Unless the city sees the housing and transit funding it needs in the Ontario budget, John Tory suggests the relationship may be beyond repair. ...
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Province’s 2014-15 deficit a better-than-expected $10.3 billion
The Public Accounts show the deficit for the past fiscal year was $2.2 billion lower than projected in 2014 and $600 million lower than the interim projections in the 2015 budget. ...
NDP motion calls for end to ‘cutting services’ and ‘corporate giveaways’
NDP finance critic Catherine Fife accuses Liberals of following similar policy advocated by former PC leader Tim Hudak to shed 100,000 public sector jobs. ...
Dean: Striking a balance
Columnist Tony Dean points out the crossroads the government finds itself at as it attempts to grow the economy and increase public services, all while eliminating the province's deficit, and how these factors might impa ...
Stakeholders ready comments as pre-budget consultations to kick off in northern Ontario
The province's finance and economic affairs committee will begin its pre-budget consultations tomorrow in Fort Frances, and interested stakeholders are lining up to get a word in. ...
Sousa says balanced budget plan won’t put Ontarians ‘in harm’s way’
Finance Minister Charles Sousa outlines a plan of tax increases, asset sales, economic growth and spending restraint to erase the red ink by 2017-18. ...
Heard: Bisson calls reports of NDP decision on confidence ‘fabrication’
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Sousa says he can’t meet short-term deficit target
Provincial Finance Minister says last year's deficit ran $400 million lower than projected, but that a revenue shortfall this year will make the deficit harder to contain. ...
Wynne seeks NDP and Tory input on budget
Kathleen Wynne reiterated her finance minister's call for Ottawa to restore $641 million in equalization payments, as Ontario is expected to take in a smaller amount this year. ...
Murray says Ottawa is ‘freeloading’ on Ontario’s infrastructure spending
Ontario Transportation Minister Glen Murray says the federal government needs to get back into the infrastructure spending game in a big way. ...
Jackson, Miller raise questions about bookkeeping at Pan Am Games, Athletes’ Village
Opposition MPPs ask at a committee hearing why the cost of certain elements of the Games are being counted outside the government's $1.4 billion budget for the event. ...
Tony Dean: Drummond report not on the shelf
By Tony Dean In 2011 the McGuinty government asked former TD Bank chief economist Don Drummond for advice on how Ontario’s $16 billion deficit could be erased by 2017 without jeopardizing key public services. He delive ...
Tony Dean: 2012 rewind
By Tony Dean It has been a weird and tumultuous year at Queen’s Park. Governing with a minority in the context of a $14 billion deficit has not been kind to the Liberals. Former TD chief economist Don Drummond set the ...
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