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Seen: Liberals highlight PC MPP's tweet with sex-ed letter

Seen: Liberals highlight PC MPP’s tweet with sex-ed letter

A tweet by MPP Monte McNaughton is the Liberals' latest effort to cast PC Leader Patrick Brown as less than honest and a flip-flopper on the sex-ed issue. ...

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01.09.2016 Jessica Smith Cross 0 0
Happening: Bill 201 off to second reading

Happening: Bill 201 off to second reading

Amendments to Bill 201 have been approved and it's ready for second reading, and more major changes to come. ...

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30.08.2016 Sabrina Nanji 0 0
Seen: Dissident docs first out of the gate in response to health minister

Seen: Dissident docs first out of the gate in response to health minister

The Ontario Medical Association is working on its response to the health minister's challenge that it consider becoming a union. ...

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29.08.2016 Jessica Smith Cross 0 0
Seen: Estimated advance voter turnout in Scarborough nearly as good as 2014 election

Seen: Estimated advance voter turnout in Scarborough nearly as good as 2014 election

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29.08.2016 byelection, scarborough-rouge river Geoff Zochodne 0 0
Seen: Patrick Brown would scrap sex-ed curriculum

Seen: Patrick Brown would scrap sex-ed curriculum

A PC government would scrap the sex-ed curriculum, according to the Toronto Sun. ...

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26.08.2016 Jessica Smith Cross 0 0
Happening: Province putting $3.8 million towards refugee help

Happening: Province putting $3.8 million towards refugee help

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25.08.2016 refugees, Syrian refugees Geoff Zochodne 0 0
Seen: Legal Aid Ontario lawyers inch closer to collective bargaining

Seen: Legal Aid Ontario lawyers inch closer to collective bargaining

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24.08.2016 Sabrina Nanji 0 0
Seen: First Nations police file notice to strike

Seen: First Nations police file notice to strike

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24.08.2016 Sabrina Nanji 0 0
Seen: NDP says Scarborough byelection signs stolen in fundraising pitch for more sign money

Seen: NDP says Scarborough byelection signs stolen in fundraising pitch for more sign money

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24.08.2016 Geoff Zochodne 0 0
Heard: Horwath recalls Jack Layton’s legacy as federal NDP rebuilds

Heard: Horwath recalls Jack Layton’s legacy as federal NDP rebuilds

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23.08.2016 Sabrina Nanji 0 0
Happening: Patrick Brown off on another Northern Ontario swing

Happening: Patrick Brown off on another Northern Ontario swing

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23.08.2016 Geoff Zochodne 0 0
Seen: Fill-in-the-blank policy templates for new workplace sexual harassment rules

Seen: Fill-in-the-blank policy templates for new workplace sexual harassment rules

Ontario is toughening up workplace sexual harassment laws in September, and employers and employees can now take a look at what legally constitutes inappropriate behaviour. Bill 132, which received royal assent in Mar ...

Jobs and Employment, News, Seen, Heard, Happening
19.08.2016 Sabrina Nanji 0 0
Happening: Premier Wynne off to Japan, South Korea this fall

Happening: Premier Wynne off to Japan, South Korea this fall

Premier Kathleen Wynne will embark on a business trip to Japan and South Korea later this fall. Not for 30 years has an Ontario premier visited South Korea. Ditto Japan, in the last ten years. The trade mission (Nov. ...

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19.08.2016 Sabrina Nanji 0 0
Happening: Two more GO train trips being added on Milton line

Happening: Two more GO train trips being added on Milton line

Transportation Minister Steven Del Duca spent his Thursday travelling along the Milton GO train line, delivering news about two new weekday trips for the route. The additional weekday trips will start running Sept. 6, ...

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18.08.2016 QP Briefing Staff 0 0
Seen: Minister announces long-term care home funding for behaviourial supports

Seen: Minister announces long-term care home funding for behaviourial supports

Health Minister Eric Hoskins announced new funding for long-term care homes in Ontario, $10 million of it to help homes care for patients who have behavioural issues that often come with dementia. Hoskins made the ann ...

