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Trudeau's support of C-51 has some Liberals seeing orange
Queen’s Park reporter Jane Taber takes an inside look at the week in Ontario politics.
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Ontario has 1st confirmed case of Zika virus, ministry says
Ontario's first case of the Zika virus has been confirmed by the province's Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care. In a statement, the province's chief medical officer of health said Friday that Public Health Ontario received positive test results for the virus in an individual who had travelled to Colombia. The ministry did not confirm whether the person affected is a man or a woman, but did say that the patient is not pregnant.
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Documents reveal troubling details about long-term solitary confinement
Forty per cent of Ontario inmates who were locked away in solitary confinement for 30 or more straight days – twice the limit permitted under the United Nations’ Nelson Mandela Rules – suffered from mental-health issues or other special needs, an analysis of more than 600 inmate records from the last five months of 2014 found. The Globe and Mail obtained 1,100 pages of Ontario detainee records.
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Ontario considers highway signs promoting safe texting zones for drivers
Ontario is considering the idea of putting signs on highways to alert drivers about upcoming areas where they can safely pull over to text or check their emails. All three parties voted in favour on second reading of a private member's bill from Progressive Conservative Vic Fedeli to create so-called safe texting zones. Fedeli says signs on highways would inform drivers about 185 existing areas such as commuter parking lots, transit stations and rest stops...
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'Americans everywhere' as wind blows 1,500 U.S. partiers to Canada
An estimated 1,500 Americans illegally and unexpectedly washed up in Canada late Sunday after strong winds blew them across the St. Clair River near Sarnia, Ont.
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The other residential school runaways
Two boys escaping a [”]residential school[”] followed tragically in the footsteps of Chanie Wenjack. Their story was forgotten. Until now. By Michael Friscolanti.
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Ancient water from Northern Ontario mine may harbour ‘alien’ life
Researchers have found that the water has its own self-sustaining life-support system, with evidence it may be home to unidentified microbial life. By Ivan Semeniuk.
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Ontario court ruling says condo buildings can ban sharing services such as Airbnb
With some help from NASA satellites, the Global Positioning System could be key to getting a better understanding of hurricanes, and help improve forecasts for their strength when they make landfalls. The Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System (CYGNSS) mission will use radio signals from the GPS satellites to measure the wind speed near the ground in the tropics, between 35 degrees north and 35 degrees south where most hurricanes are born.
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Man shoots himself in chest with crossbow while hunting
A man accidentally shot himself in the chest with a crossbow while he was hunting with a group of people in the Marlborough Forest on Sunday night, according to Ottawa paramedics. It happened at about 6 p.m. Sunday in the woods near Dwyer Hill Road and Roger Stevens Drive, north of Merrickville, Ont., and south of Richmond, Ont. The 45-year-old man was trying to disarm the crossbow after a day of deer hunting when he accidentally shot himself, paramedics said.
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Poor Citizens to Receive $1,320 a Month in Canada's 'No Strings Attached' Basic Income Trial
Ontario is poised to become a testing ground for basic income in 2017 as part of a pilot program. Hugh Segal is the special advisor to the Canadian province and a former senator. He believes a supplemental income of $1,320 a month could provide a viable path to poverty abatement—effectively replacing welfare programs and a system he described as “seriously demeaning” in a paper discussing this basic income pilot project.
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Teens charged in death of Ingersoll man run over by construction equipment
Three teens are facing charges after police say a 21-year-old man was fatally run over with construction equipment in southwestern Ontario. No matter how bad a mood you were in, Riley Shannon could “turn it around,” one of his best friends said. “He was just kind of a goofy, quirky guy. It didn’t matter if anybody was watching or whatever, he didn’t care. He would just make stupid faces and stupid noises and do impersonations of anyone and anything...
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Ontario slaps 15% tax on foreign buyers, expands rent control in 16-point plan to cool housing
Measures introduced Thursday by the Ontario government to cool the hot housing market – including a 15 per cent foreign buyers’ tax – are not expected to hurt the mortgage books of the country’s big banks. But mortgage growth at the Big Six banks could be curbed, and analysts and other industry watchers also suggested unintended consequences could hit other consumer lending portfolios within the banks.
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Ontario launches basic income pilot for 4,000
Participants in the pilot, designed to test if a basic income is a better way to support people living in poverty than the current system, will be randomly chosen by mail in the test communities and begin as early as this summer.
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If you're younger than 25, your prescription drugs will soon be free in Ontario
All Ontario children and adults younger than 25 will have their full prescription drug costs covered by a new provincial pharmacare program, regardless of family income or whether they already have private insurance.
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LCBO recalls 1.14-litre bottles of Bombay Sapphire gin
The Liquor Control Board of Ontario is recalling 1.14-litre bottles of Bombay Sapphire London Dry Gin because the incorrect alcohol content is shown on the label. The LCBO says the affected product has been removed from all of its stores’ shelves. The Crown corporation says the recall was initiated after an investigation by its quality assurance team found the alcohol content was 77 per cent, instead of the 40 per cent declared on the label.
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E.coli at worst-ever levels in Lake Ontario: advocacy group
Recent water samples taken from Lake Ontario show the worst levels of contaminants and E.coli that one advocacy group has ever seen. “Our tests show that bacteria levels in the Toronto harbour are quite literally off the charts,” Krystyn Tully, of Lake Ontario Waterkeeper, said on Friday. “‘Too numerous to count’ is the technical result that we’re getting. Bacteria levels are at least 30 times higher than federal standards for the protection of boaters and at least 300 times higher than provincial standards for the protection of swimmers.”
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Ontario becomes 2nd province to go ahead with $15 an hour minimum wage
Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne has announced a plan to increase the provincial minimum wage to $15 an hour by Jan. 1, 2019. The increase would be phased in over the next 18 months, rising to $14 an hour on Jan. 1, 2018, and then to $15 the following January. After that, it will rise annually with inflation.
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Ontario becomes 2nd province to go ahead with $15 an hour minimum wage
Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne has announced a plan to increase the provincial minimum wage to $15 an hour by Jan. 1, 2019.
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Poor Ontario families getting poorer: new report
The poorest families in Ontario are earning less than they were in 2000, while during the same period richer families have watched their income grow, according to a new economic report. The analysis by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) describes an increasingly "polarized" Ontario labour market that is shifting away from stable manufacturing jobs to more precarious service sector work and rewarding higher-earning families while punishing poorer ones.
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I went undercover in a Toronto factory where a temp worker died. Here’s what I found
More Ontarians are using temp agencies to find work — and these workers are more likely to get hurt on the job. A Toronto Star undercover investigation. By Sara Mojtehedzadeh, Brendan Kennedy. (Sept. 8, 2017)
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