News   Nov 22, 2024
National Housing Day: City of Toronto and Riverdale Co-op Open Affordable Homes
 422     1 
News   Nov 22, 2024
Bauhaus Condos Rising in Toronto's Old Town
 881     4 
News   Nov 22, 2024
49-Storey Waterfront Tower Proposed at Spadina and Queens Quay
 2.2K     6 

2018 Ontario Provincial Election Discussion

If I had money I would run attack ads not endorsing any party but attacking third party advertisers like the Working Families Coalition, polling companies, and policy research organizations like the Frasier Institute.
 
The Liberals are quite intent on retaining Ontario's vice monopoly.

LCBO announces first 14 cities to have legal recreational marijuana shops
Toronto, Mississauga, Brampton, Vaughan, and Hamilton will have the first LCBO-run recreational marijuana stores.
Click to expand...
https://www.thestar.com/news/queens...-have-legal-recreational-marijuana-shops.html

Ontario Could Issue $500,000 a Day Fines to Wipe Out Weed Dispensaries
Landlords who rent to dispensaries could be jailed for two years.
Click to expand...
https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/...to-dollar500000-a-day?utm_source=viceredditca
 
So this is the fourth(?) week of the college strike. Already some colleges are extending their fall terms to December 22nd. A few more weeks, and the entire fall semester will be a wash.

I wonder what the political ramifications of this might be.
 
steveintoronto said:
This is becoming beyond bizarre.

I have serious doubts about *legalizing* pot, but obviously it had to be decriminalized. Now Wynne is criminalizing it again. This will absolutely backfire.
Click to expand...

Possession and production are two completely different animals.
 
jje1000 said:
So this is the fourth(?) week of the college strike. Already some colleges are extending their fall terms to December 22nd. A few more weeks, and the entire fall semester will be a wash.

I wonder what the political ramifications of this might be.
Click to expand...

Hopefully the 500k college students of Ontario (maybe a maximum of 100k of which aren't eligible voters) will keep in mind which government was the one that let this go on for as long as it did come election time in June
 
The impact is definitely there. A quick search on Twitter with the hashtag #OntarioCollegeStrike, and it shows that Wynne and especially Deb Matthews are public enemy number one(s) among students.
 
AlbertC said:
The impact is definitely there. A quick search on Twitter with the hashtag #OntarioCollegeStrike, and it shows that Wynne and especially Deb Matthews are public enemy number one(s) among students.
Click to expand...
Something should be done about the tuition they paid. But the workers' concerns are entirely legitimate.
 
Bayer said:
Something should be done about the tuition they paid. But the workers' concerns are entirely legitimate.
Click to expand...

It goes beyond tuition paid. The time wasted and opportunities at risk are often more valuable. Near the beginning of the strike, a fair amount of students were actually able to relate to the workers' perspective. But at this stage, there's just a sense of widespread frustration. A lot of it they feel directed at the Provincial government. Which in turn will no doubt influence how these students will look towards voting in the next election.
 
AlbertC said:
Which in turn will no doubt influence how these students will look towards voting in the next election.
Click to expand...

I wonder if the NDP could use this as a potential platform plank. This is literally something the Liberals can't steal (they own the strike at this point).
 
U of O nursing students fear losing their year because of college strike

Hundreds of students in collaborative nursing program at risk

Kimberley Molina · CBC NewsFirst published: November 09, 2017 at 8:08 AM ET

Nursing students at the University of Ottawa who take many of their courses through Algonquin College say they're being treated like second-class students as Ontario's college faculty strike nears the end of its fourth week.

http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/canada/...awa-nursing-students-worried-strike-1.4394368
 
You must log in or register to post here.

Back
Top