Sabrina Nanji, Author at QP Briefing

Happening: Ontario enlists former top spy Ray Boisvert as security adviser

At CSIS, Boisvert headed up the counter-terrorism and intelligence files. As Ontario's security adviser, he "will provide advice and intelligence on areas of public safety and national security." ...

Environmentalists take endangered species act challenge to Supreme Court

In 2013, the Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry granted industries an exemption under the Endangered Species Act that environmentalists say weakens legal protections for threatened species and their habitats ...

Move to let employers to self-regulate health and safety raises eyebrows

The New Democrats charged the labour ministry with trying to shift the responsibility of workplace inspections to the very people that the government should hold accountable. ...

Basic income pilot denounced as a placebo at public meeting

Social Services Minister Helena Jaczek says she isn't sitting "idle" and is petitioning the Treasury Board to ante up more funding for social assistance rates during the current round of budget consultation. ...

Your morning briefing

Your morning roundup of news and agenda items for Friday, December 9. ...

Integrity commissioner clears ministers over staffer fundraising

Premier Kathleen Wynne “categorically denied” reports from The Globe and Mail and The Canadian Press which the integrity commissioner said “had been interpreted as a statement [from Wynne] that mandatory fundraising quot ...

Heard: Ontarians with accessibility needs can vote on election day despite ‘drafting error’

Chief Electoral Officer Greg Essensa warned Bill 45, as written, would preclude him from rolling out vote counting equipment for accessibility purposes other than during the advance polling period. ...

Happening: CUPE sues Wynne, cabinet ministers over Hydro One sale

The Canadian Union of Public Employees filed a lawsuit in provincial court Tuesday against the Premier and her energy and finance ministers over the Hydro One sale. The “misfeasance” suit alleges Finance Minister Char ...

Emergency leave changes skew toward Liberals’ ‘powerful friends’ in auto sector, labour critic says

Labour Minister Kevin Flynn said experimenting on the auto sector was decided in part by the government's special advisers who are heading up the Changing Workplaces Review, and was no secret. ...

Heard: The more the merrier, Corrections Minister says of tandem segregation reviews

Ontario Ombudsman Paul Dubé said he was roused in part after hearing about Adam Capay, the 24-year-old inmate at the Thunder Bay Jail who languished in solitary confinement for four years. ...

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