Skippy the oppositional attack puppy is against everything, including a functional Canadian government. Rotten little twit.
Same. "Affordable housing" used to be a straight up mathematical equation based mostly on income afaik. The Provincial government shifted to using the phrase "more affordable," a nebulous non-definition that could mean anything from "yes, a single parent working a full time job can afford rent" to "it's less than the million dollar condo down the hall." As you say, the key is we don't know atm. Add to that, will the city be capable of maintaining affordability after the Province has nuked rent control? Can we keep these units from being thousands of dollars 2 years after the doors open?
I posted in part because this project is something to keep an eye on. At the very least, this and the development at 5207 Dundas St. W. will teach us a lot about how our municipalities can get anything done these days. Also, Chow knows what she's doing, which is strange and refreshing.
No jumping for joy here either. Just watching and staying hopeful.
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Right? The constant vigilance municipalities need just to deal with Provincial interference is exhausting, because we know they'll interfere with anything that might make life better for us and take money out of his bosses hands. And even when we do catch him out, it's not like we can shame him into doing the right thing. Mr. MZO just lies and keeps following orders. No consequences. Instead, he gets reelected.
Brilliant that we have a mayor who's able to get anything done, given what we're up against.
The religions we grew up in are similar. Bethel Pentecostal village in the middle of nowhere in my case, and my family were the outsiders (teh devils!) who moved there for cheap housing.
I'm sorry you had to sit in church and listen to that. It's terrifying for kids to experience the adults who are supposed to take care of them, giddy/possessed over the world ending.
I didn’t learn about their Israel obsession until my 20s. Christians moving to Israel so they can plant olive trees because it'll help the world end absolutely blew my mind.
Incel King's got priorities: start with all the women who said no.
It's sickening. I just read about the professor who had to leave her job and home after he sicced his deplorable fanbois on her all because she was critical of Tesla's driver-assist.
Cummings said she already knows of federal employees who “have dedicated their lives to civil service,” already quitting their jobs in anticipation of what’s to come.
“He intended for them, for people just like this, to be intimidated and just go ahead and quit so he didn’t have to fire them. So his plan, to some extent, is working,” she said.
CNN reached out to multiple experts and academics who specialize in cyber harassment, doxing and online abuse. But several declined to comment on the record for fear of themselves becoming Musk’s targets.
Professionals too afraid to speak about their area of expertise. Public servants quitting because they know what's coming for them. And Trump's not even started his second run yet.
It's why he starts by going after women who said no to him.
Just like the prof in the article said, he does it so you'll be threatened and harassed into leaving your job (and in her case, her home as well).
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.
Telling everyone the reason both your daughters are pregnant with your babies is because they got you drunk, or that girls shouldn't get too huffy if it's their own brother that raped them - also options.
Genesis 19:30-38 and 2 Samuel 13:20-22
It's very that. Too many people here are like, "fundies OBVIOUSLY don't understand their own bible fwah fwah," when no, they totally do and they're actually really into all that End Times shit. Oceans warming up? Woo-hoo we're on our way to boiling! Another plague? Sweet! Another sign! Does this one have lesions? Christian Fundies have worked hard for their end times, doing their part to make the laws of god into the laws of man on earth.
Our planet on fire is literally their best case scenario (and exactly why they can't be trusted in any kind of public office). They know who Trump is. The imperfect vessel or the antichrist - it's just another sign to check off the list. I wish I was being hyperbolic.
Ontario News Now keeps on trucking. Look over there!
Much like the bike lane portions of the legislation, Bill 212 has also drawn concern from Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation, because it would allow work to begin on Highway 413 before an Indigenous consultation is finished and exempts the project from the Environmental Assessment Act.
Highway 413 would be a 52-kilometre highway that connects Peel, Halton and York — much of which falls within treaty lands. In connecting those regions, the highway would cut across wetlands, rivers, forests and agricultural areas, according to the outgoing director of the Department of Consultation for Mississaugas of the Credit. CBC, Nov 25, '24
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Remember Doug vowed during the 2018 election campaign that he would let big business develop the Greenbelt, and that he got the idea from “some of the biggest developers in this country.”
"We will open up the Greenbelt — not all of it, but we're going to open a big chunk of it up — and we're going to start building and making it more affordable and putting more houses out there," Ford said in a video.
"I've already talked to some of the biggest developers in this country and again, I wish I could say it's my idea, but it was their idea as well. Give us property, we'll build and we'll drive the cost down. That's my plan for affordable housing."
It got out and he immediately changed course, saying that the PC platform would pledge NOT to touch it. He said, “I govern through the people, I don’t govern through government. The people have spoken − we won’t touch the Greenbelt.” G&M, 2018
Then, in Dec 2020, our Conservative government used the Pandemic Recovery Bill to neuter Ontario’s Conservation Authorities and give a government minister the power to veto CA decisions. AND they amended the Conservation Authorities Act to give a provincial minister complete control over issuing permits. No appealing decisions. No appealing MZOs.
