Jack Hauen

Jack Hauen has been covering Queen’s Park since 2019. Beats near to his heart include housing, transportation, municipalities, health and the environment. He especially enjoys using freedom of information requests to cause problems. Before helping launch the Trillium he worked at Queen’s Park Briefing, the Toronto Star, the Globe and Mail, and the National Post.

Recent Work by Jack

As private-pay crackdown looms, 'executive health' clinics charge freely

Clinics operate by paywalling primary care physicians behind 'block fees' for non-OHIP-covered services

Apr 16, 2024 9:00 AM Read more >

Ontario budget projects $9.8B deficit, real-dollar social services cuts

Transit gets some attention in budget

Mar 26, 2024 4:11 PM Read more >

Bruce Trail could have campsites all along it by 2030: CEO

'We're now coming to the point where we own enough land that we can pull this off,' Michael McDonald said.

Mar 9, 2024 2:11 PM Read more >

Ford government snubs Green bill that would legalize fourplexes provincewide

Opposition parties, YIMBY advocates said government needs to move faster on density

Feb 29, 2024 9:11 AM Read more >

Arguments begin in proposed class action against 304 long-term care homes

Joel Rochon argued the homes took a 'wait-and-see' approach, resulting in thousands of unnecessary deaths

Jan 15, 2024 5:35 PM Read more >

Ontario ambulance offload delays worse than before pandemic

Thirty minutes is considered best practice — one that's not consistently met, says auditor general report

Dec 8, 2023 5:26 PM Read more >

Highway 413 could expand to 10 lanes by 2041: documents

The Ford government has said the highway will have four to six lanes

Nov 23, 2023 6:00 PM Read more >

Ford government rezoned land after developer donations, despite ministry pushback

Internal emails shed new light on the government's decision-making process when it opened up Greenbelt and other land for development

Nov 8, 2023 7:52 PM Read more >

'They never want us to speak': NDP volunteers, execs, former MPPs oppose tossing Jama

At least two former NDP MPPs have spoken out against Jama's removal from caucus

Oct 25, 2023 10:20 AM Read more >

$Ontario's rental enforcement unit investigates a fraction of calls received$

Ontario's rental enforcement unit investigates a fraction of calls received

The Rental Housing and Enforcement Unit only investigated 219 out of the 16,394 calls it got in 2022–23

Oct 4, 2023 3:15 PM Read more >

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