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Payday lending reform bill introduced, but regulations still a year away

After having first commissioned a report on payday lending practices in January 2014, the province is now planning to have the new rules take effect in early 2017 ...

Province handed ‘historic opportunity’ to curb urban sprawl, Crombie says

Former Toronto mayor and his advisory panel lay out strategic directions to guide a growing Greater Golden Horseshoe, including more support for agricultural lands ...

MacCharles to meet with Children’s Aid Societies next week

Minister for children and youth services to instruct CASs to 'develop a quality improvement plan regarding a number of issues associated with the auditor general’s report.' ...

Seen: Municipal planning bill passes third reading

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Syrian refugee housing details ‘fuzzy’ as arrivals loom

The executive director of the Ontario Council of Agencies Serving Immigrants said she doesn't anticipate a housing crisis, but there are contingency plans being made just in case. ...

PM to discuss Syrian refugees with premiers, as plan expected Tuesday

Health Minister Eric Hoskins says the premiers and the prime minister will 'go over the plan and its specifics, and then the public will be presented with that plan tomorrow.' ...

Seen: New government TV ad released on preventing sexual harassment

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Canadian Arab Federation says police downplaying hate crimes

Canadian Arab Federation says there has been an 'alarming rise in hate crimes across the country in recent days' and front-line police have made such complaints a 'low priority' ...

Despite differing timelines, Wynne promises to work with Ottawa on refugees

Ottawa says it will settle 25,000 refugees by the end of 2015, but Queen's Park officials do not yet know how many will be settled here, where in the province they will be settled, or how much federal funding assistance ...

Four projects short-listed for Ontario’s first social impact bonds

SIBs have been on the radar of Queen's Park for years and the government is slowly getting to the stage of signing contracts with private investors to fund the projects ...

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