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Bill 212, Reducing Gridlock, Saving You Time Act, 2024, is a reckless piece of legislation based on the false premise that bike lanes add to traffic congestion and are bad for business. The Annex is a shining example of how neither is true.
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Premier Doug Ford, while apparently unable or unwilling to address urgent provincial crises in health care, education, and the ongoing existential threat of climate change, has instead told an Empire Club luncheon last week that he is planning to “rip out bike lanes on major roads such as Bloor Street.” The elites at the lunch were thrilled, a group whose praise Ford craves.
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The provincial government led by Premier Doug Ford has elected to shutter ten of the of province’s 23 safe injection sites based on a “gut feeling” they are not working. This, despite the government’s own experts telling him they are not only working, but that their work needs to be bolstered. The war on drugs is now part of the culture wars in Doug Ford’s Ontario.
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When Ontario Premier Bill Davis stopped the Spadina Expressway, the decision could have been a defining moment for Toronto. But over a half century later, it’s still not clear that we are “building a transportation system to serve people” instead of automobiles. Construction projects and heavy trucks that endanger vulnerable road users, along with politicians devoted to protecting the status quo, continue to block a more people-friendly way forward. The death of a young female cyclist on Bloor Street on July 25 offers additional, tragic evidence that we still live in a car-first reality.
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The competing notions of treating illicit drug use as a health issue versus a criminal one is at the heart of a divide between the City of Toronto and the Province of Ontario. The city wants to decriminalize and help people who are addicted and the province thinks it can arrest its way out of the problem.
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In an annual report, Ontario’s Acting Auditor General (AG) Nick Stavropoulos contradicts the conclusions of the government’s stated “business case” for moving the Ontario Science Centre to Ontario Place. It turns out the “savings” the government promises taxpayers is anything but.
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When announcing his latest reversal of plans to develop parts of the Greenbelt, Premier Doug Ford said he was “very, very, sorry.” It’s not clear what exactly he is sorry for, or if he is indeed sorry at all. After months of ignoring his critics, including damning reports from the Auditor General and the Integrity Commission, Ford forced his flying monkey cabinet to line up behind him to try and rationalize his latest u-turn on the Greenbelt file.