Norfolk County has filed an application with the Ontario Labour Relations Board claiming that the Ontario Nurses Association has engaged in bad faith bargaining with respect to the county's 32 public health nurses "It b ...
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This week's bills
Bill 2, Healthy Homes Renovation Tax Credit Act, 2012, remained in the Standing Committee on Finance and Economic Affairs. This marks the fourth week in a row that the bill has been under consideration in committee. Bil ...
Can GO costs be slashed?
Inside Ontario is a weekly roundup of issues prepared by Contributing Editor Kenyon Wallace. The organization representing Ontario’s private motor coach companies says the contracting out of GO Transit bus services cou ...
Witmer a huge plus for WSIB
By Tony Dean The big news at Queen’s Park today is the appointment of Conservative MPP Elizabeth Witmer as Chair of the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board. It’s a good move at the right time for Witmer. It puts the ...
Seen, heard, happening . . .
* A young skin cancer survivor spoke Thursday about her experiences with tanning beds. Kate Neale joined the Canadian Cancer Society ― and 80 volunteers and staff ― at Queen’s Park to lobby for a new private member’s bi ...
Seen, heard, happening . . .
. . . at Queen's Park, across Ontario and elsewhere: * Every member of the Standing Committee on Regulations and Private Bills received his or her very own copy of Cottage Dog on Wednesday — not because the publication ...
Seen, heard, happening . . .
* The Standing Committee on Social Policy wasn't able to meet Tuesday afternoon to discuss PC MPP Elizabeth Witmer's Bill 14 because debate had resumed on Education Minister Laurel Broten's Bill 13. Parliamentary protoco ...
Seen, heard, happening . . .
* The City of Guelph is to go on trial in August over Ministry of Labour charges that were laid after a 14-year-old girl was killed by a collapsing cinder block wall. * A judge has ruled that a Belleville doctor must pa ...
A template for collaboration?
By Tony Dean So there is a last-minute Liberal-NDP budget deal after all. These talks were always going to go to the wire and it’s no surprise that they culminated in a Monday afternoon face-to-face meeting between Dal ...
This week's bills
Bill 8, Ontario One Call Act, 2012, is before the Standing Committee on General Government, which has an afternoon of hearings on its contents slated for its next meeting on Monday, April 23. Bill 11, Attracting Investm ...