Phil Pothen
@pothen
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The "Hands off the Greenbelt" guy. Arch-Adversary of Mr. Sprawl. Land use & environmental law & policy. Tweets aren't advice or the view of my client. he/him
VP & Danforth-ish Toronto
Joined February 2009
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BAM! 💥
The federal budget will amend the Impact Assessment Act to let Canada stop Doug Ford's 413 bulldozers in their tracks by imposing a NEW federal impact assessment!
(Now we know WHY
@FordNation
held this morning's substance-free press conference.)
@FordNation
SAID they'd start building on the Greenbelt by the end of 2023. We know how that turned out!
Highway 413 WON'T be built by 2025, or at all, as long as the federal government does its job by denying permits, & designating 413 under the updated Impact Assessment Act.
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Stop it, please,
#onpoli
media. Parents aren't "caught in the middle" between education workers & the government. We're not frustrated at the strike. We're angry at the government for forcing education workers to strike by denying them decent wages & working conditions. (1/?)
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Hamilton Wentworth District School Board are the heroes Ontario parents need right now. Don't ask Steven Lecce what is and isn't within the authority of school boards. TELL him.
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82% of GTA COVID-19 cases appear to be low-income & racialized people - mostly in 10 main hotspots. 51% earn less than $25,000. In households w. income > $150,000 not even 1% have been infected. We've fallen far short of our egalitarian pretenses.
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The word is "lied". When you say, again, and again, that you won't touch the Greenbelt, and then you strip Greenbelt Protection from 7,400 acres, it doesn't matter what else you do: you've lied. (1/?)
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Hey American cousins: If you enjoyed Schitt's Creek's fictionalized take on small-town Canada, you'll love Kim's Convenience, a show set in urban Canada, but with a very similar spirit.
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A Canadian scientist discovered the treatment for a disease that kills between 20 and 50 thousand people each year. She was killed in the crash of flight
#PS752
.
#ukraineplanecrash
Tehran
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My kids are NOT electronically crossing the picket line. We'll be assigning them homework of our own, starting with a load of reading & songs about the union movement.
School boards are moving to remote learning as education workers' strike continues. Here's what you need to know.
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@texasdaniel
Even if we pretend it doesn't matter that John Brown was trying to eradicate slavery, while Washington was trying to eradicate a whole nation: George Washington still had a much higher tally of deaths from his genocide against the Haudenosaunee alone, than Brown EVER had.
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Doug Ford has used the real problem of 401 trucking congestion as a public pretext for his Highway 413 sprawl subsidy scheme.
An expert report released today confirms it's a LIE.
It would be faster, more effective & $6 billion cheaper, to lower truckers' tolls on Highway 407!
#Media
: New report finds that subsidizing the toll on the 407 ETR for truckers will alleviate congestion, save at least $6B and protect valuable natural spaces - making
#Highway413
completely unnecessary.
Full report available here 🔽
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I have no doubt that many, if not most on the political right (and even many self-described "moderates") would, to this day, feel more comfortable celebrating George Washington (who enslaved 600 innocent people) than abolitionist John Brown.
On
#PresidentsDay
, it is important to recall that at least twelve U.S. presidents enslaved Black people, eight while in office. Two-thirds of the first 18 presidents collectively enslaved nearly 2,000 Black people. We know what largely built this nation, and it wasn’t freedom.
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Pay your employees a living wage.
No pressure, Meghan and Harry, but if you do choose to move to Canada, free coffee for life. Think about it.
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There is no path to the
@FordNation
government weathering
#GreenbeltGate
that doesn't begin with reversing the $8.3 billion Greenbelt giveaway in its entirety.
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"No, its not OK to host a party where developers come with cash." By pushing an entire segment of the political class to insist that it IS ok, this government risks corrupting Ontario's whole political culture.
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Just spoke live with
@globalnewsto
& 640 Toronto about the OPP's investigations into the government's leak to developers of its secret plans to carve up the greenbelt! Whether you're an MPP or a civil servant, if you saw something, tell the OPP!
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If you want to know what the Highway 413 Scheme is really about, you only need to look at a map.
It's a MASSIVE taxpayer subsidy to divert construction away from existing neighborhoods (grey) & into McMansion sprawl on farmland (yellow) owned by its "friends".
#onpoli
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Guys ... a 35% tax on income over $210,000 does not "tax anyone making over $210,000 at 35 per cent per year". This should be obvious to anyone with basic reading comprehension, and certainly for an economist employed by one of the big banks.
