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Ontario landlords are incentivized to evict tenants so they can raise rents to any amount. One result is baseless eviction notices that I'm sure some tenants obey. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Elite liberals are determined to learn absolutely nothing www.lukewsavage.com/p/perhaps-de...

More than 70% of Ontarians want a "full public inquiry" into Metrolinx's skyrocketing transit construction costs, according to a Mainstreet poll presented yesterday at the Transport Futures Transit Funding Forum. H/T @stephenwickens.bsky.social #onpoli

#Update: Premier Doug Ford has ejected Chris Scott from the Progressive Conservative caucus after the rookie MPP was charged with spousal assault with a child’s high chair.

Yikes. "SooToday has learned that MPP Chris Scott has been charged with assault and assault with a weapon. ...Scott is currently in custody. SooToday has learned his bail has been approved." #OnPoli

Sault Ste. Marie MPP Chris Scott no longer member of Progressive Conservative caucus. Party doesn't give a reason why www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... Find out more at nationalnewswatch.com

The ONDP has recognized the importance of clean energy, unionized labour, and support for Canadian supply chains in meeting Ontario's electricity needs with the adoption of a pro-nuclear policy resolution at its convention. Read our full press release here: www.thesociety.ca/society_welc...

Critics blast millions in Skills Development Fund grants given to PC-friendly companies. Ontario’s Auditor General recently confirmed an investigation into the fund www.thetrillium.ca/news/politic... #onpoli

A group training workers for “Rob Ford’s favourite nightclub owner” Zlatko Starkovski got $6.5 million in skills development funding from the Ford government. Starkovski is launching a burlesque-themed nightclub “for those where discretion is a must” 🤔 www.thetrillium.ca/news/politic... #onpoli

New from me at TVO, on the nuclear energy debate coming to the floor of this weekend's NDP meeting. www.tvo.org/article/anal...

It is wild that multiple Liberal MPPs were actually ready to quit the party, perhaps ending its official party status, rather than remain led by Crombie. Why did they run under her leadership in the first place? What, if anything, holds this party together? www.thestar.com/politics/pro... #onpoli

”It’s puzzling why Carney keeps doing things that alienate his own supporters ... the reason Carney is sitting in the PMO is because progressive swing voters made a strategic choice to lend him their votes — they didn’t lend their vote to appease Trump, impose austerity or roll back workers’ rights“

NEW: Ontario's auditor general will be digging into how Metrolinx chooses subway stops as one of her new reports toward the end of this year. Other investigations include child care, special ed and the skills development fund #OnPoli globalnews.ca/news/1141669...

“At a time when progressives need leaders who are true to their values and will fight for them, Canada finds itself with a technocratic prime minister who seems more than willing to pre-emptively wave a white flag than have to fight for what’s right” www.thestar.com/opinion/cont... #cdnpoli

"This indicates to me these folks do not want industry in the industrial park": Nanticoke councillor claims MZO-seeking Empire Communities is turning away industries with demands they pay $300K/acre for land it recently bought for $21K/acre haldimandpress.com/theyre-not-n... #onpoli

The Auditor General has confirmed an investigation has been underway www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/poli... #onpoli

Part of the reason why major developers hate Mamdani is *because* he's become increasingly YIMBY. They understand that liberalizing land use endangers their chokehold on the market.

Doug Ford tells young job seekers “try inheriting your daddy’s sticker factory”

I'm on the other stuff Doug Ford said today but this is man who inherited his wealth/dad's company and lives in his mom's house.

New investigation from me! Are there “shades of the Greenbelt” scandal in a program that doled out grants to private training companies amid a crisis in public colleges? Questions raised about Ontario’s $2.5 billion private career training fund www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/arti...

NEW: Ontario Premier Doug Ford says he wants cities using automated speed cameras to scrap them, claiming they're a "tax grab." The NDP called his comments "idiotic" and said he risked making roads less safe. #OnPoli #ToPoli globalnews.ca/news/1140459...

“It’s an insulting way to treat the public”: Doug Ford is tired of embarrassing headlines about infrastructure projects being delayed & over-budget. So he is no longer releasing project timelines or budgets www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/edit... #onpoli

NEW: The years-delayed Eglinton Crosstown LRT will miss its most recent target of opening to the public in September, Metrolinx has conceded, with focus turning to see if it can open in October. #OnPoli globalnews.ca/news/1139489...

