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VIDEO: Why a Parisian wedding is getting so much attention at Queen’s Park
33The media hasn’t “created” news! The Auditor General’s report highlighted the facts that require attention from not just the media but also the public; Ford’s minister Piccini administered a program that doled out millions of dollars of our taxes in an opaque, unaccountable, and dubious fashion! After initial vetting and ranking by ministry staff, the minister overruled their advice and dispensed the funds to other applicants. He and his ministry have refused to release the criteria they employed to change the original winning applicants to others! Then it appears that the minister was a personal friend of the owner of one of these selected entities. It may be innocent, but as Ford has long been fond of telling us, it doesn’t pass the smell-test!If the media didn’t report, investigate, and high-light an apparent conflict of interest, they’d be derelict in their responsibility!
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At least one child, two adults critically injured in plane crash at Pearson airport
26Coincidentally his administration fired hundreds of probationary air-traffic controllers, though this accident was in Toronto and thankfully not dependent on the overrun, burnt-out US air traffic controllers! So far there’s no indication of any foul-up by the ATCs but the review of the accident will take time. The black boxes should be accessible as the hull was not badly damaged by the fire.
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VIDEO: Deadline looms for grocery stores to start accepting your empties
29This was always part of the deal and the grocers knew it from day 1. Now they want “Buck-a-beer”Dougie to let them off the hook. All around the world grocery stores have found ways to handle returns - including automated systems for a variety of container types that print the customer a cashable receipt! Are Canadian grocers incapable of doing the same? If that answer is yes - return the licence to sell booze and get shed of the problem!
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Party poopers: City funds for Guelph’s 200th birthday pulled from draft budget
GuelphToday 32If lower taxes were the road to satisfaction, the U.S. would be the happiest nation on earth, but year after year we see Scandinavian nations, Netherlands, Iceland all enjoying higher levels of satisfaction. It isn’t taxes but how they’re managed and what they’re spent on that makes for satisfaction and quality of life!
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Poilievre to host Canada First rally near Waterloo airport
GuelphToday 18MAGA Maple bros gathering - an event to be avoided by progressive patriots.
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Rally planned in Guelph this weekend to fight against Bill
GuelphToday 31This is not a fight against new housing! We have plenty of housing plus a plenitude of already approved planned housing - the developers are sitting on their already approved plans waiting for prices to creep even higher. Nothing in Bill 5 will provide a greater supply of low-cost or affordable housing but it will destroy irreplaceable good arable land and destroy or damage wildlife habitat endangering many native species. It will free the developers, under the aegis of provincial legislation, from any and all responsibility to protect the environment, to respect or even effectively consult local governments, local planning, landowners, or indigenous treaty rights! Ford’s interests are not low cost housing but the further enrichment of the already rich and powerful!
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VIDEO: Ontario cities have a plan to end homelessness, but it won't be cheap
29Replying to rwrh - Finland dealt with the issue of homelessness first - housing was provided for any and all who needed it. Some of the homeless were mentally ill, some were dealing with substance abuse(drugs/alcohol) issues, and some were dealing with financial problems. Whatever the reasons for the homelessness, the Finns dealt with that first - provide housing. That allowed the other issues to be addressed separately - once persons were housed it made it easier to find and keep employment as hygiene became accessible, decent safe sleep was possible, and better nutrition was achievable. Drug/alcohol dependencies were treated as medical issues - housed persons are far more likely to accept and benefit from treatment programs. Housed persons who are dealing with addictions are more easily reached by healthcare personnel, and by seeing the same workers regularly, more likely to accept treatment for both their addictions & other health issues. All available on line - look it up.
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Province-wide Fight Ford protests this weekend include Guelph
GuelphToday 29What has Prime Minister Carney got to do with Ford’s attempts to avoid any meaningful access to his and his government’s behind the scenes communications influencing government decisions? Cabinet minutes are already shielded from FOI requests. Ford and his government and his advisers have been found to be in close communication with various beneficiaries of government decisions and both advisors and government ministers have been forced to resign from their posts, at least temporarily! As police and other investigations are looking into the drivers of a number of contentious actions by Ford and those close to him, he suddenly feels a need to hide his and his government’s communications from FOI scrutiny! His intention to shield communications and to do so retroactively isn’t acceptable and must be resisted!
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VIDEO: Should Ontario sell its stash of U.S. booze and give the cash to charity?
11If we’re “swimming in debt”, it’s because “Dime-Bag” Doug has stopped collecting car license fees and other regular sources of provincial revenue to buy votes and detract from his corrupt practices!
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Local developers respond to city's 'rhetoric'
GuelphToday 26It sounds like Councillor Downer is right. If “developer’s lack of financing, ongoing litigation, existing tenant leases or contamination that must first be addressed” is causing delay, then shouldn’t the developer have covered those bases before coming to the city in the first place? Needing financing couldn’t be a surprise and it isn’t up to the city to provide it, and “ongoing litigation” unless the city is the plaintiff isn’t something the municipality is responsible for surely. The developers need to get their act(s) together before asking the city to change anything!
