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TORONTO, June 19 /CNW/ - The Ontario government has appointed Professor John McCamus as the new Chair of Legal Aid Ontario, Attorney General Michael Bryant announced today. "John McCamus is a recognized expert in the area of legal aid and will make an excellent Chair," said Bryant. "I have no doubt that under his leadership, Legal Aid Ontario will continue to provide quality legal services to low-income Ontarians." McCamus will serve a three-year term that begins July 5, 2007. He is a University Professor of Law and former Dean of Osgoode Hall Law School at York University. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2006 and is currently an Associated Scholar at a Toronto law firm.
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In the 2005 Ontario Budget, the government announced the creation of a new Ontario Research Fund which combines a number of existing research programs into a new fund projected to reach $730 million by 2007-08. Included in this initiative is an investment of $217 million for the direct and indirect cost of research and the already committed $300 million in provincial matching of the federal Canada Foundation for Innovation funding for research infrastructure projects. The Ontario Liberal government appears to be moving away from supporting research through block operating grants. Similar to the research funding model of its predecessors, this Research Fund will focus on supporting primarily applied research in the high tech, communication, life sciences, agricultural and manufacturing sectors. The Ontario Research Fund is designed to work closely with the Ontario Research Commercialization Program, established in 2004, to foster greater commercialization of research funding.
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On October 20th, 1986, the Ontario (Canada) Government announced that it would provide up to $5 million a year over the next four years to establish a new Northern Ontario distance education access network. The project was announced jointly by the Colleges and Universities Minister Gregory Sorbara and Education Minister Sean Conway in a combined video and audio press conference that linked Toronto, Sudbury, and Thunder Bay.
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Government support is critical to renewable energy development in Ontario and Canada. The Ontario government's Request for Proposals and Standard Offer Program, and the Canadian government's ecoENERGY Renewable Initiative support investment in wind energy. The Ripley project companies have applied for funding under ecoENERGY for Renewable Power.
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Ontario is working with the federal government to ensure that the proposed federal WITB realizes its objective of supporting vulnerable individuals in Ontario and the rest of Canada. As Ontario provides benefits to vulnerable people through a variety of programs, it is critical that theproposed federal WITB be properly integrated with existing provincial and territorial tax and transfer systems. Once the WITB isimplemented, the Ontario Government would help low-income working families and individuals byflowing the full amount of the benefit through to Ontarians receiving social assistance.
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This agreement is currently in force between Ontario, the Mohawk Council of Akwesasne, the province of Quebec and the Government of Canada. The purpose of the Agreement is to maintain the Akwesasne Mohawk Police Service, to establish conditions/ roles and responsibilities among the parties for the policing arrangements at Akwesasne; and to provide funding for those policing arrangements. Canada funds 52 %, Ontario 24% and Quebec 24%.
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