atHome Top Story (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Ottawa needs to join Ontario in the starting blocks soon if Toronto is to win the race to host the 2015 Pan Am Games, says Premier Dalton McGuinty.
Progressive Bloggers (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
... yet another squeaky wheel in confederation. Apparently, Dalton McGuinty is calling on Ontarians to "stand up for [Ontario]" as he pressures Ottawa to reform the federal equalization program in the face of his province's fading fortunes. Does anyone else...
Globe and Mail (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty says he needs to know in the next few days whether the Harper government will kick in any funding to help Canada win a bid to play host to the Pan American Games in 2015.
Globe and Mail (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty is once again calling for his province to get behind him in his fight for a fairer economic relationship with the federal government. If the past is any indication, he will find the response underwhelming. But no matter how apathetic Ontarians may be, Stephen Harper's Conservatives need to heed Mr. McGuinty's warnings.
Focus on Britain (and Europe) (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Silly me. When I saw this headline in the Globe and Mail this morning, Premier challenges Ontarians to shed cloak of complacency, I actually thought for a fleeting moment that there was hope for Ontario yet. I thought, wow, is this the Dalton McGuinty we know? Is he actually calling on Ontarians to become self-reliant, to learn to stand on their own two feet for once and to shed the "cloak of complacency",...
Torontoist (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
This year to date has seen the wettest June and July ever in Toronto, and we're only a couple of centimetres of rain away from breaking the rain record for the whole summer. That should shut up the "global wetting" skeptics. The newly populist Dalton McGuinty did some rabble-rousing in London Ontario yesterday, urging Ontarians to protest the fact that the national wealth equalization system sucks...
Globe and Mail (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty is calling on residents of the province to become the squeaky wheels of Confederation and rally behind him in his fight for a fairer deal from Ottawa.
Gods of the Copybook Headings (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
Only Nixon could go to China, perhaps only Dalton McGuinty can destroy Canada's equalization program. With its origins dating back to Confederation, the equalization program attempts to compensate poorer provincial governments for having a lower than average "fiscal capacity." Roughly...
All Politics Is Local (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
The David Suzuki Foundation has released a report on provincial efforts to solve the climate crisis. The report supports the efforts of Dalton McGuinty in Ontario to eliminate coal powered plants from the grid. The Suzuki Foundation, however, toes the green line on nuclear power. The report claims that the province could avoid nuclear power and keep the lights on and sights a World Wildlife Fund/Pembina...
Cherniak on Politics (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008
No, not really. I'm just playing on the headline below. However, PEI's Premier Ghiz is joining Ontario's Dalton McGuinty and BCs Gordon Campbell in waxing positive about Dion's Green Shift.
atHome Top Story (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008
Dalton McGuinty's promise to set aside half of Ontario's northern boreal forest for permanent protection may not mean very much. It's hard to say, because the promise is so vague.
San Diego Union (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
The province of Ontario, Canada's industrial heartland, will join the Western Climate Initiative, a planned U.S.-based regional carbon credit trading pact, the province's premier, Dalton McGuinty, said Friday.
Deseret Morning News (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
As part of Ontario's request to join the 10 Western Climate Initiative partners, including Utah, officials with the Canadian province announced a "Go Green Climate Change Plan" that includes full closure of all coal plants by 2014. Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty submitted the formal request Thursday.
Science Pal (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
Written by Timothy B. Hurst Ontario’s Boreal Forest absorbs 12.5 million tons of CO2 annually A huge swath of Canada’s northern Boreal forest will be permanently protected from tree harvesting and mining as part of a plan to combat climate change, the Province of Ontario’s premier Dalton McGuinty announced Monday. Canada’s Boreal forest forms a band of mostly coniferous trees almost 620 miles wide...
Globe and Mail (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
By blocking development of part of the Northern Ontario boreal forest, Premier Dalton McGuinty has taken a lead in Canadian conservation efforts.
