Labour Minister Kevin Flynn will detail a plan to bridge the gender wage gap - an almost 30-per-cent-wide canyon in Ontario - by the spring of 2018. ...
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NDP MPP urges Liberals to return Wahnapitae First Nation to Nickel Belt riding
The government is also studying creating one or two more ridings in the north. ...
Tories deride Thibeault for shedding ‘crocodile tears’ over Sudbury byelection allegations
Countered the Energy Minister: "I think Michelle Obama said it best: When they go low, we go high." ...
Heard: Questions about so-called bribery loophole in Election Act [Updated]
The law seemingly only makes it an offence to offer inducement as a condition to run in an election, but not to ask or accept it. ...
Thibeault denies he sought ‘anything that would be seen as a bribe’ to run in Sudbury byelection
The NDP-MP-turned-Ontario-Liberal-minister was addressing federal Crown attorney Vern Brewer's allegation that Thibeault "sought other benefits" ...
Your morning briefing
Your morning roundup of news and agenda items for Tuesday November 22. ...
Blame it on the bargaining: Attorney general on Adam Capay, Thunder Bay jail
The government introduced legislation, tacked on to the Budget Measures Act, that makes correctional officers an essential service and gives them their own bargaining unit ...
Happening: Crown prosecutor alleges Thibeault ‘sought certain benefits’ to defect to Liberals
"Our allegation is that Mr. Thibeault sought certain benefits, offers, jobs or employment as part of his condition to run as an MPP," federal prosecutor Vern Brewer reportedly told the CBC. ...
Ontario must close $16-billion tourism gap: Chamber of Commerce
The Minister of Tourism will very soon release the strategic framework aimed at boosting travel to the province. ...
Heard: OPSEU sounds privatization warning over basic income
Warren "Smokey" Thomas fears the government may go down the privatization route when it comes to social assistance. ...