Executives in Ontario’s electricity, education and health sectors topped the annual sunshine list of public sector employees paid over $100,000 in 2014.  Ontario Power Generation CEO Tom Mitchell was the top earner again last year, with $1.55 million in salary and benefits, followed closely by former OPG vice-president Donn Hanbidge at $1.2 million, which included severance. University of Toronto CEO William Moriarty was fourth on the list at $939,000. The CEOs at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care, Hamilton Health Sciences, St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton and the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health all made between $725,000 and $757,000.

Andreas Lubitz’s former girlfriend says he was planning an act that would make everybody remember him according to the German newspaper Bild and reported in the London Telegraph Friday night  The story also suggests that Lubitz had broken up with his girlfriend and his attempt to make up by buying her a new Audi had failed. If this story is true, it reveals a familiar motivation for violence against others among many young men, namely their egos

Some people say Bell Canada and CRTC are at war after the federal regulatory body publicly ticked off Bell Media president Kevin Crull because he attempted to censor coverage of a CRTC decision by Bell-owned CTV News. Maybe, but the CRTC has been Bell Canada’s best pal in growing the enormous company to its present size. Bell Canada has a finger in so many pies that it would not be unusual (especially now) to see Mr. Crull inspecting the bus shelter ads on South Bayview. Yes, that agency is owned by Bell too. You can’t say where its influence is going to show up next. Maybe the CRTC is having regulator’s remorse about letting Bell grow to the size of a mountain.  As far as Mr. Crull is concerned you can take a moment to feel sorry for him. He has bosses too, you know. The pressure on everyone at Bell seems to be intense. Crull wrote a very long explanation and apology for what he did and of course the people at CTV read every single comma on air. How humiliating for everyone, including Mr. Crull. Listen, we are the heart and soul of private enterprise at The South Bayview Bulldog. We know Bell Canada does not have the power to throttle news like it may occasionally throttle the Internet. But the company is way too big.

Globe columnist Marcus Gee writes a column in keeping with the tone of talks this week between John Tory and Montreal Mayor Denis Coderre — that is, peace is at hand. It will be a blessing if this Entente Cordiale brings prosperity, as peace often does. The differences between the cities are profound. For a century Quebec (and Montreal) have been promising to permit Ontario tradesmen and others to cross into that province to do business. But it was always a one-way street. If separatism is truly dying we may never again see the flight of business from Montreal that occurred in the 70s. Rene Levesque changed the map of Canada in a way he never intended by making Toronto the headquarters of all five of the banking big sisters. Worried executives had to ponder doing business with Canada from a foreign state. Let’s hope the solitudes are over. Marcus Gee, Globe and Mail