Author Archives: QP Briefing Staff

Inside Ontario is a weekly roundup of issues  prepared by Contributing Editor Kenyon Wallace. The organization representing Ontario’s private motor coach companies says the contracting out of GO Transit bus services cou ...

* A young skin cancer survivor spoke Thursday about her experiences with tanning beds. Kate Neale joined the Canadian Cancer Society ― and 80 volunteers and staff ― at Queen’s Park to lobby for a new private member’s bi ...

. . . at Queen's Park, across Ontario and elsewhere: * Every member of the Standing Committee on Regulations and Private Bills received his or her very own copy of Cottage Dog on Wednesday — not because the publication ...

* The Standing Committee on Social Policy wasn't able to meet Tuesday afternoon to discuss PC MPP Elizabeth Witmer's Bill 14 because debate had resumed on Education Minister Laurel Broten's Bill 13. Parliamentary protoco ...

* The City of Guelph is to go on trial in August over Ministry of Labour charges that were laid after a 14-year-old girl was killed by a collapsing cinder block wall. * A judge has ruled that a Belleville doctor must pa ...

Bill 8, Ontario One Call Act, 2012, is before the Standing Committee on General Government, which has an afternoon of hearings on its contents slated for its next meeting on Monday, April 23. Bill 11, Attracting Investm ...

By Richard J. Brennan The influential executive compensation industry is driving up the salaries for chief executive officers in Ontario’s health sector and elsewhere, a veteran industry insider says. “There’s a good r ...

Inside Ontario is a weekly roundup of issues  prepared by Contributing Editor Kenyon Wallace. The Ontario Library Association says the federal government’s recent decision to end funding for a national program to improv ...

* Health Minister Deb Matthews toured three hospitals Thursday, each of which is slated for expansion and each located in ridings held by Tory MPPs. Matthews’s tour took her to Joseph Brant Hospital in Jane McKenna’s Bu ...

Monday, April 23 The Standing Committee on General Government will meet to consider Bill 8, An Act respecting Ontario One Call Ltd.  2 p.m. Room 228 Tuesday, April 24 The Standing Committee on Government Agencies will ...