Ontario's new funding model for school boards fails to address major concerns: unions, critics
Teacher unions and school boards say there's not much new in the updated funding model, and that the government failed to address their main demands.
No matter the outcome of next week's byelections, "figuring out how to be both 'different' from Doug Ford and 'the same' is going to test all of Bonnie Crombie’s leadership skills."
Honda CEO Toshihiro Mibe told QP Briefing on Thursday that the company would have to boost the number of foreign workers from Japan “momentarily" as it expands its Alliston facility.
The province’s plan is to have the minister of labour to table legislation to amend Ontario’s labour laws so employers would be prohibited from asking for a sick note for the three days of sick leave the majority of workers have in Ontario.
Ontario to increase speed limit on some highways
“He should have come out originally and said that ‘Yes, I'm going to allow my caucus to vote as they see fit on this,’” said one PC source.
Canada’s Building Trades Union recently penned a letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau expressing frustration with Nextstar’s insistence on using temporary foreign workers through its various subcontractors, saying 50 foreign workers were set to arrive in Windsor in April to perform work previously promised to Canadians.
As the government is about to turn down billions of dollars in federal funding for infrastructure for missing housing targets for affordable housing, they highlighted the work they have been doing with municipalities to fund improvements, while leaders of the opposition parties also spoke up about what still needs to be done.
Last Friday, Premier Ford said in a press conference that he personally thinks that the government “shouldn’t get involved in that.”
First Nations want Thunder Bay police disbanded
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Why should lawmakers and lobbyists continue to spend their energy on misguided ag gag laws that attempt to shield the food industry from scrutiny? Wouldn’t the public be better served by laws that ensure both transparency and oversight of farming?
In a release, CUPE said that they also received health and dental benefits, besides enhancements to weekend, evening, and night premiums, and compensation for periods of quarantine or isolation due to outbreaks of communicable illnesses.