Ford getting all TERFy while he throws a tantrum over the #greenbelt is so sad, I wish he took after his brother more.

The race against climate change - and for sustainable urban living | DW Documentary #Greenbelt #ExtinctionDeMasse #pollution #écologie #environnement #Climat #ChangementClimatique #ClimateChange #MassExtinction #pollution #ecology #environment #climate #ClimateCrisis #EndFossilFuels #FastFairForever https://youtu.be/s-7rTxJb9XQ

During all the #Greenbelt controversy, the Ontario government has quietly released it's "Provincial Climate Change Impact Assessment" report: https://www.ontario.ca/.../ontario-provincial-climate...
I haven't had a chance to read it yet, but @eyeonthefly has been posting highlights on Twitter. Shocking (not really) that there has been nothing in the media so far!
#onpoli #climatechange #dougford

I had some of the best times at Greenbelt in the mid 80s.

It’s comforting to know it’s still there doing what it does…

https://centralbylines.co.uk/greenbelt-at-50-a-festival-like-no-other/

#Greenbelt #Festivals

https://www.thestar.com/politics/provincial/ford-government-s-plan-to-keep-toronto-high-school-teachers-on-the-job-faces-a/article_16566283-4ef6-5817-b024-d708b4ef4933.html #OSSTF members of course have the right to decide if they want to accept this, but in my opinion they'd do well to reject it. I'd be very interested to hear the bargaining leadership's rationale for this. To start a mean and totally fictitious rumour, what if if turns out Ford offered them part of the #Greenbelt? #OnPoli #OnLabour

Beaverton: “You fucks aren’t wearing a wire are you?” The Beaverton interview with Doug Ford https://www.thebeaverton.com/2023/09/you-fucks-arent-wearing-a-wire-are-you-the-beaverton-interview-with-doug-ford/ #satire #canada #commentary #Greenbeltscandal #FeaturedPost #RealEstate #SteveClark #Greenbelt #interview #DougFord #Ontario #housing #CTV

Ford appoints a woman whose husband and brother would directly benefit from the #greenbelt scandal to the board of the foundation charged with advocating for the protection of the greenbelt.

You'd never believe a story this cartoonish if you were reading a novel.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-ford-governments-appointee-to-greenbelt-foundation-had-family-ties-to/

#paywall

Remember tht what's important is not which developer got which parcel of land at below market rates without tender and which #Ford family friend got which favors. We need to understand that building luxury homes has never resulted in making housing more affordable. We need to reverse th #greenbelt giveaways and deveop a strategy to build affordable urban #housing, with better #rentcontrol and #rezoning to provice units near transit. #onpoli

The #corruption of the #greenbelt deal is really nothing compared to the corruption that led to confederation and the founding of Canada as a political entity. Canada is %100 made of dirty land deals. It's who we are. #canada

People offended by the corruption of the #greenbelt development should understand that ALL OTHER DEVELOPMENT IN CANADA is also the illegal result of corrupt land deals. All of it. From day one till now. #landback #corruption #onpoli

I just called the Office of the Premier of Ontario.

After telling them what I thought of the new Housing Minister saying he might release *more* #greenBelt land, I told him the the hold message "A customer service representative will be with you as soon as possible" was inappropriate.

We are not customers of Doug Ford, he is governing a Province *on our behalf*.

No wonder he thinks his job is to sell our assets to the highest bidder.

#ResignDougFord

I wish one journalist would bring up at one of fords “many/not many” pressers that these “developers” are not developers. They’re rich assholes who engage in land speculation. The fact that they are developers is entirely secondary. The #greenbelt bullshit is not about housing as most people with 1/2 functioning brains can grasp. But haven’t heard this spoken about at all? #ontario #onpoli #canada

This seems like an odd way to make a corruption scandal go away… #onpoli #cdnpoli #canada #greenbelt

https://www.thestar.com/politics/provincial/greenbelt-protection-could-be-lifted-from-more-land-ford-s-new-housing-minister-says/article_26405814-efb9-5dd6-9de3-be70fcf91147.html

#OnPoli #Corruption #Greenbelt How fitting that Ford's new Housing Minister is the slimy, hyper-partisan Paul Calandra, whose most distinctive feature is he's even better than Ford at producing crocodile tears . See this from 2014! https://globalnews.ca/news/1584732/weeping-paul-calandra-apologizes-to-commons/

His appointment will at least reassure Ford's developer pals that the fix is still in and they'll see their $$ one way or another, assuming Ford and his oleaginous minister can weasel their way through this.

#Ontario -The (possibly fatal) flaw in #DougFord’s Greenbelt plan

> “When we have a housing crisis, I have two options,” Mr. Ford said. “I sit back … and let the whole province fall apart, or we [..] build homes”

Lame excuse...
>...the Ontario Auditor-General [..] ruled that his government’s “flawed” process for removing sites from the #Greenbelt was “biased” and led to “certain prominent developers receiving preferential treatment”
https://archive.fo/G1CDp #Canada #onpoli

One thing people are losing site of...the #Greenbelt land giveaway value of $8.3 billion is based on land valuations in 2016. Its 2023 now..that land is worth BILLIONS more. Wake up people. #DougFord is the biggest criminal #Ontario has ever seen. He's destroying our province in plain site. Lock his ass up #onpoli #Toronto

There’s no world where any of these #greenbelt units sells for less than the currently inflated market rate, so why are we even building them?

Blame for the Greenbelt Scandal.

#Ontario #Canada #cdnpoli #Greenbelt
#Racketeering
https://open.substack.com/pub/davidmoscrop/p/i-cant-believe-i-have-to-say-this?r=22ugrl&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post

Today #DougFord , the mafia controlled Premier of #Ontario said he wants to open up MORE of the #Greenbelt for this developer friends. Land which won't be developed for 15-25 years because infrastructure would need to be build beforehand. This is nothing more than organized crime running the province through him. He needs to be arrested and charged with his crimes. That's the only way we'll get rid of this asshole. #Toronto #onpoli #corrupt

#onpoli Heard Ford's press conference and wondered if his crocodile tears will cover up the huge mess his government has - as usual - made of a major initiative. A whole review of the #Greenbelt and appointment of a vague "commissioner" (aka "the developers' friend") to try and shift the focus away from the "Ford gang that couldn't shoot straight" is a very expensive way to build Ford an escape hole and will not result in one more house being built.