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OMA: Changes to fees for physicians could prompt medical students to leave province

OMA president says Ontario's physicians are concerned these changes will mean longer wait times to see doctors, to get tests done and to schedule surgery. ...

Heard: Looming strike deadline for province’s CCAC workers

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Hoskins to limit pay for three years as Ontario doctors reject contract offer

Province's latest contract offer seek four per cent cut to health budgets, on top of the five per cent reduction agreed to with the OMA in 2012. ...

Car insurance rates in fourth quarter fall by half a point

The provincial government says it plans to introduce rate-cutting regulations early this year and that an anti-fraud law passed last fall will help it reach its promised reduction target. ...

Quebec pension fund gets behind infrastructure projects

Caisse plans to invest $5 billion into transit systems in Montreal area - and, in the process, provides a good lesson for Ontario on harnessing the financial might of pension plans for its own P3s. ...

Wynne urges students to step up to safeguard their campuses

On her continuing school trip, the Premier stresses a need for 'very important conversations' to bring attention to homophobia and sexual harassment. ...

Think-tank says governments should look at a retro idea: hiking gas taxes

The last time gas taxes were hiked in Ontario was when the Toronto Blue Jays won the World Series, the Mowat Centre notes. ...

Happening: CPP board signs deal to invest $234 million in Chinese real estate

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Conservatives point to more Liberal ‘financial mismanagement’

Through a freedom of information request, expenses run up by the head of Housing Services Corp. are revealed. “And there seems to be no accountability here at all, no government oversight,” housing critic Ernie Hardeman ...

Dean: Smokey Thomas clarifies his position (as if it’s needed)

'Privatization is the biggest public scandal of modern times.' So says the president of the Ontario Public Service Employees Union, in an interview with columnist Tony Dean. ...

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