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18.08.2016 long-term care, long-term care home Jessica Smith Cross 0 0
Happening: Ontario to license home inspectors

Happening: Ontario to license home inspectors

Minister of Government and Consumer Services Marie-France Lalonde announced Wednesday she intends to introduce legislation this fall to licence Ontario’s home inspectors. She made the announcement at Campbell House, a ...

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17.08.2016 Jessica Smith Cross 0 0
Seen: Association of Municipalities of Ontario crowns new president

Seen: Association of Municipalities of Ontario crowns new president

Deputy Innisfil Mayor Lynn Dollin has been acclaimed as president of the Association of Municipalities of Ontario. Dollin’s coronation was conducted at AMO’s 2016 annual conference Wednesday in Windsor. She has served ...

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17.08.2016 QP Briefing Staff 0 0
Happening: A Liberal MPP's $1,330-an-angler ‘luxury’ fishing trip

Happening: A Liberal MPP’s $1,330-an-angler ‘luxury’ fishing trip

Ontario Liberal Party supporters are being invited to pay $1,330 apiece to take part in a luxury fishing trip on Lake Ontario with Beaches-East York MPP Arthur Potts. According to the Liberals’ online fundraising even ...

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17.08.2016 Geoff Zochodne 0 0
Seen: Ontario doubling down on help for industrial lands

Seen: Ontario doubling down on help for industrial lands

Economic Development Minister Brad Duguid was on hand at the Association of Municipalities of Ontario’s annual conference Tuesday to announce the province is broadening a program that certifies industrial lands for dev ...

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16.08.2016 Geoff Zochodne 0 0

Seen: OHRC points out flaws in new police carding rules

As Ontario police forces grapple with new street check rules, Ontario Human Rights Commission has submitted recommendations to the government that it hopes will help improve the regulation when it goes for review next ...

Law and Safety, News, Seen, Heard, Happening
15.08.2016 carding, street checks Sabrina Nanji 0 0

Happening: Metrolinx wants input on future of regional transportation

Metrolinx is seeking feedback from the public on what the GTHA's transit future should look like. On Monday, the provincial transportation agency opened up consultations for its 2017 Regional Transportation Plan (RTP) ...

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15.08.2016 Metrolinx, public transit Sabrina Nanji 0 0
Seen: OMA still tabulating outcome of doctors' vote

Seen: OMA still tabulating outcome of doctors’ vote

Ontarians holding their breath for the results of Sunday's doctors vote will have to hold out a little longer. The Ontario Medical Association confirmed to QP Briefing that ballots are still being tabulated after doct ...

Health and Wellness, News, Seen, Heard, Happening
15.08.2016 OMA, Ontario Medical Association Sabrina Nanji 0 0

Seen: Cho pulling ahead in Scarborough, poll says

A poll commissioned by the Ontario Clean Air Alliance puts the Progressive Conservatives in a narrow lead in the upcoming Scarborough-Rouge River byelection — and suggests a majority of those voters also want the nearb ...

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12.08.2016 Sabrina Nanji 0 0

Seen: Ontario in touch with feds on alleged terror plot in Strathroy

Community Safety Minister David Orazietti said Thursday the Ontario government is in contact with the federal government on the situation in Strathroy, where last night RCMP officers said they "thwarted" an alleged ter ...

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11.08.2016 Sabrina Nanji 0 0
Seen: Black leaders talk policy at Queen's Park

Seen: Black leaders talk policy at Queen’s Park

Black government leaders were at Queen's Park on Thursday to discuss policy issues that impact black Canadians. Minister Michael Coteau, responsible for Ontario's newly established Anti Racism Directorate, is co-chair ...

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11.08.2016 Sabrina Nanji 0 0

Seen: Ring of Fire mining company burned for ‘sexist promotion’

A mining company is getting attention for its YouTube video touting supposed benefits tied the Ring of Fire mining region – mostly because the clip stars two women in “cottage attire." KWG Resources put out the video ...

