Tag: Premier of Ontario
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Ontario Boosts Transit Funding Across Province Doubles Municipal Share Gas Tax
Ontario is boosting support for nearly 100 cities and towns across the province, providing them with reliable, long-term funding to improve and expand their local transit systems and offer more travel options for commuters and families. Premier Kathleen Wynne and Transportation Minister Steven Del Duca were at York Region Transit’s Richmond Hill facility today to…
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Unique Ontario Bill 36 (designed to promote Local Food) passes final Vote
Ontario is moving forward to help promote the good things that are grown, harvested and processed in Ontario with today’s passage of the Local Food Act, 2013. The new legislation is part of a strategy http://www.omafra.gov.on.ca/english/about/localfood.htm to build Ontario’s economy by making more local food available in markets, schools, cafeterias, grocery stores and restaurants. This…
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Holland Marsh Peaker Plant
“The cost of moving gas power plants for political reasons is more than financial. It erodes confidence in our government and our democracy. It leads to cynicism and turns people off politics.It’s a sad day for democracy when jokes are flying around Queen’s Park that the going rate for a Liberal seat is $40 million.…
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Ontario Pledges $1Million To Horn Of Africa
Ontario Pledges $1 Million To Fight Famine McGuinty Government Helps Horn Of Africa Humanitarian Relief Effort The Ontario government is providing $1 million to help people facing starvation in the hardest hit countries of the Horn of Africa. Millions of lives are at stake in the region due to a cycle of severe droughts.…