It’s been a good week for * Dalton McGuinty, who received numerous plaudits for his achievements after he announced that he was stepping down after nine years as Premier and proroguing the legislature indefinitely * On ...
Category: Opinion
Tony Dean: The end of an era
By Tony Dean Premier Dalton McGuinty’s double-barrelled announcement on Monday caught most people by surprise. Prorogation of the legislature has been a possibility for the past couple of weeks but very few people expec ...
Tony Dean: A burden too heavy
By Tony Dean The burden on Ontarians suffering from mental illness and addictions is more than 1.5 times that of all cancers and more than seven times that of all infectious diseases, according to a report released this ...
The week – for better or worse
It’s been a good week for New Democratic Cheri DiNovo who tabled a private member's bill seeking to expedite treatment for police officers and others suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. She also has been been ...
Tony Dean: More balance needed
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 ...
The week – for better or worse
It's been a good week for Energy Minister Chris Bentley. It's all relative – he's still facing censure over the handling of documents related to two cancelled power plants but the opposition is blaming his boss Dalton M ...
Tony Dean: Something has to give
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 ...
Tony Dean: Wage restraint not enough
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 ...
The week – for better or worse
It was a good week for . . . * Tory MPP Rob Leone who was front and centre as he got the green light for his motion to find Energy Minister Chris Bentley in contempt of parliament. * NDP Leader Andrea Horwath whose app ...
Tony Dean: Headaches in agency land
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 ...
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