Current staff Ontario's rivers make it rich in hydroelectric energy in 2009 Ontario Power Generation generated 70 percent of the province's electricity of which 51 percent is nuclear 39% is hydroelectric and 10% is fossil-fuel derived by 2025 nuclear power is projected to supply 42% while fossil-fuel-derived generation is projected to decrease slightly over the next 20 years. Much of the newer power generation coming online in the last few years is natural gas or combined-cycle natural gas plants OPG is not however responsible for the transmission of power which is under the control of Hydro One The Pickering Nuclear Generating Station is one of three nuclear power stations in Ontario Despite its diverse range of power options problems related to increasing consumption lack of energy efficiency and aging nuclear reactors Ontario has been forced in recent years to purchase power from its neighbours Quebec and Michigan to supplement its power needs during peak consumption periods Ontario's basic domestic rate in 2010 was 11.17 cents per kWh; by contrast Quebec's was 6.81 in December 2013 the government projected a 42 percent hike by 2018 and 68 percent by 2033. Industrial rates are projected to rise by 33% by 2018 and 55% in 2033 The Green Energy and Green Economy Act 2009 (GEA) takes a two-pronged approach to commercializing renewable energy; first it aims to bring more renewable energy sources to the province; and secondly it aims to adopt more energy-efficiency measures to help conserve energy the bill envisaged appointing a Renewable Energy Facilitator to provide "one-window" assistance and support to project developers to facilitate project approvals The approvals process for transmission projects would also be streamlined and (for the first time in Ontario) the bill would enact standards for renewable energy projects Homeowners would have access to incentives to develop small-scale renewables such as low- or no-interest loans to finance the capital cost of renewable energy generating facilities like solar panels The Sir Adam Beck Hydroelectric Generating Stations is a hydroelectric plant located in Niagara Falls Ontario is home to Niagara Falls which supplies a large amount of electricity to the province the Bruce Nuclear Generating Station the largest operational nuclear power plant in the world is also in Ontario and uses 8 CANDU reactors to generate electricity for the province Ontario had the most wind energy capacity of the country with 4,900 MW of power (41% of Canada capacity) Government law and politics, 9.4 Air travel See also: List of colleges in Ontario and List of universities in Ontario; . . 15 Canada Alexander Kerfoot C L 25 2019 Vancouver British Columbia Al Azhar Islamic School, Fossil Fuel (54.7%), 2015? 59 27 288 429 Part of the series on; Oronto Football Club is a professional soccer club based in Toronto Ontario Canada the club competes in Major League Soccer (MLS) as a member of the Eastern Conference the team plays its home matches at BMO Field located at Exhibition Place on Toronto's shoreline Toronto FC joined MLS in 2007 as an expansion team and was the first Canadian-based franchise in the league The first team is coached by Greg Vanney and operated by Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment which also operates the USL League One affiliate team Toronto FC II and most other professional sports franchises in the city In 2017 Toronto FC won the domestic treble with the MLS Cup Supporters' Shield and Canadian Championship They are seven-time winners of the Canadian Championship and were runners-up of the 2018 CONCACAF Champions League Contents. Paris Ontario The Greater Toronto Area is a commercial distribution financial and economic centre being the second largest financial centre in North America the region generates about a fifth of Canada's GDP and is home to 40% of Canada's business headquarters the economies of the municipalities in Greater Toronto are largely intertwined the work force is made up of approximately 2.9 million people and more than 100,000 companies the Greater Toronto Area produces nearly 20% of the entire nation's GDP with $323 Billion and from 1992 to 2002 experienced an average GDP growth rate of 4.0% and a job creation rate of 2.4% (compared to the national average GDP growth rate of 3% and job creation rate of 1.6%) A worker at Oakville Assembly installs a battery on a Ford Flex in 2010 the automotive industry accounted for roughly 10 percent of Greater Toronto's GDP In 2010 over 51% of the labour force in the Greater Toronto Area is employed in the service sector with 19% in the manufacturing 17% of the labour force employed in wholesale & retail trade 8% of the labour force involved in transportation communication & utilities and 5% of the workforce is involved in construction. Despite the fact the service