Big Ford Fest rally at Bingeman's tomorrow night*.
SUPER BIG COUNTER RALLY TOMORROW NIGHT TOO!

Friday, September 8th
4:00 PM
425 Bingemans Centre Drive
Meet at the entrance to Bingemans Park on Shirley Ave.
All the unions, teachers, nurses, political parties, health coalition, & environmental groups are most welcome to come with their signs to share their concerns.
#bill60 #bill23

#kitchener #waterloo #corruption #farmland #onpoli #ontario #Guelph
@waterlooregion
https://elk.zone/mstdn.ca/@gemelliz/111026310958328941

«Teachers' groups held a protest outside the #NationalAssembly Friday morning 2 voice their opposition against the #Quebec government's new education bill.

One of the groups, #FédérationAutonomeDeLEnseignement (FAE), says #Bill23 is disconnected from people actually working in the field. They say the proposed legislation is an attack on the autonomy of #teachers & that it doesn't actually address some of the major issues plaguing #PublicSchools for the last 2 decades.»

https://montreal.ctvnews.ca/teachers-protest-against-bill-that-would-overhaul-quebec-education-system-1.6425492

The #EnglishParentsCommitteeAssociation (EPCA) deplores the fact it's been excluded by the #Quebec government 4 the parliamentary committee hearings on #Bill23: An Act to amend mainly the #EducationAct & 2 enact the Act respecting the Institut national d’excellence en education.

All associations representing #French committees have been invited 2 participate, but not the #EPCA, despite a direct request to do so.

https://epcaquebec.org/press-release-epca-has-been-excluded-from-hearings-on-bill-23/

RT @radiogirl985: 👏 Bravo Green Party Leader @MikeSchreiner! A must listen! "A country that can't feed itself is just as insecure as a country that can't defend itself."
#onpoli #DougFord #Greenbelt #Bill23 #agriculture #farming #farmlife #economy #prosperity #sprawl #democracy https://t.co/z22uEF5qGm

New report shows that digging into the #greenbelt isnt needed for #housing #bill23 #ontario #nature #Ford https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Yw5XmTif5SXek6Ol7pXdsKlUPvLTfGLD/view

“I don’t know what they’re smoking but it’s powerful stuff.”
Well, Doug Ford was a hash dealer in high school so that might explain it.
#greenbelt #onpoli #Bill23
https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2023/01/31/i-dont-know-what-they-are-smoking-durham-was-already-struggling-to-support-growth-then-the-province-opened-up-its-greenbelt-lands.html

Doug Ford’s Bill 23 threatens to erase history in Ontario. #Bill23 #onpoli
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitchener-waterloo/bill-23-heritage-properties-impact-cambridge-1.6728343

Just got off a call with the Alliance for a Liveable Ontario. Everyone involved knows we can’t afford to waste any time going backwards on climate, food sovereignty, health, biodiversity or any other social/ enviro determinants of health. Alliance members are fighting back because we can’t sit on our hands hoping for a govt who will do what it takes to protect local and planetary health. We need to demand it of our representatives now. www.liveableontario.ca #bill23 #bill39 #greenbelt #ontario

RT @cleantottenham1@twitter.com

In 1954, Ontario experienced catastrophic flooding, damage & deaths due to Hurricane Hazel

@fordnation@twitter.com @SteveClarkPC@twitter.com @DavidPiccini@twitter.com

Please reassure Ontarians this wont happen again due to #Bill23 removing

-greenbelt
-flood assessments
-flood protections

@ColinDMello@twitter.com

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/cleantottenham1/status/1616523789130686466

Webinar: The fight to repeal #Bill23 and save the #Greenbelt isn’t slowing down! On January 25th, join activists and experts to discuss the next steps in the fight against Bill 23 and the Greenbelt removals. https://act.environmentaldefence.ca/page/120535/petition/1?ea.tracking.id=eblast&ea.url.id=6241026&forwarded=true

