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Author Archives: John Valorzi
Ontario’s GDP growth to top 3 per cent in 2015, RBC forecasts
Falling loonie sets the stage for 'positive ripple effects throughout the economy,' bank says, which is good news for a government counting on strong growth to wipe out its $12.5 billion deficit by 2017-2018. ...
Heard: Now that fall session is over, Liberals turn to budget planning
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Heard: House passes two more bills as fall session ends
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Green groups demand NEB review greenhouse gas effects of Energy East
Environmental groups ask the NEB to consider climate change in its review of the proposed Energy East pipeline; otherwise the review would be 'incomplete and illegitimate.' ...
Legislature passes new accountability law 77-17
Bill 8, with Conservative backing, doubles to more than 1,000 the number of agencies overseen by the ombudsman's office, while controlling executive salaries at Ornge, eHealth, Metrolinx, OLG and LCBO. ...
Happening: Province raises student loan limit, indexes grants to inflation
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Ottawa kicks in $300M for Pratt & Whitney’s $1B investment
Federal government's loan is part of $1-billion Pratt & Whitney research and development project into the next generation of jet engines. ...
Resolute to shut down Northern Ontario mill, cut 180 jobs
Reflects a decline in newsprint demand; company president also cites 'ill-founded attacks of environmental activist groups' over tree-cutting practices as a factor in the closing of mill in Iroquois Falls. ...
TransCanada gets toll deals with Enbridge, Union Gas and Gaz Métro
NEB approval also allows the company to expand its gas pipeline system in Ontario and Quebec and fill it will shale gas from the United States. ...