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Nearly 17,000 hospitalizations for newborns related to opioid crisis, feds find in first-ever report
Updated national data and modelling shared by the Public Health Agency of Canada yesterday showed the number of deaths and hospitalizations related to the opioid crisis could claim up to 2,000 lives every three months up to June 2022.
Read More‘Not a success story’: PHAC stepped up monitoring of quarantining travellers but not well enough, says AG
Auditor general Karen Hogan detailed the Public Health Agency of Canada’s lagging efforts to verify travellers complied with two-week mandatory quarantine orders in a new report last week.
Read MorePrivatization, ‘disconnect’ and help from the Hill: the PC’s poverty strategy one year in
One year after the Ontario PCs launched their five-year poverty reduction strategy, ODSP and OW clients fear it's leaving vulnerable Ontarians behind.
Read MoreUnion gives zero-star rating to committee’s gig worker designation advice
The union representing workers in the gig economy roundly rejected a list of recommendations from the PC’s Workforce Recovery Advisory Committee on how to protect those workers on Thursday.
Read MoreDrama surrounds NDP nomination in Scarborough Centre
The president of the NDP’s Scarborough Centre riding association has quit in protest over the party’s handling of the local nomination contest, which they say was manipulated to ensure Neethan Shan emerged victorious.
Read MoreFOI filings now 10 bucks a pop
The NDP government wasted no time in implementing filing fees for Freedom of Information requests, as enabled by the revamped Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Amendment Act.
Read MoreBackbenchers, Opposition push to address EMS shortage
Advocates and MLAs are sounding the alarm over an ambulance crisis in the province, but the Alberta Ombudsman says it is prohibited from investigating health authorities like Alberta Health Services.
Read MoreRomano on the defence over allegations he wasn’t living in the Sault
Heading into an election year, Government and Consumer Services Minister Ross Romano has his back up over locals’ impression that he and his family did not live in his home riding of Sault Ste. Marie for the better part of two years.
Read MorePremier pleads for unity, touts economic record at UCP AGM
Premier Jason Kenney delivered a message of economic hope to party members at the first in-person UCP AGM since 2019.
Read MoreIndigenous art unveiled inside Queen’s Park chamber
For the first time, there is a piece of Indigenous artwork inside the chamber of the Ontario legislature.
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