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Toronto breaks ground on Wilson Heights housing project with more than 500 affordable rentals
snips from the news bit:
>Total of 1,484 residential homes will be built on a former commuter parking lot
>The development will include 444 condos and a mix of one- to three-bedroom rental homes that will be available to residents of various income levels.
>Green said the four-block community that will be created will include a childcare centre, community space, retail space and public park.
>In a news release on Tuesday, the city said crews have already begun to remove parking infrastructure to prepare the site for development. Construction is set to begin in the spring, with occupancy expected in early 2029.
- www.thestar.com Matt Elliott: Doug Ford wants you to focus on bike lanes and beer — and pay no attention to this, his biggest failure
Like the Wizard of Oz, Ontario’s premier wants you to look away from what’s actually not happening in this province.
> Ford has really ramped up the showmanship lately, calling for a bike lane witch hunt and making magical announcements about beer, highway tunnels and $200 cheques. Much of it, it seems, is being done in the service of getting us to look away from the reality of how things are going in Ford’s Ontario.
> In particular, he’d really like us to pay no attention to the housing policy failure behind the curtain. But by the numbers, Ford’s failure on housing should be way too big to hide.
> A report released last week by Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation revealed that housing starts in Ontario are down 18 per cent so far this year. That stat, which measures the number of new housing units that saw construction get started, should set off loud alarm bells. Because housing, more than any other issue, has been Ford’s signature issue — the subject of lots of legislation. He’s styled himself as a builder-in-chief who will “get it done.”
> This isn’t a case of Ontario’s large population skewing the numbers, either. For his excellent Data Shows newsletter, analyst Tom Parkin recently crunched the per-capita numbers for housing starts and found Ontario ranked eighth out of Canada’s 10 provinces. According to Parkin’s numbers, with just 34 new starts for every 100,000 people, Ontario’s rate of per-capita building was well below that of provincial peers like Manitoba (47), Quebec (47.8), B.C. (58.8) and Alberta (89.9).
> With numbers like that, it’s no surprise that the province has dim hopes of hitting its much-ballyhooed goal of building 1.5 million homes by the end of 2031.
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Ontario tables law banning supervised consumption sites, saying there will be no more
globalnews.ca Ontario tables law banning supervised consumption sites, saying there will be no more | Globalnews.caThe Ontario government tabled an omnibus bill Monday that includes a ban on provincially funded supervised consumption sites and a de facto ban on sites approved by the feds.
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Petition Against Banning And Removing Protected Bike Lanes
Tell your friends. Inbe4 someone spends 5min discussing the effecacy of a petition that takes 2min to read and sign.
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Someone I know was a victim of sexual violence in Toronto. Please, help providing all the best orgs' contacts (eg police, violence against women) to report, support the victim & catch the perpetrator?
cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/13377479
Someone I know (nickname: Jane Doe) was a victim of sexual violence in Toronto. Could you please provide all (ideally the most effective and best) organization contacts (e.g. police, gender-based violence (GVB) against women entities/orgs) to report the event, support and effectively and fast catch the perpetrator (both for Jane Doe's safety and of other people), and provide me with information, protocols, resources, apps, psychological support, risk assessment and creating a safety plan against GVB and re-victimization, etc.
Also, please provide me with links to laws on gender-based violence, and more specifically sexual violence and harassment against women to make us aware of what exactly constitutes his crimes and to hopefully put the perpetrator on jail. Let's do this, Toronto. Of course I'm providing Jane Doe's with support and help as long as Jane Doe's is comfortable with.
If anyone here has gone through this process, please share the details and insights and how to best and most effectively handle the situation in all its processes, for example with reporting to the police and how do you protect yourselves from re-victimization.
I compiled and sent this file to Jane Doe for now specifically with Toronto/Ontario/Canada resources: https://oshi.at/GePn
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She helped thousands get COVID-19 shots. Now she's on the hook for $600K
A Kingston, Ont., doctor celebrated for organizing drive-thru vaccination clinics that helped thousands get shots at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic is now being ordered to pay back more than $600,000 in fees for those same services.
Dr. Elaine Ma said she organized 45 mass vaccination clinics that administered roughly 35,000 doses between April 2021 and the following February.
Her work was recognized by the Ontario College of Family Physicians, which granted her its Award of Excellence in 2021, in part pointing to Ma's role in boosting local vaccination rates.
About a year later, the doctor said she received notice from the Ontario Health Insurance Plan (OHIP) seeking to recoup the money she had billed for the shots — approximately $600,000, plus around $35,000 in interest.
- www.cp24.com Teenage boy dead after exchange of gunfire with 4 officers in Aurora: SIU
A 17-year-old is dead after the province’s police watchdog says he was involved in an exchange of gunfire with four police officers who were responding to a break-and-enter in progress in Aurora on Wednesday night.
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Rental Policies Enable Landlords to Displace Tenants: Rental Policies: Smart Living Properties, via 211-231 Bank Street Holdings targets Bank Block Tenants with mass eviction
leveller.ca Rental Policies Enable Landlords to Displace Tenants - The LevellerBy Emily Miller The provincial governments’ policies have made tenant eviction profitable. Mass evictions, like the one currently being carried out by Smart Living Properties (SLP) of Bank Block Tenants (BBT) in Centretown, have become a common strategy for landlords to extract more money from tenan...
- www.cp24.com More frozen waffles recalled in Ontario as Health Canada review continues
Health Canada is continuing its investigation into waffles possibly contaminated by Listeria after more items sold exclusively at a retail location in Napanee were recalled.
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Ontario grocers feel 'hoodwinked' by alcohol bottle return rules
>Ontario grocery stores — particularly smaller, independent shops — say new bottle return requirements that were sprung on them a week before they're set to take effect may make it impossible to participate in Premier Doug Ford's expansion of alcohol sales. [...]
>Grocery stores [...] that sell alcohol will also have to accept empties.
>Having the smell of stale beer mingling with the smell of fresh food — and having to put not-quite-entirely-empty bottles that become fruit-fly magnets near produce sections — would not be good for business, they said.
>But with new and detailed requirements communicated to them this week by the Liquor Control Board of Ontario just days before they begin, retailers say they don't know how they will make it work, and some are planning to hand back their licences.
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Daylight saving time soon ends in Ontario
www.insauga.com Daylight saving time soon ends in Ontario | insaugaWith the days growing shorter, the leaves changing and the air turning crisp, it’s that time of year to prepare for the end of daylight saving time in Ontario. Daylight saving time means moving the clocks forward an hour each spring for longer evenings and then setting them back in the fall to catch...
