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Queen’s Park Bureau Chief, Global News Host, Focus Ontario President, Queen's Park Press Gallery Colin.DMello@GlobalNews.ca

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Colin D'Mello Global News @colindmello.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Ford says he will ‘double and triple check’ Ontario Place deal after new report | Globalnews.ca globalnews.ca/news/1113548...
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Colin D'Mello Global News @colindmello.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
More than 35 million trips were made using Ontario’s fare integration program during its first year, according to data from the provincial government. Globalnews.ca globalnews.ca/news/1113126... #onpoli
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Colin D'Mello Global News @colindmello.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
NEW: Education minister ‘concerned’ by vaccination rates amidst Ontario measles outbreak globalnews.ca/news/1113042... #ONPOLI
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Colin D'Mello Global News @colindmello.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
This week: Ontario plans to create ‘economic priority areas’ as part of anti-tariff strategy. But it's a bill that could raise concerns about end-runs around the environment. globalnews.ca/news/1112566... #onpoli
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Ontario plans to create ‘economic priority areas’ as part of anti-tariff strategy | Globalnews.ca
The bill is expected to allow the province to designate 'regions/zones of economic and security interest,' to allow the government to speed up the permitting process.
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Colin D'Mello Global News @colindmello.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Premier Doug Ford says a major auto assembly plant in western Ontario must quickly reopen after it announced a two-week shutdown in the face of U.S. President Donald Trump’s latest tariffs. globalnews.ca/news/1111396...
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Colin D'Mello Global News @colindmello.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Weeks after saying his caucus would be too busy to get involved with the federal election, Ontario Premier Doug Ford says he gave Caroline Mulroney his blessing to endorse Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre. globalnews.ca/news/1111440...
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Colin D'Mello Global News @colindmello.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
NEW: During a speech to the Toronto Region Board of Trade Metrolinx CEO Michael Lindsey says the agency is showing “humility” as it moves away from P3 contracts in order to avoid painful transit construction delays similar to the Eglinton LRT. globalnews.ca/news/1110531... #ONpoli
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‘Open heart surgery’: Metrolinx interim CEO warns of upcoming subway construction disruption | Globalnews.ca
In his speech to the Board of Trade, Metrolinx CEO Michael Lindsay said while progress might seem "incremental," transit projects are moving forward.
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Colin D'Mello Global News @colindmello.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
NEW: The interim-CEO of Metrolinx believes greater communication about ongoing construction projects, coupled with “around the clock” work will help residents tolerate the “open heart surgery” being performed on Toronto streets. globalnews.ca/news/11105310/… #onpoli
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‘Open heart surgery’: Metrolinx interim CEO warns of upcoming subway construction disruption | Globalnews.ca
In his speech to the Board of Trade, Metrolinx CEO Michael Lindsay said while progress might seem "incremental," transit projects are moving forward.
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Colin D'Mello Global News @colindmello.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Ontario’s newest associate housing minister is facing questions about his commitment to building new homes after appearing to promise during the recent election to block the idea of allowing towering developments in his riding. globalnews.ca/news/1109746... #onpoli
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Colin D'Mello Global News @colindmello.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
NEW: After a 290% increase in measles cases in Ontario this week, questions are growing about why the Chief Medical Officer of Health isn't holding regular updates. Dr. Kieran Moore has also rebuffed several media requests for interviews. globalnews.ca/news/1109140... #onpoli
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Calls grow for Ontario to do more to tackle growing measles outbreak | Globalnews.ca
On Thursday, Public Health Ontario reported a total of 470 measles cases, up from 120 cases the week before. Thirty-four people were in hospital and two in intensive care.
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Colin D'Mello Global News @colindmello.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Ontario business and education leaders are calling on the Ford government to increase funding to colleges and universities as a strategy to defend the province from the looming threat of U.S. tariffs. globalnews.ca/news/1109076... #onpoli
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Colin D'Mello Global News @colindmello.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
NEW: Allowing people to smoke drugs at supervised consumption sites was once on a shortlist of internal recommendations to overhaul the system before Ontario decided to shutter some locations and ban new ones altogether. From @isaaccallan.bsky.social globalnews.ca/news/1108918... #onpoli
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Colin D'Mello Global News @colindmello.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
As Ontario Premier Doug Ford prepares to unveil his third-term cabinet, Progressive Conservative strategists are expecting a status quo government with the majority of front-bench ministers returning to their posts. globalnews.ca/news/1108657... #onpoli
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Colin D'Mello Global News @colindmello.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Canada as 51st state a ‘compliment,’ Ford says but country is ‘not for sale’ globalnews.ca/news/1108696...
