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Ev Delen
@evdelen@mstdn.ca
Excerpt from the linked article reading: The Ontario government has asked for public input on a proposal to amend the Resource Recovery and Circular Economy Act of 2016, which privatized residential recycling. The proposal would allow municipalities to negotiate, and potentially contract out the work, to the organizations now running the Blue Box program. dd4ff2ffb918c3bc.png An excerpt and photograph from the linked article. The photograph is of Hilary and Galen Weston (Photographer: Nick Harvey/WireImage/Getty Images) the 2nd generation head of the Weston family, the richest family in Canada. The excerpted text reads: "Weston and his wife, Hilary, hired the architects Andrés Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, who pioneered the New Urbanism school of planning, to lay out the village in accordance with their ideas around walkable streets and community spaces. " bc51513d3cc5c55b.png Excerpt from the linked article reading: While Amazon said it intends to further appeal the latest decision, the progress on unionization has led to fears the company may pull out of B.C. — as it did in Quebec, following the unionization of a warehouse in Laval, Que., in May 2024. 693dab732d933cf2.png Excerpt from linked opinion piece reading: "Signing on America’s terms will mean dropping our retaliatory tariffs and plowing billions into a Trumpian slush fund. Instead, let’s use those billions to harden our defences. We can and should buy up steel and lumber to build ships and homes; compensate sectors hard-hit; build new trade infrastructure to extend our economic reach elsewhere; and help small businesses manage the regulatory complexity brought on by this trade chaos. Carney has talked a good game about all of these things, and now is the time to turn more focus towards them." 47710b22a6649339.png Three excerpted paragraphs from the linked to article. They read: 1. "The question is whether Ontarians were asking for an impossibly expensive solution to gridlock, or whether this a case of the engineering tail wagging the taxpaying dog." 2. "But in the run-up to the provincial general election earlier this year, Ford felt a need to brand himself as the anti-gridlock candidate, which he has tried with the Big Doug idea and his plan to tear out Toronto’s bike lanes (the subject last week of a scathing court ruling)." 3. "Flyvbjerg also point to the peculiar psychology of such politically freighted plans, which is that they tend to blind governments to cheaper and more easily executed alternatives. Such as, in the case of the 401: deploying outstanding east-west GO Bus service on dedicated lanes, which would cost a fraction of the Big Doug and provide some gridlock relief within our lifetimes." 4a811636b42f019f.png