Ontario bills

This Ontario bill requires the Minister of Health to examine creating a grant program to help cover travel costs for Ontarians who must travel 100+ kilometres to access medical specialist services not available in their local communities, and to report findings to the legislature within six months.

Ontario's Protecting Ontario's Streets and Communities Act, 2026 is a broad omnibus bill that enacts two new statutes and amends 14 existing ones to strengthen community safety, enforcement, and victim protection across a wide range of sectors including policing, towing, private security, adoption, and human trafficking.

This Ontario bill officially proclaims the week starting May 1 each year as Ethnic Media and Community Media Appreciation Week, recognizing the role of non-English/French language and local community media outlets across the province.

This Ontario law requires owners and operators of designated premises — including any place that has or is required to have a defibrillator — to install, maintain, sign, and register naloxone kits with a government registrar, and to ensure staff training on their use, so the public can access naloxone during an opioid overdose emergency.

This Ontario bill amends the Education Act to require school boards to maintain indoor temperatures at or below 26°C in school buildings and buses, develop annual heat mitigation strategies and emergency plans, and have the Minister of Education review and publicly report on these strategies at least every three years.

This Ontario bill officially designates the week starting on the third Monday of February each year as Mining Awareness Week, intended to highlight the economic importance of mining in Ontario.

This Ontario bill amends the Smoke-Free Ontario Act, 2017 to significantly restrict how vaping products can be sold and promoted, raising the legal purchase age to 21, banning most flavoured vapes and online sales, and limiting retail sales to approved specialty vape stores or designated rural stores.

This Ontario bill eliminates all existing notices of lodgement of title by deeming them expired on the day the Act comes into force, and requires the land registrar to remove them from the property register within six months.

This Ontario bill eliminates provincial income tax on the lowest tax bracket for residents under age 27, starting with the 2027 tax year, with the benefit automatically expiring every five years unless the legislature votes to renew it.

This Ontario bill adds 'cooling' to the definition of vital services under the Residential Tenancies Act, 2006, requiring landlords to maintain indoor temperatures at or below 26°C in living spaces from June 1 to September 30 each year.

This Ontario law establishes a formal Bill of Rights for people with developmental disabilities living in supported group living residences, and requires the service agencies that operate these homes to uphold those rights, support resident and family councils, and respond to concerns within set timeframes.

This Ontario bill introduces three major climate-related reforms: mandatory heat stress protections for workers under the Occupational Health and Safety Act, a new provincial climate change adaptation and resilience framework with a strategic action plan and supporting institutions, and a new urban wildfire preparedness regime including an advisory committee and action plans.

This bill officially designates May 28 as Menstrual Health Day in Ontario each year, raising awareness about menstrual health equity and the affordability of menstrual products, particularly for low-income, Indigenous, and young people.

This Ontario bill requires the Minister of Health to develop and publish a provincial strategy for improving access to paediatric hospice palliative care, and establishes an advisory committee of health professionals and family members to provide recommendations on that strategy.

This Ontario bill requires the Minister of Health to develop and publish a comprehensive health care worker support strategy within six months of Royal Assent, covering recruitment data, wages, mental health supports, workplace safety, and worker recognition. It also extends the maximum term of hospital medical staff appointments from one year to three years, and imposes personal financial penalties on the Minister and Premier if deadlines are missed.

This Ontario bill amends the Resource Recovery and Circular Economy Act, 2016 to require the Minister to establish a working group to study how to divert organic waste from landfills to composting facilities, and to publish annual reports tracking organic waste levels and greenhouse gas emissions at Ontario landfill sites.

This Ontario bill bans the distribution of promotional flyers, brochures, and catalogues at private dwellings, with limited exceptions for government materials, elected officials' offices, and political candidates during election periods.

This Ontario bill establishes an Online Safety Advisory Committee under the Minister of Education to develop school curricula on digital citizenship and AI literacy, recommend a ban on social media and AI chatbots in schools, and advise on protecting children from online harms. It also amends the Education Act to require those curricula be incorporated into provincial curriculum guidelines.

This Ontario bill requires the Minister of Health to develop and table a written plan within one year to restrict social media access for people under 16, including strategies to work with the federal government on a ban, provincial enforcement policies, and monitoring of social media providers.

This Ontario bill amends the Planning Act to expand housing density permissions across the province by requiring official plans and zoning by-laws to allow up to four residential units on standard residential lots, multi-unit buildings up to four storeys, and midrise developments of six to eleven storeys on major streets in larger municipalities, while stripping municipalities of authority to impose certain restrictions like floor-to-area ratios, minimum setbacks, and parking minimums on small multi-unit residential buildings.