Ontario Daily Digest: July 11, 2012

Aboriginal Affairs

London Free Press - Van Moorsel: Handover of Ipperwash long overdue

Algo Centre Mall inquiry

Sudbury Northern Life: Elliot Lake Mall remains unsafe, OPP warns

Sudbury Star: Police ask public for info on Elliot Lake mall

Sudbury Northern Life: Province provides $264K for Elliot Lake recovery plan

Community Safety

Ottawa Citizen: Ottawa police enlist psychiatrists to help officers deal with the mentally ill

CP24 (CP): Ottawa police are teaming up with psychiatrists

Education

Toronto Star: Ontario high school, French teacher unions to meet with province

CBC Toronto: Ontario teachers' unions to meet with government

Toronto Sun - MacDonald: OECTA strikes a deal

Ottawa Sun: Mom of bullied girl banned from school

Toronto Star: TDSB spending: Board tracks construction, maintenance workers using GPS

Electoral Issues

Toronto Star: Hudak calls for third-party advertising spending limits during election campaigns

Energy: Gas plant relocation

iPolitics: Ontario on $180M hook for Mississauga gas plant

Toronto Star: Liberals say settlement to scrap Mississauga gas plant cost $180M

CBC Toronto (CP): Gas plant to relocate near Sarnia after GTA rejection

Ottawa Sun: Taxpayers hit with $180 million cost of moving Mississauga gas plant

National Post (CP): $180M pricetag for killing Mississauga power plant ‘outrageous’: NDP

Energy: Wind turbines

CTV News: Ottawa to study possible health effects from wind turbines

London Free Press: Wind turbine health study launched

CBC Toronto: Wind turbines' effects on health to be studied by Ottawa

Toronto Star: Health Canada to study possible adverse health effects from wind turbines

Globe and Mail: Government to study health effects of wind turbine noise

Belleville Intelligencer: Stop wind turbines: Fedeli

National Post - Stinson: An ill wind or just bad math?

Ottawa Citizen: Wind power foes welcome new federal study on health effects

London Free Press: Turbine foes fight ‘the good fight’

Environment

CBC Thunder Bay: Low water levels worry Lake Superior cottager

Finance

Toronto Sun - Blizzard: McGuinty creates his own mess with doctors and teachers

Health Care

CBC Thunder Bay: First Nations people sign up to help solve medical mystery

Huffington Post: Why Nurses Are the Way of the Future

North Bay Nugget: North Bay Regional Health Centre among lowest handwashing rates

Globe and Mail - Editorial: Ontario’s doctors should be at the negotiating table, not in the courtroom

Ottawa Sun: Ontario doctor billed OHIP for $6.4 million in 2010

CBC Toronto: Toronto woman, 105, waits for spot in nursing home

Infrastructure

OpenFile: Peter Kent says Queen's Park is using deficit as an excuse to stall Rouge

Toronto Star: Peter Kent: Ontario using deficit as excuse to stall Rouge Park

Labour

Toronto Star - Sid Ryan: Conservative Tim Hudak pushes plan for poverty, not prosperity

Natural Resources

Sudbury Northern Life: Fire potential high across the province, warns MNR

Kenora Daily Miner and News: Six new fires reported Monday

Sudbury Star: City councillors to MNR: can we have a word, please

Northern Development

Timmins Daily Press: Don’t leave the future of ONTC solely in hands of politicians

Pan Am Games

CTV Toronto: Countdown to Toronto’s Pan Am Games hits three years

CBC Toronto: 3-year countdown to 2015 Pan Am Games

Politics

570News: Ontario PC Leader in town

Public Health

CBC Windsor: Fentanyl kills 'perfect wife' and other addicts in Ontario city

Toronto Sun: $1 million to fight bed bugs on Toronto council's agenda

Training, Colleges and Universities

Toronto Star: Ontario trades get own regulatory college

Transportation

CBC Toronto: Ford has to choose between subways and low taxes: Stintz

National Post: Eglinton Crosstown LRT video outlines tunnelling plans for project

Toronto Sun: OneCity battle lines drawn for council debate

Toronto Star: OneCity: Councillors set to tussle over TTC chair Karen Stintz’s transit plan

Globe and Mail: Scarborough subway back on the table after Stintz’s ‘flip flop’

Globe and Mail - Lorinc: Officials flagged holes in plan to pay for Sheppard subway