Ontario Daily Digest: May 29, 2012

Community Safety

CBC Thunder Bay: Thunder Bay flooding causes state of emergency

Thunder Bay Chronicle-Journal: Flood warning remains in effect: LRCA

Thunder Bay Chronicle-Journal: Boil well water, health unit advises

Toronto Star: Thunder Bay declares state of emergency after heavy rains cause flooding

News Talk 610: Premier: speed up sprinkler study

CTV Ottawa (CP): McGuinty wants immediate review of seniors' home safety

Education

Ottawa Citizen: New report calls for school access to psychologists, more funding for First Nations schools

Newstalk 1010: Report shows Ontario schools lagging in special education

CTV Toronto (CP): Report urges review of Ontario special-needs service

Globe and Mail - Editorial: Putting Body Mass Index on report cards doesn’t solve childhood obesity

CBC Hamilton: Ground broken on new east Hamilton Catholic high school

North Bay Nugget: School boards concerned about possible amalgamations

Education - Gay-Straight Alliances

Toronto Star: Dispute over ‘gay-straight alliances’ sparks church-versus-state showdown

National Post: Ontario Catholic schools struggle to get their point across on gay-straight alliances during press call

Ottawa Sun: Gay Straight Alliances don't belong in Catholic schools, boards say

National Post: Church rejects Ontario's gay club decision

Toronto Star: Cohn: The Catholic church versus the Catholic premier

News Talk 610: Catholic trustees to fight against gay-straight alliances label

The Catholic Register: GSA reversal puts church and government on collision course

CBC Toronto: Toronto archbishop opposes gay-straight alliance bill

Globe and Mail: Thomas Cardinal Collins opposes students calling clubs ’gay-straight alliances’

Ottawa Sun: Blizzard: Cardinal comes out swinging

St. Catharines Standard: Trustee pushes single school system

Energy

Chatham Daily News: Flare-ups over solar policy

Environment

London Free Press: Pesticide found in bees

CBC Ottawa: Man pulls solar-powered car to Ottawa

CBC Windsor: Ottawa commits $17M to stop Asian carp invasion

Windsor Star: $17.5 million to protect Great Lakes from Asian carp

Finance

Globe and Mail: McGuinty rebuffs NDP, seeks to limit debate on Ontario budget bill

canada.com: LCBO marketing inserts. Are you talkin’ to me?

North Bay Nugget: Casino decision looms

G20

CBC Toronto: G20 protester had 'limited' leadership role, judge says

Toronto Sun: Woman minimal leader in G20 violence: Judge

Toronto Star: G20 activist returns to court in July

Globe and Mail: G20 activist’s role will be factor in her sentencing

Vancouver Media Co-op: Behind the Black Mask and Shattered Glass: Pre-sentencing interview with G20 arrestee Kelly Pflug-Back

Health Care

Toronto Star: OMA, province urged to address how doctors ‘cherry pick’ patients

Globe and Mail - Radwanski: Ontario government wants doctors' association to bend but not break

Windsor Star: Heart care in jeopardy, docs say: OHIP fee changes assailed

St. Catharines Standard: Family docs close clinic, blame changes on medical fees

CTV News: Ontario organ donor agency sets new 1-day record

Globe and Mail - Picard: Minor surgery on doctors’ fees isn’t the cure

CUPE: Province must act immediately after tragic patient death at St. Joseph's

Globe and Mail: My daughter's doctor doesn't believe in birth control

News Talk 610: WLMH petition at Queen's Park today

News Talk 610: 1 year since start of Niagara's war against C.difficile

Justice

Globe and Mail - Editorial: Gaps in the system growing wider

Labour

CFIB: Ontario small businesses fear higher taxes on jobs

Municipal Affairs and Housing

North Bay Nugget: Fedeli's forestry bill before committee this week

Natural Resources

Ottawa Sun: Forest fire sparked by campers

Timmins Daily Press: State of Emergency lifted in Timmins

Timmins Daily Press: Rain brings relief

CTV Toronto (CP): State of emergency lifted in Timmins, Ont., after forest fires

CBC Sudbury: Current forest fires already double last year's numbers

Timmins Daily Press: Situation un-bear-able

Ornge

Toronto Star: ORNGE: Leaked Cabinet documents suggest bureaucrats warned against Mazza deal

CBC Thunder Bay (CP): Documents suggest Liberals warned about Ornge problems

Public Health

Toronto Sun: City urged to finance bed bug fight

Training, Colleges and Universities

Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations (news release): Professors and academic librarians warn against rash reforms of Ontario's universities