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Ford confirms Ontario election call, announces underground monorail to Bramladesh

Ontarians will go to the polls in February, Premier Doug Ford said Friday while announcing his government’s plan to improve transit in Peel Region.

Ford confirmed Global News’ Thursday reporting that sources said the premier would go to Lt. Gov. Edith Dumont on Jan. 29 to dissolve his government, which would allow for an election to take place on Feb. 27.

… During the morning news conference, Ford said he was planning to build a tunnel to extend the Hurontario LRT, also known as the Hazel McCallion Line, northwards from Mississauga and under downtown Brampton. The government said the extension to downtown Brampton is about four kilometres.

That underground Monorail is a great idea!

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Doug Ford’s Conservatives would win Ontario election if called today: new poll

If an election were called in Ontario today, a new poll suggests the voters would hand Premier Doug Ford a clear victory.

A new Leger poll, exclusive to the National Post, put Ford’s Progressive Conservatives 24 points ahead of the Liberals. The results indicate 46 per cent of poll respondents expressed support for the reigning Tories versus 22 per cent for Bonnie Crombie’s Liberals, 19 per cent for the NDP, just 7 per cent for the Green Party and 6 per cent other.

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Bonnie Crombie promises no provincial carbon tax if her Liberals defeat Doug Ford’s Tories

Liberal Leader Bonnie Crombie says there will be no provincial carbon tax if she topples Premier Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservatives in the 2026 election.

“We will ensure major polluters pay, but we will not have an Ontario carbon tax on consumers,” Crombie said Monday as she announced a new panel to develop the party’s climate-change policies.

“Our climate action plan will … save families money. Let me be very clear, a carbon tax will not be part of my plan,” she said in a two-minute video filmed at Queen’s Park behind the legislature.

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Ontario EI recipients surge by almost one third — the highest jump seen in any province

The number of Canadians receiving Employment Insurance (EI) benefits soared in 2023 amid increasing unemployment rates, according to recent data from Statistics Canada.

People in Ontario receiving EI — which provides temporary income support to unemployed workers — jumped by 34,000 in 2023 — a whopping 32 per cent increase, the highest of any province.

Mass immigration is working!

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A grim report about climate change in Ontario was kept quiet for 8 months

Southern Ontario to see 60 days of temperatures over 30 degrees by 2080s: report

A new report commissioned by Premier Doug Ford’s government warns that climate change poses high risks to Ontario, with impacts on everything from food production to infrastructure to businesses.

The report – called the Provincial Climate Change Impact Assessment – projects a soaring number of days with extreme heat across Ontario, as well as increases in flooding and more frequent wildfires.

Presented to the government in January but only posted publicly in late August, the government did not issue a news release about the report. It follows a summer where Ontarians faced at times extreme heat, heavy rainstorms and unprecedented wildfire smoke.

Boy that’s some entrail reader they must have. Imagine being able to predict the temperature in the 2080’s.

These are the same guys who think EV’s are a smart move.

h/t Mauser

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2 + 2 = White Supremacy: How Woke Ideologues Corrupted Canada’s Math Curriculum

Two plus two no longer equals four, according to members of the Ontario Mathematics Coordinators Association (OMCA), who consider the equation to be a white-supremacist dog whistle instead of a basic mathematical truth.

According to a webinar created by OMCA president Jason To, proponents of math’s political neutrality who use the phrasing “2 + 2 = 4” are engaged in an act of “Covert White Supremacy.”

Has the Ford government done anything to counter this lunacy?

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Why Doug Ford’s government spends more than $6B/year subsidizing hydro rates

When Premier Doug Ford’s government tables its new budget on Thursday, expect to see more than $6 billion devoted to subsidizing hydro bills.

Although previous Liberal governments also spent taxpayer money on lowering electricity prices, Ford’s Progressive Conservatives have taken it to such a level that it is now one of the single biggest line items in the Ontario budget.

The 2022-23 provincial budget earmarked $6.3 billion for “electricity cost-relief programs,” nearly four times as much as the $1.6 billion Kathleen Wynne’s Liberals budgeted for such programs in 2018.

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GOLDSTEIN: High taxes in Ontario hurting provincial, federal economies, says report

High personal and corporate income tax rates in Ontario are damaging the provincial and Canadian economies, according to a new study by the Fraser Institute released Thursday.

The fiscally conservative think tank says that because of federal and provincial tax increases over the past decade, Ontario has the third-highest top combined federal/provincial and federal/state personal income tax (PIT) rate in both Canada and the U.S.

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‘A canary in the coal mine.’ People keep leaving Ontario in record numbers for affordable homes and a better life

Christine Gregoire-Lauzon and her husband bought a home they’d never seen, in a city where they didn’t know anyone, on the other side of the country, this year.

“The first time that I had ever been to Alberta was to do job interviews,” said Gregoire-Lauzon, who moved to the Calgary area from Pickering with her family in the summer. “Nobody else — my parents, my husband or my children — had ever been to Alberta until we came.”

She joins thousands of other real estate exiles who give a new meaning to the term “drive until you qualify,” taking weeklong car journeys or flying thousands of kilometres to another province, looking for a more affordable life.

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GOLDSTEIN: Ford believes best shot at re-election is to support Trudeau

Ontario Premier Doug Ford has decided his best chance of re-election in June is to cozy up to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau rather than anyone in the federal Conservative leadership race.

On Wednesday, Ford appeared with Trudeau as they jointly announced an investment of $131.6 million each by the Ontario and federal governments in Honda Canada’s $1.4 billion project to retool its Alliston, Ont. plant to produce hybrid electric vehicles.

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GOLDSTEIN: Ontario’s economy crashed from 2000 to 2019, report says

Once considered the engine of the Canadian economy, Ontario’s economic performance over the last two decades has been among the weakest in the country, according to a new study by the Fraser Institute.

“The decline of Ontario’s manufacturing sector in the 2000s, the 2008/09 recession and a tepid recovery have combined to create an extended period of economic weakness for the province,” said Ben Eisen, co-author of An assessment of Recent Economic Performance and Business Investment Growth in Ontario.

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