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Alberta Energy Minister Brian Jean, pictured at June’s Global Energy Show in Calgary, has called Ottawa’s new environmental advertising rules “unfair and unworkable.” (Twitter) The Competition Bureau is moving to clarify the federal government’s controversial new anti-greenwashing rules while also recommending businesses not relay specific timelines about their emissions reduction goals in their marketing materials. On Monday, the bureau kicked off its consultation on new Competition Act rules on environmental advertising, releasing a bulletin on the amendments that ca ..read more

A casting call notice for a Ministry of Labour acting job seeking “non-union performers.” Today is the deadline for actors interested in providing voice talent for the Ministry of Labour to submit demo tapes to a casting company working for the government. The catch is that “only Canadian, non-union performers” will be considered. That’s according to the casting call notice posted on an audition website by the firm Kim Hurdon Casting on behalf of the Ministry of Labour, a copy of which was obtained by Queen’s Park Today. The notice asks actors with home recording studios to send tape ..read more

Minister of Immigration Marc Miller speaks at the Conseil des relations Internationales de Montréal in April 2024. (Photo from X/@MarcMillerVM) As Ottawa mulls buying and converting hotels to help house asylum seekers, one expert says an unprecedented migration crisis is behind the move that could “substantially” help groups like hers cut costs. Immigration Minister Marc Miller recently teased the government is considering purchasing hotels to help provinces house refugee claimants. Federal figures show the feds have covered expenses for 4,000 hotel rooms this year for 7,30 ..read more

Ontario PC MPP Goldie Ghamari met with controversial far-right activist Stephen Yaxley Lennon, known commonly as “Tommy Robinson.” (Photo: Ontario NDP Press Office) Ontario Premier Doug Ford is, once again, refusing to remove PC MPP Goldie Ghamari from caucus despite renewed calls from the National Council of Canadian Muslims (NCCM) after she met with controversial far-right activist Stephen Yaxley Lennon, known commonly as “Tommy Robinson.” “The premier is extremely disappointed in MPP Ghamari’s decision to engage with and give a platform to an individual whose behavi ..read more

Under new provincial regulations medical officers of health in Ontario are no longer required to report certain types of  COVID-19 data to the Ministry of Health or Public Health Ontario. (Photo: Dennis Sylvester Hurd) The Ontario government is downgrading COVID-19 from a novel coronavirus to a “disease of public health significance,” limiting the kind of data that needs to be reported to, and by, medical officers of health. The change is being proposed through a regulation, which was publicly open for comment for a week earlier this month. Under the new designation, medical off ..read more