Ali Damji. Provided photo A group representing Ontario medical students is throwing its support behind the tentative agreement between physicians and the province. Ali Damji, chair of the Ontario Medical Students Ass ...
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Heard: Government will tax you, won’t ‘provide the lube’
One Ontarian has a particularly poetic way of expressing her feelings of powerlessness in dealing with the provincial government: the only thing you can do is pay more taxes, she says, and the government won't "provide ...
Seen: NDP critic’s open letter on ministerial staffers’ fundraising
NDP finance critic Catherine Fife released an open letter to Premier Kathleen Wynne Wednesday afternoon, calling on her to prohibit policy staff from engaging in political fundraising, and to "immediately direct a sepa ...
Happening: LCBO proffers online shopping, home delivery
Ontarians will now be able to buy booze online and have it delivered to their door, for a fee. At an LCBO in Toronto, Finance Minister Charles Sousa packages bottles of wine that will soon be delivered. On Tuesday, t ...
Heard: Sousa eyeing B.C.’s tax on foreign homebuyers
Finance Minister Charles Sousa is keeping a close eye on British Columbia’s proposed 15 per cent tax on foreign homebuyers. But Sousa is taking cautious approach in Ontario, a province home to Toronto’s hot housing ma ...
Heard: PCs gearing up for ‘Super Canvass’ in Ottawa-Vanier, with no candidate yet
Ontario's Progressive Conservatives are holding a "Super Canvass" in Ottawa-Vanier this weekend, featuring opposition leader Patrick Brown and three local MPPs — but no candidate. The byelections to fill vacant seats ...
Seen: $5 million not enough to cover OSPCA investigations, report says
A new report has found "shocking" working conditions at the Ontario Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (OSPCA), which will take additional government funding to fix. Brock University professors Kendra Co ...
Seen: Ontario, Quebec and B.C. agree to easier online wine sales
Before Canada’s premiers wrapped up their annual get-together Friday, the country’s three-biggest wine-producing provinces agreed to promote their products online and at home. Ontario, Quebec and British Columbia say ...
Seen: Hudak seeks to free the spirits
Progressive Conservative MPP Tim Hudak wants Ontario to let his spirits go. Tim Hudak sips water at a media conference at Queen's Park on Thursday. The former PC leader and then-aspirant premier was at Queen's Park o ...
Seen: MTO’s ‘life hack’ ad
After scaring the crap out of everyone last month with a public service announcement about distracted driving, the Ministry of Transportation is now taking a more humourous route to getting people to stop using their p ...
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