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  KITCHENER -- A bill that would guarantee 10 paid sick days per year for all workers in Ontario was voted down 20 to 55 at Queen’s Park Monday. Out of the seven local MPPs, only three were present at Queen’s Park and able to vote on Bill 247 due to COVID-19 protocols. Waterloo MPP Catherine Fife voted in favour of the bill. In a statement, she said in part, “It is clearer than ever that the province needs to do the right thing and provide Ontario’s workers with the ability to stay home if they are sick… Paid sick days are a key tool for slowing and stopping this cycle of trans...

The total number of variant cases reaches 462, the province said Author of the article: Antonella Artuso Publishing date: Feb 25, 2021  •  February 25, 2021  •  2 minute read  •  Toronto Public Health Nurse Amanda Alves, far left, greets Ontario Premier Doug Ford, centre, and Toronto Mayor John Tory, right, as they are given a tour of Toronto's Mass Vaccination Clinic by Toronto Medical Officer of Health Dr. Eileen de Villa, centre left, on Sunday January 17, 2021. Photo by Frank Gunn /THE CANADIAN PRESS Article content New COVID-19 modelling released by the Ontario science...

19 Feb 2021 An anti-lockdown MP proposed reducing political salaries in solidarity with ordinary Canadians forced onto benefit payments by the government’s pandemic response, only to have the bill rejected and the legislature vote to reduce his salary instead. Ontario member of the provincial parliament (MPP) Roman Baber introduced a bill in the Ontario parliament this week to reduce MPP salaries to $500 a week, the amount given to Canadians under the Canada Emergency Response Benefit (CERB). This ‘We Are All in This Together Act’, he said, would give lawmakers an incentive to end lock...

On Wednesday, Ontario legislators voted to reduce a politician's salary during the pandemic after he introduced a similar motion intended for all members.

  TORONTO -- TORONTO -- An Ontario MPP who was recently kicked out of Premier Doug Ford's caucus for calling lockdowns "deadlier than COVID" introduced a private member's bill Wednesday that would slash MPP salaries to $500 per week so elected officials can "appreciate the consequences" of shutdowns. York Centre MPP Roman Baber said he wants all elected parliamentary members to temporarily cut their salaries to the equivalent of what people would have made receiving the Canada Emergency Response Benefit (CERB). "The government is quick to shut down the economy, leaving hundreds of thousa...