NDP at 16% nationally. Almost 3x the election and growing momentum…
Focussing on everyday problems facing working people and taking practical, principled and progressive positions is resonating with Canadians.
NDP invest in education! That’s why they can figure out if Toronto has a huge problem with gridlock, expanding Billy Bishop airport will NOT fix it, it will just make it worse.
Toronto Port Authority just confirmed in hearings late today the Billy Bishop airport expansion will cost a massive $4B to $5B.
Who is going to pay for it?
Is this expansion even economically viable?
We also learned the provincial government and the federal government are in secret closed door conversations with the Port Authority over the Billy Bishop airport expansion, and the rest of us are in the dark, including the City of Toronto.
Toronto residents don't want this airport expansion, and the people in charge know it.
That's why they're not telling us about what's in store for us.
They're not telling us about the business case, the increase in pollution, the noise, the health impacts, or the impact on tourism and housing construction.
I’m at the hearings today for the Ontario government’s takeover of Billy Bishop Airport.
Minister of Transportation Sarkaria is speaking first: he’s speaking slowly, and is spending a lot of time talking about tolls, highways, drivers, and the tunnel under the 401 (he calls it a revolutionary concept).
I’m on my way to meet with transit workers right now, but I have to talk about this first.
This is bullshit. Doug Ford is changing the rules so that he and his ministers never have to answer to you. Ever.
Freedom of Information laws are how journalists, researchers, and regular people find out what the government is actually doing with your tax dollars. That's how we found out about the Greenbelt scandal. The Ontario Place spa deal. All of it. Now he wants to exempt himself, his cabinet, and their offices from those laws. Completely.
He's not trying to protect one document. He's trying to make sure you can never find out what he's hiding. An honest government doesn't do that. And we're not going to let him get away with it.
NEW: The Ford government appears to be blaming civil servants after an organization that was under active audit by the province continued to receive funding from multiple government ministries.
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Hey @TTChelps. When there is construction on a route can you include a note in the scheduling? U guys know 127 Davenport is badly impacted by construction. 20 min off schedule in 1st 5 min of route -Lansdowne EB
Copying @ttcriders@BravoDavenport
Tenants visited Tony Irwin the CEO of FRPO-the main landlord lobby behind #Bill60-to ask questions about the bill that will make it easier and faster for landlords to evict tenants.
Tell Doug Ford and Tony Irwin keep their hands off our rights!
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The Ford government is investing in more private clinics as Ontario hospitals plead for funding. The govt has also directed hospitals to submit “detailed governance information” which the opposition describes as an unusual demand: “this is how it all started with school boards.”
.@TorontoStar:
"Ford has also said that these cameras “aren’t even close to school areas.”
"A Star analysis showed that all of Toronto’s 150 cameras are in either a community or school safety zone — as mandated by provincial regulations."
*Mississauga: only in front of schools.