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Seen: Fill-in-the-blank policy templates for new workplace sexual harassment rules
Ontario is toughening up workplace sexual harassment laws in September, and employers and employees can now take a look at what legally constitutes inappropriate behaviour. Bill 132, which received royal assent in Mar ...
Happening: Premier Wynne off to Japan, South Korea this fall
Premier Kathleen Wynne will embark on a business trip to Japan and South Korea later this fall. Not for 30 years has an Ontario premier visited South Korea. Ditto Japan, in the last ten years. The trade mission (Nov. ...
Happening: Two more GO train trips being added on Milton line
Transportation Minister Steven Del Duca spent his Thursday travelling along the Milton GO train line, delivering news about two new weekday trips for the route. The additional weekday trips will start running Sept. 6, ...
Seen: Minister announces long-term care home funding for behaviourial supports
Health Minister Eric Hoskins announced new funding for long-term care homes in Ontario, $10 million of it to help homes care for patients who have behavioural issues that often come with dementia. Hoskins made the ann ...
Happening: Ontario to license home inspectors
Minister of Government and Consumer Services Marie-France Lalonde announced Wednesday she intends to introduce legislation this fall to licence Ontario’s home inspectors. She made the announcement at Campbell House, a ...
Seen: Association of Municipalities of Ontario crowns new president
Deputy Innisfil Mayor Lynn Dollin has been acclaimed as president of the Association of Municipalities of Ontario. Dollin’s coronation was conducted at AMO’s 2016 annual conference Wednesday in Windsor. She has served ...
Happening: A Liberal MPP’s $1,330-an-angler ‘luxury’ fishing trip
Ontario Liberal Party supporters are being invited to pay $1,330 apiece to take part in a luxury fishing trip on Lake Ontario with Beaches-East York MPP Arthur Potts. According to the Liberals’ online fundraising even ...
Seen: Ontario doubling down on help for industrial lands
Economic Development Minister Brad Duguid was on hand at the Association of Municipalities of Ontario’s annual conference Tuesday to announce the province is broadening a program that certifies industrial lands for dev ...
Seen: OHRC points out flaws in new police carding rules
As Ontario police forces grapple with new street check rules, Ontario Human Rights Commission has submitted recommendations to the government that it hopes will help improve the regulation when it goes for review next ...
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