Author Archives: QP Briefing Staff

. . . at Queen's Park, across Ontario and elsewhere. * Catherine Fife was officially nominated on Thursday evening in Waterloo as the New Democratic candidate for the upcoming Kitchener-Waterloo byelection. “The loyalt ...

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By Kenyon Wallace The City of Hamilton and the Hamilton Conservation Authority are conducting a review of a request by Enbridge Inc. to pump bitumen from the Alberta oilsands through a nearly 250-kilometre long pipeline ...

. . . at Queen's Park, across Ontario and elsewhere. * The Ontario Convenience Store Association will be at Queen's Park on Wednesday to present a petition signed by 135,000 Ontarians calling for the sale of wine and be ...

By Kenyon Wallace The union representing Ontario’s correctional officers is warning that the federal government’s new omnibus crime bill is a recipe for trouble in the province’s already overcrowded penal institutions. ...

By Kenyon Wallace The City of Ottawa is cracking down on the abuse of handicapped parking permits but removing parking spots for the disabled would be misguided, a prominent accessibility advocate says. Barry McMahon, ...

. . . at Queen's Park, across Ontario and elsewhere. * The Liberals announced on Friday that they will select their candidate for the Kitchener-Waterloo byelection at a nomination meeting to be held on Aug. 9. The thre ...

By Kenyon Wallace Staff turnover, changes in municipal borders and shakeups on council have left the Town of Innisfil with a backlog of 16,000 open building permits going back several years and now officials are struggl ...