Budget provides $2.5-billion jobs and prosperity fund but also promises review of all subsidy programs, including aid to businesses. ...
Author Archives: John Valorzi
Budget2: Liberals’ Ontario retirement pension plan bill coming this fall
Legislation for new provincial pension plan will be phased in starting 2017 and is expected to begin with the largest employers, according to retabled budget. ...
Heard: OMA chides Hoskins for comments on wage talks
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Native group ‘dismayed’ at court ruling on Grassy Narrows
Native leaders say Supreme Court decision that "Ontario and only Ontario has the power to take up lands" for resource extraction leaves them in limbo over treaty rights. ...
Ontario jobless rate ticks up to 7.5 per cent
Province sheds 34,000 jobs in June, although politicians quick to suggest it's a monthly blip and that economy over all is on stronger footing. ...
Mowat report hammers federal transfers system
Mowat Centre says Ontario underfunded in federal transfers in report that backs Liberal government claims. ...
Farmers could lose $630 million if bee-killing pesticide banned: report
Conference Board of Canada report says Ontario growers could lose $630 million in output if pesticide neonicotinoid is banned. ...
Sousa lauds Ottawa’s efforts – then it’s back to business
The Finance Minister, after a signing ceremony involving a national securities regulator, calls on federal government to boost transfers and help with Ontario's Ring of Fire development. ...
Wynne says NDP in ‘flight of fancy’ over asset sales
Horwath questions the family ties between the head of the council that is considering the disposition of assets and the CEO of Infrastructure Ontario - but Premier dismisses it as a 'smear.' ...
Distracted driving crackdown is just down the road
Wynne says the Liberal government will bring back the Keeping Ontario Roads Safe Act with an aim to toughen the penalties - as a study suggests an alarming number of teens text while driving. ...
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