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5 Mar, 7 tweets, 7 min read
NEW: The Ford government wants to rewrite provincial law so that a key clause limiting the scope of ministerial zoning orders does not apply to MZOs ... and *never did*. #onpoli cbc.ca/news/canada/to…
TVO’s @jm_mcgrath wrote first about this legislation, tabled yesterday. Here’s his take #onpoli tvo.org/article/how-st…
@jm_mcgrath CBC News obtained an internal government document that shows the government is making the change specifically to undermine a lawsuit that aims to halt a development on the Lower Duffins Creek wetland in Pickering. #onpoli
cbc.ca/news/canada/to…
@jm_mcgrath The law that the government wants to change currently requires all ministerial zoning orders to comply with what's called the provincial policy statement on land-use. Here's that document. #onpoli
files.ontario.ca/mmah-provincia…
@jm_mcgrath The Ford government's proposed retroactive change to the law: "Ministerial zoning orders ... are not required and are deemed to never have been required to be consistent with policy statements." #onpoli
@jm_mcgrath I asked Minister @SteveClarkPC's office: why retroactively change provincial law governing MZOs?
I got a statement from a spokesperson for @ONmunicipal:
"We need to ensure that priority projects ... do not face unnecessary delays and barriers after an MZO has been made." #onpoli
@jm_mcgrath @SteveClarkPC @ONmunicipal Incidentally, the amendment that would basically rewrite history on MZOs (legislation for which @SteveClarkPC is responsible) was stuffed into @LaurieScottPC's completely unrelated bill about improving broadband internet in rural areas. #onpoli

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THREAD: Officials say Toronto is slower to start vaccinating its 80+ age group because the city has a disproportionate amount of health-care workers and other higher priority groups. I went looking for data to support this claim. #COVID19Ontario cbc.ca/news/canada/to…
Ontario's #COVID19 vaccination plan shows 2.1 million people eligible to be vaccinated in all of Phase 1. That's 14% of the province's total population. @TOPublicHealth estimates 325,000 people eligible in Phase 1, or 11% of Toronto's population. #COVID19Ontario Image
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THREAD: Opposition parties are reacting to the Ford government’s move to double the annual per-person limit on political donations in Ontario ahead of next year’s election campaign. #onpoli
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“Doug Ford’s trying to bring back big money in politics by letting deep-pocketed donors double the amount they give to politicians,” says @TarasNatyshak of the @OntarioNDP. He calls the change a “massive cash grab.” #onpoli

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BREAKING: The Ford government is proposing changes to Ontario's election laws: doubling annual donation limit, reviving taxpayer subsidy to parties, tightening rules for interest groups like unions & @ontarioisproud. Next election: June 2, 2022. #onpoli
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@ontarioisproud Doubling the maximum each person can donate annually would likely benefit the @OntarioPCParty the most, as the PCs have far more individual donors who've given at/near the $1,650 annual limit than the other parties. #onpoli
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THREAD: Here's what we know about #COVID19 vaccination plans in various public health units around Ontario.
First, Toronto, Peel and York. (story by @nickjboisvert ) #COVID19Ontario
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#COVID19 vaccination plans in Ottawa (story by @jchianello of @CBCOttawa ) #COVID19Ontario
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24 Feb
NEW: Ontario's vaccination booking platform will not be launched until March 15, says retired general Rick Hillier. He said the province is "furiously working" on it. #COVID19Ontario
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Vaccinations for people over age 80 living in the community will begin in the 3rd week of March, says Hillier. (Other provinces beginning this age group next week.)
Start dates for other age groups:
April 15: 75+
May 1: 70+
June 1: 65+
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No timeline yet for vaccinations in other age groups, or for non-health-care essential workers, people with underlying medical conditions, or people living in higher-risk neighbourhoods. Hillier says everything is dependent on supply of vaccines. #COVID19Ontario
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Premier Ford is calling on the federal govt to take further action to prevent travel-related cases of #COVID19. Ontario news release: "1.8% of all COVID cases are related to international travel". Graph shows travel is only category that hasn't increased at exponential rate.
Travel is responsible for an even tinier portion of Ontario's second wave of #COVID19.
My math shows travel-related cases make up just 1.0% of the roughly 216,000 new cases reported since Sept. 1.
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The province counts travel-related cases as "Individuals who travelled outside of Ontario within 14 days before their symptoms began" so that means the numbers would not include people who got directly infected by a returning traveler here. #COVID19Ontario
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