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A “beloved” peace officer at the Ontario legislature died Monday morning in a car crash, Speaker Donna Skelly says.

For more than a week, government MPPs have been facing scrutiny for charging downtown Toronto hotel stays to the taxpayer instead of commuting to and from Queen’s Park.

The planned location for the new ferris wheel raised eyebrows because it was destined to compete with the existing Niagara SkyWheel situated a short walk away. 

Hardeep Grewal and Charmaine Williams said they had repaid $27,275 and $15,865 respectively for Toronto hotel rooms after being ordered to do so by the premier.

On Thursday, the premier's office organized an announcement in Mississauga, Ont., styled to look like a news conference.

On Tuesday, during committee at Queen's Park, Finance Minister Peter Bethlenfalvy was grilled by opposition MPPs on how much of that cash has actually been deployed.

Buoyed by the victory, opponents are now looking at the Ford government's second proposal for Queen Victoria Park: an all-season, 3.8-kilometre, automated electric tram.

Little has changed at Queen's Park after Premier Doug Ford's Progressive Conservatives and the Opposition New Democrats held on to their seats in three byelections Thursday.

Former minister of tourism Stan Cho charged more than $16,000 to the taxpayer for hotels despite living near Queen's Park, while three Peel Region MPPs charged more than $15,000.

Schedules reveal that Ford took four short-haul domestic flights on the OPP plane over less than two months and chartered a jet to travel to Texas.

The Ontario NDP asked the integrity commissioner to probe Hardeep Grewal, claiming he was using his constituency budget to advertise in a newspaper run by his father. 

Grewal unseated the NDP’s Gurratan Singh in 2022 in Brampton East, winning the riding again in the 2025 snap election. 

The pledge to repay the full amount comes only hours after Stan Cho’s office indicated he would only repay some of the costs, as the minister faces internal and external pressure.

Global News was first to report that Cho, whose home is seven subway stops from the legislature, had billed more than $16,000 to the taxpayer for Toronto hotel stays.

The trio represent ridings in Brampton and Mississauga, but filed 30 expense claims asking the legislature to refund the costs of special accommodations in Toronto.

As PC MPPs began charging taxpayers to stay in hotel rooms in downtown Toronto, members of the Ford government began quietly updating the expense rules for elected officials.

While the Legislature was originally intended to resume on Sept. 14, the Ford government pushed that date until Oct. 27 leading to criticism from opposition MPPs.

Global News was first to report on the hotel room expenses incurred by members of the Progressive Conservative government who live within driving distance of Queen's Park.

The popular street festival, which typically attracts up to a million people to Toronto's Greektown, took a three-year hiatus in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Days after the ministerial shake-up, Piccini's chief of staff in the Ministry of Labour also departed his post according to a memo from Ford's office.