no more strolls for empresses"c"bc has actually got a couple decent stories out there today.
This one on the long-standing neglect of the Canadian state's actual legal commitment to the housing of Indigenous and Métis peoples far predating the state's prime minister's recent comments and the crisis most settler canadians are finding relevant to their housing:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/trudeau-indigenous-housing-comments-1.6945332
This one contains a couple lines of a laughable, mocking-worthy assertion (more or less) by an ontario ministry of housing staffer that somehow the province just didn't know their developer friend's application to blow up some regulations to profit off more suburban mcmansion sprawl would be in violation of the greenbelt until some public resident brought it up in a consultation 🤣:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-caledon-mzo-greenbelt-1.6946441
' guess all this outside pressure is finally getting to dofo and his cronies...
And finally "Developers bought Hamilton Greenbelt property a month before Ontario revealed plans to open it up for housing".
Wherein the executive assistant of one of the developers said it is "pure coincidence" the closing date of Oct. 6 fell between the unnamed developer's request and when the lands were removed, and didn't respond directly when asked if the company knew the #Greenbelt land would become available for development:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/hamilton-greenbelt-book-road-1.6946129
Some Indigenous leaders reject PM's 'out of touch' housing comments | CBC News
Some Indigenous leaders are rejecting the prime minister's remark that “housing isn't a primary federal responsibility." Carol McBride, a former chief and now president of the Native Women's Association of Canada, says "I can’t believe he said that."