QP Briefing

Ontario Premier Doug Ford received an honorary doctorate from a U.S. university on Saturday. 

In a closed-door speech, Health Minister Sylvia Jones rebuked the Ontario Hospital Association for a lack of gratitude over an extra $1.1 billion in funding for the province’s 135 public hospitals. 

Ontario’s finance minister says the government has “moved on” from its short-lived, deeply controversial decision to buy a private jet, offering no indication of if or when the province will release details of its sale. 

Brampton, a fast-growing city west of Toronto, is at the heart of Canada’s mortgage troubles as a growing number of homeowners miss loan payments and lenders force the sale of their homes. 

Ontario NDP Leader Marit Stiles is urging Prime Minister Mark Carney to thwart Premier Doug Ford’s “callous land grab” of Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport. 

The nomination period for mayoral, council and school trustee candidates for this fall’s Ontario municipal elections opens Friday. 

The Ontario government is looking abroad to expand its trading relationships with other countries as the trade-war with the United States drags on, planning a series of targeted trade missions in the coming months. 

Scott Stinson writes in The National Post

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