Calandra said the advisor will monitor the board’s governance, decision-making, and compliance with ministry directives after the report concluded that poor governance, and not construction issues as previously said, was the main cause of the school’s repeated delays.

Marvell Technology Inc. is undertaking a five-year, $238 million expansion of its work in Ontario, which will include more research and development of semiconductors, a new optical lab and a Toronto office.

As the evidence, including in the latest economic update, clearly show, the Ford government is neither keeping costs down nor unleashing the economy. Quite the opposite.

Ontario has never stopped reorganizing its school boards. For 180 years, the province has expanded local control, then reined it in, then expanded it again. Every few decades, the pendulum changes direction, usually after a political flashpoint or a crisis of confidence.

The data suggests that Ontario may not be in a recession, for now, as it may have avoided two straight quarters of negative real GDP growth.