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We have a responsibility to protect Canada’s extraordinary natural heritage – from our lakes and forests to our mountains and coastlines. Our new Nature Strategy will protect up to 2.4 million km² of our lands and oceans — and mobilise new capital for sustained conservation efforts going forward.
Toronto has another airport, @MarkJCarney - directly connected to highways, linked by rail to downtown, offering 17,000 public parking spaces, buffered by surrounding industrial lands, and investing billions on expansion plans. Toronto does not have another central waterfront.
Carney calls Ford’s plan to allow jets at Billy Bishop Airport an ‘interesting vision’ #onpoli theglobeandmail.com/canada/article…
We have a responsibility to protect Canada’s extraordinary natural heritage – from our lakes and forests to our mountains and coastlines. Our new Nature Strategy will protect up to 2.4 million km² of our lands and oceans — and mobilise new capital for sustained conservation efforts going forward.
Isn’t this just another market distorting bailout for developers? If we want to deal with housing, we need to stop creating all of these whacky yoyo distortions. The challenge with the housing market is that it is not temporally aligned. It takes years to build a new condo or housing development. Increases in demand today don’t show up in new supply for years. The immigration surge of the past decade is an example. Each increase in the immigration rate increased the price of housing by 3.3 times. The increased demand drove developers to buy property at greatly inflated land prices. Then the government cut off the immigration pipe and developers were left with massively dropping land values. Projects were no longer profitable. The latest action by the fed/provinces to pay DCs will certainly help to make some projects more profitable for developers but it won’t show up in lower costs for buyers. The price has already dropped because demand has dropped. But again, it’s just another giveaway to developers. Someone still has to pay for the infrastructure associated with the new developments. Rather than it being paid in the cost of the new home — growth payers for growth — it is being paid by the general taxpayer. It’s yet another socialist bailout for developers.
Ontario’s Special Economic Zones Act could derail 14,000 planned homes in Toronto’s Portlands, prioritizing jets over affordable housing, environmental protections, and community input. Read our full statement: environmentaldefence.ca/2026/03/24/ont…
Thank you for standing up for our waterfront! 20,000 of you signed our petition, sending a strong message to elected representatives to say YES to our waterfront and NO to jets! Let’s keep the momentum going at NoJetsTO.com!#topoli #onpoli #cdnpoli
Former immigration minister Sean Fraser says in hindsight he would have capped the number of international students earlier. Why should we believe him? For years, he and his successor Marc Miller turned a blind eye to all the fraud happening under their watch and a deaf ear to calls to cut back on international students and temporary workers. Only when public outrage at the chaos their immigration policies were creating seemed likely to lead their Liberal Party to defeat did they start to pay attention. We at PIC have frequently argued that these immigration ministers seemed to be implementing the agenda of the Century Initiative (a lobby group for a population of 100 million). Now Prime Minister Carney claims that “we have the system under control” yet his new immigration minister seems a little vague about what’s going on in her department. cbc.ca/news/politics/…
@RichardDias_CFA This isn’t a bail out. It should have never gotten this out of control.
New NDP leader Avi Lewis said in a recent interview that he supports "permanent residency and status on arrival". Every foreign worker or international student would get PR as soon as their plane touches down.
The @CityofVancouver has adopted aggressive, sweeping upzoning based on the idea of “BUILD IT AND THEY WILL COME.” 30 experts with Housing Reset say Vancouver - the most dense city in the country - is trying to lure an outsized portion of the region’s future homebuyers by building far more housing capacity than anticipated population growth requires. #vanre #vanpoli housingreset.ca/2026/02/25/cov…
