Today’s Speech from the Throne with its focus on creating the right environment in Ontario for investment, job creation and skills development, sets the right tone as Ontario prepares for the end of the global recession. Not unlike the Ontario Chamber of Commerce’s vision for Ontario as a Magnet for the World -- which describes Ontario as a place with many values that attracts people from all over the globe including opportunity, abundance of educational resources, diversity and freedom to pursue their ...

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Overall, the Federal Budget is a play-it-safe plan to reduce Canada’s deficit to $1.8 billion by 2014-15 from its current $53.8 billion level. The OCC is concerned that spending restraint over the next five years is modest at best; a more aggressive plan to control spending over the next several years would have been welcomed given the severity of the record-level deficit; the reduction in spending will not begin until 2011 and beyond. Government operating expenses have dramatically increased in the last ...

The University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management, wants to help you find new ways to think about and solve the really tough problems. These are the thorny issues with no obvious solution that plague every professional, whether in business, health care, or the arts. These problems not are intractable. The Rotman School believes by thinking harder and more creatively about them, you can find a solution that works better for everybody. If you as a leader, or a middle ...

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Would-be new Canadians are speaking directly to potential employers in their field through a videoconference hosted today by the Ontario Chamber of Commerce (OCC). Engineering technicians and technologists from India are being linked with panellists in Toronto in one of a series of videoconferences, held with the assistance of the Government of Ontario and the Canadian Immigration Integration Project under the OCC’s Global Experience @ Work (GE@W) program. GE@W is helping to integrate Foreign Trained Professionals (FTPs) into the Ontario workforce to ...

Gerry Macartney, general manager of the London Chamber of Commerce, has written an opinion piece regarding the concept of a living wage which appears in today's London Free Press.  In some communities, the living wage, or the wage needed to ensure a single adult who works full time all year long is above the povery line, has been estimated at $14/hour.  In the article, Gerry argues that a living wage would actually hurt the people it intends to help, and is ...

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Minister Sandra Pupatello responds to a question at Wednesday's Ontario Business Advisory Council Meeting where about 60 delegates had an opportunity to dialogue with Premier McGuinty and Ministers Dwight Duncan, Sandra Pupatello, Brad Duguid, John Wilkinson and John Milloy.  Topics covered the breadth of economic issues including energy and infrastructure, carbon pricing, post-secondary education investment and tax reform.  The 2010 OBAC series is sponsored by TELUS.  New members are welcome.  Contact Ron Young for details.