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Category: Social Services, Justice and Society
Heard: New mobile map plots course to VQA wines at farmers’ markets
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Bombardier Thunder Bay plant still rolling despite strike
Management workers building public transit vehicles four weeks into a strike by 900 unionized workers over a two-tiered pension plan. ...
War on austerity focuses on cuts to emergency services
Ontario's largest public service unions say major service cuts in several rural Ontario communities will greatly impact public safety. ...
Kathleen Wynne helps mark halfway point of Confederation LRT
Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne joined Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson and half-a-dozen other politicians to mark the 50-per-cent completion of the Confederation Light Rail Transit line in Ottawa. ...
Province, Ottawa sign $801 million affordable housing deal
Ministers Ted McMeekin and Candice Bergen signed a federal-provincial agreement to spend $801 million on affordable housing over five years. ...
Injunction put on Enbridge protesters, blockade shifts to Toronto
Protesters blockading work on a major oil pipeline in southwestern Ontario were forced to vacate the construction site over the weekend after receiving an injunction Sunday afternoon. ...
Ontario signs ‘strategic mandate’ deals with colleges and universities
Ontario government comes to agreement with 45 colleges and universities, requiring them to focus on their core areas while limiting expansion in academic areas where programs already exist. ...
‘Perennial optimist’ McMeekin hoping for happiness at AMO
No stranger to the annual meeting of municipal leaders, the new Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing rides into this year's session hoping to get things done but he's still planning on 'issuing some challenges.' ...
Heard: CUPE presses to keep Sarnia daycare centre open
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