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Ontario budget. Minister Deb Matthews says she is standing up for taxpayers by nixing salary increases

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Amy Poehler and Will Arnett at the Toronto East General Hospital comedy gala, Laughter is the Best Medicine, on Thursday night. The gala fundraiser, held at the Allstream Centre, was hosted by Toronto’s own Arnett and featured comedian Jerry Seinfeld. Tickets started at $1,000. Sandler/Central Image Agency

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The five-month-old government’s future hangs in the balance over the budget, which goes to a crucial confidence vote in the Legislature by April 25. Defeat would force an election by the end of May. Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario president Sean Hammond said the government’s “destructive” demands ask “too much of teachers and singles them out” in a bare-knuckled political play that will harm students. Added Ontario Medical Association president Dr. Stewart Kennedy: “The number one priority for Ontario’s doctors has and continues to be patients.” torstar news service

Mired in debt and at risk of an election by late May, Ontario’s minority Liberal government took dead aim at teachers and doctors Thursday in a bid for public support to keep their wage hike demands to zero. Education Minister Laurel Broten warned elementary teachers of 10,000 layoffs unless they accept a pay freeze,

while Health Minister Deb Matthews told physicians “I am here to stand up for taxpayers.” There is no room in Premier Dalton McGuinty’s latest budget -— which forecasts a $15.2 billion deficit this year -— for salary increases, Matthews told a hastily arranged late-afternoon news conference. “This is a tough time. This is a difficult budget,” Matthews said shortly after Broten delivered her second stern message since Monday, when she slammed the elementary teachers’ union for walking away from provincial bargaining.

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A man has been charged with breaking into the car of a Bloor Street restaurant owner — and it’s not the guy who had spices thrown in his face for it page 4

The accused talked about child abductions with his former girlfriends, court hears, as a long string of women he dated testify in the Stafford case page 4

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In an effort to keep up with discount-store competition entering the Canadian market, Walmart execs say more goods will be priced at just $1 page 22


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