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Ontario Daily Digest: Dec. 7, 2012

Submitted by pogge on Fri, 12/07/2012 - 09:18

Agriculture

OMAFRA: Ontario Growing the Economy in Chatham-Kent

Algo Centre Mall Inquiry

CBC Thunder Bay: Elliot Lake jewelry store owner puzzles over missing inventory

Community and Social Services

Xtra!: Out in the cold

Northumberland Today: Help to put poverty under wraps

Metro: Blind and disabled ‘family’ will be ripped apart by group home closure, say staff

Community Safety and Correctional Services

CBC Ottawa: Tighten rules for home daycares, inquest jury recommends

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Ontario Daily Digest: Dec. 1, 2012

Submitted by pogge on Sat, 12/01/2012 - 11:04

Aboriginal Affairs

CBC Thunder Bay: More AIDS support needed on reserve, advocate says

Agriculture

Timmins Press: Bright future for farming in the North

Algo Centre Mall Inquiry

CBC Sudbury: MPP wants private documents pulled from collapsed mall

Children and Youth Services

MCYS: Expanding After-School Jobs in Policing for Ottawa Youth

Community and Social Services

Waterloo Region Record - Dearlove: Predicting the social profit financial crisis

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Ontario Daily Digest: Nov. 28, 2012

Submitted by pogge on Wed, 11/28/2012 - 08:55

Agriculture

London Free Press: After years of declining income, farmers in much of Southwestern Ontario and across Canada are sitting pretty

Iler Campbell LLP: Mega Quarry win shows it’s time for major agricultural policy reform in Ontario

Better Farming: NFU-O re-accreditation bid gets complicated

Algo Centre Mall Inquiry

Globe and Mail (CP): Mall owners, engineers want some secrecy at inquiry into Elliot Lake tragedy

Community Safety and Correctional Services

MCSCS: Inquest Into The Death Of Mario Hamel Announced

Sudbury Northern Life: Provincial grant helps at-risk youth

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Ontario Daily Digest: Nov. 26, 2012

Submitted by pogge on Mon, 11/26/2012 - 09:04

Community and Social Services

Northumberland Today: County searches for local solutions to social services funding cuts

Education

North Bay Nugget: School cafeterias closing

Education - Teachers' job actions and negotiations

ccarter 1977: …MOUlite? UNACCEPTABLE…

Energy

Trillium Energy Alliance: Renewable Energy Program Re-Launch

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Ontario Daily Digest: Nov. 24, 2012

Submitted by pogge on Sat, 11/24/2012 - 10:31

Agriculture

Toronto Star: Ontario needs to help Toronto-area farmers thrive

Community and Social Services

CUPE: Women speak out against Ontario Liberal plans to cut social assistance benefits

Sudbury Northern Life: Anti-poverty activists, First Nations protest program cut

Community Safety and Correctional Services

Metro: Minister wants public feedback on crime prevention

Globe and Mail: Ashley Smith inquest to have wide scope despite doctors’ objections, coroner rules

rabble.ca: Amanda Hiscocks files discrimination complaint against women's prison and Ministry of Corrections

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Ontario Daily Digest: Nov. 23, 2012

Submitted by pogge on Fri, 11/23/2012 - 09:36

Agriculture

Thunder Bay Chronicle-Journal: Agricultural research station seeks long-term funding

Community and Social Services

Hamilton Spectator: Homeless women in limbo

Hamilton Spectator: An improved social-assistance modelmust include health and well-being

The Inside Agenda Blog: Reaction to the Social Assistance Review (video: 22:05)

Poverty Makes Us Sick!: 7 concrete ways to save the Community Start-up and Maintenance Benefit

Sudbury Star: March over program cuts

CBC Windsor: Local food bank need growing

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Ontario Daily Digest: Nov. 22, 2012

Submitted by pogge on Thu, 11/22/2012 - 09:11

Aboriginal Affairs

Wawatay News: Leaders plan trades school for NAN students

Agriculture

Better Farming: Bean board hives off assets

Community and Social Services

Waterloo Region Record - D'Amato: Welfare cuts are shameful

The Ward: Local health centres urge province to reinstate housing benefit

OCAP: Women and Trans Day of Action: Stop the Cut to Community Start-Up!

The Inside Agenda Blog: Guest Post: Five Reasons Why Income Security Should Remain A Priority

CUPE: First Nations and Aboriginal communities face greater challenges in the face of cuts

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Ontario Daily Digest: Nov. 2, 2012

Submitted by pogge on Fri, 11/02/2012 - 08:08

Agriculture

Toronto Sun: Province wants return on funding to horse race industry

CBC Ottawa: Ontario race horses slaughtered for meat, vet says

CBC Hamilton: Horses dying near Hamilton over provincial decision

Welland Tribune: 'We'd love to see Fort Erie survive'

Algo Centre Mall Inquiry

Northern Ontario Business: Group wants provincial engineer position

Community and Social Services

Toronto Star: Time to jettison outdated welfare system and start afresh: Goar

Poverty Free Ontario: Final Report on the Social Assistance Review: Limited Improvements, Serious Concerns

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Ontario Daily Digest: Oct. 22, 2012

Submitted by pogge on Mon, 10/22/2012 - 08:03

Economic Development

Northumberland Today: Renewed EODF will help strengthen economy, Duguid says

Welland Tribune: Niagara included in economic development program

Education

Toronto Sun: Catholic school funding goes to court

North Bay Nugget: Putting kids on the right Internet learning path

Toronto Star: DiManno: Teachers deserve a report card just like mine

Energy

Sudbury Star: Majority opposes Manitoulin windmills

Environment

the reeves report: Great Lakes Fund Lacks Public Participation, Environmental Groups Say

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Ontario Daily Digest: Oct. 21, 2012

Submitted by pogge on Sun, 10/21/2012 - 11:37

Aboriginal Affairs

CBC Thunder Bay: Aboriginal women from across northern Ontario now have their own crisis line.

Agriculture

Daily Commercial News: Constructing high-rise farms a vertical pie-in-the-sky idea?

Economic Development

Windsor Star: Development fund open for business

Economy

CBC Sudbury: Contractors hit hardest by Frood mine closure

Education

Xtra!: UPDATE: Hearings ends in Ontario Catholic school funding case

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