The Human Rights Tribunal denied Greg Vezina's complaint, but he tells QP Briefing he will challenge the decision. ...
Daily Archives: August 5, 2016
Your morning briefing
Your morning roundup of news and agenda items for Friday, August 5. ...
Purchase: The OEB ought to be embarrassed, and maybe ashamed
Columnist Bryne Purchase calls the Ontario Energy Board's decision to bury the costs of cap and trade in the delivery charge of natural gas bills "downright ludicrous" ...
Heard: Singer releases ‘Rehab’ parody about Ontario’s doctor fight
The daughter of an Ontario doctor has a message for MDs about their upcoming vote on the tentative Physician Services Agreement: "No, no, no." "Mags the Singer," performed a parody version of Amy Winehouse's "Rehab," ...
Seen: Ontario lost 36,000 jobs in July, StatsCan says
Ontario lost approximately 36,000 jobs in July compared to the previous month, according to Statistics Canada. Of those jobs, an estimated 18,900 were full-time positions. Statistics Canada, in Friday's monthly labour ...
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Premier speaks of her father, a physician, in urging ‘yes’ vote on doctor deal
Meanwhile, the OMA has hired crisis communication firm Navigator in an effort to secure a yes vote, according to court documents. ...
Heard: Sousa says Ontario could have spent far more on abandoned pension plan
Finance Minister Charles Sousa claims the Liberal government could have spent much more than $70 million on its aborted Ontario Retirement Pension Plan – but if that had happened, there was no going back. Sousa told r ...
Liberals dismiss NDP claim that premature byelection call gave local candidate an edge
"We're talking about a matter of two minutes here," Minister Brad Duguid said, while calling the event "regrettable." ...
Heard: Following Ottawa man’s death, OFL says anti-racism directorate should probe policing
As Ontario's newly established anti-racism directorate susses out its mandate through community confabs this summer, the Ontario Federation of Labour thinks it should include policing, following the fatal arrest of a S ...