Author Archives: Tony Dean

By Tony Dean Reaction this week to College and Universities Minister Glen Murray’s proposals for three-year undergraduate degrees and increasing access to online learning was disappointing, verging on pathetic and demon ...

By Tony Dean Ontario’s increasingly fragile experiment with minority government at Queen’s Park is falling apart. The Conservatives and NDP can’t quite rise above schoolyard politics. And governing Liberals are struggl ...

By Tony Dean The provincial government rolled out the next – and possibly final – phase of its wage restraint strategy this week. The draft legislation would cover 2,295 collective agreements covering approximately 481 ...

By Tony Dean Finance Minister Dwight Duncan last week slammed the Municipal Property Assessment Corporation for spending $170,000 on a one-day retreat for the corporation’s 1,300 employees. As the name implies, municip ...

By Tony Dean Provincial government legislation freezing teachers’ salaries, curbing sick pay accumulation and scaling back salary grid increases became law this week with support from the Progressive Conservatives. The ...

By Tony Dean Over the past weeks many commentators have suggested that the Liberal government’s approach to teachers’ compensation was driven by its byelection strategy. And today the results of Thursday's byelections ...

By Tony Dean The current noise in the education system – while it is understandable on both the union and government sides – should not take attention away from the significant achievements made in the education system ...

By Tony Dean Don Drummond pointed out in his report on reforming Ontario`s public services that improving public services should always be a priority – and not just a cyclical exercise when we are tackling big deficits. ...

By Tony Dean It has been an exciting day at Queen`s Park. While railing at the McGuinty Liberals, Progressive Conservative leader Tim Hudak said he would bail the government out by supporting its proposed legislation t ...

By Tony Dean This is shaping up to be a make-or-break-year for the McGuinty government. Governing with a minority in the absence of some form of political coalition arrangement was always going to be tricky for the Lib ...