Author Archives: QP Briefing Staff

* What a difference a couple of hours make. Xtra, a newspaper which serves the gay and lesbian community, posted a story on its website last Wednesday reporting on the position of Lisa MacLeod, the Tory MPP who is spons ...

Inside Ontario is a weekly roundup of issues prepared by Contributing Editor Kenyon Wallace. The Municipal Elections Act should be reformed to clarify the roles and responsibilities of city clerks during elections, impr ...

Bill 2, Healthy Homes Renovation Tax Credit Act, 2012 was the subject of third-reading debate. The bill has been through committee and should continue in third reading next week. Bill 11, Attracting Investment and Creat ...

* The Ontario government is banking on one of Canada’s top bankers to help get the economy on track. Gord Nixon, president and chief executive of the Royal Bank of Canada, has been appointed as Chair of the government’s ...

ORNGE, the province’s troubled air ambulance service, has again been thrust into the spotlight following a serious highway accident near Stouffville on Wednesday. Emergency workers requested an ORNGE helicopter to airlif ...

By Andrew Reeve A coalition of more than 50 organizations called on Premier Dalton McGuinty Thursday to drop parts of the government's budget bill that they say will undermine key pieces of environmental legislation. T ...

* The Ontario Medical Association upped the ante Thursday in its ongoing compensation negotiations with the province. The OMA put brain drain on the table, saying a doctor shortage in the U.S. could lure some doctors sou ...

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By Kenyon Wallace A northern First Nation community says it has been stonewalled by the province in its efforts to learn details of the Cliffs chromite mining project in Ontario’s Far North. Sonny Gagnon, chief of the ...