July 29, 2010
 
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McGuinty sits out Pan Am Games stadium dispute
Premier Dalton McGuinty is remaining on the sidelines in the battle over where to build the stadium for the Pan Am Games and the Hamilton Tiger-Cats.
 
Ontario's Opinion Leaders
York U. now a candidate for Pan Am track and field as venue complications in Hamilton drag on. http://ow.ly/2iw8x
29 July 2010 | 4:29 pm
- best question posed on TV today: How do you avoid bear attacks? Simple answer: Don't sleep in the woods.
29 July 2010 | 4:28 pm
Enjoy Prom Dress Rugby at Crusaders on 9th Line 5-9 pm tonite & fight breast cancer too! I'll be there (it's fun).
29 July 2010 | 4:25 pm
.@G_Smitherman welcomes the coroner's decision: http://bit.ly/bNHoc7 #voteTO
29 July 2010 | 4:24 pm
#Muskoka Huntsville Accident Update: One Man Dead: A man has died as a result of injuries he… http://goo.gl/fb/uqgvR
29 July 2010 | 4:23 pm
TSX ekes out modest gain as jittery investors counter upbeat earnings. http://bit.ly/8XgAS4 #OBJ #FB
29 July 2010 | 4:22 pm
RT @Don411_com: Stratford Shakespeare Festival Two Gentlemen of Verona starts previews July 30 & runs Aug 10 to Sep 19. http://don411.com
29 July 2010 | 4:22 pm
Canadian Kafka: only charges from G20 fence rule disappear in administrative weirdness http://bit.ly/d5lJrf
29 July 2010 | 4:21 pm
Sitebrand increases revenue for second consecutive quarter, cuts losses. http://bit.ly/a9PEp1 #OBJ #FB
29 July 2010 | 4:19 pm
Don't undervalue your business! Quality is much better than quantity says @CreativeCo_U2R1 :: http://ht.ly/2itHG :: #Entrepreneurship
29 July 2010 | 4:15 pm
Rob Ford gets clucked up — Chicken Man continues campaign of shame against mayoral candidate http://ow.ly/2ivDD
29 July 2010 | 4:12 pm
#lpcx at MuchMusic with the Calypso Monarch Dara Woods, Yasmin Ratansi & Kirsty Duncan http://twitpic.com/29swah
29 July 2010 | 4:11 pm
Say bye to the Whippersnapper Gallery and @JESSIMTV. Extra, Extra: http://bit.ly/bmd6Gv
29 July 2010 | 4:10 pm
Hwy 401 WB [county Rd 30 - ] - Daily Maint WB Frm: County Rd 30 (R Shoulder) Moderate Daily Maint Strt: Jul 28@09:26 End: 1280433660
29 July 2010 | 4:09 pm
"Mama, I'm going to be happy forever if you get me a Justin Bieber book.". Right.
29 July 2010 | 4:09 pm
Ford Targets Tory in Campaign Video - First George Smitherman's camp brought out a chicken... http://www.newstalk1010.com/node/1179441
29 July 2010 | 4:08 pm
Back in black: Report says Ottawa could return to surplus in five years http://cot.ag/bYmq1j ^AF
29 July 2010 | 4:08 pm
Back in black: Report says Ottawa could return to surplus in five years http://cot.ag/cmDbdi ^AF
29 July 2010 | 4:07 pm
Easier to maintain ceilings being tested @ Bay Lower to replace existing difficult to clean metal slats. Should im http://twitpic.com/29suim
29 July 2010 | 4:05 pm
You have to love cheese to do this....http://tinyurl.com/2dr5qy8
29 July 2010 | 4:05 pm
@G_Smitherman with Team Toronto Community Housing waiting for the Corporate & Celebrity Relay Challenge to begin http://yfrog.com/mvxo3j
29 July 2010 | 4:04 pm
The answer, if you missed it, was Phil Spector. Now we move on to the question, "What if no one was normal?" Join the conversation.
29 July 2010 | 4:04 pm
Summer (via iPhone) http://tweetphoto.com/35617951
29 July 2010 | 4:04 pm
Recognize this site? http://ow.ly/i/2U3N It holds biogas from Hamilton’s wastewater plant used to generate 1.6 MW of electricity.
29 July 2010 | 4:02 pm
A thin crowd at the east-side Gerrard Square mall. Photoist: http://bit.ly/ayQIdt
29 July 2010 | 4:02 pm
Slimming jeans: the right fit. Why you don’t need to spend a fortune. REPORTER: Pat Foran
29 July 2010 | 4:00 pm
Is Dalton McGuinty Telling The Truth? - Two weeks after the OPP raided the offices of three... http://www.newstalk1010.com/node/1179438
29 July 2010 | 3:59 pm
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Today's Opinions:

