|
|
| More auto money on the way, Ontario says
|
|
KAREN HOWLETT and GREG KEENAN
|
Wednesday, May 09, 2012
|
The cash-strapped Ontario government is prepared to invest more money in the auto sector to help car companies respond to a strong sales recovery, Premier Dalton McGuinty says.''They are in a sense our leading goal scorer,'' Mr. McGuinty told reporters Tuesday. ''They put the puck in the net over and over again on behalf of the Ontario economy. We need to find ways to ensure that they remain healthy.
FULL STORY 
|
|
| Ontario cuts generic drug payments again
|
|
MARINA STRAUSS and KAREN HOWLETT
|
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
|
Shoppers Drug Mart Corp. has been hit with yet another round of Ontario cuts in generic prescription drug prices while still grappling with earlier profit-pinching drug reforms.In an unexpected move, the Ontario government said late Friday that it is lowering the price it will pay for the top 10 generic drugs to 20 per cent of their brand-name equivalents, from 25 per cent previously. The initiative will save the province $55-million in public drug-plan costs, which can be redirected to ''more important priorities,'' it said in a background paper.
FULL STORY
|
|
| Governments brace for higher debt costs
|
|
KAREN HOWLETT
|
Thursday, January 12, 2012
|
Canadian governments are bracing for major changes to banking rules in the U.S. that would make it more difficult and expensive for them to borrow money, at a time when many need greater access to international investors to finance their debts.
FULL STORY
|
|
| Ontario lands electric Toyota RAV4 project
|
|
KAREN HOWLETT
|
Friday, August 05, 2011
|
Toyota Motor Corp. will assemble the electric version of the RAV4 at its plant in Woodstock, Ont., helping the province nab a slice of the burgeoning market for battery-powered vehicles.
FULL STORY
|
|
| AECL sale pits Ontario against Ottawa
|
|
SHAWN McCARTHY and KAREN HOWLETT
|
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
|
Ontario is on a collision course with Ottawa over the Harper government's impending deal to sell off Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd., and get out of the business of subsidizing nuclear reactor sales.
FULL STORY
|
|
| Duncan says he won't block TMX-LSE deal
|
|
KAREN HOWLETT
|
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
|
Ontario Finance Minister Dwight Duncan has assured the British government that he will not allow politics to interfere with a proposed deal to merge the holding companies of the London and Toronto stock exchanges if it gets the go-ahead from Investment Canada, securities regulators and shareholders.
FULL STORY
|
|
| New TMX bid to test regulators
|
|
BOYD ERMAN and KAREN HOWLETT
|
Monday, May 16, 2011
|
A bank-led proposal to buy TMX Group Inc.in a deal valued at $3.6-billion will hang on whether Canadian regulators can accept a return to the near-monopoly in stock trading that would result.
FULL STORY
|
|
| Ontario seeks equal board representation in TMX deal
|
|
KAREN HOWLETT
|
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
|
A deal between the operators of the Toronto and London stock exchanges should live up to its billing as a ''merger of equals'' by giving Canada a bigger voice on the combined entity's board of directors, says an influential committee of the Ontario Legislature.
FULL STORY
|
|
| Committee to propose changes to merger
|
|
KAREN HOWLETT
|
Friday, April 15, 2011
|
A government-commissioned report on a proposed deal between the companies that operate the Toronto and London stock exchanges will reflect concerns raised during committee hearings by calling for major changes to protect Canada's interests, sources say.
FULL STORY
|
|
| Ontario lawmakers back TMX-LSE deal
|
|
KAREN HOWLETT, TARA PERKINS and GRANT ROBERTSON
|
Thursday, April 14, 2011
|
The architects of a deal between TMX Group Inc. and the London Stock Exchange Group PLC have cleared a major hurdle by winning the backing of an all-party committee of MPPs at the Ontario legislature.
FULL STORY
|
|
| Stock exchange chiefs say local markets 'here to stay'
|
|
BOYD ERMAN and KAREN HOWLETT
|
Thursday, March 03, 2011
|
The architects of a transatlantic deal between the Toronto and London stock exchanges tried to win over wary politicians on Wednesday with assurances that ''local markets are here to stay'' and Canadian markets would continue to be regulated domestically.
FULL STORY
|
|
| Lawyers fear job losses on Bay Street
|
|
KAREN HOWLETT and JEFF GRAY
|
Friday, February 11, 2011
|
Some Bay Street lawyers are echoing concerns voiced by the Ontario government over the proposed merger between the Toronto and London stock exchanges, saying it could lead to the loss of high-paying jobs in Canada's financial capital.
