The auditor general also found that it will now cost more for the government to build a new Ontario Science Centre at Ontario Place than it would have to maintain the site it abruptly closed earlier this year.

Extendicare Port Stanley will add 68 new and 60 redeveloped long-term care beds to the community and is expected to open in early 2027.

The agency — and Verster specifically — have come under frequent fire for the long-delayed Eglinton Crosstown project, which was supposed to open in 2020.

Ontario will get to a net-zero grid by 2050 without the federal regulations, the IESO says, with new nuclear and renewable resources expected to come into service in the 2040s.

In Sarnia, the Trillium Villa Nursing Home will feature 160 beds, while Extendicare St. Catharines’ will include 256.