#topoli #onpoli Some thoughts on @DiamondSchmitt's op-ed in today's @globeandmail (), which begins with this challenge: "The shouting matches over the new plans for Ontario Place have created so much heat, it’s hard to see the light any more." 1/ntheglobeandmail.com/opinion/articl… #topoli #onpoli The column begins and ends with a patently false premise, that somehow the @ThermeGroup spa will come galloping to Toronto's rescue. If that claim sounds familiar, cast your mind back to @SidewalkToronto's eerily similar, and equally untrue, pledge circa 2017. 2/n

#topoli #onpoli A bit more about this non-EA EA that the Ontario govt has concocted to justify the @ontarioplace mega-project. (Here: ). In 2019, @fordnation began updating ("modernizing") Ontario's Class EA laws. Deets here: https://t.co/733ALqH3T1 1/nengageontarioplace.ca/wp-content/upl…
ero.ontario.ca/notice/013-510… #topoli #onpoli The EA regulations apply to a broad range of projects (electricity, municipal works, etc), and the one that is of interest viz @ontarioplace is the category known as "Government Property" class. Here's the explainer for the amendments: . 2/nero.ontario.ca/notice/013-510…

#topoli #onpoli Of all the many disingenuous claims made y'day by @fordnation and @KingaSurmaMPP re: Ontario Place & the Science Centre, the most egregious involve money/transparency. A great deal of public funding will be spent, and there has been zero transparency to date. 1/n @fordnation @KingaSurmaMPP #topoli #onpoli The premier claimed the govt will release all the figures at some point -- I'm not waiting up! -- but I'd say that between the two sites, all in and accounting for the predictable under-estimation of capital costs, we're looking at $1b, not incl. private $$. 2/n

#topoli #BlackLivesMatter. So does Black History (not just in February), because the past provides the context for the present. In @spacing this week, Natasha Henry (@nhenryfundi), of the Ont. Black History Society, offer the critical history re: slavery in Canada. Stay tuned. #topoli For Toronto, local Black history not only matters, but also provides a window and insights on how this city grew, and what we mustn’t forget. And this story traces back to @thewardTO, and streets like York, Elizabeth, Chestnut and Centre, Toronto’s first Black nghd 2/.