FULL STORY
|
|
| 'Merger of equals' faces tough political path
|
|
STEVEN CHASE, KAREN HOWLETT and ADAM RADWANSKI
|
Thursday, February 10, 2011
|
The Ontario government is emerging as a potential obstacle to the $7-billion-plus deal to merge the Toronto and London stock exchanges and is raising doubts about a transaction that would see Canadian shareholders own a 45-per-cent minority share of the transatlantic venture.
FULL STORY
|
|
| Saskatchewan opposes national securities regulator
|
|
KAREN HOWLETT
|
Tuesday, December 21, 2010
|
Saskatchewan is formally opposing the creation of a single securities regulator, providing fresh ammunition for the provinces waging a fight against Ottawa.Saskatchewan joined Alberta, Manitoba and Quebec on Monday in rejecting the federal government's push to create a single regulator.
FULL STORY
|
|
| Ontario fears regulator plan is 'falling apart'
|
|
KAREN HOWLETT
|
Friday, November 26, 2010
|
Ottawa's ambitious plan to create a national securities regulator is ''falling apart'' and the Harper government is not doing enough to save the initiative, Ontario's Finance Minister has warned.
FULL STORY
|
|
| GM IPO to leave Canadian taxpayers short
|
|
GREG KEENAN AND KAREN HOWLETT
|
Thursday, November 04, 2010
|
The General Motors Co. initial public offering will return more money to federal and Ontario government coffers than expected, but will still fall about $3-billion (U.S.) short of the $9.5-billion Canadian taxpayers doled out to help keep the auto giant afloat last year.
FULL STORY
|
|
| GM IPO will leave taxpayers on the hook
|
|
KAREN HOWLETT and GREG KEENAN
|
Tuesday, November 02, 2010
|
Canadian governments will recoup only a fraction of their $9.5-billion (U.S) investment in General Motors Co. when the one-time largest auto maker in the world completes the latest phase of its historic restructuring later this month.
FULL STORY
|
|
| New OSC chair will lead push for national agency
|
|
JANET McFARLAND and KAREN HOWLETT
|
Thursday, October 14, 2010
|
The Ontario government has reached into one of its own provincial agencies to name Howard Wetston, a trusted bureaucrat and former federal court judge, as the country's top securities regulator.
FULL STORY
|
|
| Fight brewing over securities watchdog plan
|
|
KAREN HOWLETT AND JANET McFARLAND
|
Thursday, July 15, 2010
|
The federal government is bracing for a showdown in the Supreme Court of Canada, where it will square off against three provinces staunchly opposed to its plans to create a national securities regulator.
FULL STORY
|
|
| Proposal to scatter regulator offices 'huge step backward'
|
|
JANET McFARLAND AND KAREN HOWLETT
|
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
|
A controversial proposal to create a new national securities regulator without a head office simply replaces one patchwork system with another, critics of the plan say.The proposed Canadian Securities Regulatory Authority would rely on a diffuse group of regional offices to oversee the country's securities markets, much like the current group of provincial regulators that has long been criticized as splintered and often ineffective.
FULL STORY
|
|
| A BITTER PILL
|
|
MARINA STRAUSS, GRANT ROBERTSON AND KAREN HOWLETT
|
Saturday, April 17, 2010
|
The pharmacy at Lovell Drugs in Oshawa, Ont., is a beehive of activity on a weekday morning. No bigger than a studio apartment, there are seven people behind the counter working in tight quarters, meting out pills.
FULL STORY
|
|
| Ontario insists regulator HQ be in Toronto
|
|
KAREN HOWLETT AND JANET McFARLAND
|
Thursday, March 11, 2010
|
Ontario is bracing for a showdown with the federal government over the province's insistence that the head office for a proposed national securities regulator must be in Toronto, home to Canada's major industry players.
FULL STORY
|
|
| Loblaw to tap Ontario program with solar panels
|
|
KAREN HOWLETT
|
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
|
Canada's largest supermarket chain plans to install rooftop solar panels on many of its Loblaws stores in Ontario, becoming one of the first companies to jump aboard the province's new renewable-energy program.
FULL STORY
|
|
| Ottawa tries to sidestep legal challenges
|
|
KAREN HOWLETT, JANET MCFARLAND and RHÉAL SÉGUIN
|
Saturday, December 19, 2009
|
The federal government plans to turn up the heat on its constitutional showdown with Quebec by asking the courts to toss out the province's legal challenge to a proposed national securities regulator.
FULL STORY
|
|
|
|
|
|
 |
Newswires |
 |
| |
|
|
|