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The whole point is that the Auditor General found using Greeenbelt land WON'T result in a starter home you can afford, or any increase in the number of homes at all.
It'll make things worse by diverting scarce construction labour, etc. away from more efficient forms & locations.
@MikePMoffatt
If it results in a starter home I can afford, pave the greenbelt. IDGAF anymore.
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This is beyond climate denialism. It's climate gaslighting. Highway 413 would worsen traffic & car-dependent sprawl & increase Ontario's GHG emissions by at least 700,000 tonnes annually, not counting construction. It's incompatible w meeting Ontario's climate obligations.
Asked what he's doing to prevent climate change, Doug Ford mentions electric vehicle production & transit, but also claims building highways is a climate change solution "to get people home quicker, that they don't have to sit in gridlock and smell someone else's fumes."
#onpoli
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In an absolute betrayal of voters that is likely to make Ontario's housing shortage worse, the Ontario government has forced passage of
#Bill23
, designed to destroy many of Ontario's most important habitats & squander resources needed to meet housing need.
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The population density of Barcelona is >16,000/km2. The population density of Paris is >20,000/km2. The population density of Copenhagen is 8,300/km2 The population of
#Toronto
is a mere 4,427/km2. We have PLENTY of room to welcome more neighbors while improving quality of life.
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Gaslighting Alert! The Ontario government DOES allow "homes to be built on floodplains". It has stripped Conservation Authorities of the power to refuse approval, or even to give towns the support they'd need to deny approval themselves. Words from
@FordNation
don't change that.
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The avg square footage of a Canadian house in 1975 was just over 1000 square feet.
The avg single detached house built in Mississauga today is 3906 square feet.
This is the crux of why, despite a LOT of construction, we have a shortage of homes.
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Eye-popping new analysis demolishes Ontario government's excuses for forcing boundary expansion, removing Greenbelt, flood & wetland protections.
In 2022, GTHA ALREADY had 350 km2 of unbuilt "greenfield" designated for development.
Now it's 590 km2!
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My kids teachers will strike this Friday. I support them, not just bc I respect the right to strike in principle, but because I support the goals they are striking *for*. If teachers "lose" & acquiesce to Doug Ford's cuts just to end the strike, then *our kids* lose, too.
#onted
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My team at
@envirodefence
has been warni that
@FordNation
's scheme to KILL "smart growth" in Ontario could wipe out what remains of Ontario's tiny supply of quality farmland.
Now ALL Ontario farm organizations are demanding the government back down!
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You know what's gross?
Implying that a woman whose whole family moved from British Hong Kong to Canada because the CPC's dictatorship was too close for comfort, & spent the past 40 years living in full public view - is some kind associated with the CPC.
Stop the racist BS.
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Eye-popping new analysis demolishes
#onpoli
government excuses for forcing boundary expansion & removing Greenbelt, flood & wetland protection.
In 2022, GTHA ALREADY had 350km2 of unbuilt non-greenbelt "greenfield" awaiting development.
Now it's 590km2!
#Media
: New mapping shows ON has designated more than enough land to build new homes without touching the Greenbelt. The GTHA now has nearly 4x the amount of land needed for housing through 2051.
Learn more:
#HandsOffTheGreenbelt
#ONpoli
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What is wrong w
@TorontoPolice
? This tent is the only home this person has. Yet, rather than just sending bylaw to pack it up & move it off the sidewalk, they assemble a mob of armed men to stand around & sneer as they destroy it w a giant claw machine. Is the cruelty the point?
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So the policy is working already!? Wow. Great news!
Just found out a friend is selling off an investment property because of the 🇨🇦 government raising the captial gains tax.
How many more will rush to sell before the June 25th deadline?
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"The Ford government has come under intense fire for appointing unqualified people to Ontario's backlogged tribunals, some of whom have close ties to the Progressive Conservative Party or have donated to the party or individual PC politicians."
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We've known for months now that the Greenbelt removals are simply nan attempt to enrich the government's "friends" at the expense of the public, and won't help deliver housing.
The Auditor General seems set to make it impossible for them to deny it.
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I know for a fact that there are Toronto homeowners on this website with Caribbean holidays costing many $1000s booked this winter, complaining that they "can't afford" to pay $35/month to rescue Toronto public transit & other services from a death spiral.
Self-reflection?