Silver-Powers: John Tory's decision
There are good reasons for him to run for mayor in Toronto, but by doing so he'd be breaking his word

Granatstein: Five reasons why Tory won’t run
Johnny come lately? Nah, Johnny won’t come at all.

Travers: Census clamour wakes sleeping nation
Prime Ministers are rarely more vulnerable than when they shoot themselves in the foot

Fiorito: Stolen binder holds boy’s medical history
Nancy Manocchio’s Toyota Highlander was stolen recently; in it was a binder containing six years’ worth of records relating to the health of her autistic son.

Gray: What makes Jim Watson run?
Put yourself in Jim Watson's shoes. Why would he want to be mayor of Ottawa? It doesn't make a lot of sense.

Gardner: Why our drug policy is 'inconsistent' with all available evidence
It's safe to assume most people have never heard of the "Vienna Declaration." And that simple fact helps explain why public policies that fail -- policies that do vastly more harm than good -- can live on despite overwhelming evidence of their failure.

Robson: I've come for your data
Congratulations! You have been specially selected to receive the Robson Long Form Questionnaire. Please answer all questions honestly and in detail or you will be obliged to sit through a five-year round table on federal-provincial relations in the post-Meech Era.

Siddiqui: Civil servants shine amid Tory darkness
Tony Clement, not the the head of Statistics Canada, should have resigned.

Travers: Harper’s ideology hurts his popularity

Mandel: Hazel McCallion's son keeps it under his hat
It’s not easy being the son of the nation’s most famous mayor.

Brown: A libertarian solution to the census debacle
If you’re unhappy with Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s decision to make the long-form census voluntary, there’s an easy solution that doesn’t require any action by the government.

Royson: Ending the state of denial
The Mississauga inquiry reveals just how much needs to be changed about how business is done in that city, with or without Hazel at the helm.

Goldstein: Has Canada lost the will to fight?
Is it just me, or is announcing to the enemy when you plan to stop fighting a war an admission of defeat?

Goar: Even Helena Guergis doesn’t deserve this
Helena Guergis may be a political embarrassment with a trouble-prone husband but she deserves justice.

Benitah: Oshawa voters being led down dangerous path
For the last four years, Toronto Budget Chief Shelley Carroll has helped decide how much it should cost to send your kid to camp and which city service to cut in order to save some cash.

Perkins: New Hamilton stadium won’t have Pan Am track events
Wherever they build it, soccer will come instead for the Pan Am Games with the track and field program in Toronto.

Globe Editorial: The RCMP is still broken
New leadership seems essential if the Mounties are to regain the country's trust.

Toronto Sun Editorial: As RCMP issues mount, inquiry needed
Dudley just can't seem to Do-Right these days.

Ottawa Sun Editorial: Impaired legislation the right move
After all the controversy sparked by the HST and the eco fees fiasco this summer, it seems the Liberals are finally behind something that went right: The implementation of new regulations that prohibit drivers 21 years of age and younger from having any alcohol in their systems.

