Category: Seen, Heard, Happening

Health Minister Eric Hoskins made the announcement at the Simon Apartments, a supportive housing complex in downtown Toronto. Jessica Smith Cross / QP Briefing Health Minister Eric Hoskins announced $100 million of sp ...

The Ontario Securities Commission’s new whistleblower office is open for business. The aptly-titled Office of the Whistleblower is the first such paid program from a Canadian securities regulator. The office can now o ...

Premier Kathleen Wynne will be in attendance Thursday evening at the first public meeting being held her government’s Anti-Racism Directorate. The Toronto meeting “will focus on anti-Black racism, as well as Islamopho ...

Ontario’s Information and Privacy Commissioner has dropped legal action against the Toronto Police Service, which has established new procedures for reporting citizen suicide attempts in a database available to U.S. la ...

Ontario lost 4,200 jobs last month, even as the unemployment rate dropped slightly to 6.4 per cent, according to Statistics Canada. Higher job losses in manufacturing were offset by gains in the service sector. Financ ...

Queen's Park alumni Tony Clement is hoping to lead the federal Conservative party. The Conservative MP for Parry Sound-Muskoka is expected to make the announcement on Tuesday, the Globe and Mail reports, although the ...

Labour and environmental groups filled a canoe with letters and petitions about Grassy Narrows, and portaged it to Queen's Park. Jessica Smith Cross / QP Briefing A group of activists portaged a canoe to Queen's Park ...

The provincial government announced Thursday it had approved a regulatory change under the Insurance Act that allows commercial fleet insurance to be offered for vehicles that can be hired through an online application ...

Ontario's labour ministry is hoping to quell occupational injuries and fatalities by introducing two research and innovation projects. The Occupational Health and Safety Prevention and Innovation Program, for which $1 ...

The only official LGBTQ critic at Queen's Park, NDP MPP Cheri DiNovo, is expressing solidarity with Black Lives Matter, whose  protest stalled the weekend's Pride parade in Toronto. In a Facebook post on Wednesday, Di ...

Ontario NDP Leader Andrea Horwath called on the government to hold one of its planned meetings on racism in Hamilton. The Ontario Anti-Racism Directorate announced Monday by Minister Michael Coteau will be holding com ...

Macdonald Block is getting a long-overdue makeover. The 45-year-old complex — home to a dozen cabinet ministers, 15 ministries, and 3,600 public servants — is being retrofitted for the first time  in order to reduce o ...

Ontario's Minister Responsible for Anti-Racism, Michael Coteau, will be travelling around the province this summer and fall, speaking to Ontarians about racism. Coteau will host nine public community meetings about ho ...

Premier Kathleen Wynne weighed in on recent criticism that Mayor John Tory's signature SmartTrack plan has become little more than a branding exercise. When Tory fought his mayoral election campaign on SmartTrack, it  ...

Ontario’s first health-care patient ombudsman will officially set up shop on July 4. That’s the date Patient Ombudsman Christine Elliott, the former Progressive Conservative MPP, can start hearing complaints. Those co ...

Starting early next year, Ontario will no longer claw back child support payments from its social assistance programs, the government said on Wednesday. By fully exempting child support payments from social assistance ...

Premier Kathleen Wynne’s cabinet has unsurprisingly approved a deal that would boost the Canada Pension Plan. The agreement in principle (AIP) to increase CPP benefit and contribution levels was signed on June 20 by f ...

Naloxone is now available in Ontario, without a prescription, the Ministry of Health announced Wednesday. Naloxone can be administered to temporarily counteract the effect of an opioid overdose, and prevent it from be ...

People of trans and non-binary gender identities will be able to choose "X" as the gender identifier on their driver's licence starting in 2017. In addition, as of  June,  health cards that are issued no longer will ha ...

Weekday GO service is coming to the Niagara region in 2021, Transportation Minister Steven Del Duca announced Tuesday. It's been a busy summer for Del Duca, who has been making transportation infrastructure announceme ...

Calling all thinkfluencers. If you’re an “active participant” who “changes things by doing them – together with people, at all levels, inside and outside of government,” the Ontario government has a job for you. Seek ...

Finance Minister Charles Sousa and Premier Kathleen Wynne announce cider can now be sold in some grocery stores. Ontarians will now be able to buy craft cider at the grocery stores that already sell beer. On Friday, ...

Though Premier Kathleen Wynne has speciously credited her own government with reaching this week's national deal to enhance the Canada Pension Plan, Ottawa doesn't quite agree. Federal Finance Minister Bill Morneau to ...

Ontario will start testing out high-occupancy toll lanes this fall. The government announced that Canada’s first-ever high-occupancy toll (HOT) lanes will open on September 15, as part of a provincially-run pilot proj ...

The Trillium Party is running a candidate in the Scarborough-Rouge River byelection who’s an activist, real estate agent and Playboy model. “I’m an activist and I’m pretty passionate about my beliefs,” Ania Krosinska ...

Decked out in t-shirts emblazoned with the phrase, "No product? No contract!" members of Unifor's Local 222 chapter, which represents workers at General Motors in Oshawa, held a press conference Tuesday to put pressure ...

Come Monday, commuters in the eastern Greater Toronto Area can get a free taste of the new, provincially-owned stretch of Highway 407. The government announced Friday that the first section of the extended 407 will be ...

The president of the Ontario Provincial Police Association says he is ready to close the "dark chapter" in the union's history after charges were laid by the RCMP this week. On Thursday, the RCMP pressed criminal char ...

Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne met with U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren Wednesday — not long after the Wall Street Journal reported Warren is being vetted as a possible running mate for presumed Democratic presidential nomi ...

As expected, Premier Kathleen Wynne announced up to nearly $86 million for Fiat Chrysler to build its plug-in hybrid minivan at the Windsor assembly plant. The Pacifica is the first plug-in hybrid minivan to be built ...

Premier Kathleen Wynne is continuing her American tour Thursday with a stop in Washington D.C., where she'll meet with politicians of all political stripes. Wynne is beginning her day in D.C. with a 7:30 a.m. meeting ...

She didn’t name names, but it was pretty clear who Premier Kathleen Wynne was speaking about when she mentioned troubling talk on the U.S. presidential campaign trail. Wynne, in Detroit on Wednesday, was asked by repo ...

The Green Party of Ontario has selected its candidate for the uncalled byelection in Scarborough-Rouge River. The Greens announced Tuesday that Priyan De Silva would carry the party’s banner in the upcoming race, whic ...

Before the house rose for summer this week, three private member's bills passed second reading and are now off to committe. They include Liberal MPP Eleanor McMahon's Bill 213, which would amend the Highway Traffic Ac ...

It's a running joke in Toronto that the city has only two seasons: winter and construction. Last month's labour force survey would suggest the latter is upon us. In May, Ontario added nearly 25,000 jobs in the constru ...

The Liberal government’s attempt to keep medical marijuana smoke and vapour out of the faces of unsuspecting passerby passed third reading on Thursday. Bill 178 allows for the government to ban the smoking and vaping ...

NDP MPP Gilles Bisson tabled a private member's bill Wednesday that would overhaul the funding and delivery of education on First Nations reserves. Bisson’s bill aims to improve education and funding of on-reserve sch ...

Premier Kathleen Wynne said Tuesday that the Ontario government has set a new target of making women at least 40 per cent of all the appointments to provincial boards and agencies by 2019. “As a government we have a f ...