Two key witnesses were blocked by the Liberals from testifying at a legislative committee looking into the matter, but the opposition says the witnesses need to be heard from after the revelations in the new court docume ...
Author Archives: Brian Platt
Gas plants scandal: $10,000 billed to taxpayers to have computers wiped, court document alleges
The court documents contain many new details about how former Premier Dalton McGuinty's chief of staff had 632,000 files erased from 20 computers in the premier's office. ...
Finance ministry starts consultations on pension plan exemptions
A consultation paper examines which workplace pensions plans are comparable enough to qualify as exemptions, and considers what the minimum income threshold should be for the ORPP to kick in. ...
Province urged not to enforce new federal prostitution law
Advocates for sex workers take issue with Premier Kathleen Wynne who has said the law will be enforced while the province's attorney general conducts a review of its constitutionality. ...
New law seen as no match for Pan-Am spending excesses
Bill 8 gives the integrity commissioner expanded mandate to review public sector expenses, while spending procedures are left untouched. In the end, it may be a 'public shaming' through freedom of information that is mos ...
Liberals lure NDP MP to run for them in Sudbury byelection
The NDP house leader has called Glenn Thibeault a "turncoat" for resigning his House of Commons seat, which he has held since 2008, to run for Wynne's Liberals. ...
Opposition calls for bribery investigation over Liberal nomination controversy
The Liberals' Sudbury candidate from the spring election claims he was offered a job to not seek the byelection nomination, but Premier Kathleen Wynne says there was no "specific commitment." ...
Just in time for the holidays: thousands of Pan Am receipts
A day after MPPs left for their winter break, TO2015 organizers, who have been criticized for lavish spending, made public banker's boxes full of expense claims, which had been the subject of a newspaper's freedom-of-inf ...
Liberals release more correspondence asking for a meeting with PM Harper
The correspondence included six letters from provincial Cabinet ministers to their federal counterparts, while opposition leaders said Wynne should take the blame for the dysfunctional relationship. ...
Metrolinx board meeting says SmartTrack is a ‘major element’ in GO electrification plan
The board of directors also heard an update on the ridership projections for the Union Pearson Express train, the fares for which were announced yesterday. ...
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