Author Archives: QP Briefing Staff

Tory MPP Jane McKenna, who says she will vote against the Ontario budget next week, says her constituents are receiving robo-calls warning that a budget defeat would jeopardize funding for the Joseph Brant Memorial Hospi ...

* A report by Colleges Ontario states that 83 per cent of Ontario college graduates found jobs last year within six months of graduation. * The City of Vaughan hopes so save more than $730,000 a year by switching insura ...

* MADD Canada launched its 2012 campaign Thursday. It encourages and empowers Canadians to report suspected impaired drivers to police by calling 911. * The Toronto 2015 Pan/Parapan Am Games Organizing Committee is look ...

The union representing workers at Cascades' Norampac-Trenton paper mill remain optimistic after the company announced in the middle of contract talks that it was closing the facility on June 1. Dave Moffatt, Ontario VP ...

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The Standing Committee on General Government met Monday afternoon to consider Bill 11, the Attracting Investment and Creating Jobs Act, 2011. If implemented,  the act would require the Minister of Economic Development a ...

Consumer Services Minister Margarett Best scored a solid hit with her bill to regulate cell phone contracts, winning support from the opposition parties and some solid media coverage. Getting good media for a bill that ...

The Standing Committee on Social Policy met Monday to consider Bill 20,  an Act to amend the Building Code Act, 1992. Proceedings: After little debate and two quick amendments, the committee voted to carry an amended ve ...

From first-year seminars to social media in the classroom, Ontario universities are exploring myriad ways to bring teaching – and learning – into the 21st century. “The amount of blended learning that is going on today ...

Health Minister Deb Matthews is asking the Ontario doctors to accept a real wage freeze at current levels as they continue negotiations for a new contract. She says the government is resetting the focus of Health paymen ...