offi ...
People on the move
* Working for PC leader Tim Hudak drove press secretary Heather MacGregor to drink — figuratively. Friday marked MacGregor’s last day at Queen’s Park before she heads over to the LCBO to work in the communications depar ...
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. . . at Queen's Park, across Ontario and elsewhere. * Ombudsman Andre Marin may finally get to sink his teeth into Ontario’s hospitals. NDP health critic France Gelinas introduced a private member’s bill this week to ...
Barrie to re-think parking ban
By Kenyon Wallace In an unusual move, the City of Barrie is considering easing parking restrictions in the neighbourhood surrounding GO Transit's new Allandale Waterfront station. The city had originally imposed strict ...
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. . . at Queen's Park, across Ontario and elsewhere * Legislative committees will not be reconvened until some time late next week at the earliest. House leaders were unable to strike a deal this week to pass a motion ...
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. . . at Queen's Park, across Ontario and elsewhere. * Some members of Brampton council are concerned about residents airing their clean laundry in public. Councillor John Hutton said people shouldn’t have to look at th ...
Cooperation pays off for Quinte
By Kenyon Wallace When it comes to looking for a place to launch a business, the Quinte Economic Development Commission is likely to be an invaluable resource, according to an influential corporate investment magazine. ...
Who's lobbying for whom
The following lobbyist consultants have registered with the Office of the Integrity Commissioner during the past week. In each case, the name of their client is provided. MONDAY, SEPT. 10 David H. Bradley on behalf of ...
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. . . at Queen's Park, across Ontario and elsewhere. * The House voted Tuesday to give itself a five day weekend when they rise for the week on Thursday afternoon. The legislative sitting will resume on Wednesday, Sept ...
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. . . at Queen's Park, across Ontario and elsewhere. * One is a conservative politician in his 40s who released a plan called “Path to Prosperity”. The other is a conservative politician in his 40s who has released a s ...
Tony Dean: Split was no surprise
By Tony Dean Over the past weeks many commentators have suggested that the Liberal government’s approach to teachers’ compensation was driven by its byelection strategy. And today the results of Thursday's byelections ...
Ministry to Barrie: Cut phosphorus
By Kenyon Wallace The Ministry of the Environment is warning the City of Barrie that time is running out for it to meet provincially mandated limits on phosphorus in wastewater draining into Lake Simcoe. The city’s tre ...
Simcoe project is all about jobs
By Kenyon Wallace Simcoe County is embarking on an ambitious 20-month project to develop a repository of local labour market data in order to highlight areas in need of skilled workers and support job training. The pro ...
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. . . at Queen's Park, across Ontario and elsewhere. * Elizabeth Witmer says her decision to step down as an MPP in the spring had nothing to do with politics. In an exclusive interview with the K-W Record published Fr ...
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People on the move
Denise Polgar has been named the first patient advocate for the ORNGE air ambulance service. Polgar, formerly an injury prevention specialist at Children's Hospital in London, assumed the post on Tuesday, "Medical tran ...
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. . . at Queen's Park, across Ontario and elsewhere * Craig MacLennan has left his post as Energy Minister Chris Bentley’s chief of staff to work for the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation. MacLennan’s new job titl ...
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Hamilton may go both ways
By Kenyon Wallace The one-way streets that make Hamilton notorious when it comes to trying to navigate the downtown core in a vehicle could be a thing of the past if one city councillor gets his way. Brian McHattie (Wa ...
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. . . at Queen's Park, across Ontario and elsewhere * ORNGE air ambulance helicopters have received U.S. Federal Aviation Administration approval to enter American airspace for the purpose of transferring patients to or ...
Tony Dean: Murray makes a splash
By Tony Dean The current noise in the education system – while it is understandable on both the union and government sides – should not take attention away from the significant achievements made in the education system ...
Who's lobbying for whom
The following lobbyist consultants have registered with the Office of the Integrity Commissioner during the past week. In each case, the name of their client is provided. FRIDAY, AUG. 31 Michael Rubin on behalf of Bion ...
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. . . at Queen's Park, across Ontario and elsewhere. * New Democratic MPP France Gélinas is to introduce a motion in public accounts committee on Wednesday, asking the Auditor General to investigate contracts between th ...
Tony Dean: The facts on OPS bonuses
By Tony Dean Don Drummond pointed out in his report on reforming Ontario`s public services that improving public services should always be a priority – and not just a cyclical exercise when we are tackling big deficits. ...
Support homes to close
By Kenyon Wallace The closing of two group homes that provide support to at-risk Aboriginal youth is "unacceptable," the Canadian Union of Public Employees says. A $2-million budget hole facing Payukotayno: James & ...
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. . . at Queen's Park, across Ontario and elsewhere. * Stefan Baranski, a principal at Counsel Public Affairs in Toronto and founder of the Ontario News Watch website, has accepted a job as director of communications f ...
School boards exploring merger
By Kenyon Wallace Discussions about a possible merger of the Wellington Catholic District School Board with the Bruce Grey and Huron-Perth Catholic District School Boards are underway, QP Briefing has learned. Don Dron ...
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. . . at Queen's Park, across Ontario and elsewhere. * The Supreme Court of Canada will hear Shoppers Drug Mart Corporation's appeal of a Ontario Supreme Court decision to prohibit the use of private label generic drugs ...
Guelph at night – no cars downtown
By Kenyon Wallace The City of Guelph is taking the unusual step of closing a large portion of the downtown core to vehicular traffic on weekend nights in an effort to make the area safer for patrons coming out of bars a ...
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. . . at Queen's Park, across Ontario And elsewhere. * After months of review, the standing committee on the Legislative Assembly has recommended a few minor changes to Standing Orders: That new accessibility measures ...
Who's lobbying for whom
The following lobbyist consultants have registered with the Office of the Integrity Commissioner during the past week. In each case, the name of their client is provided. MONDAY, AUG. 27 Tom Sweeting of Earnscliffe Ont ...
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. . . at Queen's Park, across Ontario and elsewhere. * Tracey Weiler, the Tory candidate in the Kitchener-Waterloo byelection, provided the first gaffe of the campaign in Monday’s night inaugural debate. “I’m not here ...
Tony Dean: A day of drama
By Tony Dean It has been an exciting day at Queen`s Park. While railing at the McGuinty Liberals, Progressive Conservative leader Tim Hudak said he would bail the government out by supporting its proposed legislation t ...
Hamilton authority to remap floodplain
By Kenyon Wallace The Hamilton Conservation Authority is embarking on an ambitious five-year plan to remap the region’s floodplains – a process that will ensure developers, city planners and residents have the most up-t ...
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. . . At Queen's Park, across Ontario and elsewhere * Tory MPP Rob Leone took advantage of the session starting early on Monday to raise a point of privilege, outlining his grounds for finding Energy Minister Chris Bent ...
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