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Jim McCarter

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Name: Jim McCarter

First reported May 08 2013 - Updated May 08 2013 - 1 reports

Blame game won't fix power plant mess

Most of the news that gushed out of Queen's Park last week has already washed down the drain. The details of Charles Sousa's budget are all but forgotten. Tim Hudak's election posturing was standard. Andrea Horwarth's temporizing was familiar.But 14 words ... [Published Penn Energy - May 08 2013]

Entities: Power Plant, Ontario Power Authority, Kathleen Wynne

First reported May 07 2013 - Updated May 07 2013 - 1 reports

McGuinty to testify on cancellation of Ontario gas plants

Minority Liberals have faced intense criticism from opposition parties over the cancellations The minority Liberals have faced intense criticism from opposition parties over the cancellation of power plants in the cities of Oakville and Mississauga. The ... [Published CBC - May 07 2013]

Entities: Kathleen Wynne, Jim McCarter, Testimony, Ontario Power Authority

First reported May 02 2013 - Updated May 02 2013 - 1 reports

Jim McCarter: The Exit Interview

After ten years as Ontario's Auditor General, Jim McCarter is stepping down. He sits down with Steve Paikin to discuss defining moments of his tenure and the findings of his last report as Auditor General on the Mississauga Power Plant cancellation c ... [Published TVO.org - May 02 2013]

Entities: Jim McCarter, Steve Paikin, Power Plant

First reported Apr 30 2013 - Updated May 01 2013 - 2 reports

Scrapping Oakville power plant cost $310 million says power head

QUEEN'S PARK — It's the $275-million question. The NDP has launched a new website asking residents how they...QUEEN'S PARK — It cost $310 million in “bottom line” costs to scrap and move an Oakville power plant to Napanee, Ontario Power Authority chief ... [Published Mississauga News - Apr 30 2013]

Entities: Power Plant, Kathleen Wynne, Deponent, Peter Tabuns

First reported Apr 30 2013 - Updated May 01 2013 - 2 reports

Ontario premier faces opponents at gas-plant hearing

Ontario's governing Liberals have been handed a confusing and changing series of estimates on the costs of scrapping a gas plant in Oakville, Ont., which is why Premier Kathleen Wynne wants to see what the auditor general concludes in a report due later ... [Published MSN Canada - May 01 2013]

Entities: Progressive Conservatives, Kathleen Wynne, Deponent, Jim McCarter, Ontario Power Authority

First reported Apr 29 2013 - Updated Apr 30 2013 - 1 reports

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PCs ready to push non-confidence vote against Wynne

QUEEN'S PARK — Ontario’s Progressive Conservatives are planning to move a motion of non-confidence in Premier Kathleen Wynne’s minority Liberal government even before it presents the provincial budget, The Canadian Press has learned.A senior Conservative ... [Published Mississauga News - Apr 29 2013]

Entities: Kathleen Wynne, The Conservative Party (United Kingdom), Jim McCarter, Toronto

First reported Apr 29 2013 - Updated Apr 29 2013 - 1 reports

This Week on The Agenda: April 29 to May 3

We've got another diverse week of programming in store for you at The Agenda. We're going to be talking: pot; atheism and belief with Richard Dawkins, Lawrence Krauss, and Jacques Berlinerbrau; the true cost of cancelled gas plants with -- in an exit ... [Published TVO.org - Apr 29 2013]

Entities: Steve Paikin, Richard Dawkins, Jacques Berlinerblau, Lawrence Krauss, Atheism

First reported Apr 26 2013 - Updated Apr 26 2013 - 1 reports

Queen's Park This Week: The Ontario Budget, Home Care Funding, Gas Plant Cancellations

This week at Queen's Park:The Ontario Budget: â Finance Minister Charles Sousa announced that the Liberals will deliver the provincial budget on May 2. The PCs have repeatedly stated that they will vote against the budget in an effort to defeat the ... [Published TVO.org - Apr 26 2013]

Entities: Jim McCarter, Charles Sousa, Manufacturing

First reported Apr 22 2013 - Updated Apr 22 2013 - 4 reports

Tories to put forward non-confidence motion...

Tories to put forward non-confidence motion against Wynne LiberalsQUEEN'S PARK — Ontario’s Progressive Conservatives are planning to move a motion of non-confidence in Premier Kathleen Wynne’s minority Liberal government even before it presents the provincial ... [Published Mississauga News - Apr 22 2013]

Entities: The Conservative Party (United Kingdom), Kathleen Wynne, Jim McCarter, Charles Sousa, Progressive Conservatives

First reported Apr 17 2013 - Updated Apr 18 2013 - 4 reports

Honesty, the best policy

With Auditor-General Jim McCarter’s Monday report on the cancellation of a planned provincial power plant in Mississauga, the governing Liberals have been caught in an effort to deceive voters.Though the plant in question may have been given the axe in ... [Published Cambridge Times Ontario - Apr 18 2013]

