It's for the sprawl developers...it is always for the sprawl developers: Ford’s Bill 140 ‘eviscerates’ Ontario’s bedrock environmental laws, hands developers what they want | The Pointer https://t.co/NlEC9R21Vw #0npoli
PRESS RELEASE: The Wilderness Committee condemns today’s designation of Roberts Bank Terminal 2 as a Project of National Interest and the trampling of environmental regulations by the Carney government:
https://t.co/aODIVwI6Cs
NEW: Ontario's integrity commissioner obtained many months of text messages between PC MPP Laurie Scott & John Mutton (aka Mr. X).
The texts show the pair building rapport around 2 efforts: getting special zoning approvals for his clients & helping her political fundraising.
Get that garbage outta here! But where would it go?
The Ford government is taking away municipalities' say on where a landfill or incinerator could be located, with promises of consultation.
And the province is blaming Trump.
#onpoli
Alarming scoop from Patty Winsa: @fordnation govt's recycling reforms are off the rails, triggering a proposal to cancel curbside collection of flexible plastics and overflow recycling bags, as well as delivery of extra requested recycling boxes https://t.co/49Hy2uXqzx
EXCLUSIVE: WhatsApp messages documented in a secret report by Ontario’s former integrity commissioner contradict what a key figure in the Greenbelt scandal told the parliamentary watchdog in its controversy-defining probe.
Cuts to jobs and safety in National Parks for you to help pay for the $billions to be given to the oil and gas industry: https://t.co/g2Y6z2CFX4 #cdnpoli
EXCLUSIVE: The day Premier Doug Ford’s cabinet approved the government’s ill-fated Greenbelt changes, several key figures rubbed shoulders in a private box at a Toronto Maple Leafs game.
It's detailed in a previously confidential Integrity Commissioner report on John Mutton.
Cyclists staged a die-in on Bloor St W at Islington tonight, lying in the road with their bikes in front of a Toronto police line. One sign: "It's not about politics, it's about life or death."
October 21 2026
#Toronto#Canada#News
#NEW: A tense standoff unfolded in Etobicoke Tuesday night, as roughly 100 protesters gathered around construction equipment being used to remove the protected bike lanes along Bloor Street West. https://t.co/ieVOxKsn4i
@andrew_leach@OilGasCanada I am not imagining it. It has been well documented by investigative journalists. The cultivation of anti Vax, anti immigrant and environmental deregulation has travelled together in online efforts and linkes to oil industry spends.
Important story from Star's @BKennedyStar: The provincial agency responsible for online gambling secretly shelved a research study showing higher-than-expected problem gambling, and schemed how to ensure Ontarians never saw it https://t.co/WpBcQPr8mQ
@andrew_leach@OilGasCanada This is a longer conversation about how oil money has been used to move public opinion over a decade. Happy to have it with you over a beer.
@andrew_leach@OilGasCanada I am talking about their multi-year effort to support groups like Canada Action, Resource Works etc. in their efforts (online, media, GR) to build a constituency for separation as a pressure tactic on national politics