Your morning roundup of news and agenda items for Friday, April 29. ...
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Your afternoon recap
Smokey Thomas renews his call for a cabinet minister to get canned, and Monte McNaughton goes after corporate subsidies. ...
Environmental Defence report urges province to put deposit on plastic bottles
Less than half of plastic bottles sold in Ontario end up in recycling bins, the report notes, but that number is around 80 per cent in provinces with a return deposit program. ...
Your morning briefing
Your morning roundup of news and agenda items for Wednesday, April 27. ...
Your afternoon recap
The Premier weighs in on a taxpayer rebate for a $1.1-million Porsche, and tells Bloomberg she's not so optimistic about CPP expansion. ...
Over 1,100 municipal complaints already lodged with ombudsman
The office has so far resolved them through informal mechanisms rather than investigations, said Paul Dubé in his first speech since taking office earlier this month. ...
Liberals set out schedule for public hearings on fundraising reform
The letter from Government House Leader Yasir Naqvi also re-emphasizes that the Liberals won't be giving in to the opposition's demands for a more independent process ...
Calling for OMA negotiations, province releases data on top-billing doctors
The government says 10 per cent of doctor billings are claimed by less than 2 per cent of the doctors, and one eye specialist billed $6.6 million in a single year. ...
Your legislative tip sheet
New bills, regulations, and other legislative miscellanea. ...
Premier and attorney general agree — eventually — that Loku report should be made public
Although Attorney General Madeleine Meilleur had first said only future SIU reports might be made public, by the end of the day she clarified her stance to say that includes the report into Andrew Loku's shooting. ...