During an emergency sitting in the legislature today, the Ontario Legislature extended the Declaration of Emergency under the Emergency Management and Civil Protection Act for a further 28 days, until May 12. The Legislature also passed Bill 189, Coronavirus...
With the entire world confronting the growing and far-reaching impact of COVID-19, today Ontario’s government laid out its much-anticipated economic and fiscal update. Consistent with its responses to date, the action plan announced today injects highly-targeted...
The pundits said Doug Ford would never be Premier, Donald Trump couldn’t win the Republican nomination let alone the White House, Justin Trudeau would not survive SNC, and Joe Biden was finished. They also declared the Ontario Liberal Party dead. Reduced to a caucus...
Last Week’s Highlights Following a campaign re-launch that failed to achieve lift-off, and virtually no positive movement in the polls, Kathleen Wynne made the unprecedented move of conceding that there was no foreseeable way for her party to win the election....
April 17, 2018 – In the coming weeks, Counsel will be analyzing the toughest battlegrounds in Election 2018. These are the ridings we’ll be watching during the campaign and on election night to tell us how the political map will be redrawn. To kick things off,...