Douglas Elliott, who specializes in constitutional class actions, said possible amendments to the Smoke Free Ontario Act could violate an individual's Charter rights. ...
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Ex-TPSB chair Alok Mukherjee talks police act changes
Former Toronto Police Services Board chair Alok Mukherjee weighs in on carding, publishing Special Investigations Unit reports, and more. ...
Your afternoon recap
Your afternoon roundup of news and noteworthy items for Wednesday, May 25. ...
Toronto bid for Expo 2025 awash in wishy-washiness
The city says it will not proceed before commitments from provincial and federal governments, which in turn say they will not commit before council's approval. ...
Happening: Bill to create highway texting zones passes second reading
A private member's bill that would establish safe texting zones on highways passed second reading this week in the legislature. Introduced by PC MPP Vic Fedeli, Bill 190 (otherwise known as the Safe Texting Zones Act) ...
What was asked in question period
Conservative leader Patrick Brown asked Acting Premier Deb Matthews about the $3,000 cost projected to households after the government diminishes natural gas. On the morning of his book launch on the matter, Vic Fedel ...
No appetite for change at teachers’ bargaining table
Following the attorney general's scathing report, Education Minister Liz Sandals says the ministry will not be paying the unions for collective bargaining expenses in the future. ...
More than $80 million paid out to teachers’ unions, AG reports
Bonnie Lysyk files report outlining disbursements since 2000, including $22 million that was given to the OTF in 2006 with "no requirement for the unions to tell the government what they did with the money." ...
What was asked in question period
Conservative Leader Patrick Brown began with questions to acting premier Deb Matthews about overcrowding in hospitals and cuts to Intensive Behavioural Intervention (IBI) therapy for autistic children over 5, setting t ...
Pot business owners seek exemption to anti-vaping laws
Bill 178, the Smoke Free Ontario Amendment Act, would effectively lump medicinal weed and vaping in with cigarettes, which doesn't sit right with cannabis businesses. ...
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