The Ontario government is releasing an ad promoting its soon-to-be-released Climate Change Action Plan that features David Suzuki. The ad is set to roll out this week. It shows Suzuki giving a talk on climate chang ...
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Heard: Trails, waste diversion bill, pass third reading
Two more pieces of legislation are off to the lieutenant governor for a signature. Bill 100, the Supporting Ontario’s Trails Act, passed third reading on a 91-3 vote, with only three PC MPPs – Jack MacLaren, Jim McDon ...
Seen: Jack MacLaren returns
Jack MacLaren is back. The Progressive Conservative MPP for Carleton-Mississippi Mills returned to Queen's Park on May 31 from weeks-long sensitivity training after he made a crude and sexist joke about federal Libera ...
Happening: Political finance bill off to committee for summer hearings
The Liberal government’s bill aiming to limit the influence of corporate and union money on elections will spend the summer before a legislative committee. A motion laying out a series of hearings for Bill 201 passed ...
Seen: Patrick Brown backs broader definition of marriage at federal Tory convention
Progressive Conservative Leader Patrick Brown, in Vancouver for a Tory convention, voted in favour of scrapping a federal party policy that supports “legislation defining marriage as the union of one man and one woman. ...
Heard: Ride-sharing insurance regulation coming ‘imminently’
Ride-sharing companies will soon be able to apply for blanket insurance coverage, Ontario's finance minister says. A call for feedback on a regulation that would allow insurance coverage for companies such as Uber an ...
Seen: CFIB Ontario wants legislative fix for workers’ compensation system
The group that represents Ontario small businesses is calling for a legislative fix to the workers' compensation system. In a report published Thursday - the first in a series - the Canadian Federation of Independent ...
Heard: Phone tag delayed apology to mom of autistic son
Update: Palaypayon and Delaney spoke on Tuesday afternoon, and Palaypayon accepted his apology, she said. Liberal MPP Bob Delaney circulated a public apology to Mississauga mom Melanie Palaypayon Tuesday afternoon ov ...
Happening: ‘A really good possibility’ Doug Ford will run for the PCs in 2018
Former Toronto councillor and mayoral candidate Doug Ford is fine with working behind the scenes for the Progressive Conservatives in the uncalled Scarborough-Rouge River byelection. But he’s also pretty sure he’ll be ...
Happening: Premier Wynne off to Alberta this week
Premier Kathleen Wynne is going west this week, where she'll likely have a climate change-centric chat with Alberta Premier Rachel Notley. Wynne told reporters about her travel plans on Tuesday in Toronto, following q ...