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
Our right-wing, pro-Trump Premier has clearly been delivered the polling on student encampments (9/10 Canadians support the students).
He is not going to call upon Provincial police. #Onpoli#Ontario:
Reminder: The Loblaws boycott is underway until May 31st.
Please do not shop at Loblaws or any of its many subsidiaries. Support your local grocery stores where possible, and use non-Loblaws owned chains when local options are not practical or available.
Treat yourself to an ice-cold beer 🍻 or a giant glass of your favourite red wine 🍷 for taking part.
@grivettcarnac Liberall voters and NDP voters who don't vote strategically to defeat a Conservative are the ones with "zero fucking clue."
Liberal or NDP voters who don't vote strategically under First Past the Post voting system just gives the Doug Ford candidate a free ride into the legislature. Progressive voters, if you can't take the time to find out which Liberal or NDP candidate has the best chance of winning, and vote for that candidate, then please don't vote at all. #onpoli
Under the stars on a beautiful spring evening at the University of #Toronto for a rally in support of the student encampment. The administration has backed down on trying to get it busted up by the cops (so far).
“Our historical moment is seeing a crisis in liberal hegemony, as politicians from across the so-called political spectrum are closing ranks in service of settler colonialism and imperialism and legitimizing greater violence. Clashes at the borders of inclusion and exclusion will only intensify, and we are seeing its manifestations in increased state violence from protests to picket lines to university campuses.” https://monitormag.ca/articles/sarah-jama-is-fighting-for-more-than-just-the-keffiyeh/
huh...next door neighbor sold their house a few weeks ago...today hydro and electricians are disconnecting the solar panels and their separate service line...I guess they're taking them with them? Seems odd.
maybe the MicroFIT contract isn't transferable? That wouldn't surprise me that the ass backwards Ford PCs would put something like that in to force people out of MicroFIT. And then pay them 5x to get them back into it before long.... #onpoli
I've been somewhat surprised by how slowly organisations already present on #Threads have been at sharing their posts with the #Fediverse. If you're trying to broadcast news about your sports team (for instance), why not make a simple choice that increases your broadcasting range?
So I'm delighted to see that @theagendatvo has joined the Fediverse in the last few days. Welcome, Mr. Paikin and #TheAgenda.
@trwnh@evan
The #keffiyeh has been allowed in the Ontario Provincial Parliament in the past, and it will be in the future, but at present the Speaker has ruled that members are wearing it as a political statement, which is forbidden — members are supposed to make political statements with their words, and not otherwise.