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Posted by Scott Tribe on September 3, 2008, at 10:53 am |
What events, the readers may ask? Well, specific events such as this in Welland for example:
Plant closure costs Welland 800 jobs
Ontario’s reeling manufacturing sector took another big hit yesterday as farm equipment giant Deere & Co. revealed the closing of its major plant in Welland and the elimination of about 800 jobs.
Some more general events:
Ontario’s opposition parties claim the province has lost more than 200,000 manufacturing jobs in the last four years. Union and company critics blasted the federal government again for ignoring the plight of the sector, which is a key engine of the Canadian economy.
I also think Finance Minister Jim Flaherty’s words [...]
Posted by Scott Tribe on August 5, 2008, at 10:40 am |
It’s not a secret that the federal Conservative government doesn’t particularly like Ontario right now. Finance Minister Jim Flaherty’s statement a few months ago that he couldn’t think of any reason for businesses to invest in the province of Ontario is one famous example. You would think however, that in ridings where they hold seats, they might be inclined to help out specific projects in Ontario, if only to give their MP’s a boost, if not the region that might deservedly need it.
Unfortunately, even that doesn’t seem to be the case. A prime example of that would be the small city of Stratford – famously known for the [...]
Posted by Scott Tribe on June 10, 2008, at 7:17 pm |
I don’t have an article in the news to cite this as it was a story broadcast on the local London Ontario news, but there is an interesting idea being pitched by some in the City of London as a way to increase the # of plastic bottles being recycled and returned by the public.
Currently, it is estimated by London that 1/3 of plastic bottles don’t get properly recycled by their city residents and instead get thrown into the garbage and end up in landfill sites. Some there are proposing the way to help increase the # of bottle being returned for recycling is for the province of [...]
Posted by Scott Tribe on June 2, 2008, at 10:36 am |
… on the Environment file? Seriously?
Environment Minister John Baird has been all over the place the past weekend claiming that the new Ontario/Quebec environmental pact to set up a cap and trade system is somehow evidence of a plot against his federal government on the environment file:
Environment Minister John Baird told a national news agency that the agreement could undermine Ottawa’s climate change plan.
Well John, you and the federal Conservatives don’t have much of a plan as it is, and the one you do have is worth undermining; everyone else in the country other then in the province of Alberta (and internationally too, for that [...]
Posted by Scott Tribe on November 29, 2007, at 10:29 am |
As a liberal with a social progressive bent, I get very happy when I see governments fight very important social issues that often have been overlooked – and Ontario appears about set to do that by announcing a new dental plan for the poor in our society:
McGuinty is giving his anti-poverty initiative teeth with a $45 million dental care plan for the working poor… The new dental program…will help about 500,000 low-income workers unable to afford private insurance coverage for their teeth. It will cover preventive care, including fluoride treatments and cleanings by dental hygienists, and fillings and extractions by dentists.
That’s not all there is though: the [...]
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