The Ontario Government will reveal its legislative agenda for the next two months on Monday, prior to the June 7 general election. It may also try to tantalize voters with ideas for another term, if it is elected. Premier Wynne has been accused of trying to hit the re-set button in the wake of Doug Ford’s election as PC leader. Political re-sets are perfectly legal of course. But will it work? “The throne speech is one of the few ways that we actually have to lay out the government priorities and so that’s why we had to do this technical prorogation,” the Premier said at an event at Humber College’s Lakeshore campus in Toronto on Friday.
INFANT BELIEVED VICTIM OF CARBON MONOXIDE
:Authorities suspect an infant has died of carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning at a Barrie home Sunday. Two others, an adult and one child are in hospital. Emergency crews responded to a medical call just before 8:30 a.m. in the Yonge and D’Ambrosio neighbourhood of Barrie. “Upon arrival, [firefighters] found high levels of carbon monoxide in the home,” said Samantha Hoffman, a spokesperson with Barrie Fire. Crews found the three occupants, a mother and her two children, a two-year-old and 10-month-old, unresponsive. Ontario passed in 2014 making it mandatory for all households to have CO alarms near all sleeping areas.
BOY SHOOTS SISTER OVER GAME CONTROLLER
Authorities in Mississippi say a 9-year-old boy has shot his 13-year-old sister in the head in an argument over a video game controller. She is in hospital in uncertain condition. Monroe County Sheriff Cecil Cantrell told local news outlets that the girl wouldn’t give up the video game controller when her brother wanted it on Saturday. He says the boy shot the girl in the back of the head and that the bullet entered her brain .
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