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The nearly $68-billion Ottawa will send to the provinces next year in healthcare, postsecondary education and equalization transfers is an aggregate amount. But how that money gets divvied up between the provinces is based on a series of mind-bogglingly complex formulas that factor in tax revenues, population shifts, recent economic performance and a host of other variables. That means that, although overall federal cash transfers will increase by 4.6 per cent next year, every have-not province except Ontario will see a much smaller increase. Overall, equalization payments will increase by $672-million next year. But Ontario will get 56 per cent of that total. With $iJ25-billion or 6 per cent more from Ottawa next year, Ontario will again replace Quebec as the biggest recipient of overall federal transfers, with a haul of $204-billion. Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne might consider this only right, considering that last year, Ottawa cancelled a discretionary program that e...
Demand response started in 2005 to reward industrial and commercial businesses for cutting energy use at peak times to prevent brownouts and blackouts caused by a strain on the power grid, especially during the summer. The all-time record for energy use in Ontario happened Aug. 1, 2006, when demand for electricity reached 27,005MW, according to the Independent Electricity System Operator which oversees the province's electrical system. Consumption reports are generated by hour, day and month, and the website and mobile app offer suggestions to lower energy use, he said.
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