Minister Responsible for Women's Issues, Tracy MacCharles, says strategy to improve support for victims will be announced tomorrow ahead of promised deadline, International Women's Day ...
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Prevention of PTSD as important as compensation for first responders
The province's labour ministry held a summit on work-related traumatic mental stress in Toronto on Thursday ...
Liberal mismanagement blamed for CAS database delay
'Government just can’t get an IT project right,' Tory Jim McDonell says; but Youth Services Minister Tracy MacCharles denies delay implementing a coroner recommendation is another example of SAMS snafu. ...
Province to seek a more ‘rational’ approach to liquor sales
Addressing outdated practices, Premier Kathleen Wynne also says she'd like to see more 'fairness' in how beer is sold along with 'a lot more open' wine market. ...
Wynne talks energy with Newfoundland premier
Premier Paul Davis says Newfoundland and Labrador is looking to partner with other provinces to supply green energy. ...
Province won’t interfere with striking teaching assistants at U of T
Minister of Training, Colleges and Universities Reza Moridi says the government is in the middle of a public sector wage freeze and won't provide any more post-secondary funds for salary increases. ...
Teaching assistants at U of T reject deal, go on strike
CUPE local 3902 reached an agreement with the University of Toronto around 2:45 this morning, which will now have to be ratified by its 6,000 members ...
NDP presses Wynne to force Liberal fundraiser Lougheed to step aside
New Democrat house leader Gilles Bisson held a press conference at Queen's Park Friday, once again calling on the premier to ask the chair of Sudbury's police services board to step down ...
Government taking steps to allow nurses to prescribe meds
Health Minister Eric Hoskins told the Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario that consultations on the issue will start this spring ...
Province commits to ‘interim funding’ of expensive drug to treat rare disease
The government said it will pay for Soliris for patients with atypical hemolytic uremic syndrome on Wednesday, the same day a group at Queen's Park pressured the province on the issue ...