Ontario
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After we “dig a big ass tunnel,” here are 5 simple ways we can reduce congestion without asking people to drive less
thebeaverton.com After we "dig a big ass tunnel," here are 5 simple ways we can reduce congestion without asking people to drive lessToronto traffic is some of the worst in the world. And instead of focusing on getting people to use their cars less by investing in transit, bike lanes and pedestrianization, we need solutions that allow our behaviour to carry on exactly as before, but without any of the problems intrinsic to that b...
> Here are 5 other steps we can take to ensure our morning commutes are an absolute breeze, and we don’t need to (swallows vomit) take transit or (dry heaves) ride a bike.
- lfpress.com After $39K retreat, school board officials to staff: Please donate some pay
TVDSB officials have asked employees to donate some of their pay to support programs – leaving one education analyst "in complete shock"
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Le 25 septembre : une journée de célébrations pour les Franco-Ontariens
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/29724681
> Bonne fête des franco-ontariennes et franco-ontariens! > > L’origine de cette journée remonte au 25 septembre 1975, date à laquelle le drapeau franco-ontarien a été levé pour la première fois à l’Université de Sudbury. Conçu par Gaétan Gervais et Michel Dupuis, ce drapeau est rapidement devenu un puissant symbole d’identité pour les Franco-Ontariens. Ses couleurs et ses symboles racontent l’histoire et l’environnement de cette communauté : le vert représente les forêts d’été du Nord de l’Ontario, tandis que le blanc évoque les hivers enneigés. La fleur de lys rappelle les racines françaises, et le trille blanc, fleur emblématique de l’Ontario, souligne l’appartenance à cette province.
- www.cp24.com Ontario Premier Doug Ford says he wants to build a tunnel under Hwy. 401
Premier Doug Ford says he wants to build a tunnel under Highway 401 that would stretch from Brampton to Scarborough.
- toronto.ctvnews.ca Controversial law designed to free up hospital beds to be tested in Ontario court
A new charter challenge set to get underway on Monday will test the constitutionality of a controversial Ontario law that allows hospitals to place discharged patients into long-term care homes not of their choosing or face a $400-per-day charge if they refuse.
- www.thestar.com Doug Ford wants to stop doctors from handing out clean needles. Here’s why they shouldn’t listen
“It has been established for over 35 years that public health is protected by providing clean needles (ideally when also collecting used needles) and the prescribing of opioids reduces overdose-related
- www.thestar.com Doug Ford is ‘obsessed with alcohol in convenience stores’ instead of health care, Jagmeet Singh charges
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh fired back at Doug Ford on Tuesday, accusing the premier of being "obsessed with alcohol in convenience stores" instead of more pressing challenges.
- www.newmarkettoday.ca Boy, 9, sick from rare tick-borne virus after camping in northern Ontario
With the geographic expansion of tick populations in Canada, medical journal said physicians need to be aware of patients with encephalitis symptoms
- www.cp24.com 'An unfortunate waste of resources': Ontario woman facing criminal charge following water gun incident
A Simcoe, Ont. woman is facing an assault with a weapon charge after she said that she accidentally sprayed her neighbour with a water gun over the Labour Day weekend, a situation that at least one legal expert says amounts to an ‘unfortunate waste of resources.’
- toronto.citynews.ca 'He just wants his pension': Premier Ford accuses 'greedy' Singh of political posturing
Ontario Premier Doug Ford accused NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh of being a greedy politician who's seeking to collect a pension.
- www.blogto.com Loblaws' new No Name stores in Ontario are already getting bad reviews
Loblaws has just launched an all-new No Name-branded grocery store chain in Ontario, and so far, some of its first customers aren't fans. In an eff...
- www.blogto.com Ontario could actually see its first snowfall this weekend
Despite warm temperatures persisting throughout the beginning of September in Ontario, fall-like weather will be swooping in this weekend to remind...
