Category: Tony Dean

By Tony Dean The Premier’s recent resignation announcement caught many people flat-footed but it also quickly triggered transition planning by Ontario’s public service. A change of leadership in a governing party can b ...

By Tony Dean Last week I wrote about Health Canada's off-again-on-again approval of  Novartis flu products. More information has surfaced about Ontario’s rapid response to changing directions from Ottawa. While Italy s ...

By Tony Dean Ontario public health officials are reportedly furious with Health Canada over a sudden about-face on the safety of the FluAd and Agriflu influenza drugs produced by Novartis. The federal government’s ques ...

By Tony Dean I walked through a very quiet legislative building on Wednesday and it was evident that the fire and brimstone about prorogation had vanished like the building’s fabled ghosts. The media’s constant search ...

By Tony Dean The most useful and high-impact public policy reports commissioned by governments wrestle with big, thorny and complex challenges and translate them into opportunities.  Their authors wrap their arms around ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...