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Ontario would rank top-20 globally by GDP as an independent nation.

It has elite universities, a world-class financial sector, deep demographic diversity, and geographic proximity to the US market.

And it has spent decades underdelivering on all of it.

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Ontario is Canada's largest provincial economy — and one of its most chronically underperforming. This analysis dissects the structural forces behind that underperformance: a fiscal deficit baked into institutional design, a bureaucracy that has perfected absorbing pressure without changing behaviour, a political class that systematically trades the future for the present, and a regulatory apparatus engineered to protect incumbents at every level of the economy. From the housing crisis to the healthcare time bomb, from energy policy incoherence to the innovation paradox, this is an unflinching account of what Ontario's political economy is actually doing — and who it is doing it for. A comprehensive critical analysis of Ontario's political economy — exposing structural deficits, bureaucratic inertia, short-termism, incumbent protection, regulatory capture, and the province's uncertain future outlook. #OntarioPolitics #OntarioPolicy #QueensPark #OntarioGovt #CDNPoli #CanadianPolitics #OntarioElection #PoliticalEconomy #PublicPolicy #GovernanceFailure #RegulatorCapture #SpecialInterests #PoliticalReform #ElectoralReform #FPTPMustGo #OntarioPC #OntarioNDP #OntarioLiberals

Ontario isn't failing. It's drifting.

And in many ways, a province slowly converting world-class inherited advantages into mediocre outcomes is harder to fix than one in obvious crisis.

A full structural analysis →
curmudgeonlycanadian.substack.com/p/ontarios-p...

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Ontario's data centre connectivity landscape is undergoing significant shifts as new policy and legislative changes emerge. The Ontario government's recent announcements in Bill 40 and its first Integrated Energy Plan are set to significantly impact the data centre connectivity landscape, introducing a new regulatory framework that could alter how these facilities connect to the grid. The proposed changes, aimed at promoting economic growth while ensuring affordable energy, will require data centre developers to proactively demonstrate the economic benefits their facilities can bring to local communities in order to secure access to the Ontario Energy Board's transmission and distribution systems.

Ontario's data centre connectivity landscape is undergoing significant shifts as new policy and legislative changes emerge. #IESO #DataCentres #OntarioPolicy #EnergyRegulation #GridConnection #LegislativeChanges

Ontario’s new energy bill (Bill 40) aims to spark clean growth and hydrogen innovation—while shifting local power dynamics.

Read: www.environmentenergyleader.com/stories/onta...

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4/7 BC and Ontario follow suit. BC opened a 10-unit jail facility for people with brain injuries and addiction, planning more across the province. Ontario studies introducing involuntary treatment to correctional systems, using BC as a potential model.
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