Mobsters, not clowns.
OPC MPPs are exactly the kind of small-business douchebags that get really upset about any attempts to correct them.
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Just so you know, this appears to be cover for some other goodies in the same bill:
- Ford's turbo'ing past the environmental assessment for Highway 413
- He's also bypassing the need to use (striking) civil engineers for the 413
The 413 will make his developer cronies a lot of money; everything else is identity politics garbage to get the bill through.
This is Greenbelt 2.0.
As someone who lives beside an urban park with a lot of people tenting in it, I do hear what you're saying, and we do need to do both: house people who can accept it, and incarceration--humane, safe and rare--for people who can't.
It doesn't look like it'll matter: the Canadian economy is too dependent on real estate developers getting rich, and that's who has the ear of our leaders.
I'd love to see property prices collapse and corporate landlords take it on the chin. Maybe it would result in more owner-owned businesses and fewer corporate and franchisees? Maybe it would mean more and more affordable housing instead of shoebox condos on top of a Starbucks+Winners+Bank+Loblaw
Just so everyone knows, the real reason for this appears to be buried in the bill: Doug wants to sidestep striking civil engineers, as well as bypass having to do an environmental assessemnt, on Highway 413.
The bike lanes nonsense is a red herring to distract from Doug once again trying to get something done for his donor base: land developers.
This...this can't be serious, can it?
Or is this a "Trudeau is a racist because he calls out racism and that makes me feel bad" kind of thing? Because I see that a lot.
Or the actual being convicted for civil rights violations for refusing to rent to black people? Or, well, there's a list
Can we..please just build housing directly? Just, like, build it? Not bribe billionaires, not offer P3 partnerships, just employ people, move dirt and hammer things together?
I'm glad to see this, and as someone who's lived next to a park in a downtown where people are tenting (which, let's be honest, has become a nexus of drug dealing, fencing and low-grade violence), this can't come soon enough.
If this doesn't bump the poll numbers, expect them to start talking about sex ed and drag-queen story hour next.
Alabama Burning
The North goes orange, and even they’re wobbling a little.
The rural and suburban ridings are reliably, depressingly, blue.
I really would like a patty that doesn't pretend to be meat. Something like old-school veggie patties from the pre-Yves, pre-Beyond era. More of a veggie fritter, I suppose.
I know people want the meat-burger experience, and that's fine. I'd like an option that doesn't resemble meat.
A guilty pleasure of mine is the Ikea veggie dog with cabbage and fried onions and mustard. Kinda like that.