The draft Environmental Study is out. Excluded from the assessment - Live Nation and the Therme megaspa. Ford's Conservatives exempted private projects from environmental assessments in May 2021 - at the same time they issued the RFP for Ontario Place.
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@ONPlace4All The entire west island and its 850 mature trees, the wildlife including beaver, mink, foxes, endangered species like American eels and 113 species of birds are to be destroyed to make room for the megaspa. But not covered in the Environmental Assessment.

Make no confusion.

We are in the midst of losing our municipal democratic rights in Ontario.

Here is a list of some of the services your municipality is responsible for that will no longer be democratically-controlled:

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#ONpoli #TOpoli 🚇 Public transit

🚦 Traffic management

🚓 Police

🚑 Paramedics

Therme does not belong at Ontario Place.

New revelations from legislative committee about this rotten deal (with many thanks to @jennkfrench):

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@ONPlace4All * The Ford gov't extended the deadline for Ontario Place proposals six days before the original deadline. One of the late submissions? Therme

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Quick recap of the #ONBudget:

Education

➡ No immediate financial relief for post-secondary students, only a freeze of over-priced pre-pandemic tuition fees
➡ Inadequate funding to hire more educators for smaller, safer classes - students and faculty need help

#onpse #onted Housing

➡ Ignored our #homelessness crisis
➡ Absolutely ZERO funds for direct rent relief
➡ Raised hydro rates for residential properties, instead of the promised reduction of 12%

Finance Minister begins budget speech at #queenspark
#onpoli Ontarians desperately need direct financial relief. Small business owners, people who have lost incomes, and people who are concerned about covid recovery need to be included in the plan. Will we see investments, or more cuts? Watch the full speech here: ola.org/en/legislative…