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Ontario invests in renewing school buildings
Ontario is investing $1.1 billion to repair and renew schools across the province to ensure they remain safe and modern spaces for students to learn.
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Ontario invests in operation of sporting venues
Ontario is investing $16.76 million towards athletes and sporting events in the province, including supporting the continued operation of key sporting venues. As part of
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Ont government snubs commercial real estate
Commercial real estate operators have been largely excluded from incentives outlined in the newly released Climate Change Action Plan, even though they'll soon be absorbing the flow-through cost of carbon emission allowances in natural gas prices.
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Women’s College Hospital officially reopens
Women’s College Hospital in downtown Toronto celebrated its official reopening on June 10, 2016, following five years of construction between July 2010 and September 2015.
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Green infra’s impact on flooding underrated
More performance data on the benefits of green stormwater infrastructure in extreme weather events is needed as it may be more effective than thought.
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Complex alternative to carbon tax questioned
Commercial and multi-residential real estate owners will catch a significant share of the fallout from Ontario's pending cap-and-trade system, but a projected natural gas price increase in the range of $0.84 to $1.05 per gigajoule is lower than carbon tax rates in British Columbia or Alberta.
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Ontario creating community hubs within schools
Ontario is providing nearly $90 million to expand child care and child and family support programs in schools, as well as creating spaces in schools
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Ontario awaits guidelines for offset credits
Designated greenhouse gas (GHG) emitters in Ontario are combing through the finalized rules for the pending cap-and-trade system, including various formulas for calculating the allotment of free emission allowances.
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Ottawa hospitals receive additional funding
The Ontario government is increasing the funding it is providing to four Ottawa hospitals by over $19 million in 2016-17 in an effort to give
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Ontario provides $10-mil to expand BMO Field
Ontario and the City of Toronto are both investing $10 million for the expansion of BMO Field as part of an ongoing partnership to revitalize
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Ontario investing to build and renovate schools
Ontario is investing $137 million this year to build new schools, expand or renovate existing schools and create new licensed child care spaces. Ontario invests
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Ont. correction facilities to use full-body scanners
Over the next two years, Ontario will be installing advanced technology full-body scanners in all 26 adult provincial correctional facilities as part of its corrections
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Ontario takes steps to improve local healthcare
The Scarborough/West Durham Panel recently released recommendations related to hospital governance, service delivery and planning to give patients better access to healthcare in their communities,
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Streamline site plan approval: Ontario architects
Toon Dreessen, president of the Ontario Association of Architects, is renewing the OAA’s call for a streamlined site plan approval process.
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Royal Botanical Gardens re-opens rock garden
On May 20, Royal Botanical Gardens will re-open its rock garden, now named the David Braley and Nancy Gordon Rock Garden, following a $7-million Ontario
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Ontario invests in Confederation College facilities
Ontario has announced it will make investments totaling $3 million in Confederation College’s campuses located in Thunder Bay and Sioux Lookout. Premier Kathleen Wynne was
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Ontario invests in social housing retrofits
Ontario continues to put its new Climate Change Strategy into action by investing $42.9 million in social housing retrofits in Toronto.


