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At least the scheduled day camps and weddings are being relocated and no one is losing their jobs. I’m not sure how factual it is but I read that some 100 British schools that used the same type of concrete have had to be shutdown in the recent past as well.
 
anne25 said:
At least the scheduled day camps and weddings are being relocated and no one is losing their jobs. I’m not sure how factual it is but I read that some 100 British schools that used the same type of concrete have had to be shutdown in the recent past as well.
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People are being laid off in October.
 
LeafGm said:
This is mighty convenient considering Ford’s previously stated desire to hand this property over to his developer buddies/donors:



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20-40 million dollar to fix the roof isn't worth it.

But 225 million to cancel a contract that expires in 18 months anyway so Dougie can have beer more readily available in Ontario before the election he's going to call is definitely worth it.

This is Mexican levels of government corruption.
 
The cost to fix the roof could have been spread over several years, too. Less than 10% of the roof needs repair today. They’ve also sunk millions into fixing the bridge that connects the front of the building to the exhibit halls for absolutely no reason now.

The engineers report is looking like a convenient excuse to put the final stamp on the move to ON Place, while at the same time making it easier for them to skirt a heritage designation and be able to cleanly sell the land.

It’s a shame because the building is one of our few true architectural gems in the city, designed by a world renowned architect who happens to be Canadian.

And along the same vein, they’re taking a critical community pillar out of an area of the city that really depended on the OSC in several ways.
 
In the grand scheme of government spending, 20-40m to replace the roof is not that much. But yeah, I'm sure Doug is thrilled the report lets him close it early and be able to dump the land.
 
MindzEye said:
20-40 million dollar to fix the roof isn't worth it.

But 225 million to cancel a contract that expires in 18 months anyway so Dougie can have beer more readily available in Ontario before the election he's going to call is definitely worth it.

This is Mexican levels of government corruption.
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PRI all the way.
 
axlsalinger said:

View: https://x.com/CP24/status/1805452571894481212
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I'm legit curious what anyone thinks Poliviere is going to do about issues 1 & 2 mentioned there.

Housing...he has zero good original ideas put forward publicly. His policy on it: https://www.conservative.ca/building-homes-not-bureaucracy/ is the same CPC rambling about taxes, bureaucracy (using a report from 2018 to back up his arguments no less), and sell a bunch of government assets to....I don't fucking know, turn office buildings into homes?

The ominous bit is that in the report he loves quoting figures from (remember, we're never supposed to actually look at the think tank reports these people base their shitty opinions on: https://www.cdhowe.org/sites/default/files/2021-12/Friday Commentary_513.pdf ) it continually attributes the cost of land as the biggest problem:

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Which is a nice way of saying that the solution to urban sprawl is more urban sprawl and the problem is that local governments won't pave over cheap greenbelt and agricultural land to build subdivisions.

Also, for reasons that should be entirely mysterious to anyone with even a basic grasp of housing policy:


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So, let me know if you've heard this one before. Right wing think tank writes report literally designed to generate the results that benefit their big money donors. Right wing politicians then latch on to said report and use it as the spine of their entire policy plank on this matter, that if enacted will only make the problems significantly worse, but their donors much richer. The problem with housing affordability has nothing to do with being able to get a fucking 2200 sq ft single family bungalow in Vaughan for 1.2 million instead of 1.42 million. It's almost entirely due to the lack of viable middle class, mid density housing options within the city. Mid density is almost entirely for the poors in the GTA.

So yeah, I get the fucking Trudeau malaise. The cunt has earned malaise. But anyone flipping parties expecting this to go anyway but poorly is a fucking nitwit.
 
192/192 reporting
ConservativeDon Stewart15,55542.1 %
LiberalLeslie Church14,96540.5 %

Well this is probably not what the Liberals wanted going into the summer...
 
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