I live in a city that is cutting library hours. Closing inner city pools. Refuses to invest properly in transit and active transportation yet has 3/4 of a BiLLION dollars for this
Route 90 reconstruction cost now pegged at $737M, including interest https://t.co/Xe2YxPHVlS
PCs continue to create chaos within our childcare system.
Centres have just learned that @PCcaucus isn't going to be covering the entirety of revenue shortfalls they've sustained since parent fees were reduced to $10/day.
This will create a life/death crisis for some centres.
Removing on street parking in Toronto in favor of dining parklets led to a nearly 50x increase in revenue as compared to parking fees.
The math is common sense - we should build cities for people, not cars!
My column tomorrow: The City of Winnipeg projects the cost of widening Route 90 will be equivalent to a 6.9% property tax increase for every city homeowner and it will take 30 years to pay off. They also project that in the long run, traffic congestion will get worse.
“Methane leaks alone from Turkmenistan’s two main fossil fuel fields caused more global heating in 2022 than the entire carbon emissions of the UK, satellite data has revealed.” https://t.co/5QyLC8eApG
NEW: A wealth tax on the super rich would raise an estimated $32 billion in the first year and $409 billion over ten years.
Enough to pay for pharmacare, free tuition, 100K affordable homes per year & a major increase in public transit investment combined https://t.co/QANhE0mVmA