- In #Toronto?
- Lived experience of housing precarity or homelessness?
- Young / disabled / Black / Indigenous / a woman / #LGBTQ2S?

Apply to be on the new Housing Rights Advisory Committee and advise City Council on housing policy and programs! Deadline is Oct. 13.

Details here: https://secure.toronto.ca/pa/decisionBody/982.do

#TOpoli #TOcouncil #housing #AffordableHousing :boost_ok:

Toronto Hospital Board Members Are Largely Wealthy And Conservative

169 Toronto hospital board members are donors to Doug Ford's Progressive Conservative Party.

by Terra Loire Gillespie

"Unlike medical doctors, hospital board members don’t take a hippocratic oath — based on the pledge to do no harm — but their decisions nonetheless affect everyone's health care experience."

#Toronto #topoli #Ontario #onpoli #Healthcare

https://www.readthemaple.com/toronto-hospital-board-members-are-largely-wealthy-and-conservative/

Toronto City Council debates financial future as Olivia Chow presses for refugee shelter help

> Chow says the refugee shelter crisis is only getting more urgent because the city doesn’t have the financial tools to support claimants, with the city’s combined operating and capital budget pressures expected to balloon to $46.5 billion over the next decade.
https://archive.ph/2023.09.06-180038/https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/toronto/article-toronto-city-council-debates-financial-future-as-olivia-chow-presses/ #Toronto #OliviaChow #ToPoli #OnPoli #Canada

Coming back to City Hall, crossed Nathan Phillips Square as the rain got going. Am only slightly bedraggled. After the days of sweltering heat, it is pure bliss. #dlws

#TOcouncil #TOpoli

At City Hall for a very important Council meeting! Just gotta finish my coffee ☕ first…

Agenda & livestream link: https://secure.toronto.ca/council/#/committees/2462/23197

@GraphicMatt will also be livetooting.

Mute #TOcouncil #TOpoli if you don't want to be inundated with posts about kaiju^W councillors

Drivers! Your time is too important to be spent needlessly on city streets. So make a habit of the #TorontoStop - like the #IdahoStop, it's a rolling stop at a controlled intersection but applied to cars, NOT bikes. Of course, it's not strictly legal, but it is awfully popular in #Toronto (and maybe your city too!) and, so far as I can tell, never ticketed by the police. After all, what's the life of a pedestrian or a cyclist compared to your convenience? #topoli #BikeTooter #WarOnCars

As City Council meets today to discuss the long-term financial plan, I call on Mayor Olivia Chow, Dianne Saxe, & the rest of council to support new revenue tools such as a commercial parking levy & lifting the $5/hr parking cap. #TOpoli #BudgetTO https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/mayor-olivia-chow-to-face-calls-to-cut-spending-at-council-meeting/article_b5265792-1ec7-5aab-9d8b-79826a0f3c27.html

Honest Government Ad | Canada 🇨🇦

> It's Canada's turn. After many many (really very many) requests from Canadians, we've finally made an Honest Government Ad for you, eh! 🇨🇦

(Warning: video contains four letter words) https://invidious.protokolla.fi/watch?v=u7s-BgfcFXw #Canada #cdnpoli #canpoli #bcpoli #abpoli #climatechange #bigoil #fossilfuels#JustinTrudeau #onpoli #topoli #DougFord

@GraphicMatt wow. For one rare moment, our lack of infrastructure is a benefit!

#TOpoli #TTC #PublicTransit

https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/mayor-olivia-chow-to-face-calls-to-cut-spending-at-council-meeting/article_b5265792-1ec7-5aab-9d8b-79826a0f3c27.html Toronto Star really has it in for left-leaming #Toronto mayors. They trashed David Miller, now a screed based on the opinions of some councillor no one ever heard of (Burnside who?) and Mr. "My compelling platform got me 1.28% of the vote" Bradford. A lot of column inches wasted on losers. #ToPoli

On the school run this morning, the crossing guard wore a reflective orange vest over top of an entirely camouflage outfit. There's a metaphor in there about the pedestrian experience in North American cities. #Toronto #TOPoli #WalkTO #walking

/Rotten to the core./
#Canada - Ontario's housing minister Steve Clark resigns amid #Greenbelt scandal

> Steve Clark, #Ontario’s housing minister since 2018, has resigned from his role days after a damning report from the integrity commissioner found he violated ethics rules when the province opened up parts of the protected Greenbelt for development.
https://toronto.citynews.ca/2023/09/04/ontarios-housing-minister-steve-clark-resigns-amid-greenbelt-scandal/ #SteveClark #DougFord #OnPoli #ToPoli #Toronto #GTA #OntarioPlace

Today's column by @GraphicMatt offers a good suggestion for Mayor Olivia Chow to meet her housing goals. Leverage land at the #TTC stations & Green P Parking lots! #TOpoli #BudgetTO https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/olivia-chow-must-move-fast-to-meet-new-affordable-housing-goal/article_a72aaf6e-6ef5-5003-ae64-7bc15b7e221f.html

#Scarborough Southwest city council candidate Kevin Rupasinghe has put together a petition for a dedicated Scarborough busway to be funded immediately given that the SRT is being shutdown and it will be ten years until there is a replacement. Scarborough has been grossly under serviced with transit for years.

#Toronto #topoli

https://twitter.com/KevinRupasinghe/status/1698004302856605792

Thanks Joshua Chong for speaking with me for this Toronto Star article on the upcoming protected intersection at Bloor & St. George. Something which #BikeTO advocates have increasingly called for since Dalia Chako's death in 2018. #BikeTooter #TOpoli #VisionZero https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/busy-toronto-intersection-to-get-a-dutch-inspired-makeover-that-will-improve-road-safety-here/article_9e440ad1-e2a8-5d4b-b644-4f10d95d3127.html

I write thing!! Last week, Olivia Chow's handpicked Executive Committee recommended a raft of new taxes and levies to stave off budget catastrophe. The real test of her leadership will be if City Council approves them. My latest for The Local: https://thelocal.to/olivia-chows-financial-plan/

#TOcouncil #TOpoli #TObudget

there’s just something interesting about the intersection of “super high demand for #housing” and “there aren’t any buyers for all this housing we’re building” #topoli

https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/it-s-only-going-to-get-worse-where-thousands-of-condo-units-in-the-gtha/article_06c60650-e69b-59bd-ad84-175482be806f.html

Last week, I had a chance to speak with former TCAT Director Nancy Smith Lea about her #BikeTO & #WalkTO advocacy spanning 30 years from ARC to Mobilizing Justice. That interview is now up on my blog. #BikeTooter #TOpoli #VisionZero http://www.twowheeledpolitics.ca/2023/08/researching-active-transportation-with.html

Thanks Luis Lara Palacios & Community Bikeways for this great piece about the need to allow #BikeTO to use leading #WalkTO intervals. While I hope Caroline Mulroney allows this province-wide, Mayor Olivia Chow & Council should consider a pilot ASAP. #TOpoli #ONpoli #VisionZero https://www.thestar.com/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/toronto-should-permit-cyclists-to-advance-with-the-pedestrian-walk-signal/article_9d266e04-16f6-5a31-b386-6c3af5e97a58.html

Kicking any developers out of the #Greenbelt once they've destroyed & built stuff would be just about impossible. But slowing them down long enough for investigations and courts to move could happen.

Who is working on slowing them down? What does that effort need?

(Or did Ford buy off the OLT too?)

#onpoli #AuditorGeneralReport #corruption #ontario #topoli #cdnpoli #DirectAction