Ontario Daily Digest: June 20, 2012

Agriculture

Grain News: Ont. wheat harvest to begin earlier than normal

Community Safety

CBC Thunder Bay: Flash flooding possible, mayor says

Toronto Star - Editorial: Coroner right to urge mandatory helmets for Ontario cyclists

Globe and Mail: Transport regulator rejects call for mandatory side guards on trucks

CBC Ottawa: Mandatory bike helmet proposal divides cyclists

CBC Sudbury: Coroner's report puts focus on safer cycling

Toronto Star: Cycle Toronto wants province to review Toronto bike plans

Education

Toronto Sun - MacDonald: Where are the parents?

Sudbury Northern Life: Compromise may not be enough to save plan for new school

Toronto Star: Schoolyard sale? Toronto board looks to sell parts of playgrounds to raise cash

Energy

London Free Press: Giant wind farm shifts south

Environment

CTV Ottawa: Heat wave set to blanket our region as summer begins

CBC Windsor: Hot, humid, 'oppressive' weather here until Friday

CBC Toronto: Ontario heat expected for 2 more days

Finance

Toronto Star: Ontario Budget head for final vote of MPPs, July election likely averted

CTV Ottawa: Ontario election threat eases in last day before vote

CBC Toronto: Ontario summer election likely averted

Ottawa Sun: Ontario voters spared summer election

Global Toronto (CP): Ontario legislature recalled for final vote on minority government's budget

Yahoo! - Political Points: Ontario averts election, for now

Globe and Mail - Radwanksi: Hudak got off too easy for his role in Ontario’s budget crisis

Toronto Star: Walkom: Ontario budget bill is McGuinty’s Trojan horse

Globe and Mail: Tensions over Ontario budget bill sour Liberal-NDP relations

Ottawa Sun: Horwath dumb, McGuinty dumber

CUPE Press Release: Budget: Liberal fire-sale of public assets stopped

Health Care

Toronto Star - Op-ed: What’s behind Liberal election bluster?

Ottawa Citizen: Experts pour cold water on doctors’ threatened lawsuit

Globe and Mail - Picard: The importance of picking a vocabulary for dying

CBC News: Wait times for patients 'worsening'

Windsor Star - Jarvis: This doc knows what's up

Ottawa Citizen: $1M donation to Royal Ottawa brings quest for high-tech depression treatment closer to reality

CBC Ottawa: Royal gets $1M donation towards mental health scanner

Toronto Star: Casey House to undergo $36 million renovation and expansion

CTV Toronto (CP): Torch of Life tour ends at Ontario legislature

Sudbury Star: Patients drive change: Minister

Intergovernmental Affairs

Vancouver Sun - Yaffe: Harper has changed both the process and agenda of federal-provincial relations

Justice

CBC Hamilton: SIU mum as Jolley Cut investigation continues

Natural Resources

Barrie Examiner: OMB gives OK to Duntroon quarry expansion

Northern Development

Wawatay News: Neskantaga targets Ring of Fire access road

Timmins Daily Press: Mining school celebrates its 100-year legacy

Northern Ontario Business: Wawa returning to its mining roots

Ombudsman Ontario

2011/2012 Annual Report (pdf)

CBC Toronto: Ornge scandal could have been prevented if oversight granted: Ombudsman

Toronto Star: Ombudsman demands more powers to prevent another ORNGE

Toronto Sun: Ombud hopeful he'll get shot at MUSH

Toronto Sun - Blizzard: Marin one of the good guys in politics

Pan Am Games

St. Catharines Standard: Enthusiasm for Pan Am Games facilities

Politics

CBC Toronto: Why an Ontario election this summer is unlikely

570News: Ontario PC Party to select their candidate for byelection tonight

Tourism and Culture

CBC Windsor: Windsor-Essex not part of provincial tourism campaign

Training, Colleges and Universities

Ottawa Citizen: Stop stalling release of donor information for political insiders’ school, Carleton told

Transportation

CBC Windsor: Ottawa moving forward on Windsor-Detroit crossing

Toronto Star: Presto card roll-out in Ottawa hits bumpy road