Tory Redux

Category: Canadian politics

  • Former e Health Chief turns up in California

    From  Toronto Star
    Almost two years after she left as boss of eHealth Ontario in a politically damaging scandal, Sarah Kramer has a new job in California.

    Kramer, who came under fire at eHealth for runaway spending by consultants and her $317,000 severance package, is executive director of a team bringing electronic health records to the UCLA Health System’s patients in four hospitals and clinics with 2,000 doctors. She is working as a consultant, and is not on staff.

    It is a bit ironic that Kramer goes from a province facing fiscal difficulty to a state that some term a financial basket case. I guess it’s true what they say misery really does love company.

  • McGuinty Says No to Inquiry

    From QMI Agency
    Premier Dalton McGuinty won’t call a public inquiry into police actions at the G20, he said Monday.


    “With five separate reviews under way, I think we are coming at it from a number of perspectives,” McGuinty said. “I’m going to let the reviews speak to that.”


    The Canadian Civil Liberties Association released its report into the actions of police and treatment of protesters during last summer’s summit, which involved the largest number of mass arrests in Canadian history.

  • Ontario Liberals musing About Introducing a Carbon Tax

    From Canadian Free Press
    Today, Jim Wilson, MPP Simcoe-Grey, warned Ontario families that there are three key indications that Dalton McGuinty will introduce a carbon tax for Ontario.

    “It is time for all of us to start to get comfortable with two words: Carbon tax. Without it, all these dreams of a green tomorrow are hallucinations.” (Glen Murray, Toronto Star, May 27 2007).


    “I have looked at increasing taxes in some areas. For example, I argued for moving toward more carbon taxation.” (Jack Mintz, The
    Agenda With Steve Paikin, February 23, 2011).

    fast forward to minute 949 in the video to hear the quote