It costs the City of Ottawa $465/person each year to serve new low-density homes, over & above what it receives from property taxes/fees.
On the other hand, high-density infill such as apartment buildings pays for itself plus an extra $606/person each year.
Sprawl costs, infill saves. #UrbanTruth
(But thanks for the reminder)
Why wouldn’t this be automatic?
Restore the billions cut from indigenous services, science, foreign aid. These funds help build strong communities.
I would assume a Liberal Party that believed in Canadian values would - at minimum - reject scientific disinformation, hate (racism, homophobia, etc.), etc. But it's becoming unclear whether Carney is interested in holding any line.
The Liberal Party is showing its true Conservative colours
"How can staff recommend an urban boundary expansion for employment lands on the Mile Square block (recommendation 3 above) when the area was recently clearcut for agricultural purposes?"
Hmm...
❤️Kingston. You'll Be Amazed At What You See
#ygk
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It would be good now for govt to focus on the growing gap between the ultra wealthy and the rest of us, the crisis in healthcare, the need for rent-geared-to-income housing, the need for protection of human rights for *all*
My latest! I'm keeping a list of the cuts that Mark Carney's government has made, and what impact they'll have on our public services.
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This is outrageous. Dozens of children are dead and no doubt there will be so many more. You have lost your moral compass.
Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick
A stop “near” Kingston would bring no benefits at all to Kingston. We would still be dependent on Viarail services which, if anything, would be reduced. What benefits are you thinking of, Mark?
Ontario received 14,233 comments on its plan to drop protections on a portion of Wasaga Beach Provincial Park, transferring management to the municipality. The plan is moving ahead unchanged, despite 98 per cent of those comments being in opposition. thenarwhal.ca/wasaga-beach...
Neither of the suggested routes includes a stop in Kingston
Neither route will be good for Kingston. It would reduce the number of VIA trains that we are using now. And the idea of driving an hour to catch a high-speed train is absurd. Only if it stops at Kingston’s Via station will it help Kingston residents.
We need a stop *in Kingston, not near Kingston. If you can’t take a short cab or local bus ride to the station, it may as well just go to Peterborough
I just signed a petition demanding the federal government Ban X/Twitter in Canada. Join me in signing here: you.leadnow.ca/petitions/ba...
It's well past time for Canadian government officials to get off of X, @jameswsthomson.com writes. This latest — disgusting — incident is just one more reason.
“We want citizens to know we need to be worried about our homeless. We need to accept we have 633 homeless and only 120 shelter spaces and it’s time we accept that as a city and that as citizens we get outraged by that before we worry about pickleball.”
-Pamela Gray
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Another poison pill buried in Mark Carney’s budget: a repeal of a reduced postage rates for books and shipments between libraries.
Libraries across the country are sounding the alarm for what it would mean for the viability of another essential public institution.
Universal basic income would make our communities a lot safer than hiring more police. Building affordable housing for everyone would be a lot more useful than 1000 more police.
guys...
Why are you supporting 20th century energy? Repairing the environment, not further destroying it, is what we need: Solar power, wind power—not pipelines.
Time for your government to address the use of the notwithstanding clause. Today would be a good day to start
Tax money for pipelines. Unbelievable.
At the end of the day I'm not sure how much difference it makes. But it is striking to put out a budget that axes a luxury tax on yachts and adds a co-pay for refugee claimants accessing drugs and dental care.
Did you see the online chatter this week about how No Kings is a useless movement? That to build something effective takes different tactics? Or that it was the largest, single-day protest in the history of the US?
It's always useful to protest fascism. Latest ep--
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