Projections show that under cap-and-trade, the added household cost for natural gas would reach $450 a year by 2030 - plus another $405 to paid at gasoline pumps. ...
Category: Government Finance and the Economy
Purchase: Ontario needs to find a way to boost private-sector spending
Columnist Bryne Purchase says the big question for the upcoming Ontario budget is how to get private businesses to start investing again — and argues the ORPP is counterproductive for this goal. ...
Intergovernmental trade talks resume as Ontario eyes bigger, better, fairer and freer deal
Ontario Economic Development Minister Brad Duguid chairs the discussions on the Agreement on Internal Trade – talks that have dragged on since Dec. 2014 without producing a new accord. ...
Ontario budget to be unveiled Thursday, Feb. 25
Finance Minister Charles Sousa announced the budget date during a speech to the Empire Club of Canada. ...
OMERS gets into dermatology, sells news release service
OMERS Private Equity acquires a U.S. dermatology services chain in the American Midwest and mid-Atlantic states, while selling control of Marketwired based in Toronto. ...
Seen: New manufacturing training centre opens at Seneca College
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Heard: CPP Investment Board buys half of U.K. shopping centre
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Hydro One profit slumps as revenue hit by warm weather
First results as a publicly traded company hit by balmy winter, and lower demand for power; CEO says the utility not ready to jump into acquisitions as it seeks to become 'a performance-focused commercial organization.' ...
Happening: Sousa to reveal report on credit union review
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Essar Steel Algoma puts itself up for sale under bankruptcy restructuring
Essar is the second major Ontario steel producer on the block in a battered steel industry. ...