QP Briefing

Over the coming days, QPB will roll out rankings across multiple categories. We begin with the ministers respondents viewed as the most influential and effective members of Premier Doug Ford’s government. 

The Ford government’s long-promised overhaul of how Ontario municipalities deal with misconduct by councillors is on its way to becoming law. 

The Ontario government has joined the legal challenge by a firearms lobby group of the federal government’s sweeping 2020 ban on “assault-style” weapons. 

Premier Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservatives are regaining altitude after the private jet fiasco while leadership infighting is causing turbulence for the opposition Liberals, a new poll suggests. 

Ontario’s Treasury Board says public service employees may be allowed to work remotely during daytime FIFA World Cup matches in Toronto, following union calls for more flexible work options during the tournament and criticism of the government’s return-to-office mandate. 

Ontario Premier Doug Ford says the Toronto region has “a coyote problem,” suggesting that howling “like a wolf” has worked to quieten the animals near his Etobicoke home. 

As consultations for the 2026 budget kick off on Parliament Hill, municipal and Indigenous leaders are urging Ottawa to provide more predictable, long-term funding for water systems, transit, roads and other core infrastructure needed to sustain housing growth. 

An Ottawa New Democrat MPP is putting forward a private member’s bill in the Ontario legislature to limit how hot schools can get. 

Is Doug Ford trying to save Canada from… itself? 

And Scott Stinson writes in The National Post

 that the Ontario Liberals leadership race is “off to a messy start.”

A roundup of what is making news this Wednesday, May 27.

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