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City failed to consult ahead of public space use bylaw approval
GuelphToday 19Consultation, input, transparency? Not in Guthrie’s interest and when, inevitably, his by-law gets challenged in court, he’ll claim that the failure was someone else’s! Talking out of both sides of his mouth must be exhausting - time for him to take a long rest!
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PCs' opponents decry U.S. lobbyists deals as another way Ford's putting 'insiders first'
15One of the more compelling drivers for Ford calling an early election is Conservative fears of the possible criminal charges coming out of the RCMP probe of Ford’s Greenbelt Scandal dealings with builders and developers. This became a much greater concern when the courts ruled that Ford’s private cell phone logs were subpoenable(accessible to investigators), after it became clear he’d stopped using his government-issued cellphone for all communications and was using a personal cell for both private and government business! As it will now be much easier to trace to whom he’d spoken, when, and for how long, a far more complete picture of Ford’s communication will be laid bare!
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Over 800 elementary students suspended in WDG for missing vaccines
GuelphToday 21No. Quite rightly the province mandates vaccinations for a number of highly contagious infectious diseases. The necessity of protection of the public is of paramount importance.For those who have specific objections to vaccination there are procedures to follow. Those too lazy or indifferent to societal protection needs, suspending the student is a regrettable but necessary incentive.
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OPINION: This is Guelph's opportunity to play hardball with the province
GuelphToday 21Well said Adam. Playing nice has not served Ontarians well in dealings with Ford’s governments. Unless the only Ontarians are 1%ers who own construction firms, developers, and foreign investors with mysteriously deep pockets. For a government which was “for the people”, we’ve seen no appreciable benefits and massive stalls and distractions. Guelph and other municipalities should demand that Ford stop playing with international relations and focus on healthcare, housing, education and transit! If municipal attendees can speak with a common voice and common demands they’ll have more chance of success. Playing nice has got us little - stand up, stand together, and speak truth to power!
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27 Guelph convenience stores (so far) approved to sell booze in September
GuelphToday 18For the Romans it was bread and circuses - with Ford it’s beer in convenience/variety stores! Another Ford distraction from the real issues like affordable housing, affordable LTC, public healthcare, public education!While people are busy sniping, berating their pet targets(unionized workers, the homeless, educators, immigrants), Ford and his developer cronies enjoy a quiet summer in air-conditioned comfort and plot further privatization! Wake up kids - we’re all “marks” in Ford’s game of distraction and destruction!
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'Incredibly disappointing': Ontario halts wastewater testing for COVID, other viruses
GuelphToday 11Another move by Ford’s government to distance itself from science, facts, evidence, when it’s clear from our experience over the last four years that more, better, and earlier knowledge serves the public far better than delayed, scant, and reduced information! The same logic that fueled the Walkerton e-coli disaster under Harris, propels Ford!
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‘Absolutely deadly’: Ontario’s northern highways in desperate need of a fix
16That’s your take? Successive Conservative and Liberal gov’ts have allowed infrastructure gaps to widen and now we see the current collection finding enough cash for boutique spa development projects and “new” Science Centres”, grossly mismanaged transit projects in Toronto, looking at a tunnel under the 401, but Northern Ontario roads that are little improved over the last 40 yrs. And you see the NDP travelling across the northern highways as grabbing media attention? Someone should get the media to look at something outside of Ford’s vanity projects!
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ICYMI: GuelphToday poll shows Liberals in lead locally
GuelphToday 11You can hang immigration on the federal government but housing and healthcare are provincial responsibilities. Feds transfer funding to support both but actual formulation and execution of policies is a provincial responsibility.
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Vacant Edinburgh Road residential lands on the market for $15 million
GuelphToday 19At least Wildwill is consistent; everything is “bad”, including a proposal to create more housing for a city where constant complaints of over-priced housing and lack of housing in general have been regular subjects for comment in guelphtoday. Many Guelphites in need of housing or lower cost housing are not newcomers but long-time residents, retirees, down-sizing empty-nesters! Maybe instead of filling in for PP who’s on the hustings in Alberta, having been turfed by his former constituents who tired of his “Canada is broken” lament, you’d be better advised to encourage Cam to unleash his “strong mayor” powers to advance what almost everyone agrees we need - housing!
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POLL: About three-quarters back higher defence spending, accept tradeoffs
11As even the most surface analysis of the situation would reveal, it’s far more economical to support Ukraine’s resistance to Putin’s aggression in Ukraine than it will be in Poland, Latvia, Lithuania, or Estonia. Depending on whose analysis you accept, the Russian forces have been reduced by as much as 800,000 effectives to the point where they are reduced to importing mercenaries(North Korean), to recapture territories around Kursk. Canada’s skimped and short-changed military funding going back to Trudeau senior’s day. Understaffed, under-equipped, undermined by political ineptitude, leavened only by pork-barrel politics! Time to pay the price of deferring responsibilities and obligations!
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