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10.08.2016 Geoff Zochodne 0 0

Seen: Digital Government holding ‘office hours’ at pub

The Digital Government Office is hosting "office hours" for the public with a meet-up at a pub near Queen's Park next week. The gathering will be at Wickson Social on Aug. 19. The plan is to host meet-ups monthly, and ...

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10.08.2016 Jessica Smith Cross 0 0

Happening: Auto talks get underway with fate of Ontario car plants uncertain

General Motors and autoworkers union Unifor formally began their contract talks Wednesday, the opening salvo in negotiations that will determine the future of several Ontario manufacturing plants. "Our success in thes ...

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10.08.2016 Geoff Zochodne 0 0

Heard: Mr. Above Znoneofthe to run in Scarborough-Rouge River

Above Znoneofthe, formerly known as Sheldon Bergson, will put past differences aside and run for the None of the Above Party in the Scarborough-Rouge River byelection, QP Briefing has learned. According to None of the A ...

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10.08.2016 Sabrina Nanji 0 0

Seen: NDP candidate calls for civility after campaign HQ vandalized

Neethan Shan, the NDP's candidate for the Sept. 1 byelection in Scarborough-Rouge River, has issued a blanket call for civility after he said his campaign office was vandalized. Shan said Tuesday the local campaign ha ...

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09.08.2016 Sabrina Nanji 0 0
Heard: Two-hour transit trek from Scarborough-Rouge River to Queen’s Park too long for NDP

Heard: Two-hour transit trek from Scarborough-Rouge River to Queen’s Park too long for NDP

NDP Leader Andrea Horwath travelled the two-hour long and winding road from Scarborough to Queen's Park on Monday to highlight transit woes ahead of a fast-approaching byelection. The journey began around 9:30 a.m., i ...

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08.08.2016 Sabrina Nanji 0 0

Heard: Singer releases ‘Rehab’ parody about Ontario’s doctor fight

The daughter of an Ontario doctor has a message for MDs about their upcoming vote on the tentative Physician Services Agreement: "No, no, no." "Mags the Singer," performed a parody version of Amy Winehouse's "Rehab," ...

Health and Wellness, News, Seen, Heard, Happening
05.08.2016 Jessica Smith Cross 0 0

Seen: Ontario lost 36,000 jobs in July, StatsCan says

Ontario lost approximately 36,000 jobs in July compared to the previous month, according to Statistics Canada. Of those jobs, an estimated 18,900 were full-time positions. Statistics Canada, in Friday's monthly labour ...

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05.08.2016 Geoff Zochodne 0 0

Heard: Sousa says Ontario could have spent far more on abandoned pension plan

Finance Minister Charles Sousa claims the Liberal government could have spent much more than $70 million on its aborted Ontario Retirement Pension Plan – but if that had happened, there was no going back. Sousa told r ...

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05.08.2016 Geoff Zochodne 0 0

Heard: Following Ottawa man’s death, OFL says anti-racism directorate should probe policing

As Ontario's newly established anti-racism directorate susses out its mandate through community confabs this summer, the Ontario Federation of Labour thinks it should include policing, following the fatal arrest of a S ...

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05.08.2016 Sabrina Nanji 0 0

Heard: Transport minister weighs in on Rail Deck Park proposal

A visualization of Rail Deck Park, provided by the City of Toronto. When Toronto Mayor John Tory made the surprise announcement Wednesday that he wants the city to deck over the rail corridor on the west side of downt ...

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04.08.2016 Jessica Smith Cross 0 0

Heard: Premier ‘re-announces’ hospital repair funding

Premier Kathleen Wynne announced hospital repair funding Thursday — which was welcomed by hospital administrators and slammed by the opposition as a politically motivated "re-announcement." Wynne went to Michael Garro ...

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04.08.2016 Jessica Smith Cross 0 0

Seen: Ontario government lauds national inquiry into missing and murdered indigenous women

Ontario lauded the federal government on Wednesday as Ottawa officially launched a national inquiry into missing and murdered indigenous women and girls. "The [inquiry] will be another crucial step on our path to heal ...

