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Tories mount 'Team Ontario' approach to get federal housing cash
Tories mount 'Team Ontario' approach to get federal housing cash
Ontario is trying to force Ottawa's hand by teaming up with its municipalities
Housing Trillium Insiders
Jack Hauen Jack Hauen
'No one wants to send their kids there': parents, board, MPP plead for new school to replace existing schools 'on a highway'
'No one wants to send their kids there': parents, board, MPP plead for new school to replace existing schools 'on a highway'
The government won't say whether it's approving a new school in Newcastle, which community members hope would replace Clarke High School and The Pines Senior Public School that are situated along Highway 115/35
Education and Training Trillium Insiders
Sneh Duggal Sneh Duggal
Keffiyehs remain banned at Ontario legislature
Keffiyehs remain banned at Ontario legislature
A PC MPP shot down a motion to lift the ban on the traditional Arabic scarf that's come to signify support for the Palestinian cause
Politics Trillium Insiders
Jessica Smith Cross Jessica Smith Cross
No changes to university anti-hate legislation despite Ford’s contradictory comments
No changes to university anti-hate legislation despite Ford’s contradictory comments
Ford said government ‘shouldn’t get involved’ in campus anti-hate policies, belying his own bill
Education and Training Trillium Insiders
Aidan Chamandy Aidan Chamandy
Trillium Today: no politics here
Trillium Today: no politics here
Your Ontario politics agenda for Thursday, April 18
Trillium Today Trillium Insiders
Jack Hauen Jack Hauen
Ontario Progressive Conservative fundraising craters without leader's dinner
Ontario Progressive Conservative fundraising craters without leader's dinner
Without the annual leader's dinner, the governing party's Q1 results came in more than $3M short of last year
Politics Trillium Insiders
Jessica Smith Cross Jessica Smith Cross
Possible closure of public health labs 'short-sighted and dangerous': opposition parties, unions
Possible closure of public health labs 'short-sighted and dangerous': opposition parties, unions
There is also concern about a years-old proposal to phase out testing of private drinking water systems, such as wells
Health
Sneh Duggal Sneh Duggal
Trillium Today: It's all gravy, baby
Trillium Today: It's all gravy, baby
Your Ontario politics agenda for Wednesday, April 17
Trillium Today Trillium Insiders
Jack Hauen Jack Hauen
NDP raises Khanjin staff's encampment referral in Question Period
NDP raises Khanjin staff's encampment referral in Question Period
Barrie-Innisfil MPP, who also serves as Ontario’s minister of the environment, conservation and parks, says she was unaware staff made the referrals and that her office is 'looking into it'
Politics
Chris Simon Chris Simon
Housing aside, feds’ budget ignores ‘priorities’ of Ontario’s PC government
Housing aside, feds’ budget ignores ‘priorities’ of Ontario’s PC government
Justin Trudeau’s federal Liberals want to solve some of the same issues as Doug Ford’s provincial PCs — but in very different ways
Government Finance and the Economy
Charlie Pinkerton Charlie Pinkerton
Ontario's largest hydro stations getting $1 billion refurbishment
Ontario's largest hydro stations getting $1 billion refurbishment
The project is expected to take about 15 years
Energy and the Environment Trillium Insiders
Aidan Chamandy Aidan Chamandy
Federal government to take 'action' on private-pay nurse practitioners
Federal government to take 'action' on private-pay nurse practitioners
Ontario's health minister wrote to her federal counterpart to ask him to close the 'loophole' that allows nurse practitioners to charge patients for medically necessary care
Health Trillium Insiders
Jessica Smith Cross Jessica Smith Cross
'Hard sell': Ontario patients say they were misled, extra-billed at private clinics
'Hard sell': Ontario patients say they were misled, extra-billed at private clinics
Patients felt the education they received from private clinics felt 'more akin to a sales pitch'
Health Trillium Insiders
Jack Hauen Jack Hauen
Trillium Today: money can be exchanged for goods and services
Trillium Today: money can be exchanged for goods and services
Your Ontario politics agenda for Tuesday, April 16
Trillium Today Trillium Insiders
Jack Hauen Jack Hauen
Premier to ‘make a decision’ on Milton quarry after EA
Premier to ‘make a decision’ on Milton quarry after EA
The quarry is a key issue for some voters in the Milton provincial byelection
Politics
Bambang Sadewo Bambang Sadewo
Here’s the Ontario PC government's federal budget wish list
Here’s the Ontario PC government's federal budget wish list
Tuesday's federal budget day could signal just how aligned the Trudeau and Ford governments are — or aren't — in tackling shared priorities like affordability and building new homes and infrastructure
Government Finance and the Economy Trillium Insiders
Charlie Pinkerton and Aidan Chamandy
 As private-pay crackdown looms, 'executive health' clinics charge freely
As private-pay crackdown looms, 'executive health' clinics charge freely
Clinics operate by paywalling primary care physicians behind 'block fees' for non-OHIP-covered services
Health
Jack Hauen Jack Hauen
Trillium Today: from on high
Trillium Today: from on high
Your Ontario politics agenda for Monday, April 15
Trillium Today Trillium Insiders
Jack Hauen Jack Hauen
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