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Recipients of a prestigious medal who were nominated by Ontario MPPs gave about five times more in political donations to the governing PC party than they did to the opposition NDP, according to records analyzed by CTV News. And for that subset of recipients of the King Charles III Coronation Medal – which include a dentist and PC donor whose...
Ontario’s opposition parties are questioning the province’s labour minister about the possibility money from the $2.5 billion Skills Development Fund ended up at a company tied to an “adult entertainment venue.” Records viewed by CTV News show connections between an organization that received under $10 million in grants from the labour ministry and the operator of a new nightclub on...
The office of Ontario’s labour minister is downplaying reports he was at a wedding in Paris and photographed at a Toronto Maple Leafs hockey game with those who stood to benefit from millions in government grants from his ministry. Minister David Piccini’s office said he paid for his own hockey tickets in the first instance and his own hotel stays...
Opposition parties are crying foul over a growing list of companies that have received grants from a multi-billion-dollar Ontario government fund, and whose directors or executives have also made sizable political donations to the governing Progressive Conservative party. The ire comes a day after a bombshell Auditor General report revealed that political staff sidestepped the opinion of non-partisan bureaucrats to...
