Ford government uses new powers to sidestep Toronto’s say in Ontario Place plans
As a result of the zoning order, Toronto city council will no longer be able to weigh in on technical elements of the project as it does on other buildings that go through the local planning process.
I think a lot about how in 2024 if “democracy” is supposed to continue/succeed in its current shitty structure, majority governments are going to have to be a thing of the past. “Compromise” mostly doesn’t exist anymore. Nothing “really” has been done for good on aggregate with majority governments in a while. All that exists as a bulwark is the court system unless the general public grows a spine but that isn’t a reliable counter measure #onpoli#cdnpoli#canada#ottawa
I don’t know if we’re prepared for how many people do not and will not give a fuck about serious transmissible infectious disease outbreaks and future pandemics. Considering #covid is already over according to every government and no one is seriously grappling with what happened over the past four years, I’m not hopeful on a large scale #cdnpoli#onpoli#ontario
I followed Diane Deans pretty closely from 2019-2023 and say what you will about her but she gave no fucks about Jim Watson. And today not a single councillor who blindly followed Jim’s shadow had a damn thing to say about her. Just deep seated, pathetic cynicism #ottawa#ottpoli#onpoli
Step-daughter of a friend of ours saw the 11-yr old kid get killed in Rockland, by someone driving a school bus, while they were riding their bike. What the fuck…
I’ve said it a bunch of times but I completely changed the route we take to the kids school which is only 1.2 kms away. We take a ~ 2 km route to avoid the utter mayhem that takes over people during drop offs and pick ups, esp school bus and transport vans #ottawa#ottbike#biketooter#onpoli
It is beyond wild to me that the city cut annual funding to the Tulip Festival. Ya’ll are baffled on how to connect Dows Lake and the Byward Market?? Seriously?? The NCC couldn’t even close all of the QED, but no shade to them when they are responsible for any livability in #ottawa The festival weekends at Dows Lake are the best weekends in this city in the entire year and props to the Feds #onpoli#cdnpoli https://obj.ca/feds-provide-130k-canadian-tulip-festival/?no_cache=1715612135
The kid and I spent every Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday last year during the festival. We watched the movies, we walked on the QED, drank lemonade and just enjoyed the space without having to listen to or be around people driving. And then this all goes away without a thought. The 6-8 seater golf carts go away, all the people walking and biking have to be squeezed back onto the worst section of MUP in the city #ottawa#onpoli#cdnpoli
Ontario First Nations denied equal access to justice, lawsuit alleges
Lawsuit says the lack of resources is harming First Nations people
"A statement of claim filed by the Chiefs of Ontario says that many provincial and federal laws — including those related to tenancy, land management and environmental protection — don't apply on reserves."
In Ontario, "public spending was still restrained by a frugal government more interested in highway building than higher learning." While one would be forgiven for imagining this is a description of the current provincial government, it actually applies to the province's priorities in the postwar period.
Curious how much money the #ontario government is spending on YouTube ads. They have been running nonstop ads for months now, the expensive kind you can’t skip. I guess the KPIs for the ads don’t really matter to them either. What’s campaigning money from tax payers anyway? It’s just curious to me from a marketing perspective how or why the method they are using is effective in their minds. Because building public transit as your main message while building a highway is very funny #onpoli
The chicken and egg game of all this is pretty fucking tiresome… don’t raise fees because it’s an affordability crisis, but let’s continue sprawl of single family homes that cities can’t afford to maintain the infrastructure for. All the games to protect profit margin because we don’t “really” believe housing is a basic right for people. Profit is for sure tho at least for some #ottawa#onpoli#cdnpoli
Over 2 million Ontario residents without a physician and 👇
"Recruitment and retention of doctors in Ontario is "not a major concern," the Ministry of Health suggests in arguments it is making in arbitration with the Ontario Medical Association over physician compensation."
After...quite a bit of paperwork...I've completed most of the long cycle of the #Canada Green Energy Loan, for the purchase of a heat-pump. Over the past 10 months....
enroll
pre-audit
detailed quotes from vendors
commit to quote and arrange vendor financing
work is completed
post-audit
submit post audit and get govt. financing released
pay off the vendor's financing
I continue to wait for about $7k in grants to come from the grant program, which I expect will be a long while
maybe private sector participation in program administration is a good way of futureproofing it against conservative kleptocracy, who'd face resistance cancelling a program that lines the pockets of their friends.
After all, the CPC don't gaf about canning some public servants, but losing the big donation of Bob's accounting that's been laundered into 63 shockingly maximum donations from each of his exactly 63 impoverished clerical workers....anyway...that's a another thread. #cdnpoli#onpoli