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Colin D'Mello Global News @colindmello.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Premier Doug Ford today called President Trump's threats to make Canada the 51st state "a compliment." #onpoli
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Colin D'Mello Global News @colindmello.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
NEW: The Ford government still plans to make the gas tax cut permanent despite PM Carney’s carbon tax change. The Premier’s Office was evasive about Ontario’s industrial carbon tax which has raised $400M so far. globalnews.ca/news/1108565... #onpoli
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Colin D'Mello Global News @colindmello.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
A group of Toronto cyclists hoping to put a roadblock in the way of Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s bike lane plans have lost their bid to delay them globalnews.ca/news/1108218... #onpoli
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Toronto cyclists lose bid to force Ford government to pause bike lane removals | Globalnews.ca
A group of Toronto cyclists hoping to put a road block in the way of Doug Ford’s bike lane plans have lost their bid to delay them.
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Colin D'Mello Global News @colindmello.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Ontario’s mental health and addictions minister says the government isn’t in a place to consider involuntary treatment for people in crisis because the current system is already under too much stress. globalnews.ca/news/1108272... #onpoli
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Ontario system ‘not ready’ to introduce involuntary addictions treatment | Globalnews.ca
Ontario's mental health and addictions minister says the government isn't in a place to consider involuntary treatment because the current system is already under too much stress.
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Colin D'Mello Global News @colindmello.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
NEW: As Premier Doug Ford prepares to trigger a provincial election opposition parties are raising concerns about two planned trips to Washington during the campaign calling them “explicitly partisan” and an inappropriate use of taxpayer funds. globalnews.ca/news/1097835... #onpoli
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Liberals claim Ford’s plan to visit Washington during election is ‘explicitly partisan’ | Globalnews.ca
When the Ontario legislature is dissolved, the government enters caretaker mode - a convention that prevents a political party from using taxpayer resources to campaign.
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Colin D'Mello Global News @colindmello.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
NEW: Ontario’s Liberals have written a letter to the provinces chief electoral officer asking them to consider Premier Doug Ford’s upcoming trips to Washington as election related events, subject to election spending limits. globalnews.ca/news/1097835... #onpoli
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Liberals claim Ford’s plan to visit Washington during election is ‘explicitly partisan’ | Globalnews.ca
When the Ontario legislature is dissolved, the government enters caretaker mode - a convention that prevents a political party from using taxpayer resources to campaign.
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Colin D'Mello Global News @colindmello.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Does Premier Doug Ford’s ‘Ontario needs a loud voice’ pitch hold up to scrutiny? One government cabinet minister said the province had no issues meeting with American lawmakers during a trip to Washington. globalnews.ca/news/10972614/… #onpoli
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Ontario snap election? Ford says ‘stay tuned’ as government announcements sped up | Globalnews.ca
Asked by reporters on Wednesday if Ontarians should expect to see an election campaign begin next week, Ford answered, 'Stay tuned.'
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Colin D'Mello Global News @colindmello.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
NEW: The call logs of Premier Doug Ford‘s private cellphone are one step closer to being released to the public after the province lost a major transparency battle over the government business conducted on the premier’s personal device globalnews.ca/news/10952931/… #onpoli
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Doug Ford loses transparency fight to block release of personal cell phone records | Globalnews.ca
The IPC determined Ford had used his personal phone for government work and, as a result, said his phone records constitute public documents that could be published.
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Colin D'Mello Global News @colindmello.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
NEW: Canada's Premiers are set to hold a virtual meeting on Wednesday in the wake of PMJT's resignation announcement yesterday. The meeting, scheduled for 3:30pm, will only be attended by the premiers -- despite calls for a meeting with Trudeau. #onpoli
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Colin D'Mello Global News @colindmello.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
NEW: Energy Minister Stephen Lecce launches a new 'home renovations savings program': - $10.9B / 12 years - 30% rebates on energy-efficient renovations #onpoli
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Colin D'Mello Global News @colindmello.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Ontario Premier Doug Ford repeatedly refused to rule out an early election and stuck doggedly to his talking points during a brief appearance on Monday as the resignation of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau threatened to uproot political plans in the province. globalnews.ca/news/1094536... #ONPOLI
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Doug Ford evades early election questions amid ‘uncertainty’ of Trudeau resignation | Globalnews.ca
Ford was asked repeatedly if the threat of tariffs from President-elect Donald Trump and Justin Trudeau's resignation would push him to rule out an early election in 2025.