industry makes up only 51% of Greater Toronto's workforce over 72% of the region's GDP is generated by service industries The largest industry in the Greater Toronto Area is the financial services in the province accounting for an estimated 25% of the region's GDP. Notably the five largest banks in Canada all have their operational headquarters in Toronto's Financial District. Toronto is also home to the headquarters of the Toronto Stock Exchange and the Standard and Poor TSX Composite Index and offices of the TSX Venture Exchange the TMX Group the owners and operators of TSX Exchanges as well as the Montreal Exchange are also headquartered in Toronto the TSX and the TSX Venture Exchange represent 3,369 companies including more than half of the world's publicly traded mining companies Markham also attracted the highest concentration of high tech companies in Canada and because of it has positioned itself as Canada's High-Tech Capital the Greater Toronto Area is the second largest automotive centre in North America (after Detroit) Currently,[when?] General Motors Ford and Chrysler run six assembly plants in the area with Honda and Toyota having assembly plants just outside the GTA General Motors Ford Honda KIA Mazda Suzuki Nissan Volkswagen Toyota Hyundai Aston Martin Jaguar Land Rover Subaru Volvo BMW and Mitsubishi have chosen the Greater Toronto Area for their Canadian headquarters. Magna International the world's most diversified car supplier, also has its headquarters in Aurora the automobile industry within the region accounts for roughly 10% of the region's GDP Agriculture. Player Season One King Street West is a hotel that incorporated a postmodern tower into the former Dominion Bank building the original building was completed in 1914 Many of Toronto's early hotels were small inns and taverns that were built along each of the major routes out of the city the oldest surviving hotel in Toronto is Montgomery's Inn which was built in 1832 the Lambton House is another surviving hotel structure that also served those travelling on Dundas Both hotels had since been converted as museums The arrival of the railroad in the mid-nineteenth century dramatically changed travel patterns and new hotels from this era were clustered around the railroad stations Outside the central core smaller hotels grew up to serve the stations in what were then the outer reaches of the city in the west these included the Gladstone Hotel and the Drake Hotel while in the east New Broadview House Hotel and the New Edwin Hotel were built The twentieth century saw a new generation of hotels much larger and more monumental than before as the skyscraper came to prominence the King Edward Hotel was established in 1903 and is the oldest major hotel still in operation in the city in 1927 the Queen's was demolished and replaced by the Royal York Hotel At the time the new hotel was the tallest building in Canada and quickly became the city's most elite lodging in the northern part of the city this era also saw the erection of the Park Plaza in 1929 The 1970s and 1980s saw a number of major hotel projects in central Toronto with the Sheraton Centre Toronto Hilton Sutton Place and Four Seasons adding thousands of new rooms to the market the economic downturn at the end of the 1980s saw several hotels run into financial trouble Since the mid-2000s a booming real estate market especially in downtown Toronto has led to a number of new hotel projects often in combination with condominium projects An unprecedented number of major hotel projects were completed in central Toronto including the St Regis Toronto (formerly known as Trump International Hotel and Tower then the Adelaide Hotel Toronto) the Ritz-Carlton Living Shangri-La and a new Four Seasons Hotel and Residences Toronto Main Streets, Major programmes underway are: Toronto Ontario Canada Business directory. .
. ! Main article: Hotels in Toronto The Royal Conservatory of Music is a non-profit music education institution headquartered in Toronto Toronto is home to a number of supplementary schools which provides additional educational support for students in mainstream public and private schools the city also hosts a growing number of publicly funded and private English as a Second Language (ESL) schools and is home to as many as 10,000 ESL students at a time These are either visa students primarily from Latin America Asia and Europe or newly arrived landed immigrants and Canadian citizens Schools located in Toronto include:. Municipality, 1.2.3 Notable Figures of the Toronto Public School Board, The first elections for the school board were held on September 3 1850 Two trustees were elected to represent each of the six wards in the city Results of 1850 School Trustee Elections. . Al Azhar Islamic School Early history.
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