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What sorts of freedom-of-information requests are being refused by the Ontario government?
Here’s a glimpse at what Ontario’s government doesn’t want you to know
https://nationalpost.com/news/freedom-of-information-ontario-secrecy(In my line of business, any client has the right to come into my office and see my files on his project.)
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Finally watched the "Cycling Toward a Cooler Toronto" film featuring @[email protected], @[email protected] & two other U of T civil engineers. Appreciated Shoshanna's desire to bring back open streets at the end. #BikeTO #TOpoli #ONpoli #VisionZero www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcPG...
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@Pkbwood Good advice.
In Ontario, unfortunately, much of a candidate's honest answer about strengthening local democracy would have to be "take it up with your MPP."
Canadian municipalities have no rights or responsibilities that the province can't take away at whim, as Premier Ford did with our safe-injection sites, bike lanes, and school boards. 🙁
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@Pkbwood Good advice.
In Ontario, unfortunately, much of a candidate's honest answer about strengthening local democracy would have to be "take it up with your MPP."
Canadian municipalities have no rights or responsibilities that the province can't take away at whim, as Premier Ford did with our safe-injection sites, bike lanes, and school boards. 🙁
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@Pkbwood Good advice.
In Ontario, unfortunately, much of a candidate's honest answer about strengthening local democracy would have to be "take it up with your MPP."
Canadian municipalities have no rights or responsibilities that the province can't take away at whim, as Premier Ford did with our safe-injection sites, bike lanes, and school boards. 🙁
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@Pkbwood Good advice.
In Ontario, unfortunately, much of a candidate's honest answer about strengthening local democracy would have to be "take it up with your MPP."
Canadian municipalities have no rights or responsibilities that the province can't take away at whim, as Premier Ford did with our safe-injection sites, bike lanes, and school boards. 🙁
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@Pkbwood Good advice.
In Ontario, unfortunately, much of a candidate's honest answer about strengthening local democracy would have to be "take it up with your MPP."
Canadian municipalities have no rights or responsibilities that the province can't take away at whim, as Premier Ford did with our safe-injection sites, bike lanes, and school boards. 🙁
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Great clip from @[email protected] which shows how cycling can be more useful than transit for car-free families. Especially for trip chaining. Add this to all the other reasons why the Ford government's war on bikes is irresponsible! #BikeTO #TOpoli #ONpoli www.youtube.com/watch?v=zl9-...
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Great clip from @[email protected] which shows how cycling can be more useful than transit for car-free families. Especially for trip chaining. Add this to all the other reasons why the Ford government's war on bikes is irresponsible! #BikeTO #TOpoli #ONpoli www.youtube.com/watch?v=zl9-...
The Hidden Limitations of Publ... -
Great clip from @[email protected] which shows how cycling can be more useful than transit for car-free families. Especially for trip chaining. Add this to all the other reasons why the Ford government's war on bikes is irresponsible! #BikeTO #TOpoli #ONpoli www.youtube.com/watch?v=zl9-...
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CW: #ONpoli cash bail?
"Ontario’s cash bail system won’t make communities safer.
Deterrence cannot be bought. This approach assumes that bail non-compliance is primarily a rational calculation. However, people may breach conditions because of unstable housing, addiction, mental health challenges or release conditions that are difficult to understand or realistically meet.
… making the penalty more severe does not solve the problem."
https://theconversation.com/ontarios-cash-bail-requirements-face-a-legal-wall-and-are-based-on-flawed-logic-290662 #onPoli #CorrectionsReform
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CW: #ONpoli cash bail?
"Ontario’s cash bail system won’t make communities safer.
Deterrence cannot be bought. This approach assumes that bail non-compliance is primarily a rational calculation. However, people may breach conditions because of unstable housing, addiction, mental health challenges or release conditions that are difficult to understand or realistically meet.
… making the penalty more severe does not solve the problem."
https://theconversation.com/ontarios-cash-bail-requirements-face-a-legal-wall-and-are-based-on-flawed-logic-290662 #onPoli #CorrectionsReform
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CW: #ONpoli cash bail?
"Ontario’s cash bail system won’t make communities safer.
Deterrence cannot be bought. This approach assumes that bail non-compliance is primarily a rational calculation. However, people may breach conditions because of unstable housing, addiction, mental health challenges or release conditions that are difficult to understand or realistically meet.
… making the penalty more severe does not solve the problem."
https://theconversation.com/ontarios-cash-bail-requirements-face-a-legal-wall-and-are-based-on-flawed-logic-290662 #onPoli #CorrectionsReform
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CW: #ONpoli cash bail?
