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to four-lane status have been long-running issues for both the UCPR and the City of Clarence-Rockland for several decades. Past provincial and federal governments have both expressed support for the idea and at one time had announced plans to set aside between $40 million to $50 million each towards future four-lane expansion of the highway connector route. The City of Ottawa proved the obstacle to the project then because four-laning of the nine-kilometre connection between Oréans and Rockland was not a priority in its own Master Trans- portation Plan. Last summer UCPR council approved a resolution to allocate $2.3 million over Following are the top ten listings for the 2025 Ontario Sunshine list for healthcare services. EOHU Paul Roumeliotis, medical officer of health and chief executive officer, $393,472.40 salary. Patricia Gauley, director, $183,888.16 salary. Thérèse Bourgeois, director, $183,888.15 salary. Linda Cleroux, director, $183,858.84 salary. Tony Belanger, senior web developer, $131,666.53 salary. Rami Basha, manager:program, $131,408.86 salary. Shawn Pilon, manager: risk and physical resources, $130,908.89 salary. Mario Pinard, manager: operations, $125,408.88 salary. Suzanne Beauchesne, manager: opera- tions, $125,408.86 salary. Roxanne Ferguson, manager: operations, $124,766.27 salary. HGH Fédéric Beauchemin, chief executive officer, $319,532.16 salary. Marilyn San Pablo, charge registered nurse, $311,533.39 salary. Manon Leclair, registered nurse, $212,751.30 salary Imrana Jeoffrey, chief performance and get longer each year as more public sector reach the $100,000 benchmark for inclusion on the list because of promotions, mandated salary raises, and other factors. The 2025 Sunshine List has 356 in total entries for the health services public sector in Eastern Ontario. That includes 35 for the Eastern Ontario Health Unit (EOHU), 260 for Hawkesbury and District General Hospital (HGH), and 61 for Winchester and District Memorial Hospital (WDMH).
The PSSD requires that all of these groups “disclose annually the names, positions, salaries, and total taxable beneifts of employees paid $100,000 or more in a calendar year.” The online version of the list at onta- riosunshinelist.com was created in 2013. Alberta and Nova Scotia have their versions of Sunshine Lists. Criticisms of the Sunshine List are that it is not indexed to inflation and does not include information about cost-of-living raises to salaries required in employee contracts, does not provide details of how long a per- son has held their position or worked for the municipality, school district, or other agency that is covered by the PSSD, does not provide information about promotions or other changes in a person’s employment history that contributed to increases in their annual salary, amount of time involved in work for their occupation or any background on formal and supplemental training they received to qualify for their position and salary. Critics also note that Sunshine lists
quality officer/vice-president: operations, $202,858.96 salary. Stojan Stojanovski, registered nurse, $200,633.80 salary. Freda Stolz, chief human resources, $196,397.71 salary France Paquet, vice-president/nursing administrator, $196,102.15 salary. Hristo Radilov, registered nurse, $194,103.13 salary. Jeremy Roberts, chief financial officer/ vice-president: facilities, $190,826.45 salary. Sonia Gravel, registered nurse, $189,096.80 salary. WDMH Charles Boland, chief executive officer, $337,215.74 salary. Michelle Blouin, senior vice-president: cor- porate/information management services, and chief financial officer, $212,431.73 salary. Janie Desroches, senior vice-president: clinical services and chief nursing executive, $174,613.36 salary. Claudette Pullen, registered nurse, $140,925.86 salary. Katie Beach, registered nurse, $140,297.86 salary. Abbygail Comtois, registered nurse, $130,613.39 salary. Tracy Bradley, registered nurse, $130,330.81 salary. Brittany Coleman, registered nurse, $129,104.56 salary. Jessica Burnett, registered nurse, $128,361.34 salary. Kaylee Hay and Frida Plourde, infection control and employee health services nurses, $128,185.05 salary To view the entire 2025 Sunshine List, go to: https://www.ontario.ca/ public-sector-salary-disclosure/2025/ all-sectors-and-seconded-employees/. a three-year period for design work for a five-phase project, valued then at $121.2 million, to make County Road 17 a four-lane highway link from Ottawa’s Boundary Road intersection to the County Road 8 intersec- tion in Clarence-Rockland. The overall time for the project is estimated at 11 years. The County Road 17 expansion plan is now included in the UCPR’s current asset management plan. The UCPR has alloca- ted about $750,000 towards costs for early-stage design and planning work for the proposed upgrade. An environmental assessment of the proposed four-lane expansion proposal was done in 2016 and will expire this year.
The head of the Eastern Ontario Health Unit is the highest-paid person in the healthcare services sector for this region. The provincial government made the annual Ontario Sunshine List available to the public March 27. The Sunshine List began in 1996 with approval of the Public Sector Salary Disclosure Act (PSSD) by the Mike Harris Progressive Conservative government. The goal of the PSSD was to provide “public disclosure of the salary and benefits paid in respect of employment in the public sector to employees who are paid a salary of $100,000 or more in a year.” The annual list covers all public sector workers for municipalities, county govern- ments, school districts, hospital and other health facilities, regional health units, and other agencies and organizations that receive public funding from the province.
Hawkesbury and District General Hospital (HGH)
CONSULTING FIRM ARGUES FOR COUNTY ROAD 17 UPGRADE
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and population growth for the Prescott-Rus- sell region. He noted that Ontario’s overall housing market is strong but neither the UCPR nor the City of Clarence-Rockland will benefit as much from the provincial housing market because County Road 17 hinders growth. Grove-White noted that the present Carney Liberal federal government seems more open than the previous Trudeau Liberal government was to infrastructure development, including expansion of roads. StrategyCorp’s analysis indicates there more opportunities available now for potential funding support for expansion of County Road 17. The UCPR’s asset management plan now includes expansion of County Road 17 as essential. Grove-White noted that shows the UCPR “is serious” about seeing the link between Rockland and Orléans upgraded. He told council that his firm, on behalf of its client, wants to work with UCPR officials to help move the project forward for the future benefit of all. “It’s economy and its housing,” said Grove-White. “This road enables both of them, but only if it is upgraded.” UCPR council thanked Grove-White for his presentation. The current state of County Road 17 and proposals for expanding the section between Rockland and Ottawa-Orléans from two-lane
A strategic planning consultant firm described County Road 17 as a handi- cap to Prescott-Russell’s future growth if it remains in its present state. “County Road 17, in its present form, restricts growth,” said Aidan Grove-White, one of the principals of StrategyCorp, a stratetgic planning consultant company. Grove-White met with United Counties of Prescott-Russell council (UCPR) during its March 27 session. He represented one of his company’s clients, an unnamed regio- nal development group with an interest in Prescott-Russell. “They (client) have asked my support, and my team’s support, on advancing upgrades for County Road 17,” said Grove-White. StrategyCorp, founded in 1995, with its main offices in Toronto and Ottawa, is a management or business consulting firm that specializes in government relations, strategic communications, and business management. The company’s website noted that “maintains a strong presence” in “key political hubs” to serve both its clients in Canada and abroad in the United States, the Middle East, Europe, Latin America, and the Caribbean region. Grove-White described County Road 17 as “a chokepoint” hindering both economic
The future four-laning of County Road 17 between Rockland and Ottawa is on the discussion table again at the United Counties of Prescott and Russell (UCPR). A representative for StrategyCorp, a management planning consulting firm that has a client with a development interest in the region, told UCPR council that the road in its present state is a handicap to Prescott and Russell’s future economic growth unless it expands to four-lane highway status. (File photo)
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