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Colin D'Mello Global News @colindmello.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
NEW: Ontario's Financial Accountability Officer estimates Ontario will need $31.4 billion / 10 years on school infrastructure: $21.7 billion / 10 yrs: to repair and maintain Ontario's schools $9.8 billion over 10 years to increase capacity (equivalent of 227 schools) #onpoli
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Colin D'Mello Global News @colindmello.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
NEW: The Ontario Liberals unveil their housing policy offering a targeted elimination of the provincial land transfer tax and development charges. On DCs: Bonnie Crombie is promising a provincial fund to replace lost revenue. #onpoli
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Colin D'Mello Global News @colindmello.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
NEW: Cycle Toronto is launching a legal challenge over Bill 212 and is looking for a court injunction to prevent the removal of separated bike lanes on Bloor, Yonge and University. The group says secondary routes "do not exist." #onpoli ecojustice.ca/wp-content/u...
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Colin D'Mello Global News @colindmello.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
If you've noticed a sharp rise in commercials promoting the Ontario government's success, the Auditor General has taken note as well. The Ford gov't has spent $103M on the ads, higher than any other gov't. #onpoli
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Colin D'Mello Global News @colindmello.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
NEW: The provincial cost of redeveloping Ontario Place has now grown to $2.2B: $700M: Science Centre $500M: public realm $280M: parking $346M: increase in site servicing cost Phase 2 not yet costed. globalnews.ca/news/1089883... #onpoli
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Bombshell AG report says Ontario Place redevelopment ‘not fair, transparent or accountable’ | Globalnews.ca
Ontario's auditor general is set to release her annual report, with sections on Ontario Place and on the province's opioid strategy likely to garner a lot of attention.
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Colin D'Mello Global News @colindmello.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
NEW: The cost of relocating the Science centre to Ontario Place increased by $400 million, the AG has found, throwing cold water on the government’s assertion that moving the tourist attraction would be cheaper than renovating it. globalnews.ca/news/1089904... #onpoli
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Cost of moving Ontario Science Centre skyrockets before construction even starts: AG | Globalnews.ca
Savings the government boasted about moving the Ontario Science Centre from its current location have already been wiped out before construction even begins, a new report said.
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Colin D'Mello Global News @colindmello.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
NEW: Ontario's Auditor General find the province's MZO process lacked structure and an ability to measure if it was working. The AG found examples that “give the appearance of preferential treatment.” globalnews.ca/news/1089900... #onpoli
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Worries of ‘preferential treatment’ in Ontario zoning orders, AG report says | Globalnews.ca
A scathing auditor general report looking at special zoning orders in Ontario raises concerns about the perception of 'preferential treatment' and expert advice going ignored.
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Colin D'Mello Global News @colindmello.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
BREAKING: High-ranking political staff were intimately involved in the initial process to re-develop Ontario Place, the province's auditor general has found, leading to a process that was ultimately "not fair, transparent or accountable." globalnews.ca/news/1089883... #onpoli
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Bombshell AG report says Ontario Place redevelopment ‘not fair, transparent or accountable’ | Globalnews.ca
Ontario's auditor general is set to release her annual report, with sections on Ontario Place and on the province's opioid strategy likely to garner a lot of attention.
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Colin D'Mello Global News @colindmello.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
This polling dashboard from Mainstreet Research is projecting a 0% chance for either the NDP or Liberals to form a majority or minority government according to the current polling numbers. #onpoli
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Colin D'Mello Global News @colindmello.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
NEW: As word of his imminent departure spreads, Global News has learned that Metrolinx CEO Phil Verster has been receiving a $12k/year car allowance -- but doesn't own a vehicle. globalnews.ca/news/1089752... #onpoli
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Metrolinx CEO receives yearly vehicle allowance sources say he doesn’t use | Globalnews.ca
Phil Verster has consistently received a taxable benefit of between $12,575 to $13,392 on top of his taxpayer-funded salary of $838,097 as of 2023.
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Colin D'Mello Global News @colindmello.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
NEW: Ontario's Liberals are promising every Ontarians will have a family doctor in 4 years which, Bonnie Crombie says, will require a "wartime effort." This is opposed to the Ford government's pledge of 100% access to a postal-code based family health team within 5 years. #onpoli
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Colin D'Mello Global News @colindmello.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
NEW: Months worth of government records are now considered “missing” after Premier Doug Ford’s Chief of Staff traded in a personal cell phone which was then “reset.” The private phone was being used for government business. globalnews.ca/news/10894747/… #onpoli
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Doug Ford’s chief of staff ‘missing’ months of government texts after phone was ‘reset’ | Globalnews.ca
The Ford government has been engaged in a months-long freedom of information appeal with Global News over text conversations on Patrick Sackville's phone.
