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As the dust settles after the Progressive Conservatives ; first budget, the extent of the spending cuts is sinking in.From urban university think tanks and rural tree-planting programs being chopped to the final chapter for library book-sharing programs, the real impact of Finance Minister Vic Fedeli spending plan is beginning to be felt two weeks after it was unveiled.But the haphazard nature of the cuts 鈥?compounded by Premier Doug Ford public statements about the fiscal blueprint 鈥?makes it difficult to determine the government budget strategy. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW Ford boasted this week that our budget was pretty Liberal, to say the least because stanley cup it spends a record $163.4 billion, some $4.9 billion more than his Grit predecessor, stanley cup Kathleen Wynne, budgeted last year.We caught everyone off-guard. We got everyone flat-footed. Was it a super-staunch Conservative budget No it wasn ;t, he told Global News ; Alan Carter on AM 640 on Monday. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW The Progressive Conservatives, who plan to r stanley cup un deficits past the 2022 election, have increased overall spending as a result of accounting changes and a decision to transfer billions in consumer electricity subsidies from the ratepayers ; base to taxpayers.At the same time, the Tories are forgoing about $1.9 billion in annual revenue with the cancellation

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For Metro employee Kim Coughlin, the decision to strike was a no-brainer.She is stanley thermos mug one of 3,700 Metro employees who are part of Unifor Local 414 who have voted to strike ahead of the contract negotiations, which begin Monday, June 26. We need to get our voices heard, she said. We deserve good jobs. They are making record profits. And many people cannot survive and are using food banks. ARTIC stanley cup LE CONTINUES BELOW Coughlin says full-time employees are only allowed one weekend off per month and must work six days per week, so its hard to get the work-life balance right. She cannot afford to shop at Metro. Everything is really expensive. We have toilet paper here thats $23, she said. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW The strike could affect 27 Metro stores in Hamilton, Mississauga, Brampton and other stores in the Greater Toronto Area.A Metro spokesperson said the company has no co stanley cup mment at this time. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW Unifor Local 414 heads into contract negotiations with a historic strike vote and three key priorities: fair pay for all workers, greater access to improved benefits and more secure, stable work hours and full-time jobs, said Gord Currie, president of Unifor Local 414. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW Grocery stores are turning out their highest profits on record, thanks to fr Jeak Researchers hope for eureka moment in budget
First it was the heat, and now it is thunderstorms.Shortly before 4 p.m. Monday, Environment Canada issued a severe thunderstorm watch for the Region of Waterloo including Cambridge and Kitchener.The federal agency says severe thunderstorms are possible this afternoon, which may result in damaging wind gusts, large hail and heavy rain. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW stanley mug This new weather watch is on top of the heat warning issued for the Region of Waterloo earlier today. Environment Canada says the area can expect to see temperatures with a high of nearly 30 C today, with even hotter weather to follow on Tuesday and Wedn stanley cups esday. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW Humid stanley website ex values in the mid-to-high 30s are also expected.Environment Canada is reminding people to drink lots of water and not to leave people or pets in parked vehicles. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW Heat warnings are issued when very high temperature or humidity conditions are expected to pose an elevated risk of heat illnesses, such as heat stroke or heat exhaustion.

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WASHINGTON 鈥?President-elect Donald Trump is the business titan who has spoken appreciatively of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Republican Sen. John McCain is the tough-talking national security hawk who warns that Russian interference in the U.S. election threatens to destroy democracy.McCain, chairman of the Armed Services Committee, on Sunday joined Democrats in calling for a special select committee to investigate foreign cyberattacks, putting him at odds not only with the incoming GOP president but with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., who favours allowing the Intelligence committee to take the lead on the inquiry.We need a select committee. We need to get to the bottom of this. We need to find out exactly what was done and what the implication stanley cup s of the attacks were, especially if they had an effect on our election, McCain said. There no stanley canada doubt they were interfering and no doubt that it was cyberattacks. The question now is how much and what damage and what should the United States of America do And so far, we have been totally paralyzed. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW Trump calls reports of Russian hacking ridiculous and his transition team dismissed the CIA assessment, saying it was the work of the same peo stanley mugs ple who claimed Iraq had weapons of mass destruction.CIA Director John Brennan has said the intelligence community is in agreement that Russi Ckjf Prince Harry raises Invictus Games flag over Sydney Harbor
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Ontarios over-reporting of the number of people who have received two doses of the COVID-19 vaccine calls into question the governments ability to track the progress of its own vaccination rollout, experts say.The Province revealed Thursday its reporting of the number of Ontarians who have received two doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna vaccines for the la botella stanley st month was double the true number.So while Ontarians had been led to believe that 96,459 people had been fully vaccinated, as of the middle of this week, the number was 55,286. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW This represents just 0.4 per cent of Ontarios population. That tells me theres some real disorganization going on and not a lot of oversight, said Colin Furness, an infectio stanley quencher n-control epidemiologist at the University of Toronto. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW It erodes public trust. It makes people cynical. It gives rise to conspiracy theories. Any time that youre being sloppy with your information, youre creating a lot of room for people to be critical. The error comes at a time of heightened anxiety amid delays in the Pfizer vaccine deliveries. Canada will receive no doses of the vaccine this week. Deaths at long-term-care facilities where inoculations are desperately needed, are rising. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW At the root of the over-r stanley cup website eporting was a misinterpretation by officials

