As the dust settles after the Progressive Conservatives’ first budget, the extent of the spending cuts is sinking in. Forest Ontario’s “50 million tree” program, which aimed to plant that many trees by 2025, was sent to the woodchopper by this spring’s provincial budget. The conservation program, which has helped 4,000 landowners in rural Ontario by subsidizing the planting of 2.3 million trees annually, is being eliminated in July. “Cuts to legal aid are a false economy,” said Katharina Janczaruk, vice-president of the Ontario Association of Child Protection Lawyers. In Fedeli’s own Nipissing riding, the Near North District School Board has sent notices to more than half of its 240 high school teachers.

Source: thestar April 27, 2019 11:15 UTC