Entities: Jim McCarter, Elections, Power Plant

First reported Apr 17 2013 - Updated Apr 17 2013 - 3 reports

Critics demand full disclosure on Oakville power plant costs

QUEEN'S PARK — Premier Kathleen Wynne should stop hiding behind an auditor general's investigation and reveal the costs of scrapping an Oakville power plant before the 2011 election, opposition parties said yesterday.The push intensified yesterday as ... [Published Mississauga News - Apr 17 2013]

Entities: Power Plant, Kathleen Wynne, MPP+

First reported Apr 15 2013 - Updated Apr 16 2013 - 4 reports

Jim McCarter, a man of great integrity

Jim McCarter announced his investigation into a cancelled gas plant in Mississauga would be his last as Ontario's Auditor General. Peter J. Thompson / National PostAfter 10 years as Ontario’s Auditor General, Jim McCarter has delivered his final report; ... [Published Global News Canada - Apr 16 2013]

Entities: Jim McCarter, Bob Chiarelli, Ontario Power Authority, Andrea Horwath, e-health

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Ornge for-profits got public dollars: auditor [Published Global News Canada - May 08 2013]
Blame game won't fix power plant mess [Published Penn Energy - May 08 2013]
McGuinty to testify on cancellation of Ontario ... [Published CBC - May 07 2013]
Jim McCarter: The Exit Interview [Published TVO.org - May 02 2013]
Power plant bill hits $585M; Wynne says she pla... [Published Penn Energy - May 01 2013]
Scott Stinson: Kathleen Wynne hoping voters pin... [Published National Post \| Full Comment » Full Comment - May 01 2013]
Ontario premier faces opponents at gas-plant he... [Published MSN Canada - May 01 2013]
Wait for auditor's report on Oakville costs, Wy... [Published CBC Ottawa - Apr 30 2013]
Scrapping Oakville power plant cost $310 millio... [Published Mississauga News - Apr 30 2013]
Liberals’ decision to scrap Oakville power plan... [Published Toronto Star Online - Apr 30 2013]
This Week on The Agenda: April 29 to May 3 [Published TVO.org - Apr 29 2013]
PCs ready to push non-confidence vote against W... [Published Mississauga News - Apr 29 2013]
Queen's Park This Week: The Ontario Budget, Hom... [Published TVO.org - Apr 26 2013]
Ontario Conservatives have commanding, near-ten... [Published National Post - Top Stories - Apr 24 2013]
Tories to put forward non-confidence motion... [Published Mississauga News - Apr 22 2013]
Tories to put forward non-confidence motion aga... [Published Mississauga News - Apr 22 2013]
Minority Liberals face non-confidence motion [Published Global News Canada - Apr 22 2013]
‘They have not been honest’: Ontario PCs to cal... [Published National Post - Top Stories - Apr 22 2013]
Government paid $275M to cancel power plant - a... [Published Penn Energy - Apr 21 2013]
Ontario Grits have record of bungling [Published Sault Star Online - Apr 20 2013]
Wynne refuses to apologize for higher cost of c... [Published Daily Commercial News - Apr 20 2013]
Snobelen: Either embrace NIMBYism or deal with ... [Published London Free Press - Apr 19 2013]
NDP asks $275 million question [Published Mississauga News - Apr 19 2013]
Delaney's moon shot Opposition rocket fuel [Published Mississauga News - Apr 19 2013]
Scott Stinson: Budget goodies will test how muc... [Published National Post \| Full Comment » Full Comment - Apr 18 2013]
Honesty, the best policy [Published Cambridge Times Ontario - Apr 18 2013]
Liberals knew they were low-balling gas plant n... [Published Mississauga News - Apr 18 2013]
Wynne refuses to apologize for higher cost of c... [Published Mississauga News - Apr 18 2013]
Bisson blasts Liberals [Published Timmins Daily Press - Apr 18 2013]
Telling the truth isn’t negative, but politicians [Published Kenora Daily Miner - Apr 18 2013]

Blogs

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Scott Stinson: Kathleen Wynne hoping voters pin... [Published National Post \| Full Comment » Full Comment - May 01 2013] Kathleen Wynne insists that she didn’t know. For 90 minutes, minus the time she was deftly addressing the muffin-soft questions lovingly served up by Liberal members of the Standing Committee on Justice Policy, the Premier said in many different ways ...
Scott Stinson: Budget goodies will test how muc... [Published National Post \| Full Comment » Full Comment - Apr 18 2013] Kathleen Wynne’s temper flared, just a little, when after member after member of the two opposition parties assailed the Liberal government’s handling of the dual gas-plant cancellations, she stood up in Question Period and took umbrage at talk of a ...
Scott Stinson: The report on power plant cancel... [Published National Post \| Full Comment » Full Comment - Apr 15 2013] To understand the significance of the Ontario Auditor-General’s determination that the cost of cancelling the Mississauga gas-fired power plant was understated by the governing Liberals by about $85-million, it is instructive to go back and see what ...
Full Comment’s World in 60 Seconds: Justin step... [Published National Post \| Full Comment » Full Comment - Dec 13 2012] Justin Trudeau says h e plans to speak at a conference of Islamic groups, even though one of the sponsors lost its federal charity status last year for supporting Hamas, the outlawed terrorist organization. Trudeau says the charges are just a “smear”. ...
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