Group forms, rallies for transit funding
Community groups and transit activists gathered last night to protest provincial budget cuts to Toronto Mayor David Miller’s much-vaunted Transit City plans.
Dalton McGuinty
Opposition make gains but Liberals hold Toronto Centre
The only thing missing from Cathy Crowe’s victory party was the victory. In Thursday’s Toronto-Centre provincial by-election Crowe, a well known street nurse and star candidate for the NDP, earned 8,685 votes (31 per cent), nearly doubling the party’s previous performance in the riding but not enough to claim the Liberal stronghold.
Ontario, Korean consortium strike green-manufacturing deal
The landmark agreement between the Ontario government and a South Korean consortium is expected to create more than 16,000 new jobs over the next six years, but only a number of them will be permanent….
New faces, new look to Ontario cabinet
Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty reshuffled his cabinet Monday, bringing in fresh new faces and moving some familiar ones around.
Games present ‘wonderful opportunity’: McGuinty
Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty and the city of Toronto couldn’t be any happier after winning the rights to host the 2015 Pan American Games.
Pan Am venues will bring opportunities to next generation
When Canadian Olympic hurdler Priscilla Lopes-Schliep was growing up, Toronto had a severe lack of sporting infrastructure. That situation has changed now that Toronto has won the bid to host the 2015 Pan American Games….
Ontario Auditor tallies up eHealth damages
Adding the latest chapter to the scandal-plagued eHealth Ontario saga, provincial Auditor General Jim McCarter said Wednesday that hundreds of millions of dollars have been wasted while Ontario taxpayers got little, or no, value for…