Policy Watchdog

Posts about public policy while keeping an eye on the Association of Management and Professional Crown Employees of Ontario (AMAPCEO). Economist by training.

[Policy Watchdog @AMAPCEOWatchdog]

AMAPCEO across-the-board salary increases for the past 13 years:
2012 0%
2013 0%
2014 0%
2015 0%
2016 1.4%
2017 1.4%
2018 2%
2019 2%
2020 2%
2021 2%
2022 3%
2023 3.5%
2024 3%
#onpoli

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George Carlin — I Just Don't Care https://t.co/UyygcY9WQG via @YouTube

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Apparently there are other sellers/realtors who think it's still 2021...

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Realtors still using strategies that worked in 2021.

Don't worry, they'll still get a $26,000 commission when it sells. 😅

[Policy Watchdog @AMAPCEOWatchdog]

Realtors still using strategies that worked in 2021.

Don't worry, they'll still get a $26,000 commission when it sells. 😅

[Policy Watchdog @AMAPCEOWatchdog]

Going back to this one. According to @TheReal_TRREB, prices in MLS zone C13 dropped by ~11% since the house was listed.

Assuming it sells for $1.6M, if I add 11% back to adjust for the market decline, that's $1.79M - meaning it was overpriced initially by about $200K.

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The house across the street from me.

Overpriced initially. Now 300 days on the market.

Buyers: "Something must be wrong with it"

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How to get $100,000 less for your house than it's really worth👇

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The house across the street from me.

Overpriced initially. Now 300 days on the market.

Buyers: "Something must be wrong with it"

[Policy Watchdog @AMAPCEOWatchdog]

The house across the street from me.

Overpriced initially. Now 300 days on the market.

Buyers: "Something must be wrong with it"

[Policy Watchdog @AMAPCEOWatchdog]

@Barchart More like 4, not 480

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@donnelly_b You could not buy 480 companies in the S&P 500 for $373 billion...more like $35 trillion

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Just like AMAPCEO

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@ScottLuft Ah, so you’re saying that a $12(?) Dawn price doesn’t align with the $133/MWh OEMP, in Jan 2026?

Maybe Market Renewal has something to do with it.

From a total system cost perspective, it doesn’t really matter what the wholesale price is, and high wholesale prices help Class B.

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@ScottLuft Gas generators with CES contracts run if the gas price times the heat rate is less than the wholesale price.

Simple way to think about it - they made more in the market than the contract permits, and had to give 95% of the excess back.

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@ScottLuft I believe it’s the difference between market revenues and the contract revenue requirement that determines whether it’s a credit or charge (not fuel costs directly).

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@DrCamRx @grok Is it true that oxytocin cream is effective and functions well as a social lubricant?

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This wasn’t on my bingo card… #onpoli

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@EchoesofWarYT Is that one minute and five seconds or one hour and five minutes?

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Would she have been on time for this had she not been booted from the legislature today?

[Catholic Teachers @OECTAProv]

Ontario NDP Leader Marit Stiles sharing a powerful keynote speech on Day 3 of #OFL2025!

Thank you for standing up for students and publicly funded education, and fighting against the Ford government’s corruption!

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A 29% hike? Not quite.
That figure applies to one cost component, and the OER rebate is being raised to offset it.

[Mike Schreiner @MikeSchreiner]

The Ford government is jacking up electricity prices by 29%.

Forcing us to spend more on energy and losing Ontario jobs because the Ford government is ideological opposed to the green energy revolution.

Ontario should be leading the world in low-cost renewable energy and creating good-paying jobs along the way. Instead, Ford is keeping us hooked on US oil and gas and paying sky high prices for American SMRs.

[Eric Lombardi (EricForOLP.ca) 🇨🇦🚀 @EricDLombardi]

Toronto’s congestion problem isn’t just about more cars — it’s about infrastructure that hasn’t kept up with the city.

Most of our 2,500 traffic signals still run on fixed timing plans written years ago. The pilot intersections are not enough to make a systemwide impact.

That creates two predictable failures:

• Split failures – greens too short for real demand, or phases served when no one is there.

• Coordination failures – signals that don’t sync, producing endless red-wave corridors.

A new @build_toronto memo by @kurtismcbride, the CEO & co-founder of @Miovision, lays out how a modest investment in modern, intelligent signals could cut delays by ~30%, improve travel times by ~20%, and make streets safer and more predictable for everyone.

This is one of the lowest-cost, highest-impact investments we can make to get the region moving.

Let us know if you support this idea in the thread below!

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Hire more officers. I see cars stopped everywhere downtown during rush hour.

[Toronto Police @TorontoPolice]

From 3 to 7 pm every weekday, our @TrafficServices officers are handing out $300 fines for stopping in a rush hour route. Be aware and read the parking signs around you. Do your part and keep traffic flowing on our #DowntownRushHour routes!

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I mean I guess it’s slightly nicer than, say, this government building in downtown Toronto.

[Evan @StockMKTNewz]

NEW $3 BILLION HQ

JPMorgan $JPM opened its brand new $3 Billion Headquarters this week in center of New York City

The new 60-story building right next to Grand Central station will hold 10,000 employees https://t.co/rBofAcuOHB

The tower has 19 restaurants and an assortment of coffee shops that employees can order from in a building-specific app and get it delivered to their desks

The HQ also includes a state of the art wellness facility, medical services, meditation spaces, a company store, and biometric access—and it’s open all hours of the day.