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Ontario MPPs will get a 35-per-cent pay raise under new legislation from the Ford government. The bill lifts a 15-year salary freeze and ties MPPs' base pay to 75 per cent of what federal MPs earn: $157,350. But MPPs sit for around 60 per cent of the time that federal MPs do. QP Briefing reports reports.
New home sales in the GTA have hit a historic low, worse than during the 1990s housing crash. Just 310 new homes were sold in April, an 89 per cent drop from the 10-year average, according to a new report commissioned by the Building Industry and Land Development Association (BILD). Builders are now say the only thing Queen’s Park can do is to help is to take down the provincial portion of the HST completely QP Briefing has this one too.