Their anti-union work is legendary. Walton inspired frikkin Bezos.
That they can talk about "pulling back on DEI efforts" in the news bit and not mention that most of Wally's workforce is women and PoC? News in a vacuum.
They haven't "stepped back from diversity, equity and inclusion efforts after feeling the heat from conservative activists." Walmart IS the Conservative activist in this situation.
Thanks for the heads up OP. Everyone reading probably knows someone who works there or has worked there themselves. Everything they do sets a weighty precedent for workers, to put it mildly.
its former chief diversity officer role is now called the chief belonging officer
... these petty assholes.
I wish this news bit had at least mentioned Walmart's White Christian fundamentalist roots. Or how they destroy local businesses and source overseas for their 'free market,' their anti-union activism, low wages, shit healthcare options, well-documented sexism and racism in the workplace, etc. In 2020, Walmart president and CEO Doug McMillon was an advisor to Trump. Walmart's political spending in 2024 alone should've been at least a footnote. Context matters so much.
It's been bonkers. We had one qanon grifter declare herself Queen of Canada and she has irl cultists follow her from town to town. During the worst of the pandemic, she had them sending death threats to healthcare workers (because Freedom). But even the main followers of the border shutdown and capitol occupation were frothy screwballs.
Like, they really shouldn't have turned her facebook off!
From my point of view, the right-wing disinfo campaign is global. Copy-paste. Conservatives up north are even using a lot of the exact same media relations people as yours down south.
The good thing about this story is that a nazi is losing her job while no one who had to work for her is losing theirs.
Second Cup closes 2 cafés & cuts ties with Montreal franchisee over hateful remarks and gestures
Someone who owned 2 cafés in Montreal's Jewish General Hospital decided the best place to live their Nazi dream was at a pro-Palestinian protest outside Concordia U last week. She was filmed doing the Nazi salute and throwing out antisemitic remarks.
Second Cup immediately closed down the franchisee's 2 cafés, saying they have "Zero tolerance for hate speech."
>The company said it will retain the staff and continue paying them until the locations at the hospital reopen under new management.
Happy Exhumation, Lucy!
Convites in Canada like to cry first amendment too. Just not Canada's first amendment in the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Citing the US constitution. In Canadian courts.
Dwayne Lich, husband of arrested convoy leader Tamara Lich, told the judge at his wife's bail hearing that he was relying on his "First Amendment rights." CBC Feb 22
imo worse than Yanks confused and offended they can't bring their guns when they go shopping in Toronto. Just dumb over-entitled main characters.
True! I hate how drag queens are always making kids sleep in freezing cold trucks in the middle of winter and carry gas cans on their backs; using them as human shields and road blocks; making "the littles" (puke) sing and make freedom speeches "for the truckers" over their radio while their minders get shitfaced at noon on a Tuesday...
And when Canadians started asking out loud, "where tf is child services??? these kids should be in school!" the convites got a bunch of orange tshirts and Every Child Matters flags. Sneered about it on social media. Absolute filth.
“... and I’m just gonna say this out loud. The only way that this is gonna be stopped is with bullets. And yah, I said it.” - Rat King, filthy fucking nazi, Dec 2021.
King has been found guilty of five charges: two counts of disobeying a court order and one each of mischief, counselling to commit mischief and counselling to obstruct a public or peace officer.
He's been found not guilty of four charges: three of intimidation and counselling to commit intimidation, and one of obstructing a public or peace officer. cbc yesterday
Piece of crap was smiling through all the "not guilties." So brazen - I remember he even wore a Sons of Odin hoodie at his bail hearing back in '22.
The curriculum doesn't just "permit the instruction of the Bible." They fucking tied it to funding. You get an extra 40$ per student if you fall in line.
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.
'It's like a cage': Foreign workers who quit Canadian Tire speak out about feeling trapped by work permits
Closed work permits are part of Canada's Temporary Foreign Worker program, empowering exploitative bosses across the country. This story focuses on one franchise owner, but juxtaposes one worker who was able to get an open permit with another who's stuck in his precarious situation.
Reporter tracks down Jan. 6 protester who told her to ‘run’
>On Jan. 6, 2021, an angry mob of Donald Trump supporters swarmed a CBC News crew working near Capitol Hill. Nearly four years later, reporter Katie Nicholson tracked down one of the people who surrounded her that day to find out what she’s thinking heading into another volatile U.S. presidential election.
Was worth the watch for the emotional contortions the supporter twists herself into when confronted by one of the people she threatened, her Democrat-voting husband dealing with it all, and that messed up Trump paraphernalia store.