"Ontario’s cash bail system won’t make communities safer.
Deterrence cannot be bought. This approach assumes that bail non-compliance is primarily a rational calculation. However, people may breach conditions because of unstable housing, addiction, mental health challenges or release conditions that are difficult to understand or realistically meet.
… making the penalty more severe does not solve the problem."
https://theconversation.com/ontarios-cash-bail-requirements-face-a-legal-wall-and-are-based-on-flawed-logic-290662 #onPoli #CorrectionsReform
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CW: #ONpoli cash bail?
"Ontario’s cash bail system won’t make communities safer.
Deterrence cannot be bought. This approach assumes that bail non-compliance is primarily a rational calculation. However, people may breach conditions because of unstable housing, addiction, mental health challenges or release conditions that are difficult to understand or realistically meet.
… making the penalty more severe does not solve the problem."
https://theconversation.com/ontarios-cash-bail-requirements-face-a-legal-wall-and-are-based-on-flawed-logic-290662 #onPoli #CorrectionsReform
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Clown car stuff.
“We are at a complete standstill on ALL of our FOI requests even if they don’t include political staff records?” one senior freedom of information coordinator asked in response to the freeze."
#OnPoli
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:dmb64b62eb77vvvg2itoajb4/post/3muyyahgbzc2z -
Clown car stuff.
“We are at a complete standstill on ALL of our FOI requests even if they don’t include political staff records?” one senior freedom of information coordinator asked in response to the freeze."
#OnPoli
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:dmb64b62eb77vvvg2itoajb4/post/3muyyahgbzc2z -
RE: https://mstdn.social/@dalfen/117231110554811425
Just like Discount Trump here in #ontario
Can't have bike lanes if they get in the way of burning fossil fuels. #topoli #onpoli #biketo -
RE: https://mstdn.social/@dalfen/117231110554811425
Just like Discount Trump here in #ontario
Can't have bike lanes if they get in the way of burning fossil fuels. #topoli #onpoli #biketo -
RE: https://mstdn.social/@dalfen/117231110554811425
Just like Discount Trump here in #ontario
Can't have bike lanes if they get in the way of burning fossil fuels. #topoli #onpoli #biketo -
RE: https://mstdn.social/@dalfen/117231110554811425
Just like Discount Trump here in #ontario
Can't have bike lanes if they get in the way of burning fossil fuels. #topoli #onpoli #biketo -
RE: https://mstdn.social/@dalfen/117231110554811425
Just like Discount Trump here in #ontario
Can't have bike lanes if they get in the way of burning fossil fuels. #topoli #onpoli #biketo -
One of the many upsetting things about the Ford government's attack on bike lanes:
Prabmeet Sarkaria is the minister of transportation. He keeps saying that the bike lanes are unused and cause congestion.
He is also the first turban-wearing Sikh to be appointed to cabinet.
Any casual user of Toronto's bike lanes immediately notices that the most frequent year-round uses of the bike lanes are delivery drivers, many of whom are of Punjabi origins, just like Sarkaria.
If Sarkaria doesn't want to hear "downtown activists", maybe he should hear from his own community.
The people who will be most harmed by the bike lane removal are the delivery drivers. When a Punjabi delivery driver is killed in a car accident because he was cycling in a car lane, his blood will be is on Sarkaria's hands.
I haven't seen cycling activists trying to organize Punjabi delivery guys. Probably has to do with race and class.
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One of the many upsetting things about the Ford government's attack on bike lanes:
Prabmeet Sarkaria is the minister of transportation. He keeps saying that the bike lanes are unused and cause congestion.
He is also the first turban-wearing Sikh to be appointed to cabinet.
Any casual user of Toronto's bike lanes immediately notices that the most frequent year-round uses of the bike lanes are delivery drivers, many of whom are of Punjabi origins, just like Sarkaria.
If Sarkaria doesn't want to hear "downtown activists", maybe he should hear from his own community.
The people who will be most harmed by the bike lane removal are the delivery drivers. When a Punjabi delivery driver is killed in a car accident because he was cycling in a car lane, his blood will be is on Sarkaria's hands.
I haven't seen cycling activists trying to organize Punjabi delivery guys. Probably has to do with race and class.
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One of the many upsetting things about the Ford government's attack on bike lanes:
Prabmeet Sarkaria is the minister of transportation. He keeps saying that the bike lanes are unused and cause congestion.