Well-connected landowner Nick Cortellucci wants to dump construction waste into a lake within the Greenbelt. Furious neighbours & farmers are pushing back against the Caledon mayor’s plan to fast-track approval thepointer.com/article/2025... #onpoli

Politics as an apolitical meta-narrative where “the politically-engaged citizen is encouraged to think like a pundit who assigns Nate Silveresque abstractions like ‘electability’ to politicians & pours over poll numbers to determine their own preferences” www.lukewsavage.com/p/politics-i... #cdnpoli

Pedestrian walking in road because cyclist riding on sidewalk because car parked in bike lane

Maybe Steve Bannon was booked that day. Fuck... www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

"The parallels to the present are obvious and, again, the challenge for anyone aspiring to lead today’s federal NDP is familiar: providing an alternative vision to an economic model that has had disastrous consequences for the working-class." 🔗 ➡️ perspectivesjournal.ca/ed-broadbent-rebuilding-ndp/

Starlight paid a premium for 44 buildings in 2019. Seems it planned to evict tenants paying below-market rent. The seller said “We had a gap in our rents between in-place rents & market rents of over 30%. The buyer recognized the value of that gap” web.archive.org/web/20191123... #onpoli

This long weekend, consider the future of Wasaga Beach: a provincially protected environment, home to the endangered plovers, that the Doug Ford gov't wants to transfer to the town's ownership to boost tourism. It's a complicated and possibly precedent-setting tale. thenarwhal.ca/wasaga-beach...

Ontario NDP calls for Garden City Skyway project to use Canadian steel and fabricators to stand up against Trump’s tariffs www.ontariondp.ca/news/ontario... #onpoli

"This is public money. It is tax dollars, and the public has a right to know about the price tag." - Catherine Fife, MPP Waterloo, Shadow Minister for Economic Development, Job Creation and Trade #onpoli globalnews.ca/news/1135200...

No one has called the cops? “Spokespersons for the Peel force and the OPP, which investigates cases of complex financial fraud, confirmed to the Star that they have received no formal request from RECO or the provincial government to investigate the matter” www.thestar.com/real-estate/... #onpoli

TTC chair says Eglinton LRT running in September ‘not looking likely’ #p3fail www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/vide... #onpoli

A developer tied to PC fundraiser Carmine Nigro, Doug Ford’s close friend, is demanding Metrolinx pay $493M for air rights it does yet actually own, and were theoretically worth only $79M when the developer agreed to buy them from CN in 2018 www.thetrillium.ca/news/politic... #onpoli

In 1933 Christie Pits in Toronto was where the Nazi threat in Canada made their first stand. They were chased off the streets by baseball bats. The racist are once again coming to Christie Pits on Sept 13. The park belongs to the people. Not the haters. Time to put the run on the racists.

“The result of the morning’s deliberations on Bill 9 is that the law’s most glaring flaw is being left in place, and the government’s explanation for it doesn’t pass the smell test” #onpoli

Therme was broke but needed a net worth of $100M to get the Ontario Place deal. Financial records reveal Therme used an accounting trick to pump up its share value on paper, based on hoped-for profits from another spa project still mired in delays & overruns www.thestar.com/news/investi... #onpoli

“The courts appear to be showing less deference in the face of increased unfairness”: courts are overturning more rulings of Ontario’s administrative tribunals, which the Ford government keeps stacking with underqualified cronies tribunalwatch.ca/2025/increas... #onpoli

The super-rich are just like you and me.

“If most of the value Therme Group RHTG has comes from the anticipated success of their future projects, then any partnership could be at serious risk from these other projects underachieving financially,” said Jan Mahrt-Smith, an associate professor of finance at the University of Toronto #onpoli

Therme was broke but needed a net worth of $100M to get the Ontario Place deal. Financial records reveal Therme used an accounting trick to pump up its share value on paper, based on hoped-for profits from another spa project still mired in delays & overruns www.thestar.com/news/investi... #onpoli

WHAAAT?? The iPro founders are confirmed to have "misappropriated an unprecedented amount of money," but get to walk away without any charges? www.thestar.com/business/ipr... #onpoli #TOpoli

"If our leaders will not remember that history, workers will. The flight attendants have reminded us of a truth as old as Canada’s wartime strikes: when the system refuses fairness, defiance is democracy," writes @hassum.bsky.social ricochet.media/labour/the-a... #cdnpoli #canlab

I’m back in the Star today with a new piece on how striking Air Canada flight attendants successfully called Ottawa's bluff — and set a potentially significant precedent in industrial relations that may soon have important political implications as well: www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

The Hurontario LRT is now almost a year behind schedule, with no opening date in sight, and once again the secretive & unaccountable Metrolinx is refusing to explain why #p3fail www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... #onpoli

Public spending on PSE institutions in Canada hit an all-time high of $37B (in 2023$) just after the 2008-9 recession. It's now $35B. If spending had kept pace with student # growth it would now be $37B If it had kept pace w/ pop growth: $42B With GDP growth: $49B With govt spending growth: $53B

“This is a big win for flight attendants that's going to force the federal government to re-evaluate how it intervenes in labour disputes going forward … The ministers' back-to-work order backfired spectacularly,” said @profsavage.bsky.social www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... #cdnpoli #canlab

New report from RBC Economics: “Canada isn’t in a housing starts slump—Ontario is” www.rbc.com/en/thought-l... #onpoli