News, Seen, Heard, Happening
03.08.2016 Sabrina Nanji 0 0

Heard: Ontario and Michigan, traditional auto rivals, announce new partnership

Premier Kathleen Wynne travelled south of the border Wednesday to formalize a new auto partnership between Ontario and Michigan, which have traditionally been competitors for car company investment. According to a rel ...

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03.08.2016 Geoff Zochodne 0 0
Heard: Med students group throwing support behind OMA's agreement

Heard: Med students group throwing support behind OMA’s agreement

Ali Damji. Provided photo A group representing Ontario medical students is throwing its support behind the tentative agreement between physicians and the province. Ali Damji, chair of the Ontario Medical Students Ass ...

Health and Wellness, News, Seen, Heard, Happening
29.07.2016 Jessica Smith Cross 0 0

Seen: NDP MPPs want Premier to intervene in immigration detainee hunger strike

Two NDP MPPs are demanding Premier Kathleen Wynne intervene in a continuing  hunger strike put on by two federal immigration detainees. MPP Jennifer French (the NDP's Correctional Services critic) and MPP Teresa Armst ...

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29.07.2016 Sabrina Nanji 0 0

Seen: NDP critic’s open letter on ministerial staffers’ fundraising

NDP finance critic Catherine Fife released an open letter to Premier Kathleen Wynne Wednesday afternoon, calling on her to prohibit policy staff from engaging in political fundraising, and to "immediately direct a sepa ...

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27.07.2016 Jessica Smith Cross 0 0

Heard: Government will tax you, won’t ‘provide the lube’

One Ontarian has a particularly poetic way of expressing her feelings of powerlessness in dealing with the provincial government: the only thing you can do is pay more taxes, she says, and the government won't "provide ...

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27.07.2016 Jessica Smith Cross 0 0
Happening: LCBO proffers online shopping, home delivery

Happening: LCBO proffers online shopping, home delivery

Ontarians will now be able to buy booze online and have it delivered to their door, for a fee. At an LCBO in Toronto, Finance Minister Charles Sousa packages bottles of wine that will soon be delivered. On Tuesday, t ...

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26.07.2016 Sabrina Nanji 0 0

Heard: Sousa eyeing B.C.’s tax on foreign homebuyers

Finance Minister Charles Sousa is keeping a close eye on British Columbia’s proposed 15 per cent tax on foreign homebuyers. But Sousa is taking cautious approach in Ontario, a province home to Toronto’s hot housing ma ...

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26.07.2016 Geoff Zochodne 0 0

Heard: PCs gearing up for ‘Super Canvass’ in Ottawa-Vanier, with no candidate yet

Ontario's Progressive Conservatives are holding a "Super Canvass" in Ottawa-Vanier this weekend, featuring opposition leader Patrick Brown and three local MPPs — but no candidate. The byelections to fill vacant seats ...

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25.07.2016 Ottawa Vanier, scarborough-rouge river Jessica Smith Cross 0 0

Seen: $5 million not enough to cover OSPCA investigations, report says

A new report has found "shocking" working conditions at the Ontario Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (OSPCA), which will take additional government funding to fix. Brock University professors Kendra Co ...

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25.07.2016 OSPCA Sabrina Nanji 0 0

Seen: Ontario, Quebec and B.C. agree to easier online wine sales

Before Canada’s premiers wrapped up their annual get-together Friday, the country’s three-biggest wine-producing provinces agreed to promote their products online and at home. Ontario, Quebec and British Columbia say ...

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22.07.2016 QP Briefing Staff 0 0
Seen: Hudak seeks to free the spirits

Seen: Hudak seeks to free the spirits

Progressive Conservative MPP Tim Hudak wants Ontario to let his spirits go. Tim Hudak sips water at a media conference at Queen's Park on Thursday. The former PC leader and then-aspirant premier was at Queen's Park o ...

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21.07.2016 Sabrina Nanji 0 0

Seen: MTO’s ‘life hack’ ad

After scaring the crap out of everyone last month with a public service announcement about distracted driving, the Ministry of Transportation is now taking a more humourous route to getting people to stop using their p ...

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20.07.2016 Jessica Smith Cross 0 0
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