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Ontario Majority Government 2022-2025
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lenaitch
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And, when your warchest is in pretty good shape, limit your opposition's ability to buy votes.
Premier Doug Ford invokes notwithstanding clause to limit electoral spending of unions
Premier Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservatives have invoked the Constitution’s “notwithstanding” clause for the first time in Ontario history in what his Tories claim is a bid to curb outside influences on elections.
www.thestar.com
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The Red Star article is from June 2021.And, when your warchest is in pretty good shape, limit your opposition's ability to buy votes.
Premier Doug Ford invokes notwithstanding clause to limit electoral spending of unions
Premier Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservatives have invoked the Constitution’s “notwithstanding” clause for the first time in Ontario history in what his Tories claim is a bid to curb outside influences on elections.
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That would be in here as part of changes to the Elections Finance Act.And, when your warchest is in pretty good shape, limit your opposition's ability to buy votes.
Premier Doug Ford invokes notwithstanding clause to limit electoral spending of unions
Premier Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservatives have invoked the Constitution’s “notwithstanding” clause for the first time in Ontario history in what his Tories claim is a bid to curb outside influences on elections.
The latest on that one: In May this year, The Supremes reserved a decision on Ontario's Court of Appeal telling Ontario in March 2023 to re-work the law. There seems to have been some activity on this one last month re: a range of parties seeking/arranging a lock up for the release of the decision.
Stay tuned re: whether Ontario has to re-tool the law or not
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Nothing new about 4-wheelers vs 2-wheelers in our town.
Goes back to 2010, when newly elected Mayor Rob Ford ( R.I.P. ) declared, "The war on the car is over."
( Most of the casualties I encountered during "the war on cars" were cyclists. )
He argued bike lanes were taking away space for cars.
Prior to that, Bicycling Magazine named Toronto, "North America's best city for cycling."
As a ( mostly ) pedestrian, what I observe from the sidewalk in the "war" between cars and bikes now looks like roller derby.
We used to call it “the door prize” – when the driver door opened in the path of a cyclist.
The old front bench seats allowed drivers, among other things, to safely enter and exit their cars on the sidewalk side.
Saw this ranking from 2020 for "The most bike-friendly cities in Canada"
1 ) Victoria, B.C.
2 ) Vancouver, B.C.
3 ) Montreal, QUE.
4 ) Longueuil, Que.
5 ) Brossard, Que.
6 ) Ottawa, ON
7 ) Waterloo, ON
8 ) Toronto, ON
9 ) Winnipeg, Man.
10 ) Richmond, B.C.
Redfin Unveils the Best Canadian Cities for Biking
For the first time, Redfin ranks the most bikeable Canadian cities based on access to bike lanes, road connectivity and hilliness.
www.redfin.com
An 8-page thread for reference to the discussion,
‘Bike culture’ enjoys limited receptivity among Canadians
It looks nice hanging off the back of my pickup truck 
‘Bike culture’ enjoys limited receptivity among Canadians
May 24, 2022 — A new Ipsos survey ahead of the World Bicycle Day to be celebrated on 3rd June 2022, finds that most adults across 28 countries consider cycling plays an important role in the reduction of carbon emissions (on average, 86% do so) and in the reduction of traffic (80%). While there is a global consensus on bicycles’ key role to reduce carbon emissions and traffic and there is widespread support for assigning a higher priority to bicycles...
lenaitch
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Oops - missed that.
lenaitch
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Now a specific Highway Traffic Act offence since 1990.
I grew up driving in Toronto in the '60s and '70s and never saw or did that.
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I did. In older cars with bench seats and no seat belts.
Exiting the car safely
Driving Safety Instructions: Shutting Down and Leaving Your Vehicle
Every driver must ensure their vehicle is safely parked and shut down before leaving it. It is all too easy to neglect proper protocol at the end of a journey. Leaving your vehicle requires just as much thought and attention as the pre-drive checklist you worked through before commencing your trip.
www.epermittest.com
See it in the old movies. Before seat belts, and buckets had not yet replaced bench seats.
Also, parallel parking on a main road and stepping out into a lane of traffic was more common back then.
Not sure if parallel parking on a busy street is even on the driver test now?
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An interesting choice: Team Blue Ontario chooses a former Team Red Ottawa doctor to help sort out primary health care in Ontario ....
www.thecanadianpressnews.ca
en.wikipedia.org
Ontario info-machine statement also attached.
Interesting (non)partisan choice - but the cynic in me wonders why don't we ever see, say, nurses or nurse practitioners in charge of these things?
