EDITORIAL The Chronicle Journal May 18 2014 NEARLY two weeks into the Ontario election campaign much is being promised but much remains unknown and unsaid. For that reason it is difficult to judge who is worthy to run the province at a time when it needs inventive but reliable governance. Election campaigns start with platforms […]
Read More →TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE Metro May 17 2014 Instead of proposing to axe a 30 per cent tuition discount for post-secondary students, whoever forms the next provincial government should make it available to more youth, says the president of the Ontario Undergraduate Student Alliance. “We feel that this is a policy that is regressive — a […]
Read More →LANA PAYNE The Telegram May 17 2014 You know the world is truly upside down when a politician thinks it’s popular and safe to campaign on eliminating more than 100,000 jobs. But that’s exactly what Ontario Progressive Conservative Leader Tim Hudak is doing in the first days of that province’s general election. Zombie ideas have […]
Read More →JAMES GORDON Ottawa Citizen May 16 2014 Given how much of Ontario Progressive Conservative leader Tim Hudak’s platform relies on fuzzy math from a far right-wing economist, perhaps it isn’t all that surprising that funding education ranks so low on his list of priorities. Still, it’s disappointing our children will be the ones who pay […]
Read More →SCOTT REID, Ottawa Citizen May 16 2014 Tim Hudak has picked his opponent for Ontario’s provincial election campaign ¬— and it’s not who you might have expected. After 11 years in government and dragging around a bushel full of sins, you probably thought Kathleen Wynne would pose the most obvious target for the Progressive Conservative […]
Read More →RICK DRENNAN Brampton Guardian May 16 2014 “Rich business people like me don’t create jobs.” ¬— Nick Hanauer, Seattle-based multimillionaire and venture capitalist Jobs, jobs, jobs, and more jobs. So many jobs that I might need to take another full-time job just to report on all this employment activity coming to Ontario. But that’s the […]
Read More →COLIN PERKEL The Canadian Press May 16 2014 Fourteen years ago, a provincial government bent on cost-cutting and privatization contributed to a deadly water-borne disaster that unfolded over the Victoria Day long weekend — one that Ontario taxpayers are still paying for. Now, a new would-be Progressive Conservative premier, Tim Hudak, is pledging to slash […]
Read More →Ontario PC leader Tim Hudak’s budget-balancing fanaticism is not based on anything actually there. It’s a fearful extrapolation of what might occur. RICK SALUTIN Toronto Star May 15 2014 There’s an Alfred E. Newman quality about Tim Hudak, and I say that with great affection, speaking as one of Mad magazine’s early devotees. (My collection of vintage […]
Read More →Nearly two-thirds of Ontarians disapprove of Tim Hudak’s plan to cut 100,000 public servants to streamline government, a new poll suggests. ROBERT BENZIE, RICHARD BRENNAN, ROB FERGUSON Toronto Star May 14 2014 Nearly two-thirds of Ontarians disapprove of Tim Hudak’s plan to cut 100,000 public servants to streamline government, a new poll suggests. The Forum […]
Read More →The Ontario Tories would kill jobs to create jobs. They’re finding that a hard sell. THOMAS WALKOM Toronto Star May 14 2014 Tim Hudak’s Tories are taking a big gamble. They are betting that Ontario voters are so fed up with Premier Kathleen Wynne’s Liberal government that they’ll opt for wrenching change on June 12. […]
Read More →EDITORIAL Bracebridge Examiner May 14 2014 Last week we wondered if Muskoka was ready to veer away from the norm, that is from voting blue in the upcoming provincial election. As Norm Miller campaigns to keep his place at the provincial table, is there anyone who can unseat him? His competition in the riding consists of […]
Read More →A Progressive Conservative government would increase class sizes, scrap promised raises for teachers and early childhood educators, end tuition breaks for post-secondary students, and eliminate a home renovation tax credit for seniors, says Tim Hudak ROBERT BENZIE Our Windsor May 14 2014 A Progressive Conservative government would increase class sizes, scrap promised raises for teachers and early […]
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