Ontario Daily Digest: Jan. 20, 2012

Aboriginal Affairs

Wawatay News: Attawapiskat residents say there has been ‘little change,’ despite attention

Globe and Mail: Aboriginal leader seeks conference on rights

Ottawa Citizen: Land claims process ‘inherently unfair,’ national chief says

APTN: Harper planning on “ducking out” early during meeting with FN leaders: Chiefs

Toronto Sun - Randy Hillier: Reserving a new tradition

Toronto Sun: Education is the key to Attawapiskat's future

Agriculture

Better Farming: Farmland going public?

Better Farming: Dairy farmers plan fall incentive days

Community Safety and Corrections

London Free Press: Faster jail closing feared

Economy

Guelph Mercury: Waterloo Region has Canada’s third strongest economy, survey shows

Windsor Star: Windsor’s economic ranking drops

CBC Toronto: Toronto tops CIBC momentum index

Sudbury Northern Life: The Ring of Fire and the rebirth of Ontario mining

Education

CambridgeTimes: No gay-straight alliances at Catholic schools

Windsor Star: Jarvis: Bad case of the Mondays

London Free Press - Gillespie: Thames fills special role

EMD Lockout

rabble.ca: Implications of the Caterpillar lockout for Canadian labour

Huffington Post: Caterpillar Inc. Sees Surging Profits, Amid Pay Cuts And Rumors Of Plant Closures

Energy

Hamilton Spectator - Op-Ed: Wind project could fill Hamilton’s sails

Environment

Toronto Star: BILD part of province-wide testing of new green technologies

Finance

Toronto Star: Dalton McGuinty and ministers brace for cuts

CBC Ottawa: Hudak slams Liberals' 'unfair' wage freeze

CTV Toronto (CP): Hudak derides McGuinty's 'unfair' 2009 wage freeze

Toronto Sun: Pay freeze leads to more union workers: Hudak

Francophone Affairs

Ottawa Sun - Editorial: What price for bilingualism?

G20

CBC Toronto: Charge G20 officers, police watchdog orders

680News: G20 officers in Nobody arrest should be charged, police watchdog says

Toronto Star: G20 officers should be charged in Nobody arrest, police watchdog says

Health Care

Guelph Mercury - Goar: Health-care crises never seem to happen

Toronto Star: ORNGE changes policy that delayed sending helicopters to accident scenes

CBC Toronto (CP): McGuinty promises to probe troubling ORNGE reports

Globe and Mail: Probe into air ambulance deaths looks at choppers’ interior

CTV Toronto (CP): Gov't mum on probe into deaths involving ORNGE

Ottawa Citizen: Minister won't say how many deaths are linked to probe of Ornge service

Northumberland News: First flu case reported in Northumberland

Toronto Star: Toronto seeks more mandatory vaccinations

Intergovernmental Affairs

Council of Canadians (via rabble.ca): The politics of the 2014 health accord in Victoria

Maclean's - Geddes: Health spending: what Harper said, and the real outlook\

Globe and Mail - Simpson: The politics of Harper’s medicare decision

Ottawa Citizen: Minister urges collaboration on health

Maclean's - Paul Wells: Aglukkaq’s letter to provincial health ministers: slip-slidin’ away

Justice

CTV Toronto (CP): OPP to ramp up enforcement as traffic deaths mount

Ottawa Sun: Spike in deaths leads to OPP highway crackdown

Labour

Toronto Star: Striking York Region transit bus drivers head back to contract talks

680News: Union for Miller Transit to return to the bargaining table, Friday

Politics

London Free Press - Op-Ed: Hudak needs new ideas to sell message

Privacy

Globe and Mail - Editorial: Digital intruders have been warned

Training, Colleges and Universities

Toronto Sun: Ontario tuition rebate a hit with students

Windsor Star: Helping trained nurses get accreditation in Windsor and Essex County

CBC Windsor: Organization speeds up certification for foreign nurses