Ontario Daily Digest: Sept. 3, 2012

Agriculture

YorkRegion: $50M offer won’t save horse racing industry

Community Safety and Corrections

St. Thomas Times-Journal: Judge reduces sentences because Elgin-Middlesex Detention Centre overcrowded

YorkRegion: Ex-workers speak out against OSPCA

Education

Toronto Star: Can even Susur Lee persuade students to eat their veggies?

Daily Commercial News: Hudak presses McGuinty on Windsor, Ontario school board construction tendering

Globe and Mail - Wente: For teachers and government, the end of the affair

ms. weir's musings: Political Scapegoats

Energy

Toronto Star: Nuclear waste comes to the cottage

Environment

London Free Press: Ministry of the Environment investigating after hundreds of dead fish wash up at the shores of Lake Erie beaches

YorkRegion: Markham to inject insecticide to fight ash borer

Finance

London Free Press: All parties call for a review of Slots at Raceway Program

Health Care

Ottawa Citizen: Eastern Ontario has province’s longest delays for hip replacements

Labour

National Post (CP): Unions disappearing from private sector as Canadian labour movement struggles

Globe and Mail: The weakening state of Canadian labour unions

Toronto Star - Editorial: Labour Day pressures burden unions but workers are marching on

Daily Commercial News: Ontario online work zone safety campaign hits one year

Politics

Toronto Star: New ridings give Tories an edge

Toronto Star: Tight Kitchener-Waterloo byelection could determine Ontario’s political fate

North Bay Nugget: Gritty red a shade of blue

the flying squirrel: By-election

Tourism and Culture

Sudbury Northern Life: OAC stops in Sudbury to talk Literature and Northern Arts

Training, Colleges and Universities

Toronto Star: Ontario considers sweeping change to colleges and universities

Winnipeg Free Press: Students complain of unprofessional teachers at some career colleges: documents