Ontario appoints former federal Liberal health minister as chair of primary care team
TORONTO - Ontario Premier Doug Ford's government is appointing former federal Liberal health minister Jane Philpott to a new role overseeing attempts to connect every Ontarian to primary care within
Jane Philpott - Wikipedia
Interesting (non)partisan choice - but the cynic in me wonders why don't we ever see, say, nurses or nurse practitioners in charge of these things?
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I'm not sure the bike lane thing is going to hurt the PCs with people who would have ever voted for them in the first place. In Ottawa the mayor won by essentially saying he'd stop the bike lane expansion in the city.Nothing new about 4-wheelers vs 2-wheelers in our town.
Goes back to 2010, when newly elected Mayor Rob Ford ( R.I.P. ) declared, "The war on the car is over."
( Most of the casualties I encountered during "the war on cars" were cyclists. )
He argued bike lanes were taking away space for cars.
Prior to that, Bicycling Magazine named Toronto, "North America's best city for cycling."
As a ( mostly ) pedestrian, what I observe from the sidewalk in the "war" between cars and bikes now looks like roller derby.
We used to call it “the door prize” – when the driver door opened in the path of a cyclist.
The old front bench seats allowed drivers, among other things, to safely enter and exit their cars on the sidewalk side.
Saw this ranking from 2020 for "The most bike-friendly cities in Canada"
1 ) Victoria, B.C.
2 ) Vancouver, B.C.
3 ) Montreal, QUE.
4 ) Longueuil, Que.
5 ) Brossard, Que.
6 ) Ottawa, ON
7 ) Waterloo, ON
8 ) Toronto, ON
9 ) Winnipeg, Man.
10 ) Richmond, B.C.
Redfin Unveils the Best Canadian Cities for Biking
For the first time, Redfin ranks the most bikeable Canadian cities based on access to bike lanes, road connectivity and hilliness.
An 8-page thread for reference to the discussion,
‘Bike culture’ enjoys limited receptivity among Canadians
It looks nice hanging off the back of my pickup truck
‘Bike culture’ enjoys limited receptivity among Canadians
May 24, 2022 — A new Ipsos survey ahead of the World Bicycle Day to be celebrated on 3rd June 2022, finds that most adults across 28 countries consider cycling plays an important role in the reduction of carbon emissions (on average, 86% do so) and in the reduction of traffic (80%). While there is a global consensus on bicycles’ key role to reduce carbon emissions and traffic and there is widespread support for assigning a higher priority to bicycles...
Bike lanes are great in theory, it's the way that cities implement them that causes the anger, frustration, and gridlock. As an example, Ottawa turned Montreal Rd. through Vanier into a mess by reducing the traffic lanes from Vanier Parkway to St. Laurent Blvd, and adding bike lanes... Bike lanes that are almost never used. Rather than putting bike lanes on the side roads, where they would have less negative impact on traffic, and been safer for cyclists, they stuck them on the main throughfare.
I think Ford is playing smart politics and capitalizing on the average suburban voter's frustration with bike lanes and disrespectful cyclists.
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I’m hoping he sticks to that. Ottawa’s traffic issues don’t seem to be getting better and now hearing that after all the belly aching about PS returning to work that city staff that aren’t operational only have to come in 2 days…
Agreed. And the NCC shutting down the QE parkway all summer create a massive traffic mess downtown.
I’ve seen some good cyclists but far more breaking the rules and getting angry when you call them out. I’m that voter who is in fact frustrated.
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I quite appreciate that he can back down from a dumb idea, even if he does it reluctantly.
I agree. I respect that far more than doubling down.
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As a frequent pedestrian who has had a non zero number of less than positive interactions with drivers for whom speed limits, stop signs and traffic lights appear to be entirely optional, and where drivers who kill someone face no criminal sanctions, I would vote for anyone who'd move to make it easier to strip licenses for the long term, and to confiscate and destroy the cars they drive, regardless of the owner.
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Hmmm.... then the inverse should also be applied. Strip the freedom of those pedestrians that just jump into a cross walk at night in dark clothes without looking or walk against a no-walk signal.
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I think he won by fellating the developers, but that’s Ontario politics in a nutshell… At least that’s the view out here near the (current) urban boundary.
Agreed
It, uh… It is. Pedestrians who commit such infractions often do get crushed and/or suspended from walking for a while.
The laws of traffic are a choice. The laws of physics are not, and generally favour the rolling chunk of metal over the meat bag.
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