Category: News

. . . at Queen's Park, across Ontario and elsewhere. * Energy Minister Chris Bentley’s announcement he won’t seek the Liberal party leadership and is quitting politics will only add to credit rating agency concerns over ...

By Kenyon Wallace The position of Simcoe County warden may eventually come with a four-year term but it won’t be turned into a full-time job anytime soon. The warden’s term was lengthened from one to two years in 2010 ...

. . . at Queen's Park, across Ontario and elsewhere. * Premier Dalton McGuinty will be joined by Tory leader Tim Hudak and New Democratic leader Andrea Horwath in Hamilton Friday afternoon for the state funeral of forme ...

. . . at Queen's Park, across Ontario and elsewhere. * Bill Armstrong, a London city councillor and husband of New Democratic MPP Teresa Armstrong, is in hot water over a year-old incident in which he went to a London p ...

By Kenyon Wallace London Mayor Joe Fontana has confirmed on his personal website that the RCMP is investigating allegations that $20,000 in federal tax dollars were used to cover some of the costs of his son’s wedding r ...

. . . at Queen's Park, across Ontario and elsewhere. * A  new integrated cancer screening system for Ontario was unveiled Tuesday by Health Minister Deb Matthews. Eligible patients will be mailed a yearly screening rem ...

. . . at Queen's Park, across Ontario and elsewhere. * Prime Minister Stephen Harper arrived quietly at Queen's Park on Monday – in an nine-car motorcade complete with blaring sirens, flashing lights and a dozen OPP out ...

By Kenyon Wallace Simcoe County is taking a proactive approach to low-income and medium-income residents who want to buy a house. County council has decided to provide up to 10 per cent of the purchase price to prospec ...

. . . at Queen's Park, across Ontario and elsewhere. * New Democratic MPP Cindy Forster announced Friday that the Ontario New Democrats are launching a grassroots protest campaign called MPPs Back to Work that will atte ...

By Kenyon Wallace The City of Hamilton is re-evaluating its free wireless Internet service in the downtown area at a time when many municipalities are looking to expand their wi-fi coverage. Hamilton began offering the ...

. . . at Queen's Park, across Ontario and elsewhere. * CUPE is taking advantage of the “pause” of prorogation to mobilize and educate its membership about the government’s wage-restraint bills, Ontario Vice-President Mi ...

By Kenyon Wallace Doctors at a Durham region heart care clinic say OHIP fee reductions imposed by the provincial government have forced them to stop offering specialized monthly clinics for implantable defibrillator pat ...

. . . at Queen's Park, across Ontario and elsewhere. * Efforts to cover-up the costs of the cancellation of the Oakville and Mississauga gas plants stretch all the way to the cabinet, Tory energy critic Vic Fedeli and h ...

. . . at Queen's Park, across Ontario and elsewhere. * Tory leader Tim Hudak was at Toronto City Hall on Tuesday morning talking gridlock and outlining his “bold new ideas” for reducing traffic congestion in the Greater ...

QP Briefing looks at the highlights of daily Question Period. Questions concerning the release of an additional 20,000 documents connected to the cancellation of gas-fired electricity plants in Oakville and Mississauga ...

. . . at Queen's Park, across Ontario and elsewhere. * John O’Leary’s imminent exit from the Premier’s Office has prompted some restructuring in the Premier’s press office. O’Leary is leaving his job as manager of legi ...

By Kenyon Wallace A unique open-data contest designed to provide useful mobile apps to citizens without dipping into municipal budget is being launched by the the City of Ottawa. Starting in January, Ottawa’s IT subcom ...

By Kenyon Wallace The streets of Barrie are set to become a whole lot more colourful now that city council has approved a $25,000 public art fund. The new fund, to be included in the city’s 2014 budget, will pay for th ...

. . . at Queen's Park, across Ontario and elsewhere. * New Democratic MPP Monique Taylor is asking the government to address the growing issue of a lack of community care facilities for adults with mental disabilities. ...

By Kenyon Wallace A new initiative in Quinte is aiming to attract skilled newcomers to Canada to help foster economic development in the area. The Quinte Local Immigration Partnership, a group made up of a wide range o ...

. . . at Queen's Park, across Ontario and elsewhere. * Several Ontario-based companies, organizations and institutes are included in the annual list of Canada’s Top 100 Companies unveiled this week by Mediacorp Canada I ...

. . . at Queen's Park, across Ontario and elsewhere. * Ontario’s teachers and educational support staff unions will formally launch their Charter challenge against the government's teacher wage-freeze bill on Thursday. ...

. . . at Queen's Park, across Ontario and elsewhere. * Halton Region is hoping to increase waste diversion by cutting the number of garbage bags residents are allowed to put out from six bags to three bags every two wee ...

By Kenyon Wallace In the face of a declining manufacturing sector, Hastings County is hoping a new 10-year plan to promote the Quinte Region’s unique cultural aspects will help drive the area’s economic devlopment. The ...

By Kenyon Wallace A group of drinking water experts is studying the potential impacts of a release of raw sewage into Hamilton Harbour. The Halton-Hamilton Source Water Protection Committee is using computer modeling t ...

. . . at Queen's Park, across Ontario and elsewhere. * New Democratic leader Andrea Horwath said Friday it’s “quite frustrating” that no progress has been made on forming committees for the fall session of the legislatu ...

By Kenyon Wallace Quinte Health Care officials believe their proposal for a massive hospital complex in Picton that combines frontline health care with health and wellness promotion has the potential to become the gold ...

. . . at Queen's Park, across Ontario and elsewhere. * Negotiations between the the government and the Ontario Medical Association are quietly continuing. “We’re at the table and there are some very good conversations ...

QP Briefing looks at the highlights of daily Question Period. Opposition members used the bulk of Question Period Wednesday to try and make the gas plant issue stick to Premier Dalton McGuinty rather than Minister of En ...

. . . at Queen's Park, across Ontario and elsewhere. * With four more ServiceOntario kiosks set to close, OPSEU issued a warning Wednesday this could lead to more privacy and security breaches like the one earlier this ...

. . . at Queen's Park, across Ontario and elsewhere. * Two health care bills received support in separate votes Tuesday. Bill 2, the Health Homes Renovation Tax Credit Act, passed third reading and is now awaiting Roya ...

QP Briefing looks at the highlights of daily Question Period: Tory Leader Tim Hudak began the first Question Period since Sept. 24 by asking Premier Dalton McGuinty where in the documents outlining the Liberals proposed ...

.  .  . at Queen's Park, across Ontario and elsewhere. * New Democratic leader Andrea Horwath called on Auditor General Jim McCarter on Monday to broaden his current investigation of the former Mississauga gas plant to ...

By Kenyon Wallace A Guelph-area environmental group is raising red flags about an application by Nestle Waters Canada for a 10-year permit to extract groundwater from its existing Erin production well. Wellington Water ...