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Ontario looks to trim deficit; New Liberal cabinet with be gender balanced

Specifics of the new enhancements were not included in announcement

Need to renew your licence or your health card?  The province says they are enhancing their top 10 services on Service Ontario online to make them more user-friendly.  Also, in an effort to trim the 10-billion dollar deficit, the province will also review the way it makes bulk purchases and look at provincially owned property with an eye to selling it off.

Trudeau also vowed to work with Prairie Provinces

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says a new gender balanced cabinet will be sworn in November 20th.  At a media conference yesterday he also vowed to work with other parties but said he is not looking to form any type of coalition to prop up his minority Liberal government.

Social media jumps on border wall in…Colorado

U.S. President Donald Trump’s suggestion he is building part of his famed border wall in Colorado is raising eyebrows.  Of course the state is nowhere near the Mexican border but Trump included it in a list of States where the wall is being built.  Trump tweeted early this morning that he was just “kidding”.

Zuckerberg grilled in Congress

If Facebook had an unlike button, members of the U.S. Congress may have used it.  Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg was in Washington pushing a digital currency called Libra meant to help people around the world without bank accounts.  But lawmakers instead took aim at misleading political ads on the platform and said the new plan was risky and could be used for illegal activity.

 

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