- www.nationalobserver.com Ford caused Ontario’s housing shortage. Now he’s making it worse
Years after Ontario's premier promised 1.5 million net new homes by 2030, his government's own NIMBY zoning, outdated construction rules and subsidies for inefficient sprawl development have prevented both market and non-market builders from making shifts to more labour-efficient building formats an...
> So why, years after the Premier promised legal reforms that would deliver “more homes faster” and 1.5 million net new homes by 2030, is the housing shortage even worse? Why are housing starts actually down, year over year? It’s because rather than ending restrictions on midrise housing and slamming the brakes on sprawl and highway schemes that squander construction, Ontario’s changes to land use planning, environmental and transportation laws and policies have done the opposite.
> Soon after Premier Doug Ford took office, his government began to dismantle even the modest measures the previous government had taken to promote more efficient housing construction.
> Despite calls from housing and environmental experts across the political spectrum — and its own housing task force — to scrap outdated rules such as minimum parking requirements and to permit mid-rise housing on major streets throughout existing residential neighbourhoods, Ford intervened. He personally blocked efforts to legalize even 4-storey “4-plex” apartment buildings.
> In recent months, as his government’s failure on housing has become more obvious, Ford has tried to pass the buck by blaming everyone from immigrants to the Bank of Canada. What he glosses over is that the housing market could easily have adapted to population and rate changes, but has instead turned the challenge of high interest rates and the opportunity of a growing population into a housing crisis by willfully sabotaging the solutions.
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Doug Ford's new drug policy is already a failure
> It’s generally fair to wait for a policy to unfold, to leave some time to judge its effects, before we decide whether it will succeed or fail. The Ford government has done its critics a favour this week, however, with its announced changes to drug policy in Ontario, shutting more than half of the province’s safe consumption sites. The logic adopted by the government and its defenders is that because the province’s overall high rate of opioid deaths has continued, these safe consumption sites are a failure. This is despite the fact that no patient has died of an overdose at these sites precisely because they’ve been monitored and treated.
> The bad news for the government, and the good news for its critics, is that if the benchmark for success is "reducing the rate of opioid overdose deaths in Ontario” then nothing announced this week will succeed. That’s not because an emphasis on treatment over harm reduction is itself indefensible. It’s because the scale of the problem that Ontario faces is so far beyond the resources that have so far been committed, and because addiction itself is such a wicked problem for health policy.
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Ontario’s best recycling program is already falling apart. What comes next?
> For nearly a century, the Beer Store has, in one form or another, operated arguably the best-performing recycling program in the province of Ontario. Its deposit-return system — which sees consumers get refunds of 10 or 20 cents per container returned to the stores — boasts a return rate of nearly 80 per cent overall, and for some specific types of containers, the number is higher still: 89 per cent of glass bottles were returned in 2022, according to the most recent environmental-stewardship report on the Beer Store’s website.
> The success of the deposit-return scheme, which has been expanded to include wine bottles and other alcohol-beverage containers, stands in stark contrast to the middling diversion rates achieved by the blue-box program operated by many municipalities. The city of Toronto, for example, achieved an overall diversion rate of just 53.6 per cent in residential collection, and even single-family homes (which perform better than the city’s older apartment buildings) rate only 63.9 per cent. The numbers provincewide aren’t any better overall, and a report from the province’s Resource Productivity and Recovery Authority suggests Ontario’s diversion rates have actually fallen over the past decade.
> So the closure of Beer Store locations in small northern communities poses a problem that, at least in some cases, is going to fall on the property-tax bill of local homeowners.
> “As a municipality, we now are going to be stuck having to pick up everyone’s empties, and it’s going to impact our landfill space. It’s going to end up in the pile at the front of everyone’s driveway on garbage day,” McPherson says. “We are in the process right now of applying for an environmental assessment for new waste management because the Geraldton landfill is full. This is absolutely the wrong time for us to have excess material going into the landfill.”
> Greenstone isn’t alone: Beer Store locations in Nipigon and Cochrane are also reportedly closing in September. In at least some cases, the Beer Store’s former customers will still be able to get beer at an LCBO or a new outlet such as a corner store or gas station — but locals will have nowhere to return empties.