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Colin D'Mello Global News @colindmello.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
NEW: Ontario's Liberals are releasing what they are calling "hidden" healthcare data on access to primary care: - 3 million people are at risk of losing their family doctor in the next 5 years, with 2,300 family doctors on the verge of retirement. #onpoli
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Colin D'Mello Global News @colindmello.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
NEW: Ontario has quietly extended a five-year pilot allowing electric scooters to be operated in some towns and cities until the end of the decade -- a move critics say avoids public scrutiny. globalnews.ca/news/1088449... #onpoli
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Ontario’s 10-year e-scooter pilot a ‘slap in the face,’ disability advocacy group says | Globalnews.ca
At the beginning of 2020, the Ford government introduced a micro-mobility pilot, allowing municipalities that opted in to create rules allowing electric scooters.
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Colin D'Mello Global News @colindmello.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
The Ford government is planning to push for another one of its controversial bills to fly through the legislative process, with the house leader now planning for the supervised drug consumption site ban to skip committee hearings altogether. globalnews.ca/news/1088915... #onpoli
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Ford government plans to fast-track supervised consumption site ban through legislature | Globalnews.ca
The government also pushed through its law to frustrate new bike lanes, new energy legislation and the fall economic statement with shortened debate and public hearings.
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Colin D'Mello Global News @colindmello.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
NEW: More than two months after Premier Doug Ford promised to build a 50-kilometre tunnel below the congested 401, the province has barely started the work required to get the project off the ground. globalnews.ca/news/1089001... #onpoli
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Ford government makes limited progress on Hwy. 401 tunnel study  | Globalnews.ca
Ford announced his tunnel vision in September and said work to study it would urgently take place, but little progress has been made since then.
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Colin D'Mello Global News @colindmello.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Premier Doug Ford is set to hold a brief scrum at Queen’s Park this morning amid the ongoing fallout from President elect Donald Trump’s threat of a 25% tariff on Canadian and Mexican imports to the US in 2025. #onpoli
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Colin D'Mello Global News @colindmello.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
NEW: Long before Premier Ford announced plans for a tunnel under the 401, a Canadian construction firm was privately pitching the same idea - and even submitted its plans to the province. Here’s what we’ve learned. globalnews.ca/news/10887503/… #onpoli
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How a Hwy. 401 tunnel went from private proposal to government policy | Globalnews.ca
Global News has learned that, in 2019, the construction firm Aecon submitted an unsolicited proposal to Ontario's Ministry of Infrastructure pitching a tunnel under Highway 401.
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Colin D'Mello Global News @colindmello.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
NEW: Premier Doug Ford's bike lane removal law has now been passed by the Ontario legislature. The government has been preparing to remove three lanes: University Ave. Bloor St. and Yonge St. #onpoli
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Colin D'Mello Global News @colindmello.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Premier Doug Ford, asked about intimate partner violence, says the province is "100% behind making sure there's zero violence against women." The premier talks about a zero tolerance approach, but doesn't answer why his government hasn't taken legislative action. #onpoli
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Colin D'Mello Global News @colindmello.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Premier Doug Ford on Bill 212, the transportation bill that impacts all municipalities. Premier Doug Ford says he's "really focused on the congestion in Toronto" Ford now says Mayor Olivia Chow believes the Bloor St. W bike lanes "should not be there." #onpoli
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Colin D'Mello Global News @colindmello.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Premier Doug Ford announces a new mental health unit at Joseph Brant Hospital in Burlington. Timelines haven't been laid out, but the ministry is working with the hospital on early planning and design. #onpoli
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Colin D'Mello Global News @colindmello.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
On the UN Int'l Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, the Ontario NDP are restating its call for intimate partner violence to be declared an epidemic in Ontario. Hearing on Bill 172 were held At Queen's Park in August. #onpoli
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Colin D'Mello Global News @colindmello.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
After a bruising week for the Ford government and its fundraising targets, a democracy advocate is calling for donation limits to be dramatically lowered to avoid future conflicts. globalnews.ca/news/1088468... #onpoli
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Ford government urged to cap donations at $100 after fundraising controversy | Globalnews.ca
The Progressive Conservative Party's fundraiser emailed all cabinet ministers, telling them to hold a certain number of fundraising events before the end of the year.
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Colin D'Mello Global News @colindmello.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Ontario failed to meet its own legislated target this past year for the average number of hands-on hours of care that long-term care residents receive, a newly updated document shows. Via @CanadianPress globalnews.ca/news/1088651... #onpoli
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Ontario missed interim target for providing hands-on care to long-term care residents | Globalnews.ca
Ontario failed to meet its own target this past year for the average number of hands-on hours of care that long-term care residents receive, a newly updated document shows.
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