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OTTAWA 鈥?The ongoing softwood dispute with the United States may not be hurting Canada much yet, but the industry is bracing for a new trade battle with the U.S. that could take a bite out of a part of the sector that is already facing sharp declines.Derek Nighbor, chief executive of the Forest Products Association of Canada, says heading into the new year, the industry is waiting for the U.S. Department of Commerce to decide if it believe stanley cup s Canada is dumping newsprint into the U.S. at below market value.This is not something that people are talking about, but in our sector we are concerned this could be worse than softwood, said Nighbor. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW The U.S. government has been investigating Canada newsprint industry since the end of August, after Washington-based North Pacific Paper Co., complained Canada was dumping newsprint into the U.S. market and unfairly subsidizing its industry at home.It is the same argument made by the U.S. Lumber Coalition about Canada softwood industry, which led to the imposition of both countervailing and antidumping duties on most Canadian softwood exports to the United States. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW The preliminary newsprint decision was initially vaso stanley due by Jan. 16 but has been postponed un stanley canada til March at the request of North Pacific Paper.About 25 lumber mills in Canada would be hurt by duties, most of them in Ontar Gjiy UPDATE: Roughly 3,000 residents without power following Hwy 10 plane crash
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A total of $34 million is being invested into Peterborough senior housing and shelter to help buff the Citys 10 year housing plan.On Monday July 24 at Committee of the Whole, councillors unanimously voted to borrow money from the Province on behalf of Peterborough Housing Corporation PHC .While PHC CEO and general manager Darlene Cook says the debt will be paid back in full through rental revenue, city staff noted it would bring the City closer to its debt capacity. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW stanley thermoskannen Councillors were overwhelmingly supportive of the two pro stanley becher jects, saying they would address Peterboroughs current housing needs.The first project, the previously announced seniors housing project on Bonaccord Street, requires $24 million in funding. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW The six-storey apartm stanley sverige ent building will have 81 units. Fifty of those will be designated for supported housing and within those 20 will be dedicated to elderly patients currently living at Peterborough Regional Health Centre PRHC .One of the main goals of the complex is to relieve pressure at PRHC by removing seniors who dont require hospital care. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW The former Fleming College trade school, also located on the property, will be converted into 38 apartments for families of single mothers. It will also have a daycare for mothers who wish to at Cxjw Parliament passes Tory motion on Huawei
Premier Doug Ford is signalling the unofficial start of the June 2 provincial election campaign with a throne speech touting his Progressive Conservative governments record combating COVID-19. Ontario cannot go backwards. After 18 months of fighting this pandemic, we owe our businesses stability and certainty, said the speech, entitled Protecting Ontarios Progress, which was read in the legislature by Lt.-Gov. Elizabeth Dowdeswell.Due to COVID-19 protocols, there were only a limited number of MPPs permitted in the chamber for the address and a handful of VIPs, including Ontario Regional Chief Glen Hare, who wo stanley botella re an orange Every Child Matters shirt to commemorate the Indigenous children who died in residential schools. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW The speech reiterated the Tories promise to invest $2.68 billion to build 30,000 new long-term-care beds over the next decade and $5 billion over the next four years to hire 27,000 nurses and personal support workers in nursing homes. Ontario is making good progress against this ambitious goal, the speech said, noting 20,000 new beds and 15,000 upgraded beds are already in d stanley cup evelopment. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW By April, it said, Ontario will make significant progress by adding 16,200 more personal su stanley cup pport workers to the health-care system, including the provinces long-term-care sector. Striking a partisan note, the speech noted the pandemi