NDP Leader Marit Stiles references this piece on exec health clinics in question period.

'When will this government address for-profit clinics that are taking advantage of worried and anxious patients in this province?'

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ICYMI: Doug Ford has quietly asked municipalities to begin expropriating land (including operational farmland) to assemble new industrial zones, even before firms express interest in setting up shop in a region. (Via Alan S. Hale)

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Federal government to take 'action' on private-pay nurse practitioners

Ontario's health minister wrote to her federal counterpart to ask him to close the 'loophole' that allows nurse practitioners to charge patients for medically necessary care 🔒
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BREAKING: Police, fire and EMS called to government offices across from Queen's Park. An officer with the explosives disposal unit says they found what was a joke: a packet of gravy #onpoli

After yesterday's big housing announcement, which included a new framework for minister's zoning orders, the Ford government quietly revoked six of them that had been under watch.
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Ford government says it will support NDP bill to declare intimate partner violence an epidemic dlvr.it/T5LDB9

'We need a path back to a balanced budget and sustainable provincial finances — but that is not the path the province or the country is on.' —Brian Lewis (Munk School) #onpoli tvo.org/article/whats-…

Our Aidan Chamandy has the scoop on the Ford government's housing bill to be tabled later today. Internal government docs show plans to reverse the controversial development charges change, give universities planning power, and more.

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Former in-house lawyer for the Thunder Bay Police Service criminally charged theglobeandmail.com/canada/article…

Bonnie Crombie says she would 'vastly increase' the province's autism program dlvr.it/T5Hm4T

PCs pledge to end nurse practitioner 'loophole.' What about other private-pay clinics? dlvr.it/T5Hm6Z

Here's Bonnie Lysyk's latest on the lack of targets — and, therefore, a lack of accountability — in Ontario's health human resources planning.

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Will Ontario ever have enough health-care workers? Does anyone know? dlvr.it/T5HjNc

Ontario's attorney general’s two current appointees to a provincial foundation that manages funding for legal aid programs for low-income people include one of his relatives and a lawyer who has worked for Premier Doug Ford.🔒

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Frequently closed rural Ontario emergency department faces uncertain future
Patient volumes have dropped off at the Chesley emergency department because of reduced hours and unplanned closures
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Byelections called in Milton and Lambton-Kent-Middlesex for May 2. Here's our set-up piece from earlier this week. 🔒

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