Ontario Daily Digest: Feb. 16, 2012

Good morning. Articles on the Drummond Commission report that focus on a particular area, such as Education or Health Care, are filed under that heading. Articles that defy that kind of categorization are filed under Finance. There's a ton of them. Happy hunting. On mornings like this I wonder what I've gotten myself into.

Aboriginal Affairs

Wawatay News: Northern Ontario braces for HIV outbreak

CBC Thunder Bay: Attawapiskat gets 2 more houses by convoy

Toronto Star: Drummond Report: First Nations education ‘urgently needs improvement’

canada.com: Tribunal allowing Canada to duck duties to First Nation kids: advocates

Montreal Gazette: Government still trying to assimilate aboriginals by underfunding child welfare, natives argue

Economic Development

Toronto Star - Editorial: Drummond report: Ontario should take a hard look at business subsidies

Education

Toronto Star: Larger classrooms among sweeping changes suggested to education

CBC Toronto (CP): Schools need bigger class sizes, austerity report says

Toronto Star: Education cuts ‘misguided’ and ‘shocking,’ say experts

Globe and Mail: Schools and universities should consider user fees and tuition hikes: Drummond

St. Catharines Standard: Educators cautious over Drummond recommendations

Belleville Intelligencer: Boards at odds with public policy

Global Toronto (CP): McGuinty shrugging off Catholic teachers' warning about Wi-Fi in schools

EMD Lockout

CBC Windsor: Town pressed to overlook Electro-Motive tender

Finance

Report from the Commission on the Reform of Ontario's Public Services

Recommendations from above report -- Appendix 1

National Post: Infographic: Where Ontario’s money goes now

Globe and Mail - Drummond: Growth won’t save Ontario this time. Only reform will

Toronto Star: Walkom: Ontario’s recipe for savage spending cuts is vague

Toronto Star: Drummond Report: New roadmap for Ontario includes higher hydro bills, larger school classes

CBC Toronto: Drummond report on Ontario calls for cutbacks

Winnipeg Free Press (CP): Ontario must be scared into austerity to avoid crisis like Greece: report

Globe and Mail: Drummond delivers 'gloomy' wake-up call to Ontario

Toronto Star - Hepburn: Drummond report: Dithering Dalton must act on economy

Globe and Mail - Radwanski: An optimistic prescription for Ontario’s troubling fiscal illness

Toronto Star: Cohn: Drummond Report merely the end of the beginning

Northumberland Today - Blizzard: Drummond's cost-cutting report a 'massacre': Blizzard

Ontario News Watch: Duncan's political staff interfere with who can attend "independent" commission report's release

London Free Press: Deep cuts recommended for Ontario

Toronto Star: Drummond Report: Deficit-busting recommendations

CTV Ottawa: Highlights of the Drummond Report

Toronto Star: Drummond Report: OLG should close one Niagara Falls casino

Sault Star: Orazietti: closing Sault OLG head office 'unacceptable' - UPDATED

Woodstock Sentinel-Review: Commission recommends deep cuts to balance Ont. budget

Global Toronto: Austerity vision for Ontario: bigger classes, hike utility bills, pay parking

Toronto Star: Drummond Report: Ministries, agencies urged to ‘drive out inefficiencies’

Globe and Mail: Economic growth will not save Ontario: Drummond report

National Post: John Ivison: Drummond report shows sun has set on Ontario empire … but, will it notice?

Globe and Mail: Reduce pension benefits, don't increase contributions: Drummond

Northern Economist 2.0: Dissecting Drummond

Windsor Star: Vander Doelen: Liberal smoke screen

Waterloo Region Record - Editorial: ‘Ontario must be different’

Globe and Mail - Radwanski: Drummond report offers a world of possibilities to Ontario’s government

Waterloo Region Record - D'Amato: Drummond speaks a language Liberals don’t understand

Globe and Mail - Editorial: Solid, technocratic advice in Don Drummond’s report

Toronto Star - Editorial: Drummond report: Don Drummond recommends a radical overhaul to get Ontario back to balanced budgets

Hamilton Spectator - Editorial: Drummond bombshell is, at least, dropped

Toronto Star: Hume: Drummond Report taxes credulity

Toronto Sun - Editorial: Dalton broke it, we pay for it

Ottawa Sun - Editorial: Cuts vital for Ontario

Belleville Intelligencer: Liberals still pitting urban versus rural

Kingston Whig-Standard: Don’t expect swift change: expert

Ottawa Citizen - Tory: This shouldn't really hurt that much

National Post: Andrew Coyne: Drummond report signals start of Dalton McGuinty’s lean years

The Progressive Economics Forum: Drummond: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

Globe and Mail - Gee: Casino would kill what’s left of Toronto the Good

Toronto Sun: Vaughan wants casinos banned from Toronto

Globe and Mail: Toronto councillors split over casino question

G20

Toronto Star: Lawyer sues police for unlawful G20 arrest

Health Care

healthydebate.ca: No More Politics – Why healthcare needs an independent authority

Toronto Star: Drummond report: Turn Ontario Drug Benefit into income-tested program for all

Global Saskatoon: Drummond says Ontario can't afford to pay for prescription drugs for all seniors

Ontario Council of Hospital Unions - press release: Drummond report gives Liberals cover they need to move away from public health care in 'chapter one' of reforms

Toronto Star: Drummond Report: Hospital amalgamations and more power for LHINs among recommendations

CBC Toronto: Drummond report stresses home-based health care

Ottawa Citizen: Report offers 105 different ways to tame health care in Ontario

CBC Sudbury: Sudbury ER wait times higher than provincial average

Globe and Mail: On sodium, Ontario MDs pick up where the feds left off

Ottawa Citizen: CHEO seeing ‘surge’ in patients needing treatment for ecstasy use

Municipal Affairs

Ottawa Citizen: Cities escape wrath of report, Watson says

Hamilton Spectator: Drummond Report: Uploading delay ‘kick in the groin,’ says local councillor

Pan Am Games

Toronto Star: Pan Am Games are running into trouble

Training, Colleges and Universities

Toronto Star: Drummond Report: Modest economies suggested for post-secondary education

Transportation

Toronto Sun: Toronto wants subways: Poll