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Stop the Enbridge Pipeline Handout! Don’t let our communities get locked into 20-year deals that put corporate profits ahead of local needs. Why it matters: It’s a drain on your taxes: An outdated law forces municipalities to pay 35% of the cost whenever Enbridge needs to move its pipes for essential road or bridge repairs.
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Act on poverty now: Raise social assistance rates before winter hits Ontario’s outdated social assistance rates are forcing people into impossible choices as winter approaches: Ontario Works: $733 per monthODSP: $1,408 per monthAverage one-bedroom rent: over $1,600 per month The math doesn’t work. People can’t pay for both housing and heat when temperatures drop below
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Protect Our Local Flood Defense Spring is a season of renewal, but the spring thaw also brings a serious test for our infrastructure. For generations, 36 local Conservation Authorities have been the frontline experts we trust to manage water levels and protect local biodiversity. Now, the Ford government is forcing a consolidation into nine “mega-agencies”
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Good things grow in Ontario, but if Doug Ford has his way, that will change. Ford’s misguided and hugely expensive need to build highways and pave over precious Ontario farmland will not only mean more…
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Access to electric vehicles (EVs) is crucial to creating a carbon-free world. Ontarians are getting gouged at the pumps and experts say the price of carbon-based fuels will just keep climbing. Gas- and diesel-fueled vehicles…
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Doug Ford must repeal Bill 124 immediately. The pandemic has been hard on Ontario’s frontline workers. Nurses are the backbone of Ontario’s healthcare system, but after two years of a global pandemic, they are facing…
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Ontario’s wetlands are under attack. Wetlands are a crucial part of our ecosystem. Home to thousands of unique species of plants and animals, as wetlands disappear, so do at-risk species. Under Doug Ford, the at-risk…
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Years of Doug Ford’s poor funding choices means our healthcare system is in crisis. Imposing wage freezes on frontline healthcare workers means hospitals are short-staffed and pushed to the brink. Nurses are breaking down, collapsing…
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No one wants Doug Ford’s plan to rip through Ontario’s precious wetlands and farmlands. No one wants the highways he’s building to benefit his wealthy developer friends and high end donors. But Ford is insistent…
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Mental health care should be available for everyone. By age 40, half of us will have had a mental illness at some point in our lives. According to the Canadian Mental Health Association, of those…
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Everything is not okay. As students head back to school this week, doctors are warning of an ‘unprecedented’ wave of mental health requests. The past two years of online schooling and isolation have taken their…
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Small businesses are barely hanging on. Ontario needs creative solutions to help struggling small businesses who face challenges now and after subsidies are gone. The key to growing Ontario’s economy after restrictions have been lifted…
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We need real climate action in 2022; not more of last year’s problems. But when it comes to environmentally sensitive wetlands, precious farmlands, or building affordable communities that don’t require a commute, Ford is bringing…
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COVID-19 is transmitted through the air. Time and again public health experts like Dr. Abdu Sharkawy and Dr. Amit Ayra have made that clear. With the introduction of the Omicron variant, each day we’re seeing…
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Ford’s unwillingness to take strong, immediate action on Omicron has left Ontarians scrambling. With just two days’ notice Ford let the province know students wouldn’t be returning to school this week. That left parents struggling…
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The Ford Government is failing Ontario’s at-risk wildlife. In her annual environmental audit, Ontario’s Auditor General gave Doug Ford an ‘F’ for not-only failing in its mandate to protect species at risk, but seeing a…
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We are neck-deep in a housing affordability crisis. Ontario Greens leader Mike Schreiner tabled a motion last week at Queen’s Park calling on Premier Ford to take immediate action so that Ontarians can once again…
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Commuting. It’s something we do nearly every day. Whether it’s to daycare, school, work, or wherever your day takes you, your commute shouldn’t harm your health or the environment. Transportation is Ontario’s biggest source of…