Category: Seen, Heard, Happening

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...