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Severance pay bonanza: Ontario tax collectors cash in on HST by getting up to $45,000 to change job title

Mar 11th, 2010 | By Debbie Vitez | Category: Politics
This ran in the Toronto Sun....... comments invited below By Christina Blizzard, Queen's Park columnist Talk about double-dipping! More than 1,250 provincial tax collectors, who will move over to the federal tax department when the province no longer collects sales tax, will get up to a six month pay bonanza. It’s nice someone’s going ... Full Story

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Thousands say “no” to the HST

Mar 11th, 2010 | By Debbie Vitez | Category: Community, Politics
What the letter below doesn't tell you though is that all businesses will be able to get back all of the PST they paid on all purchases, in effect placing the total burden on the backs of consumers.  Businesses already get back 100% of the GST they paid out, after ... Full Story

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Hospital cuts have a serious impact on all of us

Mar 11th, 2010 | By Debbie Vitez | Category: Opinion, Politics
This ran in the Guelph Mercury under Opinion... your comments invited below March 11, 2010 Re: I was pleased to see that the Mercury focused on the cuts to services in a recent article on what is happening at Cambridge Memorial Hospital. The issue is not far from home, and Guelph will ... Full Story

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Money well wasted on city roundabouts

Mar 11th, 2010 | By Debbie Vitez | Category: Politics
This ran in the Times letter to the Editor.. comments invited below How can the region justify spending millions of dollars on roundabouts along Franklin Boulevard? Is there nothing better to spend that kind of money on? Our roads are among the worst in Ontario with potholes deep enough to lose your ... Full Story

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MP reaching across the country to help ( Gary Goodyear helps Edmonton?)

Mar 11th, 2010 | By Debbie Vitez | Category: Community, Politics
This ran in the Cambridge Times under Opinion........ comments invited below   I want to personally thank the good electors of the Cambridge constituency for being so undemanding of the time and energy of their MP. It seems Gary Goodyear has been able to offer his obviously considerable talents to service me and ... Full Story

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Roundabouts approved on Franklin Boulevard in Cambridge

Mar 10th, 2010 | By Debbie Vitez | Category: City Issues, Politics
This ran in the KW Record... comments invited below By Jeff Outhit, Record staff CAMBRIDGE — Busy Franklin Boulevard will be converted to a string of 11 roundabouts , at a cost of up to 53 Million Waterloo regional councillors voted 13-0 Tuesday to install roundabouts as a way to handle traffic growth ... Full Story

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Government waste highlighted at ‘Teddy’ awards

Mar 10th, 2010 | By Debbie Vitez | Category: Politics
This ran in the Toronto Sun.. comments invited below By PETER ZIMONJIC, Parliamentary Bureau OTTAWA — MPs sending out junk mail, the City of Toronto’s homeless audit and the Nova Scotia's MLA expense scandal earned golden sows in the annual awards for taxpayer waste. The Canadian Taxpayers Federation’s 12th annual ‘Teddy’ awards for ... Full Story

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It’s Dalton in Wonderland, To listen to Monday’s throne speech, you’d think everything was ticking along nicely in this province

Mar 10th, 2010 | By Debbie Vitez | Category: Politics
This ran in the Toronto Sun.......... comments invited below By Christina Blizzard Slap a top hat on his head and Dalton McGuinty could have been a dead ringer for Johnny Depp in Tim Burton’s brilliant 3-D adaptation of Alice in Wonderland. I thought I’d fallen down a rabbit hole and come face to ... Full Story

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Councillor Ben Tucci responds to: “Drayton Theatre” by Cambridge Councillor Rick Cowsill

Feb 28th, 2010 | By Debbie Vitez | Category: 2010 Municipal Candidates, Announcements, City Issues, Community, Local Folks, Opinion, Politics
Ben Tucci February 28th, 2010 9:49 pm   edit : Hi folks! Sounds like some of you under estimated me or hoped that I would shy away from further debate on the Theatre issue. Unbeknownst to me, my wife Cathie took the liberty of giving you a heads up that I ... Full Story

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Watchdog roles need new blood, premier says, McGuinty defends decision not to renew critics’ contracts

Feb 26th, 2010 | By Debbie Vitez | Category: Politics
This ran in the Star... comments invited below Rob Ferguson Queen's Park Bureau Premier Dalton McGuinty has confirmed the government is seeking new blood in the watchdog roles of ombudsman and environmental commissioner, rejecting opposition charges he's scheming to silence two outspoken critics. "At some point in time, you've got to make a ... Full Story

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