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I've had a first look at Bill 185 and the new proposed Provincial Planning Statement and WOW ... there's a reason why the Ontario government spent hours feeding reporters its spin on these laws before releasing their text to the public. Massive dangers hidden in this text. 🧵👇
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Congratulations to
@IAmDavidMiller
for having been the only Mayor of modern Toronto NOT to have ended his political career in a cloud of scandal.
#onpoli
#topoli
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Just like John Tory's insistence that we "couldn't" provide cell service in subway stations or stop cars blocking the King Streetcar...
@FordNation
's insistence we "can't" save billions by shifting traffic to the 407 simply means "my 'friends' don't want me to".
#StopThe413
"Part of our $28 billion plan to create more expensive sprawl and gridlock to line the pockets of developers". Put the traffic on 407 instead and save us those billions.
#Stopthe413
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There have literally been fewer homicides in Toronto so far in 2023 than there were by this time in 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022... yet the there seems to be a concerted effort to fabricate a narrative of danger & social disorder.
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Therme and its indentured servants in the
@FordNation
Ontario government have tried to pretend that Ontario Place is just another piece of public land.
Make no mistake, it's a unique public monument of worldwide stature, which they want demolished for a foreign waterpark chain.
WMF is dismayed at a proposal to demolish the urban forest of Canada’s Ontario Place. In 2020, we named this Toronto landmark to the World Monuments Watch out of a belief that it was a modernist icon deserving of protection. Read our statement:
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How DARE racialized kids from a high-density, non-luxury apartment neighbourhood like Thorncliffe/Flemingdon feel a sense of ownership over a landmark like the Ontario Science Centre!
Who do they think they are, eh?!
FFS, can you hear yourself, Lisa?
The Flemingdon Science Centre?
It’s an asset for the WHOLE province of ONTARIO. It should be modern, accessible and available to all Ontarians.
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Nope. This is Ontario, not Oklahoma.
Even if land speculators managed to incur considerable expenses - despite not having gotten a single "shovel in the ground", Ontario has every right to specify, by legislation, that no compensation shall be paid or owed.
The other Greenbelt shoe just dropped.
Doug said we may owe the developers (AKA his buddies) money, now that they can't build on the rezoned Greenbelt parcels.
Says he'll announce those figures in the future.
You know, like with that Ontario Science Centre "business case."
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The Toronto Star Editorial Board agrees with
@EnviroDefence
: "Ontario has not made the...case that new housing development has to occur on Greenbelt lands."... "Greenbelt is for nature" not sprawl. 🧵👇🏿
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The Ontario government doesn't want Ontarians "connecting the dots" between its push to accelerate sprawl and its catastrophic environmental consequences.
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Boom! Conservative elder-statesman David Crombie, now Chair of the Greenbelt Council, demands Doug Ford abandon his planned de-fanging of Conservation Authorities. Sees it "severely limiting the ability of
CAs to carry out their historic roles" to "protect Ontario from floods"
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Why do Toronto Police Association members feel entitled to some kind of special, hero treatment that other public employees (e.g., sanitation, childcare, TTC maintenance workers) don't get?
It's obnoxious!
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HUGE NEWS: Hamilton’s City Council has committed to accommodate the next 30yrs of new workplaces and homes through apartments, transit-friendly mid-rise, reforming zoning within existing neighborhoods - not through boundary expansion.
#HamOnt
#theBigSprawl
#topoli
#onpoli
(1/?)
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Ontario has lost 20% of its farmland in the past 30 years.
The tiny portion that's actually *prime* farmland is concentrated in thr GTA & golden horseshoe.
We can't sacrifice an acre more than we had already marked before 2022.
#onpoli
#cdnpoli
#handsoffthegreenbelt
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There is no credible case to be made that protecting wetlands - or the process associated with it - is ANY part of the reason for our housing shortage. There's a *vast* supply of designated greenfield area sitting unused, and MASSIVE untapped capacity in existing neighborhoods.
This morning, I got a leaked document detailing how Doug Ford was gutting conservation authorities - which oversee & protect watersheds - to build houses.
@EmmaMci
& I spent the whole day trying to understand and explain what's going on and why it matters
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After 2+ years cosplaying as pro-housing & using NIMBYism as an excuse to sprawl
@FordNation
is FURIOUS that
@SeanfraserMP
&
@JennyKwanBC
are dismantling it in ways he never even tried.
I wasn't kidding when I said he is knowingly making the shortage of housing WORSE.
#ONpoli
Doug Ford says that he “hopes the Feds will put and end to” the municipal funding deals???
