By Tony Dean So there is a last-minute Liberal-NDP budget deal after all. These talks were always going to go to the wire and it’s no surprise that they culminated in a Monday afternoon face-to-face meeting between Dal ...
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This week's bills
Bill 8, Ontario One Call Act, 2012, is before the Standing Committee on General Government, which has an afternoon of hearings on its contents slated for its next meeting on Monday, April 23. Bill 11, Attracting Investm ...
How consultants boost CEO pay
By Richard J. Brennan The influential executive compensation industry is driving up the salaries for chief executive officers in Ontario’s health sector and elsewhere, a veteran industry insider says. “There’s a good r ...
Step up, libraries urge province
Inside Ontario is a weekly roundup of issues prepared by Contributing Editor Kenyon Wallace. The Ontario Library Association says the federal government’s recent decision to end funding for a national program to improv ...
Seen, heard, happening . . .
* Health Minister Deb Matthews toured three hospitals Thursday, each of which is slated for expansion and each located in ridings held by Tory MPPs. Matthews’s tour took her to Joseph Brant Hospital in Jane McKenna’s Bu ...
The week ahead
Monday, April 23 The Standing Committee on General Government will meet to consider Bill 8, An Act respecting Ontario One Call Ltd. 2 p.m. Room 228 Tuesday, April 24 The Standing Committee on Government Agencies will ...
Seen, heard, happening . . .
Tory MPP Jane McKenna, who says she will vote against the Ontario budget next week, says her constituents are receiving robo-calls warning that a budget defeat would jeopardize funding for the Joseph Brant Memorial Hospi ...
Seen, heard, happening . . .
* A report by Colleges Ontario states that 83 per cent of Ontario college graduates found jobs last year within six months of graduation. * The City of Vaughan hopes so save more than $730,000 a year by switching insura ...
Tony Dean: Budget talks send signal
By Tony Dean Predictably, talks on amendments to the Liberal budget are moving slowly and cautiously. Let’s face it, an early deal would have observers looking for who blinked first and neither party can afford that. ...
Seen, heard, happening . . .
* MADD Canada launched its 2012 campaign Thursday. It encourages and empowers Canadians to report suspected impaired drivers to police by calling 911. * The Toronto 2015 Pan/Parapan Am Games Organizing Committee is look ...
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