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Ontario Liberal budget passes crucial vote, avoiding another election

TORONTO – A “happy marriage” between the Liberals and NDP that was solidified with a new tax on the rich allowed Ontario’s minority government to survive a confidence vote on its budget Tuesday. After weeks of negotiations between the Liberals … Continue reading

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Corcoran: Robbing the rich to pay Dalton

Top marginal income tax rate in Ontario will rise to 50% Ontario’s New Democrats aren’t quite up to the tax extortionist levels of their euro-leftist counterparts in, say, France. Socialist François Hollande, now apparently on the verge of upsetting Nicolas Sarkozy as … Continue reading

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Stinson: All aboard Ontario’s efficiency bus

It’s easy enough to understand why the Ontario Liberals would call a press conference to tout a move that, the government says, will save taxpayers $25-million a year. The decision to merge two of the many agencies that are involved … Continue reading

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Stinson: Expect more posturing over the Ontario budget, but don’t expect an election

That dull noise you hear is sabres rattling. It’s not the loud clang of sharp steel because the swords wielded by the leaders of Ontario’s political parties are the blunted sort used in practice. For the next week at least, … Continue reading

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Goldstein: Dalton’s mythical green jobs (3)

I have a business proposition for anyone who still believes Premier Dalton McGuinty will create 50,000 green energy jobs by the end of this year, as he promised in 2009 when he introduced his Green Energy Act. My proposition is … Continue reading

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Gurney: Ontario NDP starts strong, then blows it

As I wrote here yesterday, the Ontario NDP’s demand that Premier Dalton McGuinty raise income taxes on those making more than $500,000 per year was smart politics. It was unlikely to alienate the NDP’s base, and made life hard for the … Continue reading

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McGuinty’s fate now in NDP’s hands

Ontario stared uneasily Wednesday at the prospect of a second election in six months, as public-sector unions urged the opposition NDP to seriously consider voting against the minority Liberal government’s budget and its threat of forced wage freezes. With the … Continue reading

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Ontario election plans prepped

TORONTO - With no way to know where Andrea Horwath’s orange high heels are headed, both the Liberals and Progressive Conservatives are quietly preparing election plans. Horwath and her 17-member New Democratic Party caucus hold the balance of power at Queen’s Park’s … Continue reading

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Health ministry staff ‘utterly tone deaf’ on Ornge warnings

The Ontario Ministry of Health ignored for three months last fall an explosive draft report from the provincial auditor outlining a series of irregular financial transactions at Ornge. The final version of the report, released on Wednesday, harshly criticized the … Continue reading

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Sandy: ON PC voters need to smarten up & stop McGuinty boondoggles like Ornge

My apologies to drunken sailors everywhere for saying this, but the Ontario Liberals are spending like drunken sailors while far too many complacent Ontario PC voters, or those who usually vote Conservative, are allowing it to happen. I mean, first there was the e-Health boondoggle and … Continue reading

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Gurney: Wilfully blind McGuinty tells the truth, technically

Ahead of next week’s Ontario provincial budget, expected to be a shock to those who got used to the free-spending ways of the Dalton McGuinty-led Liberals,reports have emerged that Ontario will delay or outright cancel a series of hospital construction projects they … Continue reading

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