By Nicolas Van Praet, Financial Post

When Mike Harris, a math teacher and ski instructor from North Bay, was elected premier of Ontario in 1995, he faced a swath of choices in his bid to wipe out the province?s then $11-billion deficit.

CBC News

Ontario Finance Minister Dwight Duncan is expected to project a higher deficit than the revised forecast for 2009-2010 when he delivers the province's economic update on Thursday afternoon. Ontarians will learn the state of the province's finances on Thursday afternoon when the Liberal government releases its fall economic update.

Philippe Orfali (Le Droit)

Mal financ?s et mal compris par l'administration publique, les services en fran?ais doivent ?tre revus pour mieux r?pondre aux besoins de la population, implore le commissaire aux services en fran?ais de l'Ontario dans son second rapport annuel, pr?sent? hier.

Petition against Harmonized Sales Tax and meeting for info in the works

By Peter Shurman (Vaughan Today)

In the spring of 2010, the Dalton McGuinty government will bring in the HST, the Harmonized Sales Tax, which will increase the cost of goods and services that Ontarians buy everyday.

Bid for T.O. mayor in jeopardy

By BRYN WEESE, SUN MEDIA

This past week, Deputy Premier George Smitherman has come under fire for his role in the $1-billion eHealth scandal that saw hundreds of millions of provincial health-care dollars wasted trying in vain to set up electronic health records in Ontario.

CBC News

A Conservative MPP slammed Caesars Windsor on Thursday, calling it "a sinkhole of a casino that's so deep it needs stimulus funds to stay afloat."

Downturn causes critics to question costly expansion of Windsor facility
 
By Lee Greenberg, The Ottawa Citizen
October 2, 2009
 
Ontario's four large government-owned casinos lost $94 million last year, according to newly released figures.

CBC News

Ontario's Conservatives want to know why the province spent $81 million to build an energy plant to power the Windsor casino in Finance Minister Dwight Duncan's riding.

(CP)

TORONTO ? Premier Dalton McGuinty says his government is talking to the mutual fund industry about a possible exemption to the harmonized sales tax.

Sep 29, 2009
Maria Babbage - THE CANADIAN PRESS

The Opposition Conservatives are demanding to know why the province spent $81 million to build an energy plant that powers a Windsor casino in a senior minister's riding.