Ottawa Citizen Editorial: Seeking sanctuary
The Ontario government is offering to install wireless Internet service to at least one provincial park because campers have apparently complained about feeling cut off from civilization -- to which we say to those pathetic, e-mail addicted "campers": toughen up. 1:21pm

Windsor Star Editorial: Driving rules
Starting Sunday, young drivers in Ontario will face stiff new regulations when it comes to drinking and driving. It's zero tolerance for anyone 21 and under who gets behind the wheel. Have one drink -- even if you're legally allowed to, even if you have your full licence -- and you can receive a $500 fine, have your licence suspended for 24 hours and face other sanctions.

Windsor Star Editorial: Confidence grows in downtown core
The opening of an eclectic group of new businesses in the city's core is a sign that economic confidence is slowly returning, says the executive director of the Downtown Windsor Business Improvement Association.

Toronto Star Editorial: RCMP brass need oversight
“The issue with (the Commissioner) was not just his autocratic leadership style, but the way in which he articulated it. He expressed himself in passionate (some say intemperate) ways, with little regard or apparent respect for those with whom he was...

Toronto Star Editorial: A failure to communicate
Governments are often undermined not so much by the substance of their decisions as by their inability to communicate them in a clear and timely fashion. So it is with the current Liberal government at Queen’s Park.
 

From Inside Queen's Park

"The Mother's Milk of Politics"
Here’s an Ontario election result for you to ponder: The NDP comes in first at 39%, the LIBs are second with 35% and the PCs come third with 22%. No, not an actual election with actual votes but a pretty good surrogate.
 


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Ontario to boost spending on high-volume ERs
Health Minister Deb Matthews is expanding a government program that gives Ontario emergency rooms extra cash to reduce wait times. 1:08pm

Hudak demands OPP probe details
Ontario PC Leader Tim Hudak says the provincial government must disclose if an ongoing mysterious OPP criminal investigation involves the $32 billion stimulus plan. 3:31pm

New rules for paramedics could add time to patient care
Ottawa paramedics are worried new training requirements imposed by Ontario's Ministry of Health will increase the time it takes to treat some patients. 1:17pm

Ontario Tourism rejects NDP's web-hosting claim
Ontario's Ministry of Tourism says its websites are hosted in Canada, not in the United States as the opposition claims. 3:21pm

Ontario's chief coroner to review drowning deaths
After a rash of summer drownings across Ontario, the office of the chief coroner has committed to reviewing all the deaths. 3:27pm

Is PM on well-earned holiday or hiding from controversy?
Opposition points repeatedly to Harper’s absence – much as Tories did last summer with Ignatieff 12:17pm

Former immigration board adjudicator sentenced to 18 months in prison
TORONTO, Ont. -Former immigration judge and city councillor Steve Ellis has been sentenced to 18 months in prison. Back in April, Ellis was found guilty of breach of trust and bribery. Ellis was...... 12:20pm

Food makers must cut back on salt or face regulations, report says
Task force calls for substantial cut in salt levels, new guidelines on daily intakes, and uniform serving sizes 12:21pm

Tory targeted in election ad
John Tory may not be in the mayor's race yet but he's already turning up in election advertising. 3:28pm

Party system touted as way to ease voter choice
A municipal party system may make it easier for voters in Toronto to pick from long lists of council candidates, although it comes with a number of pitfalls, says a longtime political watcher in Vancouver. 11:56am

Cop pleads guilty
A St. Thomas police officer has pleaded guilty to smoking marijuana while off-duty and will be sentenced at a hearing Thursday. 12:03pm

Mayor McCallion attended nearly 20 meetings with her son, inquiry hears
Intervened to settle dispute between shareholders in son’s company

Tip leads cops to child-porn bust

Disturbed by what they found on a computer, friends of a man they were hosting at their Little Britain home called police. Durham detectives confirmed the man was viewing child pornography and the British national was arrested. 12:08pm


Man killed by lightning in Hamilton, Ont.
Autopsy to be conducted on 68-year-old 11:59am

Ottawa finances on track but provinces face ‘hard choices’
Jim Flaherty could balance books a year early, Conference Board says 12:22pm

Hospital ERs to get extra $5.8M in funding
Ottawa-area emergency rooms will be getting $5.8 million from the Ontario government to reduce wait times, according to an announcement Thursday morning. 12:18pm