He is also the first turban-wearing Sikh to be appointed to cabinet.
Any casual user of Toronto's bike lanes immediately notices that the most frequent year-round uses of the bike lanes are delivery drivers, many of whom are of Punjabi origins, just like Sarkaria.
If Sarkaria doesn't want to hear "downtown activists", maybe he should hear from his own community.
The people who will be most harmed by the bike lane removal are the delivery drivers. When a Punjabi delivery driver is killed in a car accident because he was cycling in a car lane, his blood will be is on Sarkaria's hands.
I haven't seen cycling activists trying to organize Punjabi delivery guys. Probably has to do with race and class.
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One of the many upsetting things about the Ford government's attack on bike lanes:
Prabmeet Sarkaria is the minister of transportation. He keeps saying that the bike lanes are unused and cause congestion.
He is also the first turban-wearing Sikh to be appointed to cabinet.
Any casual user of Toronto's bike lanes immediately notices that the most frequent year-round uses of the bike lanes are delivery drivers, many of whom are of Punjabi origins, just like Sarkaria.
If Sarkaria doesn't want to hear "downtown activists", maybe he should hear from his own community.
The people who will be most harmed by the bike lane removal are the delivery drivers. When a Punjabi delivery driver is killed in a car accident because he was cycling in a car lane, his blood will be is on Sarkaria's hands.
I haven't seen cycling activists trying to organize Punjabi delivery guys. Probably has to do with race and class.
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One of the many upsetting things about the Ford government's attack on bike lanes:
Prabmeet Sarkaria is the minister of transportation. He keeps saying that the bike lanes are unused and cause congestion.
He is also the first turban-wearing Sikh to be appointed to cabinet.
Any casual user of Toronto's bike lanes immediately notices that the most frequent year-round uses of the bike lanes are delivery drivers, many of whom are of Punjabi origins, just like Sarkaria.
If Sarkaria doesn't want to hear "downtown activists", maybe he should hear from his own community.
The people who will be most harmed by the bike lane removal are the delivery drivers. When a Punjabi delivery driver is killed in a car accident because he was cycling in a car lane, his blood will be is on Sarkaria's hands.
I haven't seen cycling activists trying to organize Punjabi delivery guys. Probably has to do with race and class.
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My take: Doug Ford's success is inextricably tied to car dependency.
Cars provide the illusion of independence: the driver does the work of piloting the machine, and is sealed off from everyone around them.
Car dependent suburbs are stratified by income, reducing the income & race diversity of who folk are exposed to. All manner of unfamiliar people start to appear scary.
Absent community, a folksy guy peddling low taxes and law & order looks just fine.
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My take: Doug Ford's success is inextricably tied to car dependency.
Cars provide the illusion of independence: the driver does the work of piloting the machine, and is sealed off from everyone around them.
Car dependent suburbs are stratified by income, reducing the income & race diversity of who folk are exposed to. All manner of unfamiliar people start to appear scary.
Absent community, a folksy guy peddling low taxes and law & order looks just fine.
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My take: Doug Ford's success is inextricably tied to car dependency.
Cars provide the illusion of independence: the driver does the work of piloting the machine, and is sealed off from everyone around them.
Car dependent suburbs are stratified by income, reducing the income & race diversity of who folk are exposed to. All manner of unfamiliar people start to appear scary.
Absent community, a folksy guy peddling low taxes and law & order looks just fine.
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My take: Doug Ford's success is inextricably tied to car dependency.
Cars provide the illusion of independence: the driver does the work of piloting the machine, and is sealed off from everyone around them.
Car dependent suburbs are stratified by income, reducing the income & race diversity of who folk are exposed to. All manner of unfamiliar people start to appear scary.
Absent community, a folksy guy peddling low taxes and law & order looks just fine.
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My take: Doug Ford's success is inextricably tied to car dependency.
Cars provide the illusion of independence: the driver does the work of piloting the machine, and is sealed off from everyone around them.
Car dependent suburbs are stratified by income, reducing the income & race diversity of who folk are exposed to. All manner of unfamiliar people start to appear scary.
Absent community, a folksy guy peddling low taxes and law & order looks just fine.
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As Ontarians call for a permanent #ceasefire, the #Arab #Canadian #Lawyers Association #ACLA has documented a marked increase in #ElectedOfficials in #Ontario engaging in #AntiPalestinian #racism through their #rhetoric and their actions. One such example is the #SpeakerOfTheHouse's decision to bar entry into #QueensPark to individuals wearing the #keffiyeh