Ford’s government just called affordable housing projects something from “communist Russia” and said they have no interest in building any of it!
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ANOTHER FOI reveals iron-clad proof the
@FordNation
team lies & lies about its actions on the Greenbelt.
Neither
@PaulCalandra
, nor anyone appointed by this
#onpoli
government can be trusted to frame the next
#Greenbelt
review, let alone conduct it. 1/2
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If there was any doubt, this settles it: Highway 413 scheme is just a $10 billion subsidy for its "friends" mcmansions.
If this were about "traffic congestion", Ontario'd achieve more, faster, slashing 407 truck tolls.
When
@MaritStiles
moved to do that,
@FordNation
voted NO!
Just like John Tory's insistence that we "couldn't" provide cell service in subway stations or stop cars blocking the King Streetcar...
@FordNation
's insistence we "can't" save billions by shifting traffic to the 407 simply means "my 'friends' don't want me to".
#StopThe413
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Time to do the fiscally prudent thing and cancel the mind-bogglingly expensive "Highway 413" sprawl scheme.
BREAKING: The Ford government is now expecting to run a $5.6 billion deficit this year, 4X higher than the deficit projected when the budget was tabled in March. The finance minister blames "a slowing economy."
#onpoli
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It's no surprise Minister Clark has resorted to accepting his Chief of Staff's resignation to try & salvage his own career.
However, there's no route out of this swamp that doesn't entail reversing the incurably discredited Greeenbelt grab itself.
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The Ontario government is STILL hiding details of how prioritization of "friends" (ie. speculators) drove its push to dismantle the Greenbelt. They're illegally refusing to respond to
@EnviroDefence
Freedom of Information requests!
We're suing over it.
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We don't know how MANY of the sordid details next Wednesday's Auditor General's report will reveal about the Greenbelt Grab: key players refused to testify.
We do know already, w absolute certainty, that the government's "land for housing" cover story is a willful lie.
ICYMI:
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Either
@ThermeCanada
's renderings, which show a massive transparent glass structure, are a complete fabrication, or
@ThermeCanada
is planning a massive abbatoir for migratory birds on precisely the kind of jutting finger of land that tends to "funnel" them together.
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The Ontario government's
#GreenbeltScandal
is just the most visible part of a massive, dirty iceberg made up of forced boundary expansions, a lowering of Growth Plan density requirements; a gutting of Conservation Authorities & the dismantling of regional land use planning.
While we should welcome Premier Ford’s full reversal of the Greenbelt grab, this $8.3 billion gift to developers was just the most visible part of a dishonest & counterproductive push for sprawl that will only worsen Ontario’s housing shortage, &must be abandoned in its entirety.
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It's the year 2023.
In the City of Toronto.
At the heart of the Golden Horseshoe.
If your proposed use of public land "requires" 2000 parking spaces, it's a BAD use of public land. *
(*unless your project is a public transit or ambulance storage and repair depot, etc.)
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Lets be clear: choosing to "focus" on single detached and townhouses is choosing NOT to fix the housing shortage, let alone affordability at all.
There's NO path to quickly delivering the vast numbers of homes we need without shifting to denser, labour-efficient housing types.
Ford says his government’s focus is on single-dwelling homes and town homes.
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Charlie Pinkerton has won the World Press Freedom Citation of Merit for breaking the story of Greenbelt speculators at the wedding party of Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s daughter. Pinkerton resigned from his job at QP Briefing over alleged interference.
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If there was anyone who still believed 413 is anything but a $10 billion subsidy for Ford's "friends" McMansions, yesterday ended that.
Ontario'd achieve more, faster, on "traffic congestion" slashing 407 truck tolls.
When
@MaritStiles
moved to do that,
@FordNation
voted NO!
A striking difference between two east-west highways: bumper-to-bumper traffic on the 401 while the 407 is nearly deserted. Despite a push from the NDP, the Ford government refuses to make the 407 toll-free for commercial trucks. Full story:
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The Ontario government thought the public outrage against their attacks on wetlands, natural heritage and the Greenbelt would blow over. BOY were they wrong. This won't end until the government repeals
#Bill23
,
#Bill39
and the
#GreebeltGiveaways
.
#onpoli
We are unrelenting! Momentum growing every single day.
