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Online/New Media by rochekellyApril 20, 2011August 4, 2011

Health bigwigs paid too much: MPP

Highly paid local bureaucrats are sucking up too much in provincial health-care dollars, an Ottawa MPP says. Each of the 14 health networks across Ontario spent more than $1 million on executive salaries, according to Lisa MacLeod, Conservative MPP for Nepean-Carleton. The number of executives in the Ottawa-area Champlain Local Health Integration Network earning more […]

Online/New Media by rochekellyMarch 16, 2011March 17, 2011

Feds chip in $2.5M to study francophones

SEE VIDEO http://www.ottawasun.com/news/ottawa/2011/03/16/17643661.html A large-scale study of francophone history and culture in North America will be led from the University of Ottawa. Professor France Martineau is getting a $2.5-million grant from the federal government to fund the project. “This will document history of families, history of individuals, history of humble people, really,” said Ottawa Orleans […]