The Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks (MECP) has launched a public consultation process to help inform the province’s transition from the existing Blue Box Program to one that shifts responsibility to producers in a system known as extended producer responsi...
The Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario (AGCO) has approved two new break open ticket types (BN31 and SP44) that includes unique expense maximums. The unique expense maximums are not available to existing ticket types. The tickets were developed by the charitable gami...
Minister of Health Christine Elliot has announced plans relating to the province’s “digital first” health-care transformation plan, which the government says will help end hallway health care by offering more choices. The five pillars of the Digital First for Health Strate...
Minister of Health Christine Elliott has announced that five of the six health agencies will move under Ontario Health, a new “super agency”, starting on December 2 nd . The five agencies transferring into Ontario Health are: Cancer Care, Health Quality, eHealth, Health Sh...
The Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing (MMAH) is proposing to introduce a Statement of Environmental Values (SEV) that will be established under the provincial Environmental Bill of Rights, 1993 (EBR). The EBR provides Ontario residents the right to participate in ce...
Sidewalk Labs has released a proposed plan, the Digital Innovation Appendix (DIA), detailing how the smart technology would be implemented and how data would be collected and used in the Quayside Toronto project. The plan is based on the core principles that were agreed up...
The Ontario government last week passed Bill 124, Protecting a Sustainable Public Sector for Future Generations Act, 2019 , which will cap public sector compensation increases at one percent annually for three years. The government reasons the Bill is necessary to reduce the...
Last week, the government released its Fall Economic Statement , which the government says maintains the commitment to balance the budget by 2023-24 whilst making investments into critical public services and strengthening conditions for job creation. The government has i...
The provincial government is launching a new Regional Development Program, which the government says will “take a coordinated approach to support business growth in eastern and southwestern Ontario”. The program will support eligible small and medium-sized businesses inves...
Ontario Minister of Finance Rod Phillips released the government’s 2019 Fall Economic Statement, Building Ontario Together. Minister Phillips outlined the government’s forecasted economic growth and sought to demonstrate how investments will be made to critical public service...