Ottawa cop who aided gangsters kicked off force
An Ottawa cop convicted of using a police database to assist East Indian gangsters has been given one week to resign from the force or face dismissal. 1:16pm

Blaze burns family out of home
A two-alarm fire left a family homeless on Ottawa's west side early Thursday morning. 12:05pm

Fontana pledges support but not more money for transit
Mayoralty candidate Joe Fontana bought a bus pass Thursday and promised to ride transit often if elected — but also to support a downtown parking garage that city staff say could cost taxpayers tens of millions of dollars. 1:08pm

Ford to lay off 388 at Windsor engine plant
CBC News has learned Ford Motor Co. will lay off nearly 400 workers at its engine plant in Windsor, Ont. 12:06pm

County mayoral races take shape
WINDSOR, Ont. — With six weeks before municipal election nominations close, the mayoral races in Essex County are clearer. 11:50am

Limoges mulls mayoral run
WINDSOR, Ont. — Rick Limoges has spent two days meeting with a “cross-section of the community” and while the former city councillor and federal MP has not formally decided to run for mayor, he talked Wednesday as if he is poised for the challenge. 11:54am

McGuinty rolls out the explanations
The first day back at work can be busy for anyone. When you're the premier of Ontario it can be frenetic.[...]

Ontario won't yet fund studies on new MS treatment
Saskatchewan is ready to fund clinical trials of a new procedure that could offer hope to people with multiple sclerosis, but Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty says his province won't yet follow suit

Hikes to hydro and gas bills surprise many residents
Thousands of Ontarians are being hit with a double shocker this month. Their hydro bills have jumped 15 to 20 per cent, and the bills for at least 100,000 Enbridge gas customers are at least triple what they expected.

OPP will be out in full force on weekend
The OPP is warning boaters and motorists they’ll be doubling enforcement to crack down on aggressive drivers and impaired drivers and enforcing seatbelt and life-jacket use on waterways and roads this Civic Holiday weekend.

Premiers seek difficult compromise on census
Quebec joins Ontario in calling for Ottawa to reverse its stand, but McGuinty acknowledges it won’t be easy

Conservatives praise three provinces for introducing cap-and-trade system
Critics say move by Ontario, Quebec and British Columbia reduces pressure for federal action

New U.S. regulations could bring clean-air dividend for Ontario
Southern Ontario expected to benefit as Washington readies to more tightly regulate coal-fired pollution

Realty Corp. axed staff days before OPP raids
The Ontario Realty Corporation did a major housecleaning — firing some staff and restructuring a department — just before police raided government offices as part of a corruption prob

Eco Fees Should Not Be Scrapped: Watchdog
Gord Miller says if not with eco fees, we will have to pay for the disposal of hazardous materials through taxpayer-funded recycling programs or a degraded environment.

How Tony Clement kept his head – and a drowning swimmer’s – above water all week
Amidst a firestorm over the census, Industry Minister tweets on wedding, river rescue and train ride to Hell

Giambrone vows to push ahead with open-fare TTC concept
Proposed system sharply criticized by mayoral hopefuls Rossi, Smitherman

In his own words: The chicken scrum
Who's inside Team Smitherman's chicken suit? The poultry's not telling

Ford went face-to-face with former player
An assistant football coach had to separate mayoral candidate Rob Ford from a student player during a heated 2001 dispute, says a published report.

Rossi would open garbage to tender
Toronto's summer garbage strike of 2009 was remembered yesterday by mayoral candidate Rocco Rossi, who announced he would open the city's waste collection to public tender. "If I am elected mayor, the city's current contract with CUPE's outside workers will be the last of its kind,"

Other candidates discount Tory mayoral talk
Mayoral candidates are reacting in various ways to news that a potential political heavyweight could join the race as early as next week.

