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Location: Toronto, Ontario 1979-1996. Merged with Hongkong Bank of Canada in 1996. Location: Calgary, Alberta 2010–present. Barclays Bank has operated as a retail and commercial bank in Canada from 1929 to 1956, from 1979 to 1996, and most recently from 2010.
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Feb 10, 2023 · February 10, 2023. 0. 1119. Ontario Construction News staff writer. Barclay Construction has signed an alternative measures agreement and agreed to pay $175,000 to the Government of Canada’s environmental damages fund.
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The closure of Ontario’s coal plants represents the biggest single-source emissions reduction in the province’s history. The five coal plants had been responsible for 25 per cent of the province’s electricity generation — when the Liberal government shut them down, it reduced the province’s annual greenhouse-gas emissions by roughly 28 megatons. “B...
Scotiabank’s chief economist, Jean-François Perrault, says the Liberals’ long-term infrastructure plan — particularly its policies relating to transit in the Golden Horseshoe — had a significant and positive effect on the province’s economy. “The state of infrastructure in this part of the country has been … I wouldn’t say world class,” Perrault sa...
Annie Kidder, of the advocacy group People for Education, says that the best thing the Liberals did on the education file was simply to take it seriously. “Before they were elected, there was a time of polarization, of cuts, of a lot of divisiveness within public education,” she says. The investments the Liberals made and the effort they put into c...
Jatin Nathwani, of the Waterloo Institute for Sustainable Energy, gives the Liberals high marks for shutting down the coal plants and for ensuring that the province has a diverse mix of relatively low-carbon energy sources, including nuclear, hydro, natural gas, wind, solar, and bioenergy. “The dividends of a low-carbon electricity mix are yet to b...
When it comes to supporting Ontarians’ mental health, Kwame McKenzie, CEO of the Wellesley Institute, says the best thing the Liberals did was set up the Mental Health and Addictions Leadership Advisory Council. However, they waited until the end of their time in office to accept the advice it provided, so many of its suggestions have not been impl...
When the Liberals came into office, Isadore Day was just starting out in band politics as a new council member for Serpent River First Nation, south of Elliot Lake. Now Ontario Regional Chief, Day reflects on the progress that has been made since then: “We’re now part owners of Hydro One, we’ve eliminated delivery charges for First Nations across O...
Metcalf Foundation fellow John Stapleton has acted as an adviser to the province on community and social-services policy for nearly three decades. He says the Liberal government made strides in social assistance and housing policy — notably, through its 2017 decision to raise exemption limits for tax-free savings accounts and registered retirement ...
Matti Siemiatycki, a professor of geography and planning at the University of Toronto, says the Liberal government deserves credit for having made substantial province-wide investments in infrastructure following a dearth of such investments in previous years. “I think it put infrastructure back on the agenda,” he says, noting that the government c...
The Government of Ontario ( French: Gouvernement de l'Ontario) is the body responsible for the administration of the Canadian province of Ontario. The term Government of Ontario refers specifically to the executive—political ministers of the Crown (the Cabinet/Executive Council), appointed on the advice of the premier, and the non-partisan ...
2010 – Muskoka host the G8 summit, and Toronto Hosts the G20 summit. 2010 – The Ontario debt surpasses $200 billion (CAD) 2011 – The Ontario Liberals lose their majority, yet remain in power with a minority government in the Ontario general election. 2012 – Premier Dalton McGuinty resigns amidst numerous scandals.
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Feb 15, 2024 · They leave Barclays in its current dilemma, over dependent on capital-intensive investment banking, short of stable, cash-producing businesses and with the shares sitting at less than half of book ...
