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McGuinty under fire as deficit jumps

Sep 30th, 2009 | By Debbie Vitez | Category: Community
 Romina Maurino The Canadian Press TORONTO (Sep 29, 2009) please click to link to story Ontario may find itself in the red longer than expected and face more program cuts if the province's deficit projections keep ballooning, opposition critics said yesterday. Progressive Conservative Leader Tim Hudak warned of more dismal numbers ahead after the ... Full Story

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Opposition questions $81M price of OLG power plant

Sep 30th, 2009 | By Debbie Vitez | Category: Community
Sep 29, 2009 06:53 PM Maria Babbage THE CANADIAN PRESS The Opposition Conservatives are demanding to know why the province spent $81 million to build an energy plant that powers a Windsor casino in a senior minister's riding. The staggering figure attached to the Windsor Energy Centre, which emerged in the government's annual ... Full Story

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Harmonized sales tax will hurt home buyers

Sep 30th, 2009 | By Debbie Vitez | Category: Community
September 29, 2009 Starting July 1, 2010 Ontarians can expect to pay a harmonized sales tax (HST) rate of 13 per cent on a long list goods and services that were previously exempt from the eight per cent Provincial Sales Tax. While the impact of the tax will be felt ... Full Story

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And the cheat goes on..Well-connected consulting firm got $6.8M in contracts from health ministry, province’s numbers show

Sep 30th, 2009 | By Debbie Vitez | Category: Community
  Courtyard Group, the politically well-connected consulting firm that benefited from almost $10 million of work from eHealth Ontario, also picked up $6.8 million from the health ministry last year, the province's public accounts show. The cash was for work on nearly two dozen contracts for electronic health projects run by ... Full Story

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Let the McGuinty Liberals know that you oppose the HST

Sep 30th, 2009 | By Debbie Vitez | Category: Community
    A private member’s motion supporting the HST will be debated in the Ontario Legislature tomorrow, October 1.Each party will have the opportunity to debate the motion before it’s voted on. The NDP caucus wants to make sure that the voices of Ontarians are heard in this debate. To that end, ... Full Story

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GST was undemocratic; so is HST

Sep 30th, 2009 | By Debbie Vitez | Category: Community, Politics
  G.A. Soehner The Hamilton Spectator Hamilton (Sep 30, 2009) Re: HST Here we go again.First it was the GST brought in by the Brian Mulroney Conservative government, and now the HST is being brought in by the Dalton McGuinty Liberals. In each case, it would (or will), according to Mulroney and McGuinty, create jobs and ... Full Story

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Big Tobacco sued for $50 billion..Firms vow long fight as Ontario seeks to recoup health costs of smoking

Sep 30th, 2009 | By Debbie Vitez | Category: Community
 Sep 30, 2009 04:30 AM Rob Ferguson Queen's Park Bureau Tobacco companies are promising a long, hard fight as Ontario sues them for $50 billion to recover the costs of treating citizens with smoking-related illnesses since 1955. The lawsuit filed Tuesday has been expected for months, after the province passed a law last ... Full Story

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Cambridge Civic League, Saturday Oct 3rd/09

Sep 29th, 2009 | By Debbie Vitez | Category: Community
Join us Saturday October 3rd, 2009 Wesley United Church, 10:00 am – 11:00   Grab yourself a coffee & dumpling, and join one of our tables for conversation. Express your thoughts and hear what others have to say about: 1. Public transit 2. Rapid transit 3. Drayton Theatre 4. Election 2010  regards, Karen Cummings    Cambridge Civic League 28 Colborne Street, Cambridge ON N1R 1R2 Tel.  ... Full Story

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With great sadness we announce the passing of “Hugh Purchase”

Sep 29th, 2009 | By Debbie Vitez | Category: Community, Obituaries
PURCHASE, Hugh -   (Retired Draftsman - Rockwood Automation). Suddenly, at his residence in Loring, Ontario, on Sunday, September 27, 2009, in his 73rd year.  Hugh was the beloved husband of Yvonne (Wood) of Loring and loving father of Susanne Casarin (Richard) of Cambridge and Glenn Purchase (Susan) of Guelph. He is ... Full Story

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A Very Special Delivery : Joe Lethbridge

Sep 29th, 2009 | By joe | Category: Arts & Entertainment, Community, Local Folks
[caption id="attachment_8852" align="alignleft" width="350" caption="Now you are truly free "][/caption] I will apologize up front. This is a longer piece of wrting than I would normally post . Even this was shortened from I had originally planned to post. The subject matter is so close to my heart . As I sit ... Full Story

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