#RepealBill23
#ONStorm
#RepealBill39
#HandsOffTheGreenbelt
#NoUrbanBoundaryExpansion
Photo credit:
@BobHatcher2
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Despite being, and remaining, a complete ignoramus who can't grasp social concepts as basic as privilege, Andrew Scheer became an MP at 25, Speaker of the House at age 32, & then
#CPC
leader at age 38. His face should appear in the dictionary next to the word "privilege".
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It is impossible to be an ethical, professional educator or school principal, and collaborate in the abuse perpetrated by transphobic parents, as Minister Lecce would have teachers do.
'Parents must be fully involved' in student's decision to change pronouns, Ontario education minister says
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The idea that cycling is impractical in Toronto "because snow" is a fantasy.
There are only a 65 days/yr w >1 cm of snow still on the ground.
With basic snow-clearing, the number of days when there'd be snow obstructing protected bike lanes would be trivial.
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What is wrong with the Ontario government?
At the very moment we're connecting the current Ontario Science Centre to two lines of high-order transit ... and
#Toronto
is approving vast numbers of homes nearby ... they want to move it AWAY?
NEW:During news conference Premier Ford all but confirms Ontario Science Centre will be moved to Ontario Place."I think it's a fabulous idea," he says, promising announcement next wk. Ford says IF that's what they do housing could be built on current Science Centre site
#onpoli
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There's a word for when the Ontario government tells you that speaking out against its attacks on the environment will endanger your business' ability to get work from the Ontario government and its agencies: corruption.
#onpoli
@archinect
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Logged onto Twitter at lunch only to discover that a LOT of Toronto Police Association folks with anonymous Twitter handles are insulted & enraged that we think they deserve the same respect as sanitation workers, childcare workers, or TTC construction/maintenance workers. (1/2)
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Please note: The plan to slash 407 tolls takes into account the private ownership of 407.
Even if Ontario PAYS enough of the tolls for truckers to make it worth their while to use 407 as long as 413 would last, the cost to taxpayers would be $6 billion LESS than building 413.
If there was any doubt, this settles it: Highway 413 scheme is just a $10 billion subsidy for its "friends" mcmansions.
If this were about "traffic congestion", Ontario'd achieve more, faster, slashing 407 truck tolls.
When
@MaritStiles
moved to do that,
@FordNation
voted NO!
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*DUE TO LIMITED FUNDS* staff had to stop work on the Scarborough busway.
I can say this now, because he's out of politics: The damage
@JohnTory
knowingly did to this City by fooling the public into thinking we didn't need larger tax increases was just unconscionable.
The
#TTC
Board is meeting now about the delayed Scarborough busway. Cllr Matlow asks: Why wasn't work started after his motion for a busway in 2021? Staff says due to limited funds, they only designed to 30%, until Council approved more funds in May 2023.
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Journalists get it. Ontarians get it, too.
The GTHA already had far more LAND designated for homes and jobs than could be used.
The push to carve Greenbelt & swallow up other Golden Horseshoe farmland & habitat beyond pre-2022 settlements was always based on a willful lie.
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It's normal for ppl interviewed in CRIMINAL investigations to keep silent.
But why deploy the legal "big guns" to avoid answering questions in an *Auditor General's* investigation?
What Qs do
@FordNation
&
@SteveClark
not want their "friends" to answer?
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Even if the
#Greenbelt
had never existed, Canada would have a free-standing federal duty & jurisdiction to protect Duffins-Rouge from destruction.
It's a relief that the federal government, unlike Ontario, will do its job.
#lpc
#ndp
#cdnpoli
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This is the wrong headline,
@CP24
. The main thrust of this legislation is to push sprawl into wetlands and wildlife habitat and squander construction resources needed to add housing in Toronto. Infill proposals are so weak they account for just 50k out of 1.5 million.
BREAKING: Ontario to announce sweeping housing changes allowing up to three units on many residential lots
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A friend has been waiting more than 4 hours for her child's
#COVID19
test (her teacher tested +). Ford had ample warning this would happen. At very least there was ample time to get testing sites running before classes started. Tell me again how he's exceeded expectations?
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2020 isn't a string of bad luck. It's what happens when 5 of the world's 6 most populous countries are governed by right-wing thugs.
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Truly awful news. The heroic & brilliant Jenni Le Forestier (
@jenni_forestier
) who for years foiled the plans of environmental villains from
@TownofCaledon
to Queen's Park, is dead. May her legacy be the crushing & permanent defeat of
@FordNation
's plans for
#highway413
& sprawl.
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The proposed destruction of Ontario Place and Ontario Science Centre would REDUCE public space (and eliminate it all together in the case of OSC) at a time when much more public space is needed to support growth both in southern Toronto and on the waterfront.
