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Toronto, ON
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Veronica Wong •ᴗ• retweeted
No president of America has ever given birth - I don’t understand why it’s suddenly an issue
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Toronto sits in a basin surrounded by the Greenbelt, a system of woods and wetlands that perform a crucial role of absorbing water. The Ontario government recently voted to open them up to development, paving them over, giving rainfall nowhere to go.
It's only gonna get worse.
Veronica Wong •ᴗ• retweeted
The Ontario government's plans to pave huge swathes of the headwaters of the Humber River, Don River, Rouge and Carruthers Creek will lead to flash floods that make today's #OnStorm flooding in Toronto look like minor dampness by comparison.
Toronto sits downhill from a LOT of impermeable pavement.
With nowhere else to go, rain falling on parking lots across Toronto and the 905 flow downhill south, flooding the transit stations, basements, and streets across the City.
We need to reduce paved surfaces.
#onstorm
Veronica Wong •ᴗ• retweeted
Make no mistake: the flooding we see in the city today is no surprise. It is an outcome of politicians taking a very very very shortsighted view of infrastructure planning and investment.
Take a look at this vote from 2018 requesting an increase in stormwater infrastructure spending. It failed.
Disinvestment in the city leads to the mess you saw today. Same with traffic congestion. Both are an outcome of a broken approach to municipal infrastructure financing - and a lack of leadership.
Every politician who voted no to this - and many more similar votes that were about necessary reinvestment - should be held to account.
They made this mess. This is entirely solvable. We even know *how* to solve it and we have the plans to solve it. But politicians refuse to fund it. Now we will waste billions cleaning up the mess.
Veronica Wong •ᴗ• retweeted
To those arguing today's rain has nothing to do with climate change: the Doug Ford gov't conducted the first Ontario-wide climate study and found extreme precipitation is going to become more extreme and, without climate action, have devastating impacts.
thenarwhal.ca/ontario-climat…
Veronica Wong •ᴗ• retweeted
Bans on sprawl are meant to prevent the paving of river headwaters that causes this flash flooding.
If we don't #StopSprawl & #Stop413, today's #OnStorm flooding in #Toronto will look trivial by comparison with what's "normal" 30 years from now.
#HandsOfftheHumber
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Veronica Wong •ᴗ• retweeted
It makes me furious that @fordnation can publish an interactive map to find beer after just one weekend but he won’t do the same thing to help any of the 2.3 million Ontarians who can’t find a family doctor.
#onpoli #onhealth
Make this summer an Ontario-made summer!
Our new interactive map shows thousands of convenient options where you can still buy beer, wine, spirits and other drinks across the province. Check out a local brewery or winery for some fantastic Ontario-made products near you and check back for more options at convenience stores, grocery store and big-box stores starting later this summer!
ontario.ca/page/where-buy-al…
Veronica Wong •ᴗ• retweeted
Craig & I wondered if can put together a ex-Shopify collective to raise funds.
We will happily contribute up to 1 million dollars if it means the science centre remains where it is permanently.
@adammcnamara @LorenPadelford @aratisharma @skanwar
See the report from the 3rd party eng for the Science Centre. Says cost to repair is~$6MM, $4MM to be spent this year, and $2MM over the next ten years. Does not reco closing the facility.
Wtf is this corrupt bs. $4MM now is peanuts for the social good
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Veronica Wong •ᴗ• retweeted
Reminder: @fordnation happy to spend:
*$1 BILLION in taxpayer money to end Beer Store contract early.
*Therme got $1 BILLION and a 95 yr lease.
*Agency nurses?💰
Repairing an iconic #Ontario Moriyama building for $500 Million? ($43M roof)
Should be no-brainer YES!
@SabiVM
Hang on. The repair will only cost 500k??? Why did other reports say ~40m? Was that simply BS???
@craigmillr and I will happily split this cost in half with you to resurrect the @OntScienceCtr back.
@SaveOSC
Veronica Wong •ᴗ• retweeted
Adam McNamara will send the Ontario Science Centre the $522,500 required to keep it open for 2024. All those summer children’s programs will not need to be cancelled/relocated. All those staff won’t be laid off or displaced at the 11th hour.
I’m retweeting this because I would like to see this happen. (And I know Adam, and I know he is serious.)
Would you like to see this happen?
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Veronica Wong •ᴗ• retweeted
The Ontario government is shutting the Science Centre today citing an engineer’s report – which does *not* say the place must close or that all work is urgent. What a betrayal.
Veronica Wong •ᴗ• retweeted
we have a predicted surplus of $10.5 billion in ontario for 2025 while homelessness has been declared an emergency, people can’t afford groceries, wildfires causing toxic plumes with no support after ford cut emergency firefighting funds. instead, this is what he’s been up to
BREAKING: Developers in Ontario had direct influence over the province’s decision to extract lands from the Greenbelt and received “preferential treatment."
- Directives came from Doug Ford's office
- Owners of the now 15 parcels of land - value will go up $8.3B
- Of the 7,400 acres extracted, 6,700 — or 92 per cent — was removed as a direct result of developer access to the chief of staff.
- 3 weeks to identify 22 parcels of land for sale
(via @isaaccallan and @ColinDMello)
globalnews.ca/news/9884252/o…
Veronica Wong •ᴗ• retweeted
SCOTUS ruling to end Affirmative Action is driven by anti-Black racism. And the bizarre irony is that white women have benefitted more from affirmative action than every other racial demographic—Combined.
So, this SCOTUS ruling harms WW the most.
Receipts:
Veronica Wong •ᴗ• retweeted
BREAKING: CP24 has declared that Olivia Chow will be elected as the next mayor of Toronto.
cp24.com/news/live-updates-m…
Veronica Wong •ᴗ• retweeted
Man who plunged city into financial decay supports woman that enabled him...
#BREAKING: Former Toronto mayor John Tory has endorsed Ana Bailão ahead of the byelection on Monday, a source tell CityNews. toronto.citynews.ca/2023/06/…
Veronica Wong •ᴗ• retweeted
folks it’s not corporations getting free reign to destroy our planet with mass production it’s actually just us and our little campfires causing a continent-wide severe weather alert
Ford urges Ontarians not to light campfires as crews battle wildfires in 'full force'
cp24.com/news/ford-urges-ont…
Veronica Wong •ᴗ• retweeted
Anyone who tells you they’re going to fix ‘traffic chaos’ without telling you how they’re going to reduce single-occupant car trips by creating alternative options for getting around, incentivizing people to choose them, and improving land use, is lying to you.
Veronica Wong •ᴗ• retweeted
I dusted off weworkedatshop.com and gave it a small facelift to help fellow Shopify Alum affected by the recent round of @shopify layoffs. If you're hiring, please take a look. If you're affected, please submit your free profile.
Veronica Wong •ᴗ• retweeted
"In Australia however, Queen Elizabeth II's imagery on their $5 banknote will be replaced with an Indigenous design to honour the culture and history of the First Australians."
