Author Archives: QP Briefing Staff

NDP MPP Gilles Bisson tabled a private member's bill Wednesday that would overhaul the funding and delivery of education on First Nations reserves. Bisson’s bill aims to improve education and funding of on-reserve sch ...

Premier Kathleen Wynne said Tuesday that the Ontario government has set a new target of making women at least 40 per cent of all the appointments to provincial boards and agencies by 2019. “As a government we have a f ...

In a move that could strike fear into the hearts of political staffers everywhere, Ontario’s information and privacy watchdog has declared all public business-related emails and instant messages as fair game for inform ...

PC MPP Monte McNaughton has asked in the past for a list of recipients of the Liberal government’s generosity. ...

The Liberal government has stickhandled two more of its bills through the legislature ahead of the summer break. The first bill establishes Premier Kathleen Wynne’s signature pension plan, while the other piece of leg ...

Transportation Minister Steven Del Duca continued to hand out money for subway planning Thursday. Del Duca announced the province is giving more than $55 million to Metrolinx for the provincial transit agency to work ...

Two more pieces of legislation are off to the lieutenant governor for a signature. Bill 100, the Supporting Ontario’s Trails Act, passed third reading on a 91-3 vote, with only three PC MPPs – Jack MacLaren, Jim McDon ...