NEW: Ontario Place for All has requested a court injunction to prevent development on the West Island until a full environmental assessment of the entire lands can be conducted.
#Onpoli
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@ryangerritsen
@gmbutts
Mocking a political action or choice you think is harmful, misguided or just plain silly is at the core of freedom of speech. Using heavy, high-powered, and super massive motor vehicles to replace the elected parliament with an unelected "committee" is NOT a part of any right.
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"In no uncertain terms, every city in North America needs as many bike lanes as they can possibly build, as fast as they can possibly build them. No exceptions."
#topoli
#biketo
#TorontoMayor
#onpoli
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34 years ago today, an anti-feminist extremist gunman murdered 14 women at École Polytechnique in Montreal after saying to them "I am fighting feminism....You're all a bunch of feminists. I hate feminists."
Don't take his side.
#MontrealMassacre
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Never let this government out of your sight. Join us in the Queen’s Park Visitors Gallery to keep watch, starting, Tues Feb 21. RSVP using this link:
#HandsOffTheGreenbelt
#stopthebigsprawl
#onpoli
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The
#Ontario
government is lying about immigrants to scapegoat them for its own senseless attacks on the Greenbelt & nature. They're trying desperately to drive a wedge between progressives and environmental advocates, & we must not play along.
#onpoli
#HandsOffTheGreenbelt
🧵👇🏿
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It's always been clear the
#onpoli
gov's push for sprawl is "rotten", but a political code of silence slows down apportionment of CRIMINAL blame. It's encouraging the RCMP Sensitive & International Investigations (SII) is now running the investigation.
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The stink around the Ontario government's stripping of protection from vital parts of the Greenbelt grows fouler by the minute.
Now land speculator lobby group OHBA has parted ways with its CEO - the housing minister's former Chief of Staff - without explanation.
👀.
ICYMI: Luca Bucci, the former chief of staff of Ontario's housing minister, suddenly parted ways yesterday from his job as CEO of an influential lobby group for the province's residential construction industry. The organization's members weren't told why.
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The independent Auditor General of Ontario reveal that the government has handed public development rights worth a mind-blowing $8.2 BILLION ($8,200,000,000) to real estate investors, free of charge.
The Auditor General also confirmed these giveaways will NOT speed housing. 1/3
We don't know how MANY of the sordid details next Wednesday's Auditor General's report will reveal about the Greenbelt Grab: key players refused to testify.
We do know already, w absolute certainty, that the government's "land for housing" cover story is a willful lie.
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Prof Siemiatycki is right. The central theme of this election is dissatisfaction w the state of the city after 13+yrs of low-tax mayors. "people are realizing that if revenues... fall behind... inflation, you [get] deteriorating services... infrastructure... quality of life”
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People think of high COVID-19 transmission as a product of urban density. It really isn't. It's a product of poverty, racialization and precarious, unequal employment relationships.
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Rage against the Ontario government's 4-pronged assault against farmland & habitat in Ontario is snowballing. From Huntsville & Hamilton to Ottawa & Beamsville, protests are already planned for every day this week. These are the ones we know about so far:
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Fun Fact: the real life inspirations for the Rosebud Motel and for the town of Schitt's Creek are with in an hour's drive of the real-life Kim's Convenience.
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It's telling that the hand-picked chair of this Ontario government's so-called "housing team" is a NIMBY/sprawlist Mayor so anti-density his City didn't qualify for Housing Accelerator Fund money.
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NEW: Windsor turned down for $40-70M in HAF money after voting to restrict four-plexes to specific areas
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While we should welcome Premier Ford’s full reversal of the Greenbelt grab, this $8.3 billion gift to developers was just the most visible part of a dishonest & counterproductive push for sprawl that will only worsen Ontario’s housing shortage, &must be abandoned in its entirety.
BREAKING: Premier Doug Ford says his government will completely reverse the Greenbelt land swap decision.
“It was a mistake to open the Greenbelt.”
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's public plea to MPP's, political staff & civil servants: Tell the OPP what you know! Who leaked the government's secret plan to carve up the greenbelt to RE investors?
#criminalinvestigation
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The scandal is the fact that Premier Ford appointed a SPRAWL DEVELOPER to the committee in charge of protecting species at risk: sprawl is the biggest threat to species at risk in the Golden Horseshoe.
Everything else is just rancid icing on poison cake.
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