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The Weekender: the home stretch
The Weekender: the home stretch
Everything you need to know in Ontario politics from this past week
The Weekender Trillium Insiders
Aidan Chamandy Aidan Chamandy
Legislation Tracker: Like Game 7, but for MPPs
Legislation Tracker: Like Game 7, but for MPPs
Next week is the final sitting week at Queen's Park before MPPs pause law-passing for the summer months
Legislation Tracker Trillium Insiders
Charlie Pinkerton Charlie Pinkerton
Landlord group lobbying for backlogged tribunal to skip the hearings in routine evictions
Landlord group lobbying for backlogged tribunal to skip the hearings in routine evictions
A weekly roundup of lobbying registrations in Ontario
Lobbyists Trillium Insiders
Jessica Smith Cross Jessica Smith Cross
Trillium Today: one more year
Trillium Today: one more year
Your Ontario politics agenda for Friday, June 2
Trillium Today Trillium Insiders
Jack Hauen Jack Hauen
‘Better not get sick’: How a small town copes when the emergency ward shuts down
‘Better not get sick’: How a small town copes when the emergency ward shuts down
Thessalon has become Exhibit A of the doctor shortage plaguing northern Ontario. When the emergency department locked its doors yet again this week, Village Media spent the day there
Health
Alex Flood Alex Flood
Clark dismisses NDP claim that Greenbelt documents ‘challenge’ timeline
Clark dismisses NDP claim that Greenbelt documents ‘challenge’ timeline
The opposition released freedom-of-information correspondence saying it ‘further challenges’ the Ford government’s timeline about the Greenbelt land swap, which it denies
Housing Trillium Insiders
Charlie Pinkerton and Aidan Chamandy
 Question Period Highlight: getting salty
Question Period Highlight: getting salty
Questions on a strike at a Windsor Salt plant had some members getting a little salty
Question Period Highlights Trillium Insiders
Aidan Chamandy Aidan Chamandy
Whistleblower, NDP decry 'sickening' profits for health-care staffing agency
Whistleblower, NDP decry 'sickening' profits for health-care staffing agency
A former insider alleges a staffing agency charges clients three to four times what its nurses and PSWs take home
Health Trillium Insiders
Jessica Smith Cross Jessica Smith Cross
'No records' of trade deals landed by six-figure Ford appointees
'No records' of trade deals landed by six-figure Ford appointees
Multiple deals are in the works, but getting them signed is a trial in logistics, sources say
Government Finance and the Economy
Jack Hauen Jack Hauen
Trillium Today: back pay payback
Trillium Today: back pay payback
Your Ontario politics agenda for Thursday, June 1
Trillium Today Trillium Insiders
Jack Hauen Jack Hauen
New provincial appointee with PC connections invokes NDP ire
New provincial appointee with PC connections invokes NDP ire
An appointment to Metrolinx's board is the latest appointment to raise opposition eyebrows
Municipalities, Transit and Infrastructure
Aidan Chamandy Aidan Chamandy
What would you do with 4.4-billion health-care dollars?
What would you do with 4.4-billion health-care dollars?
The government has more than adequately budgeted for its projected health-care needs, according to the Financial Accountability Office
Health Trillium Insiders
Jessica Smith Cross Jessica Smith Cross
Question Period Highlight: Pride cometh before the fall
Question Period Highlight: Pride cometh before the fall
It comes in the spring
Question Period Highlights Trillium Insiders
Jack Hauen Jack Hauen
Housing minister, auditor had 'quick conversation' for Greenbelt probe
Housing minister, auditor had 'quick conversation' for Greenbelt probe
Parallel investigations by two of Ontario's oversight authorities on the Ford government's Greenbelt changes are expected to be published in the next few months
Energy and the Environment
Charlie Pinkerton Charlie Pinkerton
Trillium Today: access denied
Trillium Today: access denied
Your Ontario politics agenda for Wednesday, May 31
Trillium Today Trillium Insiders
Jack Hauen Jack Hauen
Ford government backtracks on one of two controversies roiling the PC heartland
Ford government backtracks on one of two controversies roiling the PC heartland
The Ford government has backed off a plan that was roiling rural Ontario. Will it change course on another?
Politics
Jessica Smith Cross Jessica Smith Cross
As PC insiders bandy about a looming cabinet shuffle, Ford's office says one is 'not planned'
As PC insiders bandy about a looming cabinet shuffle, Ford's office says one is 'not planned'
With the exception of 2020, the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, Ford has changed his cabinet every June since being elected
Politics
Charlie Pinkerton Charlie Pinkerton
Bill to oust city councillors over workplace harassment defeated
Bill to oust city councillors over workplace harassment defeated
Liberal MPP Stephen Blais has introduced the same bill three times
Municipalities, Transit and Infrastructure Trillium Insiders
Aidan Chamandy Aidan Chamandy
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