Premier Doug Ford's Ontario

[W. K. Lis]

With the Development Charges being cut by Doug Ford's government, the municipalities will have to get revenue to build the sewers, water mains, roads, etc.. Likely the property taxes will have to go up.

In Mississauga, the Residential Tax Rate is about 0.803063%. Residential Farm Awaiting Development I is about 0.240919%, but those Awaiting Development II is about 0.803063%.

We'll likely see the stage I tax rate disappear and replaced with stage II 0.803063% rate, to make up for the lost development charges.

From https://www.mississauga.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/03093523/2021-Final-Tax-Rates.pdf

BTW. The Parking Lot Tax Rate is 1.866130%. Industrial Tax Rate is 2.115897%.

 

[W. K. Lis]

 

[Northern Light]

I'm not sure if we have an appropriate thread for this, but since Nuclear Energy in Ontario is the responsbility of Ontario Power Generation (a Crown Corp), I'll put this here:

Nuclear reactor pressure tubes are deteriorating faster than expected. Critics warn regulators are ‘breaking their own rules’

The Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission has allowed utilities to operate tubes beyond licensing limits, a crucial concession for the nation’s aging reactors

www.theglobeandmail.com

Its a Globe and Mail piece that's sending up some alarms around aging pressure tubes in our reactors and the risks thereof.

 

[PinkLucy]

We haven’t heard from Nephew Mikey in a while. He’s getting roasted in the comments to this Tweet.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1612666864047374336

 

[Richard White]

We haven’t heard from Nephew Mikey in a while. He’s getting roasted in the comments to this Tweet.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1612666864047374336

I mean.. *technically* he was correct...

 

[DSC]

We haven’t heard from Nephew Mikey in a while. He’s getting roasted in the comments to this Tweet.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1612666864047374336

Math was never a strong point for the Ford family!

 

[DSC]

Others may have seen the Friends of the Golden Horseshoe website (https://friendsofgh.ca/ ) I hadn't and it has lots of interesting comments. David Crombie is much involved. They have just sent an open letter to Tory and Ford about the Ontario Place proposals - they are not in favour.

 

[DSC]

Doug Ford says Ontario will accept Trudeau government’s conditions for new health-care funding. https://www.thestar.com/politics/pr...s-conditions-for-new-health-care-funding.html​

Frankly, I can see no reason why any Province would object to telling the Feds how they spend the $$ they receive when it is given for a particular purpose and glad Ford is agreeing. Health Care is clearly a Provincial responsibility but if you get $$ to help pay for some of it it really makes no sense not to account for this.

 

[ShonTron]

Of course he said this at a photo-op at a Shoppers Doug Mart.

 

[afransen]

We haven’t heard from Nephew Mikey in a while. He’s getting roasted in the comments to this Tweet.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1612666864047374336

Technically true. They all live on my block.

 

[JasonParis]

I went to high school with all 900 of them in Bramalea too.

 

[Richard White]

David Onley has died.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/david-onley-ontario-lieutenant-governor-1.6714571

 

[W. K. Lis]

David Onley has died.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/david-onley-ontario-lieutenant-governor-1.6714571

 

[old boy]

We haven’t heard from Nephew Mikey in a while. He’s getting roasted in the comments to this Tweet.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1612666864047374336

Wow, I knew there were a lot.

 

[DSC]

Ontario's integrity commissioner, auditor general launching Greenbelt investigations​

See CBC at https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-integrity-commissioner-investigation-1.6718018