Two more Ontario cabinet ministers resign, hint at Liberal leadership bid
Two more Ontario cabinet ministers have stepped down as the race for the Liberal leadership heats up. Dr. Eric Hoskins, who represents the Toronto riding of St. Paul’s, has resigned as minister of...
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Veteran MP and MPP Gerard Kennedy takes another shot at Ontario Liberal...
HandoutGerard Kennedy previously challenged Dalton McGuinty for Ontario's Liberal leadership in 1996, losing by just 140 votes. TORONTO — Saying he has no ties to the scandals that have rocked...
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Scott Stinson: Liberal hopefuls vie to become Premier of Toronto, er, Ontario
The candidates to become the next Premier of Ontario have taken their cue from the departing one and spoken about the prospects of Liberal renewal at every step. Eric Hoskins, the Toronto MPP who will...
View ArticleDeadline day: Seven Liberal candidates vying to become the next premier of...
It’s the final day for would-be leaders of the Ontario Liberal party to decide whether or not to enter the race to replace Dalton McGuinty. There are seven contenders in the contest to become the next...
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Scott Stinson: Ontario Liberal leadership race impossible to call as...
Delegated conventions are supposed to provide the opportunity for strategy, where candidates can form alliances and overtake stronger rivals — like a giant game of Risk, except Ontario hangs in the...
View ArticleOntario craft brewers get $2.4M extension in funding from Queen’s Park, but...
Ontario’s burgeoning craft beer industry has just been given another boost by the provincial government. At a press conference on Thursday afternoon at Toronto’s Steam Whistle Brewery, Eric Hoskins,...
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Prominent Ontario minister in Wynne’s government considering joining federal...
Justin Trudeau has dropped a big hint that a prominent minister in Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne’s government could be looking at joining the federal Liberals, setting up a potentially awkward...
View ArticleWynne breaking apart Ontario's massive finance portfolio in revamped Liberal...
TORONTO — Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne and her revamped cabinet are being sworn in as they prepare to implement their agenda with a strengthened majority government. Wynne is breaking apart the...
View ArticleScott Stinson: Attack on Harper government's refugee health-care cuts an easy...
One of the problems of the ongoing bunfight between the Ontario and federal governments over transfer payments is that, from the perspective of the province, it doesn’t fit into an existing narrative....
View ArticleRobyn Urback: Ontario government grandstands on Gaza, offers vague ‘support’...
The Middle East might be going to hell, but things in Ontario are business as usual. On Tuesday, Minister of Health and Long-Term Care Eric Hoskins released a statement announcing that Ontario would be...
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Patient at Brampton, Ont., hospital tests negative for deadly Ebola virus...
A patient who was placed in the Isolation unit of a Toronto-area hospital has tested negative for the often deadly Ebola virus. Ontario Health Minister Eric Hoskins broke the news in a statement he...
View ArticleJim Maclean: Silence from the province on the ramifications of 'traditional'...
Many commentators, columnists and legal experts have already weighed in on the controversial Nov. 14 ruling by Ontario Justice Gethin Edward, which said that the parents of a cancer-stricken aboriginal...
View ArticleRobyn Urback: Don’t want to vaccinate your kids? Fine. Find another school
On Monday, the measles outbreak officially came to Toronto. Public health officials announced that four people — two children and two adults — all of whom were unrelated, had tested positive. Three of...
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Canadians prepare for arrival of thousands of Syrian refugees in coming weeks
TORONTO — Canadians are preparing to welcome thousands of Syrian refugees set to arrive in the coming weeks even as the exact dates of the government-arranged flights remain a mystery. Temporary...
View ArticleOntario hospitals will have to offer discount parking passes, health minister...
TORONTO — Ontario hospitals that charge more than $10 a day for parking will have to offer passes that discount rates by 50 per cent. Health Minister Eric Hoskins says hospitals will have to offer 5-,...
View ArticleDavid Reevely: The ugly economics of hospital parking fees
Cutting hospital parking fees looks so much simpler than it is. Ontario Health Minister Eric Hoskins announced Monday morning that the province is ordering hospitals it funds to freeze fees they...
View ArticleOntario health minister slams ‘out of control billing’ by some doctors
TORONTO — Health Minister Eric Hoskins complained Wednesday about the billing practices of some Ontario doctors, who he said were taking hundreds of millions of dollars away from home care and other...
View ArticleOntario Liberals backtrack on changes that would increase drug costs for seniors
TORONTO — Ontario’s Liberal government is backtracking on changes announced in its recent budget that would have increased drug costs for most seniors. The government proposed in the budget to raise...
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Attawapiskat youth ready to fight for survival after suicide attempts: ‘We...
ATTAWAPISKAT , ONT. — Robert Sutherland was heading to bed last Saturday night when there was an urgent knock on his door. “We need you at the hospital for security,” the 27-year-old man was told....
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Kelly McParland: Ontario’s curious war with its doctors
The government of Ontario is engaged in a very curious war with the province’s doctors. The doctors have been without a contract for two years, and have twice had their fees cut unilaterally in that...
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