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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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. ...
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. ...
Seen: Estimated advance voter turnout in Scarborough nearly as good as 2014 election
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Seen: Patrick Brown would scrap sex-ed curriculum
A PC government would scrap the sex-ed curriculum, according to the Toronto Sun. ...
Happening: Province putting $3.8 million towards refugee help
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Seen: Legal Aid Ontario lawyers inch closer to collective bargaining
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Seen: First Nations police file notice to strike
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Seen: NDP says Scarborough byelection signs stolen in fundraising pitch for more sign money
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Heard: Horwath recalls Jack Layton’s legacy as federal NDP rebuilds
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Happening: Patrick Brown off on another Northern Ontario swing
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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 ...
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. ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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) ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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," ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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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