Ontario Daily Digest: Aug. 18, 2012

Aboriginal Affairs

Kenora Daily Miner and News: NAN says yes to Yesno

Wawatay News: Residential school impacts still seen at Kenora jail

Kenora Daily Miner and News: Treaty 3 Chief expects more than sensitivity training

Agriculture

CBC Ottawa: Aid repayment schedule frustrates some farmers

London Free Press: Crop insurance corporation prepares for record claims

Children and Youth Services

CUPE: Cuts to child protection services put Aboriginal children and youth further at risk

Community Safety and Corrections

National Post: Union stonewalling inmate transfer at Don Jail, holding up new hospital and adding millions to construction costs

Economy

Toronto Star (CP): Canadian inflation rate falls to 1.3 per cent in July

CBC Ottawa: Inflation rate cools to 1.3%

Education

EDU: McGuinty Government Launches 2012 Progress Report

Toronto Star: McGuinty won’t risk minority government over teachers’ wages

CTV Toronto (CP): Bill to impose teachers' contract won't be confidence motion

Ottawa Sun: McGuinty brings austerity message to Ottawa

Kenora Daily Miner and News: Government drafts legislation to ban teacher strikes, school board lockouts

Canoe.ca: Ontario teachers heading for court

CTV Ottawa: McGuinty says teacher bill won’t force election

CBC Thunder Bay: Thunder Bay teachers union balks at Liberal plan

Kenora Daily Miner and News: Kenora school boards balk at bargaining deadline

Sudbury Star: Despite labour woes, school will start on time: Trustees

People for Education: New education legislation proposed

Politics and its Discontents: Language Unbefitting a Govenment

Energy

London Free Press: K2 offers cash to turbine neighbours

Environment

This Magazine: Attack of the killer carp

Finance

Ottawa Sun: Ontarians support Slots at Racetrack program: Abacus survey

Sudbury Star: Leafs coach to speak at Sudbury Downs rally

Timmins Press: Casino idea works for TEDC

Infrastructure

Trenton Trentonian: Ontario municipalities get boost in infrastructure planning

Owen Sound Sun Times: Mayor says city ‘punished’ because of population size

Labour

Globe and Mail: Why we should still mind the wage gap

CBC Sudbury: Men face arbitrator over Vale misconduct firing

Sudbury Star: Chelmsford companies fined

Northern Ontario Business: Companies fined

Municipal Affairs and Housing

MAH: Governments of Canada and Ontario Celebrate New Affordable Housing in Toronto

Ottawa Sun: Fight property bylaw bullies

Natural Resources

Stone Cold Truth: MN “R” You Kidding Me?

Thunder Bay Chronicle-Journal - Editorial: Not the job of the police

Northern Development

Ontario Environmental Registry: Exemption of divestment of ONTC from Environmental Assessment Act

Timmins Press: Strang to Bartolucci: Step down

Northern Ontario Business: Ontera first on chopping block

Sudbury Star: Vale gets new blood

Northern Ontario Business: First Nation lands renovation money

Politics

570News: Education Minister in K-W

Waterloo Region Record: Campaign signs go missing ahead of Kitchener-Waterloo byelection

Waterloo Region Record: Mayors lay out demands for new MPP

Public Health

Toronto Star: OxyContin replaced by explosion of small-town heroin use

CTV News (AP): CDC recommends one-time test for hepatitis C for all baby boomers

North Bay Nugget: Blue-green algae in Callander Bay

CBC Windsor: Egg-yolk-vs.-smoking study questioned

CBC Sudbury: Sudbury bed bug cases increasing

Tourism and Culture

Toronto Star - Editorial: Put Ontario Place redevelopment into competent hands

Training, Colleges and Universities

North Bay Nugget: OPSEU: Funding formula hurts Northern colleges

Timmins Press: OPSEU could strike

Transportation

Windsor Star: Parkway jobs fall short