ISAC's Media & Policy News: 29 June 2018

The Income Security Advocacy Centre's bulletin includes news, updates, reports, and events from Ontario, across Canada, and around the world. Top stories include:

Ontario Election

"Doug Ford and Cabinet to be Sworn-in as Ontario's First Ever Government for the People":
https://news.ontario.ca/opo/en/2018/06/doug-ford-and-cabinet-to-be-sworn-in-as-ontarios-first-ever-government-for-the-people.html

• Doug Ford sworn in as Ontario premier: https://www.thestar.com/news/queenspark/2018/06/29/doug-ford-sworn-in-as-ontario-premier.html

Doug Ford will move "quite rapidly" once he's officially Ontario's premier, expert says:
https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2018/06/28/doug-ford-premier_a_23470278/

Ontario government hiring freeze ices plan to strengthen workplace inspections:
https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2018/06/29/ontario-government-hiring-freeze-ices-plan-to-strengthen-workplace-inspections.html

• Here’s the expenditure restrictions memo from the Secretary of the Cabinet: https://www.ontario.ca/page/news-secretary#2018-june-18

The flip side of Ford's content-free campaign: Unpleasant surprises may be in store:
https://tvo.org/article/current-affairs/the-flip-side-of-fords-content-free-campaign-unpleasant-surprises-may-be-in-store

Forget the 416 – Doug Ford says his biggest fans are outside of Toronto:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/doug-ford-toronto-centric-1.4572698

Ford fails to seize opportunity to lower Ontario's electricity costs by $1.1 billion per year:
http://www.cleanairalliance.org/ford-fails-to-seize-opportunity-to-lower-ontarios-electricity-costs-by-1-1-billion-per-year/

5 ways the Ontario election made history:
https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/5-ways-the-ontario-election-made-history-1.3965277

• Navigator election analysis: What it all means: https://www.navltd.com/insights/electionanalysis2018/
• The rise and fall of Kathleen Wynne's Liberals: https://www.thestar.com/opinion/star-columnists/2018/06/22/the-rise-and-fall-of-kathleen-wynnes-liberals.html
• Wynne joins list of female premiers who have never succeeded in re-election bids: https://ipolitics.ca/article/wynne-joins-list-of-female-premiers-who-have-never-succeeded-in-re-election-bids/
• Message received, now Ontario's Liberal party will try to reconnect with voters: https://www.thestar.com/news/queenspark/2018/06/18/messaged-received-now-ontarios-liberal-party-will-try-to-reconnect-with-voters.html
• An insider peek at Wynne's losing campaign: https://www.thestar.com/opinion/star-columnists/2018/06/27/an-insider-peek-at-wynnes-losing-campaign.html

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