Richard Warnica: Who’s behind the massive lobbying campaign to expand the island airport? What I discovered should worry us all
> One key player? A large American bank.
“All of the executives at the airport serve at the direct pleasure of JP Morgan,” Tyson Slocum, a researcher at Public Citizen, an American advocacy group, told me. “If JP Morgan wants a new CEO in there, JP Morgan can unilaterally make those changes.”
A new survey of Ontario's public schools says teacher shortages are a daily occurrence in nearly a quarter of elementary schools, and over a third of secondary schools, while nearly half of public schools don't have enough EAs.
A November 2023 staffing agency update obtained by The Canadian Press through a freedom of information request shows that agency use increased from 2021-22 to 2022-23 by every metric — in hospitals and long-term care, in hours worked and in total costs.
This National Post article says there are many questions about Ford's plan to privatize Service Ontario. ( Insert Captain Obvious gif here)
But this post misses a lot of additional questions, such as:
Q: Was there a public RFP that Staples responded to? Were current Service Ontario operators, that today operate the majority of locations, allowed to bid on this business?
Q: Will Staples be paid the same transaction rate as current operators?
#ontpoli #FordCorruption
https://nationalpost.com/news/service-ontario-closures-staples-canada
This week, Doug Ford’s government struck a deal with the City of Toronto giving the province fuller control over the future of Ontario Place, in exchange for the province taking on responsibility for the DVP and Gardiner Expressway, as well as additional funding for transit and addressing homelessness. In the wake of this agreement, Infrastructure […]
The same day that Premier Doug Ford’s government announced its plans to take certain developers’ land out of the Greenbelt, it also made moves that benefitted developers who own rural land on the outskirts of Ottawa and Hamilton.
Under fire for the scandal over the $8.28-billion Greenbelt land swap he reversed last week, Premier Doug Ford’s government plans to introduce legislation this week to return the lands back to the protected zone.
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