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Canadian Blood Services: Assignment Saving Lives
myaccount.blood.ca Join Canada’s Lifeline - Donations celebration!When you donate, you´re using the power to Give Life. It’s that simple. Your donation can treat cancer patients, bring a car crash victim through surgery, even help a transplant patient’s new heart beat for the first time. - Donations celebration! - MyAccount, Canadian Blood Services
My name is Emily and I am participating in the Assignment Saving Lives initiative, and I thought why not reach out here? I am competing against other post secondary students throughout Canada to recruit new and current blood, plasma, and platelet donors. I have been an active blood donation advocate for years and am currently the CBS president at my university. If you are interested in becoming one, or if you currently are, please use this link to join my team through the official CBS website! Let's work together as a community to restock Canadas blood bank!! Your donation matters and WILL save a life, and also helps me get a chance at a scholarship <3 feel free to comment any questions or remove this if you'd like, no hard feelings (I get it) :)
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Ontario is taking cues from Enbridge Gas — a fossil fuel giant ‘freaking out’ about its future
thenarwhal.ca Enbridge Gas is 'freaking out' — and has Ontario’s attention | The NarwhalNew records show the Doug Ford government and fossil fuel giant Enbridge Gas talked regularly about an Ontario Energy Board ruling that hinged on climate change
- www.sasktoday.ca Ontario parties spend summer preparing for possibility of an early election
TORONTO — Ontario's major political parties have been spending the summer nominating candidates, running "campaign schools," and canvassing after remarks from the premier this spring fuelled speculation he will call an early election.
- www.blogto.com Ontario expects GTA traffic to get so bad that highways will crawl below 20 km/h
If you think getting around the Toronto area by car is bad now, you may want to start planning a future elsewhere, as newly revealed documents from...
- www.thetrillium.ca Premier Ford says he's 'not sold' on supervised consumption sites
One advocate called the premier's remarks on drug consumption and treatment sites 'shocking'
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A company that nets $20 billion in revenue, recieved 44.3 million from Canadians, 20 Mil from Ontario
Once again... WHY?!?!
- www.thetrillium.ca Ontario’s ‘unofficial estimate’ of homeless population is 234,000: documents
The province’s shelter system is 97% full and tens of thousands of new supportive housing units are needed, according to a Housing Ministry document
> The government of Ontario estimates nearly a quarter of a million people — roughly three of every 200 residents — are homeless, according to information contained in a housing ministry document.
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Thoughts on the Oakville comic of the day?
www.oakvillenews.org Cartoon of the Day: Women's Boxing WinLocal cartoonist Steve Nease provides us with a humorous take on current events.
Was surprised they published it
- www.thestar.com Doug Ford’s football friend Tim Walz is Kamala Harris’s running mate
With Walz, Ontario's premier is hopeful that could be good news for the province.
Doug Ford is the Progressive Conservative premier of Ontario; and brother of the late Rob Ford, a mayor of Toronto.
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Ontario developer coalition asks governments for tax breaks to pass on to homebuyers | Globalnews.ca
globalnews.ca Ontario developer coalition asks governments for tax breaks to pass on to homebuyers | Globalnews.caOntario developers have written to all levels of government to ask for a reduction in taxes on new housing, saying it will pass on those savings dollar for dollar to homebuyers.
Sure sure we believe you! that you'll willingly share your EXTRA EXTRA profits with the consumers sure!
- www.blogto.com Parking lot for Ontario Place spa could cost $800 million and people are not having it
The people of Toronto have made it quite clear that they're not at all keen on Premier Doug Ford handing a chunk of Ontario Place to an Austria-bas...
- www.guelphtoday.com Ford promises to hold JPs and judges 'accountable' for bail, ignites concern over judicial independence
The Canadian Civil Liberties Association called it 'an unacceptable and dangerous attack on judicial independence, the constitution, and the rule of law'