Doug Ford calls on feds to stop approving safer supply programs in Ontario dlvr.it/T72YkT

Province issues ‘enhanced’ zoning order to speed up Ontario Place redevelopment dlvr.it/T72Ykz

Child-care advocates say new funding approach for sector must include wage grid dlvr.it/T72YQb

New: Ontario's Ministry of Indigenous Affairs has hired a private firm to deal with FOI applicants, including asking them to change their requests, which one expert said he'd never heard of before.

Ask me how I found out.

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'This case is a disaster': Advocates have been fielding calls from confused renters after the CRA went after a tenant for his foreign landlord's unpaid taxes.

The ONDP housing critic is calling on Ottawa to change the law.

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Tune in to watch me try to explain how journalists respond to media-coached politicians.

Why do so many politicians seem to endlessly repeat carefully crafted talking points? Steve Paikin asks @will_w_stewart (@EntCanada), Jessica Smith Cross (@Thetrilliumca), Erin Morrison (@Morrison Comms Inc.), and Jennifer Mossop - she/her tonight at 8/11pm | Producers: Steve Paikin & brit weaver #onpoli

New: Quinto Annibale, a lawyer who appears to have been heavily involved in writing bylaws that would rezone Caledon land, has worked for several of the landowners who stand to benefit.

A story about how things get done in Ontario.

No paywall. 🔓

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When you say the quiet part out loud:

“Put plain and simple, it's a lobbyist to work the backroom,” Coun. Byron Faretis said at Brighton's council meeting on Monday. “That's what we are getting. We are not acquiring them for their technical expertise.'

Ontario's position in physician compensation arbitration 'insulting' and 'inflammatory': doctors

The province and the OMA are in arbitration this week — and their positions are more than $2 billion apart for this year alone

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In Ontario housing news...

Okay with being nude? You can buy a Flamborough home for $119K flamboroughtoday.com/local-news/oka… via FlamboroughToday

NDP MPPs Kristyn Wong-Tam 🇨🇦 and Joel Harden wore keffiyehs in the legislature today and rose to leave as the Speaker began to warn Harden. MPP Jama wore as well, and was named.

The NDP is planning to use its opposition day next week on a keffiyeh motion.

BREAKING: Zee Hamid wins. Doug Ford’s PCs hold Milton in hard-fought byelection
And it's two for two: voters in Lambton-Kent-Middlesex elected Progressive Conservative Steve Pinsonneault
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Following TheTrillium.ca’s reporting, the Ontario NDP published this statement by Leader Marit Stiles, saying, “I hope the Information and Privacy Commissioner and the RCMP criminal investigation get to the bottom of this.”

Lots of small Ontario towns want to build more housing, but can't afford necessary water upgrades. In Casselman, 30 mins from Ottawa, the problem is extreme.

'It makes no logical sense to me that in Canada we’re fighting for clean water.'

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