Ontario Daily Digest - Oct. 27, 2011

Good morning. The opposition parties have announced their shadow cabinets and there are enough individual articles about critic assignments that I've grouped them into a separate category immediately following the normal Politics section.

Aboriginal Affairs:

CBC Thunder Bay: First Nation community celebrates positive changes

CBC Thunder Bay: Re-building food skills, one garden at a time

Timmins Daily Press: Native communities playing catch-up

Timmins Daily Press: Act now or miss out on opportunities, Hodgson warns

Agriculture:

Better Farming: Ontario livestock truckers face CFIA fines

Community Safety:

Ottawa Citizen: Cycling safely

Toronto Star - Editorial: Seeking a balance on cycling

Welland Tribune: Niagara fatalities among Ontario cycling study

Economy:

Toronto Sun: Ontario's economy shrinks

CTV Toronto: Ontario's gross domestic product falls 0.3 per cent in Q2

Education:

Guelph Mercury: University of Guelph remains a top-five school in Maclean’s ranking

Energy:

Barrie Examiner: Electricity prices to rise

London Free Press: City council shortsighted in blowing off hydro talks

Owen Sound Sun Times: Council pursues waste-to-energy plant agreement

Sarnia Observer: New power projects on hold

London Free Press: Injury halts solar farm work

Mississauga.com: Liberals in talks to move plant

Finance:

Ottawa Citizen: Ontario economy shrinks amid fears of recession

Metro Ottawa (CP): Ontario’s deficit reduction expected to be a team effort

G20:

CBC: G20 crossbow suspect acquitted

Toronto Star: Man with crossbow near G20 zone acquitted of weapons charge

Health Care:

iPolitics: The 2014 Health Accord: Another opportunity lost?

Niagara Falls Review: EDITORIAL: New normal for local health care

iPolitics: Boomers won’t bankrupt healthcare, but over-diagnosis might

Barrie Examiner: Doctor has prescription for ailing health care

London Free Press: Mentally ill left waiting

News/Talk 1290: Wait Times Long For Psychiatric Care

CBC Toronto: Flu vaccine offers only 'moderate protection'

CBC Ottawa: Technology helps hearing impaired stay in 'loop'

DurhamRegion: Oshawa Hospital Foundation fires CEO

Windsor Star: Pay ruling costs Windsor Regional Hospital $1M

Ottawa Citizen: Doctors support public oversight of private clinics

Orangeville Banner: Shelburne doctors resign en masse

Labour:

CTV Toronto: York Region buses sit idle as negotiations stall

Municipal Affairs:

CTV Toronto (CP): Ontario pension fund opens offices in New York City

Politics:

Toronto Star: Hepburn: Are Hudak’s days numbered?

National Post: Kelly McParland: Tim Hudak’s chickens come home to roost

YorkRegion: 'I'm not leaving the Conservative party'

Newstalk 1010: Questions of a Divided PC Party

Ontario News Watch: Frank Klees Bombshell Hits Queen's Park (video)

CP24 (CP): Klees faces uphill battle in bid to become Speaker

National Post: Scott Stinson: Frank Klees’ bold, confusing, doomed gambit

CBC Toronto: AUDIO: Klees defends decision to run for Ontario Speaker

Toronto Star: Klees ponders dropping out of speaker’s race

Toronto Sun: Speaker debate shows PCs 'divided': Duncan

Toronto Sun: Blizzard: Klees' doomed bid for Speaker

Waterloo Region Record - Editorial: Klees is no team player

National Post: Gurney: Klees has nothing to lose

CTV - Bliss: Is McGuinty looking at the big picture?

Politics - everybody's a critic:

Sudbury Star: Gelinas named to shadow cabinet

Sarnia Observer: Bailey appointed correctional services critic

InsideToronto: Tabuns and Prue in NDP shadow cabinet

CBC Windsor: Natyshak 'honoured' to be named labour critic

Brockville Recorder & Times: Clark named critic for municipal affairs, housing

Welland Tribune: Forster named NDP deputy house leader

Woodstock Sentinel-Review: Ernie back as ag critic

North Bay Nugget: Fedeli, Vanthof named to respective shadow cabinets

InsideToronto: Davenport MPP named environment and transportation critic

Public Health:

Northumberland Today: Unanswered questions on Port Hope water plant

680News: Free flu shot clinics open today in Toronto