I rode the Greyhound bus for years. Never saw a flight attendant. One time the bus caught fire. We exited the door. In a crash the windows with emergency exits were well-marked. I know I would pay more attention to the safety video on the plane if there were no flight attendants. There’s even room in the back for a vending machine with snacks.
Ontario legislation (Bill 212) gives the province the power to review and remove existing bike lanes on any "prescribed municipality" roads in the province. All the Mayor or the councillors need to do is ask for a provincial review to remove bike lanes. They may have already — note the disappearance of bike lanes on Woodlawn from Hwy 6 to Victoria. I implore Council not to spend our money plowing bike lanes that may cease to exist. How many citizens use the bike lanes in Jan/Feb? A hundred? Out of 140,000. Come on! Your common sense is lost in your granola.
$161.2 million would build some helpful public housing for the homeless. By creating a public space instead, it will just be filled with more of the unhoused. A lot of money to pretty things up and ignore those who need it the most.
“Reducing administrative overlap and duplication” — please have the courageous conversation about a new school board organization that includes the previous Catholic and Public Boards.
The provincial government intervened long ago by encouraging colleges to pay their way with international student fees. The issue was masked then and it still is now — colleges and universities have been underfunded in Ontario for a long time.
The real illusion is that an advisory committee thinks it has any decision-making power. Advisory is defined as giving advice. The city can take or ignore the advice. If you want a vote, run for council.
It is a lovely setting, but the building resonates with the legacy of Catholic Residential Schools and the pervasive nature of priests preying on young victims across the provinces and the arctic. It will be good to have it demolished.
The school boards are hamstrung by the Ministry of Education. Funds to build a new school are not released until there are portables on portables, and every school in the area packed like sardines.
Every year since 2019 the city has spent over 20 million dollars on outside consultants. That’s a whopping $120 million over six years (Report to Council March 28, 2025 p.3) This has to stop. If there is too much work for staff to do, reduce the work, don’t add outside consultants to increase capacity. Freeze consultant hiring for a year and save $20 million. You could buy each cyclist their own little snow plow!