A report prepared by Ontario hospitals offers the provincial government ways to save on the cost of palliative care and other health-care services. The report released by the Ontario Hospitals Association (OHA) last week suggests the province can save up to $15 million a year for revised strategies on patient care. Among the recommendations, the report suggested [...] Continue Reading

Community groups and transit activists gathered last night to protest provincial budget cuts to Toronto Mayor David Miller’s much-vaunted Transit City plans. A rally organized by the Public Transit Coalition (PTC) filled the main council chamber at Toronto City Hall. Speakers urged the provincial government to reverse its decision to slash $4-billion from the recent Ontario budget, [...] Continue Reading

A child-care advocate says a proposed cut to Ontario’s childcare funding could cripple child care centres in Toronto. In 2003, Dalton McGuinty pledged $300 million to child care. Three years later, the premier accepted a one-time payment from the federal government. Since then, the Ontario government has allotted $63.5 million to child-care funding every year. Critics [...] Continue Reading

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. Glen Murray, a former mayor [...] Continue Reading

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. Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty announced details of the new green-energy deal during a news conference Thursday at the Toronto Stock Exchange [...] Continue Reading

Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty reshuffled his cabinet Monday, bringing in fresh new faces and moving some familiar ones around. The cabinet shuffle was made public at an afternoon swearing-in ceremony at Queen’s Park, with 12 members of the governing Liberal caucus taking the oath of office. New faces in the cabinet include Toronto’s Brad Duguid who was [...] Continue Reading

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. Toronto’s bid was chosen on the first ballot over Bogota, Colombia and Lima, Peru early Friday evening in Guadalajara, Mexico. McGuinty released the following statement after Toronto was awarded the Games: “I want to [...] Continue Reading

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. The winning city was announced Friday and supporters say holding the events will bring countless opportunities for the next generation of Canadian [...] Continue Reading

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 their money. McCarter placed blame on lack of accountability and oversight along with poor judgment on the part of former eHealth [...] Continue Reading