A coalition of cycling advocates has launched a court challenge against Ontario’s new provincial legislation mandating the removal of Toronto’s busiest, protected bike lanes. The lawsuit, filed Tuesday by Cycle Toronto and individual cyclists Eva Stanger-Ross and Narada Kiondo, argues the law violates Charter rights to life and security for cyclists and pedestrians.
How much of our public funds have DoFo and Co spent on court battles against us, I wonder? From cancelling windmill projects to tearing out bike lanes. The mind boggles…
Like the money spent defending his right to cut Toronto’s reps from 47 people to 25 in the middle of a municipal election. Or their right to violate the province’s Environmental Bill of Rights with that covid recovery bill. I know he publicly budgeted $30M of our money just to fight (and lose) against the carbon pricing program.
-Paid for by the government of Ontario (doo-dee-dee-doo)
What bothers me the most is the ads I hear on the radio reassuring me that the economy is doing great, ontario is growing, and building new roads and highways is the best investment we can make, paid for by the government of ontario.
If the economy was doing so great, I wouldn’t need an advertisement to tell me that. Decades of research has also shown that too many roads and highways may bankrupt a city and continue the car dependancy crisis. The icing on the cake is that the government wasting money on the advertisement as well. I just hear our tax dollars burning or lining Ford’s pockets everytime I hear the ad.
Testify. I listen to the radio a lot and it’s been high volume election campaign-level advertising for so. fucking. long. Every commercial makes me think of Doug and Rob’s news1010 radio show “Ford Nation” and that slimy “Ontario News Now” invention he used to get around journalists. Insta-rage every time.
My neighbour’s an educator, and she was telling me all through June - August '22 that government reps were fucking with her union, not showing up for negotiating, or showing up insultingly late, staying long enough to say No and then leaving. Meanwhile the ads in August were “We pay Educators lots of money and they’re very happy! We’re putting your kids back in classrooms and giving them an education!” Now we know they were just busy constructing bill 28 which took away the union’s right to strike.
His ads were always annoying and insulting. But that whole production woke me up.