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Kristin Rushowy

Queen's Park Bureau

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Kristin Rushowy is a reporter in the Queen's Park bureau, covering Ontario politics. Prior to that, she spent 15 years on the education beat, with a particular focus on early years and the provincial government move to full-day kindergarten. She was part of the Star's 2011 National Newspaper Award-winning team for breaking news coverage of the G20 summit, and worked on the Star's Autism Project, which was nominated for a National Newspaper Award as well as a Michener Award for public service journalism.

Location :

Toronto

Reporting Focus:

Ontario Politics, Education, Early Childhood

Honours and Awards :

Nomination (Team) — National Newspaper Award, Politics (2018)Nomination (Team) — National Newspaper Award (2012)Winner (Team) — National Newspaper Award, Breaking News (2011)Nomination (Team) — Michener Award (2012)

Articles by Kristin Rushowy

A referee looks on as children take part in a North Toronto Soccer match at Eglinton Park in Toronto on May 20, 2023.

Provincial Politics

Sport ‘needs to change,’ says Ontario minister as referee body-cam project begins for youth soccer

Progressive Conservative MPP Christine Hogarth, shown in Toronto in 2019, proposed a motion in the Ontario Legislature that takes the first step in implementing a “Clare’s Law” in the province.

Provincial Politics

Should people have access to their partner’s violent history? Ontario is one step closer to making it happen

A specialized 10-bed program at Toronto’s Grace Hospital that serves patients living with obesity has a wait-list of at least two years.

Provincial Politics

Ontario bails out nursing home over $1.7M cost of caring for resident with obesity

YCDSB teacher Dina Mayr, left, says she feels “utterly ashamed” at the York Catholic board’s decision not to fly the Pride flag outside of its office in June. She says she felt that her transgender son, Everett, was safe when he attended school there, but she would not feel the same way today.

GTA

‘A travesty’: Outrage swells over York Catholic board’s rejection of Pride flag

City councillor and budget chief Gary Crawford speaks as Toronto mayor John Tory listens during a news conference on Jan. 10, 2023.

Provincial Politics

Toronto city councillor gets Tory nomination in provincial byelection

Doreen Lesage, a great granddaughter of Chief Shingwauk and member of Garden River First Nation, stands next to Knowledge Keeper Darrell Boissoneau,as she runs her hand over a pipe that belonged to Chief Shingwauk, as the First Nation community bring their historical land claim to Ontario Legislature in Toronto on May 18, 2023.

Provincial Politics

First Nation sues Ontario over land the same day ROM returns 200-year-old pipe to it

Ontario Environment Minister David Piccini, shown with Finigan and handler Chris Gill of Earth Rangers, at Queen's Park in Toronto on May 17, 2023.

Provincial Politics

Articles by Kristin Rushowy

Sport ‘needs to change,’ says Ontario minister as referee body-cam project begins for youth soccer

Should people have access to their partner’s violent history? Ontario is one step closer to making it happen

Ontario bails out nursing home over $1.7M cost of caring for resident with obesity

‘A travesty’: Outrage swells over York Catholic board’s rejection of Pride flag

Toronto city councillor gets Tory nomination in provincial byelection

First Nation sues Ontario over land the same day ROM returns 200-year-old pipe to it

After 50 years, Ontario removes bald eagles from its at-risk list. How did this ‘big win’ happen?