There are many new staffing appointments in the premier's office, while the treasury board president, economic development minister and education minister are all getting new chiefs of staff ...
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Brown hires new chief of staff and outreach director
Nick Pappalardo, who Brown knows going back to their school days together at the St. Michael's College School in Toronto, will gradually take over the job from interim chief of staff Pina Martino ...
Ontario sees small job loss in November
November saw a small increase in full-time jobs of 5,700 offset by a larger decrease in part-time jobs of 12,000, while the unemployment rate ticked up from 6.8 per cent to 6.9 per cent ...
Renewable energy may not be best way to reduce emissions, AG report warns
Auditor general report's argument that there may be more effective ways to reduce greenhouse gas emissions than implementing expensive renewable energy projects has received relatively little attention ...
Dalton McGuinty’s advice for not listening to energy experts
Former premier has just written a book in which he explains it was 'naive' to ever have thought electricity planning should be in the hands of independent agencies ...
AG Report 2015: Province chose to launch SAMS knowing it hadn’t been tested
'Nobody told me,' Community and Social Services Minister Helena Jaczek responds over whether she was aware an executive committee in charge of implementing a problem-plagued computer system had known that it was not ful ...
AG to focus on Hydro One, SAMS, school buses, infrastructure
The report, which will be released Wednesday at noon, will have 14 value-for-money audits. ...
Bills on police record checks, OEB powers pass third reading
A third bill on various housekeeping measures affecting seven different ministries also passed third reading on Tuesday. ...
Government never bought snow plows for private contractors, transportation minister says
The question came up on Monday after PC transportation critic Michael Harris demanded to know what happens to the equipment when a snow-clearance contract is nullified ...
Night sittings authorized as large slate of bills set to be passed
As many as eight government bills are in a position to be passed over the next two weeks, along with four private member's bills. ...