Category: Opinion

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 ...

By Tony Dean I had a lovely drive down from my northern Ontario camp on Highway 11 last week. It was a clear run from North Bay to Huntsville because construction crews had just opened up the final section of the four-l ...

By Tony Dean This week saw the startup of contracted-out garbage collection on the west side of Toronto between Yonge Street and the Humber River. Getting garbage collection out of the hands of city workers was a key c ...

By Tony Dean Peter Wallace was appointed Cabinet Secretary and head of the 64,000-strong Ontario Public Service in December 2011. This makes him CEO of one of Canada’s largest employers as well as the Premier’s deputy m ...

By Tony Dean Government responses to Toronto’s summer of gun violence have been sadly fractious. The merits of simplistic, sound-bite, tough-on-crime policies are once again being contrasted with a more sensible mix of ...