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Don’t blame city’s budget woes on the poor
TheStar.com – Opinion/Letters – Don’t blame city’s budget woes on the poor
Published On Mon Oct 26 2009
Re:City looks at 5% budget cut, Oct. 25
Why is the city using welfare recipients as the scapegoat for a problem created by Mayor David Miller’s office? Councillor Joe Mihevc’s singling out of welfare as the cause of the city’s budget woes is at best disingenuous and at worst harmful to the thousands of families who rely on welfare services in the City of Toronto. Mihevc is attempting to direct the public eye away from the city’s poor financial management.
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Mend your ways, world bankers told
TheStar.com – Business – Mend your ways, world bankers told
Published On Mon Oct 26 2009. THE CANADIAN PRESS
OTTAWA – Governments won’t allow the world’s bankers to return to their irresponsible ways, Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney warned Monday, adding financiers had better get ready for major changes to the way they do business.
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Deficit numbers in perspective
TheStar.com – Opinion/Editorial – Deficit numbers in perspective
Published on Fri Oct 23 2009
The numbers released on Thursday by provincial Finance Minister Dwight Duncan in his fall budget update are staggering. A record $24.7 billion deficit, roughly double the peak during Bob Rae’s NDP government ($12.4 billion), and a net provincial debt rising to $184.1 billion, again about double the level during Rae’s days.
Progressive Conservative Leader Tim Hudak called it a “shameful” record for the Liberal government.
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Sick notes? No time, OMA says
ThGlobeandMail.com – ROB – Sick notes? No time, OMA says: Employers are urged to relax their policies and let doctors spend their time treating the ill instead of writing notes for patients
Globe and Mail Update Published on Friday, Oct. 23, 2009. Virginia Galt
The Ontario Medical Association has asked employers to reconsider their sick-note policies so doctors can focus on treating the more seriously ill, rather than those who can recover on their own “and just need a note.”
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$14.1 billion deficit is largest in the history of Ontario
TheStar.com – News/Ontario – $14.1 billion deficit is largest in the history of Ontario: Tax cuts and rebates highlight free-spending budget
Published on March 26, 2009. Richard J. Brennan
The Liberal government released a big-spending budget today featuring the largest deficit in Ontario history and a new blended sales tax that will make everyone’s wallet a little lighter.
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2009 Ontario budget highlights
TheStar.com – News – 2009 Ontario budget highlights
March 27, 2009
Here are the highlights of the 2009 Ontario budget:
* A $108.9 billion spending plan, with a record $14.1 billion deficit due to plunging tax revenues. For the fiscal year ending next week, Ontario is posting a $3.9 billion deficit, up from the $500 million shortfall predicted last fall.
* A blended 13 per cent single sales tax as of July 1, 2010 encompassing the existing 8 per cent provincial sales tax and the 5 per cent GST.
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Ontario deficit billions more than expected
TheStar.com – Hot Topics – Ontario deficit billions more than expected
October 22, 2009. Robert Benzie
Ontario’s already record budget shortfall has ballooned to a staggering $24.7 billion – billions higher than economists expected – and “difficult choices” loom, warns Finance Minister Dwight Duncan.
In the fall economic statement tabled Thursday in the Legislature, Duncan revised the deficit projection upward from the $18.5 billion he had announced in June (and the $14.1 billion in the March budget.)
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Protection for nannies
TheStar.com – Opinion/Editorial – Protection for nannies
Published On Thu Oct 22 2009
It took seven months and a serious change of heart. But the Ontario government is finally getting serious about protecting live-in caregivers from routine exploitation.
Many of the more than 20,000 nannies in Ontario arrive here deep in debt after paying thousands of dollars in fees to recruiters, who often lure them with phantom job offers.
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