Category: Seen, Heard, Happening

Labour and environmental groups filled a canoe with letters and petitions about Grassy Narrows, and portaged it to Queen's Park. Jessica Smith Cross / QP Briefing A group of activists portaged a canoe to Queen's Park ...

The provincial government announced Thursday it had approved a regulatory change under the Insurance Act that allows commercial fleet insurance to be offered for vehicles that can be hired through an online application ...

Ontario's labour ministry is hoping to quell occupational injuries and fatalities by introducing two research and innovation projects. The Occupational Health and Safety Prevention and Innovation Program, for which $1 ...

The only official LGBTQ critic at Queen's Park, NDP MPP Cheri DiNovo, is expressing solidarity with Black Lives Matter, whose  protest stalled the weekend's Pride parade in Toronto. In a Facebook post on Wednesday, Di ...

Ontario NDP Leader Andrea Horwath called on the government to hold one of its planned meetings on racism in Hamilton. The Ontario Anti-Racism Directorate announced Monday by Minister Michael Coteau will be holding com ...

Macdonald Block is getting a long-overdue makeover. The 45-year-old complex — home to a dozen cabinet ministers, 15 ministries, and 3,600 public servants — is being retrofitted for the first time  in order to reduce o ...

Ontario's Minister Responsible for Anti-Racism, Michael Coteau, will be travelling around the province this summer and fall, speaking to Ontarians about racism. Coteau will host nine public community meetings about ho ...

Ontario’s first health-care patient ombudsman will officially set up shop on July 4. That’s the date Patient Ombudsman Christine Elliott, the former Progressive Conservative MPP, can start hearing complaints. Those co ...

Premier Kathleen Wynne weighed in on recent criticism that Mayor John Tory's signature SmartTrack plan has become little more than a branding exercise. When Tory fought his mayoral election campaign on SmartTrack, it  ...

Premier Kathleen Wynne’s cabinet has unsurprisingly approved a deal that would boost the Canada Pension Plan. The agreement in principle (AIP) to increase CPP benefit and contribution levels was signed on June 20 by f ...