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    Toronto Toronto | Ontario Place | ?m | ?s | Infrastructure ON

    The Ford government budgeted more than $2 million to promote its controversial redevelopment of Ontario Place as public criticism mounted earlier in the year. https://globalnews.ca/news/10154782/ontario-place-advertising-ford-government/
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    Road Safety & Vision Zero Plan

    Oh well, there's nothing anyone can do about this carnage. Toronto Police say multiple pedestrians were struck by a vehicle in the city’s east end on Wednesday, and at least two suffered life-threatening injuries. Police said the pedestrian-involved collision happened in an apartment building...
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    Premier Doug Ford's Ontario

    Ontario Premier Doug Ford met face to face with Hamilton developer Sergio Manchia about removing his land from the Greenbelt in 2021, documents reveal. The documents contradict what Ford has previously said about his involvement in the controversy, including he has "no recollection" of meeting...
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    PM Justin Trudeau's Canada

    Just wishing and hoping that Trudeau would resign for the last ten years has not been sound conservative policy, though, is it? Otherwise, Trudeau would have only been a one termer. That seems to be the failure of the CPC.
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    PM Justin Trudeau's Canada

    I have read hundreds of Justin Trudeau political obituaries in the last ten years. Only last month, conservative pundits were sure that Trudeau was going to resign becaue of the break-up of his marriage. Please continue.
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    Premier Doug Ford's Ontario

    How developers secretly influenced the Ford government to open up the greenbelt for housing. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/auditor-general-greenbelt-lobbying-1.6934275
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    Premier Doug Ford's Ontario

    Ontario Premier Doug Ford will be speaking alongside Housing Minister Steve Clark in Mississauga on Friday, days after a scathing report found the government’s Greenbelt plans “favoured” certain developers. At the recommendation of the auditor general, the Premier’s Office has requested the...
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    Premier Doug Ford's Ontario

    At least they didn't try to put the blame on Dalton McGuinty. Ontario's integrity commissioner is considering a request from Premier Doug Ford's government to investigate if the housing minister's chief of staff broke any ethics rules connected to the province's choice of Greenbelt land to open...
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    Premier Doug Ford's Ontario

    Developers could see an $8 billion increase to value of land now open for development The Ontario government's process for choosing protected Greenbelt land to open up for housing development was heavily influenced by a small group of well-connected developers who now stand to make billions of...
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    Road Safety & Vision Zero Plan

    Toronto's Vision Zero strategy is moving in the right direction, say advocates and experts, but it has yet to meet its goal of ending traffic fatalities and serious injuries on city roads. So far this year, 25 people have died on Toronto's roadways, the latest data from the city shows. That...
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    The Climate Change Thread

    A new proposal by the Ontario government would see regulations added that the province says will better protect workers in Ontario by limiting heat stress and heat-related illnesses, as temperatures across Canada and the globe continue to rise due to climate change. The proposed bill, published...
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    TTC: Other Items (catch all)

    Sixty of 300 digital screens that are meant to display when the next Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) bus is coming are not working, with some not functioning for weeks, according to the TTC. Shoshanna Saxe, an associate professor in civil engineering at the University of Toronto, said while...
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    Montréal Transit Developments

    The Réseau express métropolitain, Montreal's newest mass-transit system, has had to halt service in both directions during its first rush-hour commute on Monday, forcing passengers to get off the trains and triggering the service's emergency backup plan. Shortly after 9 a.m., the REM put out a...
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    Road Safety & Vision Zero Plan

    A man and a woman are facing charges following a road rage incident in downtown Toronto on Saturday evening that led to seven vehicles being struck, Toronto police say. In a news release on Sunday, police said a man operating a blue Ford Escape SUV — with three passengers — in the Front Street...
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    Mayor Olivia Chow's Toronto

    Obviously we could end NATO too. And NORAD. Think of the money we'd save.
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    Premier Doug Ford's Ontario

    Nearly all cities in Ontario must dramatically pick up the pace if they hope to hit the targets set by Premier Doug Ford's government, the latest housing construction figures show. A year and half ago, Ford's Progressive Conservatives set the goal of 1.5 million new homes to be built in Ontario...
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    Toronto Toronto | Crosstown LRT | ?m | ?s | Metrolinx | Arcadis

    Same old story. Doug Ford can never fail. He can only be failed.
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    Toronto Toronto | Ontario Place | ?m | ?s | Infrastructure ON

    Toronto will investigate how to keep the Ontario Science Centre where it is, with councillors asking staff to look into a number of possible options including setting up the tourist attraction under city ownership. On Thursday, city council voted 21-3 in favour of exploring the feasibility of...
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    Toronto Toronto | 175 Cummer | 10.49m | 3s | City of Toronto | Montgomery Sisam

    The community groups who just spent more than a half million dollars to stop this one project by inflating its overall costs through court challenges are now lecturing others about the proper way to spend tax dollars. The same ones who said they supported housing just a few months ago, just not...
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    Premier Doug Ford's Ontario

    More transparency. A second prominent Toronto-area developer who owns land that was removed from southern Ontario's protected Greenbelt last year is going to court to avoid answering questions from the province's auditor general. Michael Rice, CEO of Rice Group, filed a notice of application...

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