@gemelliz Brokenheartedly perfect 💔 #Bill23 #RepealBill23 #HandsOffTheGreenbelt #onpoli #greenbelt

RT https://twitter.com/ecojustice_ca

BREAKING: We’re taking the Ontario government to court on behalf of @envirodefence for its attempt to hack away at the Greenbelt near Hamilton. We’ve launched this case because @fordnation and his gov continue to squash local democracy with moves like #Bill23. A thread 👇 1/

https://twitter.com/ecojustice_ca/status/1612451167287607298

Margaret Atwood's advice to Doug Ford on Bill 23, Part 3. https://margaretatwood.substack.com/p/it-aint-over #Bill23 OnPoli #DougFord #MargaretAtwood #ThisStartedWithLibraries #PublicGood #AffordableHousing

What 's the word for that feeling of "didn't know but would have guessed"?

https://pressprogress.ca/doug-fords-director-of-pandemic-response-was-a-private-health-lobbyist-for-shoppers-drug-mart/

Public health needs to be protected from the whims of government. I don't know how to do that (elections should matter even if 'my team' lost), but there need to be guardrails. Ethics tests. Public health tests. Legal tests. Climate tests.

See also: Ontario's Bill 23.

#Bill23 #publichealth

#Bill23 is trash. The Whitby public engagement site has done a great job of summarizing why. Don’t buy the narrative that we must sacrifice nature for #housing. That’s not what is happening here. (+ we need to move so far past this anyways, we have taken way too much from nature- in the words of the UN secretary general Guterres, we are now on a path to making our world “unliveable”) #biodiversity #ontario

Note: found this via Stop Sprawl Durham on Twitter.

https://connectwhitby.ca/budget

RT @eyeonthefly@twitter.com

Hey #ldnont— did you know that the Sifton Bog wetland in west London, which took nearly 10,000 years to form, is about to lose its protection/classification as Provincially Significant under #Bill23? Developers will be allowed to pay into a fund to “put a wetland somewhere else”

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/eyeonthefly/status/1593774042804371458

Bill 23 must be revoked! https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/other/bill-23-will-have-devastating-impacts-on-ontario-s-water-systems-threatening-humans-wildlife/ar-AA15Snz8?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=7eabf2539d7b4bd3a45d9fa2aa6dc148 #OnPoli #Ontario #Bill23 #ford #Greenbelt #ecosystem #cleanwater #OakRidgesMoraine #Walkerton

The press spoke to us, so that was a good thing. #dougford #bill23 #samoosterhoff #protest #greenbelt #pelham #niagara https://www.niagarathisweek.com/news-story/10812012-protesters-gather-outside-scheduled-meeting-to-discuss-bill-23-s-effect-on-pelham/?fbclid=IwAR36mphNFGsA0RHH6rBh_n5DhJmWRUXzGd0L_Z_yPcghDImF9KHwKEQsB9c

The press spoke to us, so that was a good thing. #dougford #bill23 #samoosterhoff #protest #greenbelt #pelham #niagara https://www.niagarathisweek.com/news-story/10812012-protesters-gather-outside-scheduled-meeting-to-discuss-bill-23-s-effect-on-pelham/?fbclid=IwAR36mphNFGsA0RHH6rBh_n5DhJmWRUXzGd0L_Z_yPcghDImF9KHwKEQsB9c

We let MPP Sam Oosterhoff know what we thought about Bill 23 and paving over the Greenbelt. https://niagaraatlarge.com/2022/12/15/sam-was-a-no-show-but-greenbelt-ralliers-were-blown-away-with-honks-of-support-from-passersby/?fbclid=IwAR0tIOhzWXDnh3i27LWtHwV9lJxFKpZtsHei22JQ6wmFPLyLnYfT3SiZpgw #ONpoli #Greenbelt #Samoosterhoff #dougford #pelham #niagara #protest #bill23