Rooster at hand for Ford 'chicken' insult
While a man dressed in a yellow rooster suit lurked nearby, George Smitherman's campaign manager Bruce Davis called Rob Ford "chicken" for refusing to participate in a one-on-one talk radio debate with Mr. Smitherman.

A Tory family affair — on the Thomson campaign
Sarah Thomson has the most to lose if John Tory enters the race. Two of his sons work on her campaign.

John Tory could enter Toronto’s mayoral race late – and win
There’s a sense of disappointment about the existing field

Veteran bureaucrat to take reins at Metrolinx
Deputy minister of transportation Bruce McCuaig to replace Rob Prichard

Air pollution takes a dive
If you’re breathing easier in Southwestern Ontario, thank the weather, the economy and less air pollution.

City launches campaign to get BIXI riders
City of Toronto kicks off campaign to get 1,000 BIXI subscriptions by the end of November.

Toronto Hydro users may have to pay $8 million in class-action settlement
Toronto Hydro consumers may have to cover the utility’s share of a $17-million class-action lawsuit involving illegal charges on late payments.

Police ceremony kicks off Caribana
Toronto police hold a ceremony to kick off Caribana and preview the event’s music, costumes, dance and food.

Frank Gehry clears the air on fishy inspiration
Mr. Gehry’s ichthyological designs not based on early years in Toronto, contradicting the city’s heritage reports

Somalis angered by Toronto police action
Members of the Somali community in Toronto say they're upset with the amount of force used by police to take a suspect into custody last week - a suspect that turned out to be the wrong man.

The curious case of the Scarborough stench
A stench from a local paper mill has invaded Scarborough yards.

Parents doubling care plans for kids
Only five out of 22 schools in Ottawa’s English public school board launching full-day kindergarten programs this September will also provide the extended on-site care before and after class initially promised by the Ontario government.

OC Transpo holds customer appreciation days in August
Refreshments, transit information and promotional items will be handed out, and bus riders will have a chance to win a monthly or annual bus pass, according to a memo sent to councillors by Alain Mercier, the general manager of transit services.

Municipalities skip river summit
Although local municipal leaders are interested in the Ottawa River and its management, the timing of an upcoming summit doesn’t work with their schedules.

School board blamed for daycare snafu
Poor promotion by the city’s public school board is to blame for the lack of enrolment in its extended daycare programs that has left parents in a bind to find daycare for their children, a local parent council chair said Wednesday.

Candidate declines to reveal specifics of rights complaint
A municipal election candidate in River ward who filed a complaint to the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal claiming he was harassed, intimidated and discriminated against by city staff and a city councillor over a four-year period says he won’t make his specific allegations public.

London woman survives bear attack
A London woman who awoke to a bear chewing on her arm survived by playing dead during the animal’s violent late-night rampage through a U.S. campground Tuesday.

As Londoners brace for a 17% jump in their power bill, critics say conservation only goes so far
Londoner Arnold Hull won’t be helping the city keep a walkway beside his house safe and clean anymore.

Bid to reopen Junction receives legal setback
Two Windsor businessmen have lost another fight in their battle to reopen The Junction on the city’s near west side.

Windsor council approves small business recommendations
WINDSOR, Ont. — University and college business and finance students could be running around helping local small business owners as soon as this fall with their grant applications and paperwork challenges.

The end of a shift at GM, the end of an era in Windsor
With closing of transmission plant, automaker ends 90-year run in Southwestern Ontario city

Multi-million dollar marina project coming to Trenton?
One project down, another one to go. That's how Quinte West Mayor John Williams pitched a proposed multi-million dollar marina project to Premier Dalton McGuinty Tuesday morning.[...]

Porn industry finds a backdoor to iPhone 4
Adult-entertainment companies rush to develop video-sex chat services to exploit FaceTime videoconference feature

The Earth is hotter than ever, global warming is real: Researchers
Scientists hope findings will debunk some growing skepticism about climate change

Ontario teen's Cuban ordeal to come to an end, return to Canada pending
CAMAGUEY, Cuba -- Cody LeCompte's tropical island nightmare has finally come to an end.[...]
 

 


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