Premier Doug Ford's Ontario

[DSCToronto]

I think the paper bag nonsense is to distract us from...

Doug Ford bristles at questions about $100K salaries in his office

Doug Ford is firing back at critics after the number of premier's office staff making at least $100,000 a year has more than doubled.

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[Towered]

I currently have about 60 cloth bags between my car, work and house.

Me too, and I hate it so much. And now that the weather is getting nicer again, where exactly am I supposed to put them when I go shopping? There is literally no place to put one of these stupid bags on my person, so am I expected to walk around with one in my hand, flapping about?? I'm honestly at the point where I'm planning to throw them in the trash, so how is that good for the environment?

 

[afransen]

I consider this to be a good thing.

Paper bags are recyclable and much better for the environment than cloth reusable bags. I currently have about 60 cloth bags between my car, work and house.

I don't know how you managed that. I have a half dozen. I think paper bags are fine, just charge 25 or 50 cents for them.

Paper bags use a lot of resources compared to single use plastic film bags. Those aren't really suited to heavy liquor bottles though.

 

[Richard White]

I don't know how you managed that

Mostly shopping.

I grab stuff when I'm out and of course they force you to buy reusable bags.

The reality is most people grab things when they're out. They don't plan for it, it just happens.

This is why I like IKEA, Muji and Farm Boy. All three of those will sell you paper bags which then go in the recycling

 

[lenaitch]

Paper bags use a lot of resources compared to single use plastic film bags. Those aren't really suited to heavy liquor bottles though.

I don't know how the per-unit unputs compare but at least the raw material of paper is fibre, which is at least renewable.

Sitting on a park bench drinking out of a poly bag just looks weird.

 

[AlvinofDiaspar]

What we really need is this:

String bag - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

AoD

 

[afransen]

I don't know how the per-unit unputs compare but at least the raw material of paper is fibre, which is at least renewable.

Sitting on a park bench drinking out of a poly bag just looks weird.

Drinking liquor out of a paper bag also looks weird.

 

[Northern Light]

Ford gov't dropping some more changes to municipal planning tomorrow.

Ontario Newsroom

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I don't think any government in my memory has tweaked the rules quite this often.

 

[lenaitch]

Ford gov't dropping some more changes to municipal planning tomorrow.

Ontario Newsroom

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I don't think any government in my memory has tweaked the rules quite this often.

The Building Code is being repealed. Think of how many houses could be built if we eliminated silly impediments like standards and trade qualifications.

 

[DSCToronto]

The Building Code is being repealed. Think of how many houses could be built if we eliminated silly impediments like standards and trade qualifications.

Repealed? I think you mean amended.

 

[lenaitch]

Repealed? I think you mean amended.

You misunderestimate im.

 

[tiffer24]

Ontario family furious over $400 a day hospital fine for not not moving to a LTC home.

A few weeks ago, Michele Campeau faced what seemed like an impossible decision: move her mom from a hospital bed to a long-term care home the family hated or pay $400 a day to remain at the health-care facility. Campeau chose neither – the family has been racking up a monster bill since March 11 that remains unpaid while her mother has stayed on at a Windsor, Ont., hospital.

Campeau's mother is among those caught up in a law that allows hospitals to place discharged patients into long-term care homes not of their choosing in order to free up beds. Should patients refuse the move, they face a $400 per day charge to remain at the hospital.

https://www.cp24.com/news/i-m-not-p...hospital-fine-for-not-moving-to-ltc-1.6840900

 

[AlvinofDiaspar]

Ford gov't dropping some more changes to municipal planning tomorrow.

Ontario Newsroom

news.ontario.ca

I don't think any government in my memory has tweaked the rules quite this often.

On the heels of including student residences and long-term care beds as "new homes", the Ford government decided to cut red tape further and added cemeteries plots in the new count.

AoD

 

[DSCToronto]

FYI

Ontario awarded four cities millions for meeting housing goals after count tallied care beds​

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/can...ies-millions-for-meeting-housing-goals-after/

 

[Northern Light]

The latest batch of municipal planning reforms from the Ford Gov't are out.

I'm discussing them in greater detail over in the Zoning Reform thread.

Zoning Reform Ideas

Announcement of new housing legislation scheduled for today: https://news.ontario.ca/en/advisory/1004420/minister-calandra-to-introduce-legislation-to-cut-red-tape-and-build-more-homes I’m expecting some pretty bare-minimum reform. I hope I am wrong and MTSAs are moving forward. Agreed. I’m...

urbantoronto.ca

There are lot of changes, many are small, some are fuzzy.

The smaller items of note include:

Allowing higher DCs than was previously the case.

Walking back the refund rules for Application Fees.

The two big items are:

Abolishing all third party appeals to the OLT.

* I'm not sure this won't be the subject of a court challenge............

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And the biggie, what I am calling, The Kingsett Rule:

Use it or lose it zoning.

That passage I will directly post here:

Also of note, Unis will get exemptions under the Planning Act for building student housing.

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Finally, I'll link the background to the omnibus bill here, but warning this includes lots of non-housing stuff as well.

Ontario Newsroom

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