Premier Kathleen Wynne has firmed up a budget promise to set aside $100 million a year for infrastructure projects in small, rural and northern municipalities. ...
Daily Archives: August 18, 2014
Opposition MPPs acknowledge new reality at AMO
PC MPP Ernie Hardeman and NDP MPP Catherine Fife acknowledged the limits of their influence over a majority Liberal government at AMO Monday. ...
Happening: Ottawa gives more money to help review OPG nuclear-waste-site project
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Ontario, Quebec vulnerable to interest-rate hikes from debts
Ontario and Quebec each spent $10.6 billion last year on interest costs on their huge debts, a number that could rise as the cost of carrying debt is expected to increase, the Fraser Institute warns. ...
Powers, McMeekin open AMO hoping for faster pace of change
For the first time in four years, a majority government isn't running for re-election at the AMO annual general meeting. ...
Heard: Nearly a third of Ontario aboriginals worry about food insecurity
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Powers says liability inaction is ‘extremely disappointing’
Association of Municipalities of Ontario president Russ Powers says the province's decision not to reform joint and several liability will cost small municipalities dearly. ...
CMA calls for national seniors-care strategy
Poll done for Canadian Medical Association shows that 95 per cent of Canadian baby boomers back a national seniors-care strategy that would see more elderly patients cared for outside of a hospital setting. ...
Who’s negotiating what? The first question to be answered in teacher contract talks
The government, school boards and teacher unions must soon decide what bargaining topics will go where in the province's new collective bargaining system. ...
Heard: Bondfield hired for $125.7 million Hawkesbury hospital project
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