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Category: News
Hamilton wary of pipeline plan
By Kenyon Wallace The City of Hamilton and the Hamilton Conservation Authority are conducting a review of a request by Enbridge Inc. to pump bitumen from the Alberta oilsands through a nearly 250-kilometre long pipeline ...
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. FRIDAY, JULY 20 Jacques Shore of Gowling Lafleu ...
Seen, heard, happening . . .
. . . at Queen's Park, across Ontario and elsewhere. * The Ontario Convenience Store Association will be at Queen's Park on Wednesday to present a petition signed by 135,000 Ontarians calling for the sale of wine and be ...
Tony Dean: The Tories and unions
By Tony Dean The Progressive Conservatives’ new policy paper on Flexible Labour Markets lobs a few missiles at Ontario’s unions. This is good traditional red meat for Tory voters but does it make for sensible public pol ...
Trouble ahead, prison officers warn
By Kenyon Wallace The union representing Ontario’s correctional officers is warning that the federal government’s new omnibus crime bill is a recipe for trouble in the province’s already overcrowded penal institutions. ...
City tackles abuse of disabled permits
By Kenyon Wallace The City of Ottawa is cracking down on the abuse of handicapped parking permits but removing parking spots for the disabled would be misguided, a prominent accessibility advocate says. Barry McMahon, ...
Seen, heard, happening . . .
. . . at Queen's Park, across Ontario and elsewhere. * The Liberals announced on Friday that they will select their candidate for the Kitchener-Waterloo byelection at a nomination meeting to be held on Aug. 9. The thre ...
Tony Dean: Rising above firefights
By Tony Dean It has been a tough few months for the provincial government. Mid-July is usually political sleepy time but the government continues to be in firefighting mode. The budget process started well but turned ...
Innisfil tackles huge backlog
By Kenyon Wallace Staff turnover, changes in municipal borders and shakeups on council have left the Town of Innisfil with a backlog of 16,000 open building permits going back several years and now officials are struggl ...
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