* Robert Maich, the chair of the Halton Regional Police Services Board, has been re-elected to a seventh term. Randy Hammell will serve his fourth term as as vice-chair. * North Dundas Mayor Eric Duncan, who in 2010, ...
Category: News
The week, for better or worse
It was a good week for: Prime Minister Stephen Harper, who got a warm reception for his social media experiment of tweeting his entire day, including breakfast with his cat. Quebec Premier Pauline Marois, who stood her ...
Seen, heard, happening …
... at Queen's Park, across Ontario and elsewhere. * Incoming premier Kathleen Wynne became Premier-designate Thursday morning at Queen’s Park after meeting with outgoing Premier Dalton McGuinty and Lieutenant Governor ...
Advocates urge scrutiny of unpaid internships
Since interns are not defined under Ontario's Employment Standards Act, their increased prevalence within the labour market is raising concerns about the roles, rights and responsibilities of unpaid workers. ...
Seen, heard, happening …
... at Queen's Park, across Ontario and elsewhere. * The province is preparing to order a Hamilton steelmaker to fix polluting coke plants that spewed black smoke more than 200 times in the past 11 months, the Hamilton ...
Seen, heard, happening …
... at Queen's Park, across Ontario and elsewhere. * Eric Hoskins appeared briefly before the media Tuesday on his way into the Liberal caucus scheduled for noon, pausing to make a statement on allegations from Sandra P ...
Who's lobbying for whom
The following lobbyist consultants have registered with the Office of the Integrity Commissioner during the past week. In each case, the name of their client is provided. Tuesday, Jan. 29 Rylan J.M. Kinnon on behalf of O ...
Plenty of process prior to becoming premier
Even though Kathleen Wynne won the Ontario Liberal leadership convention Saturday to replace Premier Dalton McGuinty, she's not quite premier yet. The Office of the Lieutenant Governor of Ontario, David Onley, release ...
Seen, heard, happening …
... at Queen's Park, across Ontario and elsewhere. Our friends at TVO's The Agenda with Steve Paikin did some rummaging in their video vaults and came up with these shiny nuggets. In 2005, Studio 2 welcomed rookie MPPs ...
Seen, heard, happening …
... at the Ontario Liberal leadership convention in Toronto. Panoramic view of the Ontario Liberal leadership convention at the Mattamy Athletic Centre at Toronto's Maple Leaf Gardens. Photo by Andrew Reeves. * It wa ...