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Ontario NDP Finance Critic’s Statement RE: OCC “Empowering Ontario” Report

Ontario NDP Finance Critic’s Statement RE: OCC “Empowering Ontario” Report

Statement by Ontario NDP Finance Critic Catherine Fife (MPP Kitchener-Waterloo) regarding Ontario Chamber of Commerce “Empowering Ontario” report “According to the Ontario Chamber of Commerce nearly 4 in 10 businesses say that the cost of electricity is causing them to delay or cancel [Read more]

Ontario Introduces New Connecting Links Program to Support Municipalities, Improve Infrastructure

Province Committing $15 Million Annually to Connect Municipal Roads to Highways As part of the largest infrastructure investment in Ontario’s history, the province is committing $15 million annually to a new Connecting Links program, which will help municipalities pay the construction and [Read more]

Energy Assistance for Ratepayers

Energy Assistance for Ratepayers

Ontario Electricity Support Program to Assist Low-Income Ontarians with Electricity Costs  Today, MPP Michael Gravelle shared details of the proposed Ontario Electricity Support Program.  The intent of this program is to help qualifying low-income Ontarians by providing them with financial [Read more]

“What Are Public Costs of Pan/Parapan Am Games Sponsorships?” NDP

“What Are Public Costs of Pan/Parapan Am Games Sponsorships?” NDP

“Government should come clean about public costs of Pan/Parapan Am Games sponsorships” says  NDP QUEEN’S PARK, ON – Today NDP Finance Critic Catherine Fife demanded the government release the details about costs to the public for sponsorship of the Pan/ Parapan Am Games [Read more]

Industrial Road Updates From Province/Municipality + Andrew Foulds “not familiar” w/Ind.Rd

Industrial Road Updates From Province/Municipality + Andrew Foulds “not familiar” w/Ind.Rd

NORTHWESTERN, ON – The Industrial Rd, a.k.a. Hwy 625 or Caramat Road, has been the subject of much lobbying, debate and buck passing since the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources quietly ended it’s maintenance of the Road in Spring of 2013 eventually resulting in the road becoming [Read more]

Ontario Providing a Boost to Regional Economic Growth

Ontario Providing a Boost to Regional Economic Growth

The Ontario government is investing $21,800 to support economic development in Thunder Bay-Superior North. With support from our government’s Rural Economic Development (RED) Program, the Top of the Lake Chamber of Commerce, in collaboration with other area Chambers, is creating a shop-local [Read more]

Marathon High Students Strive to “Survive” Mock Emergency

Marathon High Students Strive to “Survive” Mock Emergency

MARATHON, ON – Severe weather, power outages, forest fires, and industrial accidents – they can all happen.  That’s why Marathon High School and the Superior Greenstone District School Board have partnered to educate high school students on practical survival skills should an emergency [Read more]

Wawa Firefighter’s Story: #Hwy17 Conditions Take Another Young Life (Video: MPP Mantha Reads)

Wawa Firefighter’s Story: #Hwy17 Conditions Take Another Young Life (Video: MPP Mantha Reads)

While the Liberals and Conservatives continue to battle it out in a “he said, she said” libel lawsuit over gas plant scandal accusations; New Democrats continue to listen to your concerns and take action. This week my colleague MPP Sarah Campbell, Kenora Rainy River, used her Private Members [Read more]

New Legislation Would Tie Minimum Wage to Consumer Price Index

New Legislation Would Tie Minimum Wage to Consumer Price Index

Ontario Increasing Minimum Wage Ontario is increasing the minimum wage from $10.25 to $11 per hour on June 1, 2014. This new rate reflects the rise in the Consumer Price Index (CPI) since the last minimum wage increase in 2010 and is part of the provincial government’s commitment to fairness. [Read more]

Premier’s Statement on Alice Munro

Premier’s Statement on Alice Munro

Premier Kathleen Wynne issued the following statement today: “On behalf of the people of Ontario and readers everywhere, I am so proud to congratulate Alice Munro on winning the Nobel Prize for Literature. Her book, Lives of Girls and Women, has always been a favourite of mine, and I am part [Read more]

Province Offers Online Driver’s Licence Renewal

Province Offers Online Driver’s Licence Renewal

Ontario Making it Easier to Access Important Government Services Ontario is now allowing drivers to renew their licences online ­– the first province in Canada to do so. Ontario drivers need to renew their licences every five years.  Now, eligible drivers who renew online [Read more]

Improving Ontario’s Justice System

Improving Ontario’s Justice System

Members to Chart the Way Forward on Improvements to the Justice System Ontario has appointed 11 individuals to a committee that will help enhance First Nation representation on juries. Led by co-chairs Alvin Fiddler, Deputy Grand Chief of Nishnawbe Aski Nation and Irwin Glasberg, Assistant Deputy [Read more]

Ontario Government Strengthening Northern Economy, Creating Jobs

Ontario Government Strengthening Northern Economy, Creating Jobs

Ontario Government Strengthening Northern Economy, Creating Jobs Ontario is creating 13 new jobs while improving infrastructure along a stretch of Highway 17 near Marathon. “Our government is improving infrastructure across the province, which creates jobs and strengthens our economy. [Read more]

Three Ontario MPPs Take on New Roles

Three Ontario MPPs Take on New Roles

Premier Names New Parliamentary Assistants to Join Her Team As the Legislature resumed, three Ontario MPPs are taking on new duties to help Premier Kathleen Wynne and her team build a better Ontario. Three MPPs will take on new portfolios as parliamentary assistants: Joe Dickson becomes [Read more]

Ontario’s Economy Expands and Creates Jobs Ontario Gains 43,600 Jobs in August

Ontario’s Economy Expands and Creates Jobs Ontario Gains 43,600 Jobs in August

FROM: Ministry of Economic Development, Trade and Employment Ontario’s Economy Expands and Creates Jobs  Ontario’s economy continued to gain strength as the provincial government continued its focus on job creation and economic growth. In August, the province gained 43,600 jobs, the second [Read more]

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