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It's time for Ontario to take aggressive action on child poverty despite a $25-billion deficit because the longer the province waits to deal with the burden, the more expensive it's going to get, child poverty advocates said Tuesday.

Michael Ignatieff is fast becoming the Sir Galahad of Canadian politics, noted for fighting wrong-doers on the government side of the House of Commons with the simple sword of truth and the trusty shield of fair play.

Premier Dalton McGuinty has drawn a line in the Alberta oil sands on the eve of next month's Copenhagen summit on reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

Hudak cites 'contempt for taxpayers' 6:21 PM ET The Canadian Press Progressive Conservative MPPs leave their seats in the Ontario legislature on Monday.

Simcoe North MPP Garfield Dunlop's private member's bill to revoke the certificate of approval for a landfill at Site 41 in Tiny Township passed second reading in the legislature last week.

ADAM RADWANSKI From Monday's Globe and Mail Published on Monday, Nov. 23, 2009 12:00AM EST Last updated on Monday, Nov.

We're in favour of Ontario harmonizing its provincial sales tax with the federal goods and services tax.

Hamilton's top cop has had a royal send-off. Thirty-five years after becoming a constable, Chief Brian Mullan is calling it a career.

Dalton McGuinty's Liberal government is willing to postpone its Christmas break to pass a budget bill containing tax cuts and the controversial new Harmonized Sales Tax in Ontario.

To think the whole time the lawless lunacy has been going on here, you have been paying the native occupiers' hydro bill.

Several Tories were thrown out of the Ontario legislature Thursday for "unparliamentary" language, as the tone of the debate over Ontario's move to harmonize its sales tax with the GST became increasingly nasty.

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Ingersoll could lose more than $1.3 million in annual funding if the province moves ahead with a proposal to cut Ontario Municipal Partnership Fund payments starting next year.

Ontario's largest arms length bodies a ' such as commissions and agencies a ' will no longer have final approval of their own expenses, Premier Dalton McGuinty said Tuesday.

" Successive scandals, a historic deficit and an unpopular new tax have taken a heavy toll on Ontario's Liberal government, according to a poll released Tuesday, which shows support plummeting.

Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty refuses to rule out forcing some public servants to take unpaid days off.

It's too bad for Dalton McGuinty that one of the promises he didn't break after the 2003 election was the pledge to ban taxpayer-funded propaganda advertising.

Floods earlier this year left thousands homeless in the Philippines. Victims of a string of typhoons in the Philippines are getting a helping hand from the province of Ontario.

Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty today issued the following statement regarding the severe flooding in the Philippines as a result of recent typhoons: "Our thoughts and prayers are with our friends in the Philippines as they work to rebuild after the tragic flooding caused by typhoons this fall.

The Fontaines are happy with their tax-free lotto winnings. Photograph by: Mike Aporius, Canwest News Service, Financial Post Marie and Kirby Fontaine, the couple from the Sagkeeng First Nation who won the first $50-million jackpot grand prize in Lotto Max, Canada's newest lottery, have a lot to be thankful for.