Author Archives: QP Briefing Staff

. . . at Queen's Park, across Ontario and elsewhere. * ORNGE founder Dr. Chris Mazza is to appear on Wednesday before the pubic accounts committee, which is conducting hearings into Auditor General Jim McCarter’s report ...

By Kenyon Wallace Energy Minister Chris Bentley said this week that he’s looking forward to the results of a nationwide study being launched by Health Canada into possible links between wind turbine noise and ill health ...

By Kenyon Wallace The City of Hamilton is hoping CN Rail will share the cost of replacing an aging bridge that became the municipality’s responsibility during the 1990s when the province downloaded infrastructure mainte ...

. . . at Queen's Park, across Ontario and elsewhere. * After a delay of several months, ORNGE founder Dr. Chris Mazza is set to appear before a legislative committee on Wednesday. Mazza's first scheduled appearance was ...

By Kenyon Wallace Free internet access at Guelph Public Library branches may soon be a thing of the past if money is not found to replace lost federal funding. Industry Canada recently announced that it was cutting the ...

. . . at Queen's Park, across Ontario and elsewhere. * Ontario Ombudsman Andre Marin said Tuesday on Twitter that he has received more than 30 complaints about the end of the Slots to Racetracks program and its impact o ...

By Kenyon Wallace The City of Belleville is turning directly to industry for advice on how municipal administrators can create or change policies to help improve the local economy. As part of the city’s business retent ...

By Kenyon Wallace The province should ban corrugated boxes from landfills to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, save money and improve the diversion rate from garbage to recycling, the Paper & Paperboard Packaging Env ...

. . . at Queen's Park, across Ontario and elsewhere. * Workplace Safety Insurance Board Chair Elizabeth Witmer told the standing committee on government agencies this week that the WSIB is making solid progress in sever ...