NEW: Ontario’s housing minister says it was “always” his plan to find a new mandate for the Peel Region transition board despite internal communications that revealed key members of the team were left in the dark as the Ford government considered a full reversal of the region’s…

NEW: NDP MPP Jill Andrew has been asked to leave the chamber for wearing a Keffiyeh.

She was given the opportunity to remove it, but refused, leading to her ejection for the day.

MPP Kristyn Wong-Tam left in solidarity.

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NEW: Recruitment and retention of doctors in Ontario is “not a major concern,” the Ministry of Health suggests as it argues with the Ontario Medical Association over physician compensation.

Via Allison Jones

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NEW: Inside the frantic reversal of the Peel Region split.

How the man tasked with overseeing the dissolution was kept out of the loop and how he managed to convince the government to go in a new direction.

An excellent piece by Isaac Callan

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The federal government is set to sideline Ontario from a housing fund worth hundreds of millions of dollars after more than a month of public tensions over how it is spent and accusations the province is failing to build

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NEW: Premier Doug Ford, during a Holocaust memorial event at Queen's Park, turns his attention to pro-Palestinian demonstrators and campus occupiers.

'We need to remove those people,' Ford says. 'These universities have to make a move.'

Ford calls the protests 'disturbing' and…

Keffiyehs will once again be allowed into Queen’s Park after the Speaker of the Ontario Legislature announced a partial reversal of the controversial policy that created deep political division and barred some from entering the building.

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BREAKING: Premier Doug Ford says university encampments need to be dismantled and calls for the universities to act.

“The university has to move these people along,” Ford says.

The premier adds there’s hate speech and “nasty stuff” being said.

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NDP Leader Marit Stiles has also left the chamber.

NEW: 'It's not a prop,' NDP MPP Joel Harden says as he and NDP MPP Kristyn Wong-Tam walk out of the Ontario Legislature.

Independent MPP Sarah Jama has been named, which means she's barred from participating in the legislative proceedings.

Jama is being kicked out.

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At least three MPPs are now wearing the keffiyeh: Sarah Jama (Ind), Kristyn Wong-Tam (NDP) and Joel Harden (NDP)

NEW: In a statement, Liberal MPP Adil Shamji says the party will be 'standing up for the right to wear the keffiyeh in the legislature.'

He also says he's 'dreading' the divisiveness in the legislature.

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The NDP is planning to 'force a full vote' in the legislature today over the Keffiyeh if the ban isn't reversed by then.

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The debate over the Keffiyeh ban will likely resurface at the Ontario legislature today as an NDP ultimatum arrives

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Labour Minister David Piccini says his government will introduce legislation next week that will see fines increased for violations of the Employment Standards Act.

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The University of Toronto says it's concerned about safety as a pro-Palestine encampment still stands at its downtown campus.
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Premier Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservative candidates won both Ontario byelections by convincing margins.

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Queen’s Park’s newest MPP-elect Zee Hamid celebrating with the Premier at his victory party in Milton.

Photo by Alan S. Hale

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