Rumours continue to abound that Ontario is headed to the polls earlier than the currently legislated fixed election date in spring of 2026. We believe that our clients need to prepare as if the election could come as soon as Q1 2025, as the Premier has only ruled out...
Top Line Large shift in deficit numbers, climbing to $9.8 billion in the coming fiscal year and pushing a projected balanced budget off to 2026-27. No new provincial taxes. Projected GDP growth of just 0.3% next year, a particularly anemic rate of growth...
When governments reveal their annual budgets, the presentation is accompanied by much pomp and circumstance and the speech tends to dominate the news cycle for at least the day, if not the week. This Ontario budget won’t do that. It is short on both “new” news or...
Today the Ontario government announced a return to a state of emergency and additional public health measures to fight the second wave of COVID-19, as the province experiences an unprecedented increase in cases and growing strain on its ICU capacity. This news comes...
Effective Monday, November 23, 2020 at 12:01 a.m., Toronto and Peel regions will be moving into the lockdown (grey) level of the Keeping Ontario Safe and Open Framework. The lockdown is to stay in effect for a minimum of 28 days. Ontario is reporting 1,418 new...
