Alana Hunt

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[Mike Schreiner @MikeSchreiner]

So Doug Ford is pushing through an airport expansion that the Port Authority may never be able to pay for.

This project makes no sense and Doug Ford knows it.

https://t.co/5PSrTRLPZX

[Toronto Blue Jays @BlueJays]

WELCOME BACK, DAVIS!

[Jeet Heer @HeerJeet]

1. Axios doesn't quite get it but there are two scandals here: (1) reporters (seemingly) having access to tapes from Situation Room and (2) Situation Room repeatedly used as place to plot out covering up Epstein case. Scandal (1) would be serious enough in normal times but Scandal (2) is the real real outrage

[CBS Evening News with Tony Dokoupil @CBSEveningNews]

They’ve been insisting they’re twins since they were in preschool. Nearly a decade later, the pair is still proving sisterhood goes beyond genetics. @SteveHartmanCBS is On the Road in Miami.

[Jennifer Keesmaat @jen_keesmaat]

$200 million on a parking garage on Toronto’s waterfront will not age well. Just like funnelling cars into the core has not aged well.

By the early 2030s, Exhibition Place will have one of the best transit connections in the country, with subway service to downtown, the east end, links into the entire GO rail network, and the waterfront streetcar network.

It’s designed to be a major hub.

Scotiabank Arena is a regional destination on GO Transit, and revellers arrive by walking, cycling and taking transit. They get to the Rogers Centre the same way. The only reason this works is because our streets on game days are a sea of people, rather than a sea of cars.

That’s not an accident. It’s the result of good urban planning.

So why are we spending a small fortune to create a traffic mess at Exhibition Place, when the overwhelming majority of people will still arrive by transit?

When we invest in transit, people take transit. When we invest in parking, we get more traffic.

[Chris Glover @chrisglover]

🚨 BREAKING 🚨

Federal Liberal MPs have been saying they can't make a decision about the Billy Bishop Airport expansion because they don't have enough information. But their "consultation" will be over before they release any more information.

We know enough to stop the deal. $5 billion wasted, traffic gridlock in the Bathurst Quay and Liberty Village neighbourhoods, jets landing and taking off every 2 and a half minutes 200 metres from an elementary school.

What more do the Liberal MPs need to know?

#ONpoli

[Colin D'Mello | Global News @ColinDMello]

NEW: Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s approval rating falls to its lowest level since he first took office in 2018.

The latest Angus Reid data shows a 10 point drop down to 21% approval.

Ford also finds himself at the bottom of the list among fellow Premiers.

#onpoli

[Jennifer Keesmaat @jen_keesmaat]

I am a signatory to this letter.

Open, fully informed and unbiased public hearings are required, supported by due diligence and meaningful analysis.

The public cannot be expected to provide informed feedback when neither the proposal nor its impacts have been properly presented.

Forgive us for being suspicious, but all we have so far is a process the Province deliberately rushed into place to cut Torontonians out, and a federal consultation process built around a survey that reflects neither the complexity of the issue nor the information needed to properly evaluate it.

[Heart & Stroke @HeartandStroke]

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Meet Francois, he's working to #BeatStroke.

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[Tina Yazdani @TinaYazdani]

Tensions ran high & frustrations were palpable at a TDSB parent budget meeting Tuesday night, where parents pressed for answers on hundreds of staff cuts and program reductions planned for this fall.

But the Ford government-appointed TDSB Supervisor didn’t answer questions during the meeting & declined an interview with me afterward. Watch:

[Toronto Star @TorontoStar]

28 prominent Torontonians, including Margaret Atwood, David Mirvish and Hayley Wickenheiser, signed a letter demanding the federal government halt any changes to #BillyBishop airport until the city's residents are properly consulted.

Read it here: https://t.co/xUk5f7aD2O

[Colin D'Mello | Global News @ColinDMello]

As the Carney government kicks off consultations on the expansion of Toronto’s island airport, more than two dozen prominent residents — including a former premier, former mayors, an Olympian and a famed author — are asking Ottawa to pump the brakes

https://t.co/WLNH77HfkL

#onpoli

[Tina Yazdani @TinaYazdani]

Happening now outside TDSB headquarters: parents speak out against expected cuts to staff, programs & services next year.

“Ford has money for a private jet, a luxury spa, a highway mega project & pay raises for himself and his fellow MPPs. It’s time for this government to choose public education over friends.”

The board has justified the cuts, explaining 5,000 fewer students are expected to enrol next year.

[David Fisman @DFisman]

Let the feds know what you think of the ill-conceived proposal to bring jets and runway expansion to toronto‘s island airport

Nobody voted for this, @MarkJCarney @juliedabrusin

https://t.co/sfSYFO81fy

[Bruce Arthur @bruce_arthur]

The public should tell the federal minister that expanding the airport is a bad idea

[Heart & Stroke @HeartandStroke]

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The number of Canadians who can name at least 2 FAST stroke signs has more than doubled over 12 years.
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[Kate Dupuis @DrKateTO]

I write a lot of surveys for my job. Surveys take a lot of time and energy to craft to ensure questions are presented in an appropriate, unbiased way.

This survey, written by the federal government to gauge public support for Ford's takeover of YTZ is... interesting.

[Jennifer Keesmaat @jen_keesmaat]

J P Morgan does a bad deal in 2015.

A decade later, their lobbyists have found an audience in our Premier. So aware is he that Toronto residents do not want a dramatically expanded waterfront airport, one that would undo billions of dollars of investment in restoring fragile urban habitats in The Port Lands and erode the walkable, vibrant urban neighbourhoods we have spent decades building, that he has chosen to force through legislation to seize control and override local decision-making.

When is this jig up?

Now that we know, we know.