Environmental groups have also pointed out that OPG's Pickering nuclear plant, just east of Toronto, is no spring chicken. ...
Daily Archives: May 20, 2016
Your morning briefing
Your morning roundup of news and agenda items for Friday, May 20. ...
Seen: Five hard-to-understand formulas for free cap-and-trade emission allowances
After the bill containing the outline of the province's cap-and-trade system passed third reading this week, the Liberal government has now firmed up the other details of the carbon-pricing program. The finalized cap ...
Happening: Bill to create highway texting zones passes second reading
A private member's bill that would establish safe texting zones on highways passed second reading this week in the legislature. Introduced by PC MPP Vic Fedeli, Bill 190 (otherwise known as the Safe Texting Zones Act) ...
People on the Move
The Ontario Energy Board recently announced a few tweaks to its leadership. Board member Christine Long has been appointed as the OEB's second vice-chair. A Toronto-based energy-sector lawyer, Long has been a board me ...
Patrick Brown and John Tory meet for first time
The two leaders were to meet at City Hall on Friday afternoon to talk transportation, cutting red tape and boosting tech start-ups along the Toronto and Kitchener-Waterloo corridor. ...
Proposed third-party advertising rules to cap scary voice-over spending
If any of the biggest third-party advertisers of the 2014 election have plans for a repeat performance, new election finance legislation should put a damper on them, somewhat. ...