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Regional roads are to present-day Mississauga & Brampton what signed highways like 2 and 5 and 11 and 11A were to the pre-Y2K 416. And at least the latter, even if they were technically under municipal jurisdiction in the Metro era, had some kind of historical red-line-on-the-map "mother road network" logic behind them--there's no such "mother road network" logic behind the regional roads of Brampton & Mississauga, they're about as dispensable as one can get...
The problem I have with something like this is, like annexation, it takes the cream of the tax base and leaves a rump of a municipality. There is really no reason Caledon can't manage the land just as effectively as Brampton would, with or without upper tier planning and infrastructure.
AND she has a summer home… not unlike the 4 season cottage in the MuskogasI see there is a new Ontario Conservative ad out attacking Bonnie Crombie because she...
get this...
the new Ontario Liberal leader...
IS FRIENDS WITH JUSTIN TRUDEAU
I know you are all totally like this right now.
She's probably neighbours with Doug and they have lakeside beers together, laughing at the Ontario electorate together...AND she has a summer home… not unlike the 4 season cottage in the Muskogas
www.thestar.com
www.thestar.com
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www.theglobeandmail.com
Indeed, particularly those that are privately-operated and for-profit ones.
The Globe and Mail reporting that Queen's University is in financial trouble, running a large in-year deficit (about 48M this year) for the second year in a row, and that it will likely run out of financial reserves to cover the losses next year.
Queen’s University eyes drastic cutbacks to keep its doors open
Queen’s provost Matthew Evans says he’s concerned ‘about the survival of this institution’
Within the story (behind the paywall) it is also noted that at least 10 of the province's universities are similarly in a deficit position.
Ontario, it is noted, provides the lowest per capita funding for Universities of any province.
Reckoning, it would seem, is coming.
Either alot of new dollars will flow in the provincial budget this spring, or there will be a very deep shakeup in the post-secondary sector.
In turn, that alone would mean a larger deficit or a material tax hike.
There are so many proverbial fires burning right now, with under-staffed hospitals, excessive wait times, schools struggling to stay staffed, many municipalities facing significant tax hikes and poverty climbing as well.
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Time for the province (long since time) to admit we can't get by on current taxation levels, and a rise is in order; particularly on the sales tax front.
We are forgetting Dougie is sitting on a whole pile of money, unspent money he got for healthcare, strong rumours are it will be spent when the elections are close.
A foregone conclusion, I'd say. Buck-a-beer awaits.
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Knock me over with a feather......Toronto Star: Internal email suggests Doug Ford's office knew Greenbelt land swap details earlier than claimed
Internal email suggests Doug Ford’s office knew Greenbelt land swap details earlier than claimed
An internal email related to the Greenbelt scandal suggests Ford's office "was far more involved" in the land swap than the premier has maintained.
