Marvell Technology Inc. is undertaking a five-year, $238 million expansion of its work in Ontario, which will include more research and development of semiconductors, a new optical lab and a Toronto office.

As the evidence, including in the latest economic update, clearly show, the Ford government is neither keeping costs down nor unleashing the economy. Quite the opposite.

Ontario has never stopped reorganizing its school boards. For 180 years, the province has expanded local control, then reined it in, then expanded it again. Every few decades, the pendulum changes direction, usually after a political flashpoint or a crisis of confidence.

The data suggests that Ontario may not be in a recession, for now, as it may have avoided two straight quarters of negative real GDP growth.

The bill, tabled Tuesday, sets the stage for Barrie to annex more than 2,000 acres from neighbouring Springwater and Oro-Medonte, an expansion that has been stalled for months as the three municipalities struggled to reach a formal agreement by a Sept. 30 deadline imposed by a provincially appointed facilitator.

After Bonnie Crombie announced she would step aside following the party’s disappointing election result, a mix of veteran politicians, former candidates, and political newcomers are quietly, and not-so-quietly, testing the waters.