2023 Ontario Budget

• Ontario growing pharmacists’ prescribing powers, eyes further expansion

  Two months after regulatory changes allowed pharmacists to prescribe treatments for 13 common ailments, Ontario announced in its budget that it is planning a further expansion.

  Canada

  Mar 23, 2023
  
• Ontario boosts hospital, mental health and pediatric funding in budget

  The provincial budget released Thursday detailed an $850 million increase in funding to hospitals plus $200 million to address health-care staffing shortages across the system.

  Health

  Mar 23, 2023
  
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• Ontario puts $113M in budget to emergency preparedness

  Community organizations and municipalities in Ontario could get a piece of $110 million in funding the province has committed over three years for emergency readiness.

  Canada

  Mar 23, 2023
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• Ontario 2023 budget fails to provide specific relief for struggling City of Toronto

  The document included few new spending lines or flashy announcements — and it didn’t put a single new cent on the table to help Toronto address its yawning deficit.

  Politics

  Mar 23, 2023
• Ontario could fail to meet 1.5 million homes target, 2023 budget suggests

  To meet an ambitious target of 1.5 million homes in 10 years, the province needs to build 150,000 homes per year. This year, the 2023 budget predicts 80,300 new housing starts.

  Economy

  Mar 23, 2023
• Ontario stops earmarking COVID-19 funding in move toward life after the pandemic

  Ontario’s 2023 budget has absorbed billions of dollars in time-limited COVID-19 funding, taking away specific pandemic spending plans from the core of its financial plan.

  Health

  Mar 23, 2023
• Ontario to include new 10 per cent income tax credit for manufacturing

  Ontario manufacturers would be able to get up to $2 million a year through a new tax credit the government is proposing in its upcoming budget.

  Politics

  Mar 22, 2023