Brian Platt, Author at QP Briefing

Federal income-splitting plan avoids forcing $1-billion tax cut on Ontario

Federal government’s income-splitting plan turns out to be designed to avoid impacting provincial budgets. ...

Income threshold for legal aid raised for first time in 18 years

The government has promised to give legal aid access to a million more people within a decade, and this promise gets them a third of the way there. ...

Liberals plan to cap salaries at 64 more public sector agencies

The new measures will come in an amendment to Bill 8, transparency legislation that already controlled compensation at universities, hospitals and hydro agencies ...

Province ready to start redeveloping 300 long-term care homes

The project will affect nearly half of the province's long-term care homes, many of which are more than 40 years old and were built with outdated safety standards ...

The electorate speaks loudly – and the subtext spells LRT

The new mayors of Mississauga, Brampton, Hamilton, Waterloo and Ottawa favour LRT projects, while John Tory's Smart Track proposal for Toronto aligns closely with the province's GO train electrification: It all 'bodes we ...

Liberals move time allocation for the first time this session

The opposition is outraged, but the bill on tying minimum wage to inflation and giving temporary foreign workers more rights is now set to pass on Nov. 4. ...

Municipal elections review could see shorter campaigns and electoral reform in 2018

The municipal affairs minister said he's asked the Association of Municipalities of Ontario to come up with a list of proposed changes, and that will form the review's starting point. ...

Construction group calls for College of Trades review scope to be expanded

The Ontario Sewer and Watermain Construction Association says the year-long review of the College of Trades needs to also look at making sure it's not just unions who get a say in decisions. ...

Ombudsman tells QP Briefing he’s ‘satisfied’ with government action on unlicensed daycares

The ombudsman said the new daycare bill will give the ministry all the legal tools it needs, while the PC critic says committee hearings on the bill should be held around the province to allow for concerns to be aired. ...

Daycare deaths linked to ‘systemic government ineptitude’

Saying Ontarians would 'be stunned to learn just how lax our unlicensed daycare system is,' Ombudsman André Marin calls for beefed up enforcement, better record-keeping and more information sharing. ...

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