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Colin D'Mello | Global News

@ColinDMello

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NEW: After lots of internal deliberations about fourplexes (four units as-of-right) province wide - Premier Doug Ford shuts down the effort. Ford says that’s “off the table for us” largely because there would be push back from residents. #onpoli

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Mark Shaw

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Me for real this holiday season 💁‍♂️

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Mark Shaw

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🤨 0% indigenous 3% renter 89.8% white 94.7% single detached house Median household income: $251,904

City of Toronto

@cityoftoronto

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Join us on Thursday, April 18 on a walking tour of #BabyPoint , an area of particular significance to Indigenous communities in #Toronto and the focus of an upcoming Heritage Conservation District. Learn more:

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Mark Shaw

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🙄 The Toronto police spends ~$2 million per year on wages for suspended officers, like the officer who assaulted his tenant yesterday. Look I found a budget efficiency!

Toronto Star

@TorontoStar

3 months

What cut? The Toronto police budget is going up — how much, we don’t even know yet. It's likely to make police one of the biggest winners in the budget process, compared to other services. #Opinion by @GraphicMatt

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Mark Shaw

@Markshawtoronto

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@EngineerDustin I think you have to add one more lane though right? 🤔

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Mark Shaw

@Markshawtoronto

3 months

So basically this is what I think is going on with the NDP right now:

Paolo

@internet_paolo

3 months

Messaging from the federal NDP vs. provincial NDP on the same day. One only complains about problems, the other proposes actual solutions. hi @theJagmeetSingh , this is what real leadership looks like.

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Mark Shaw

@Markshawtoronto

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This comparison blew my mind. CO₂ per capita in the UK v.s. Canada. Each Canadian is 3x as wasteful as the British right now 🤯

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Mark Shaw

@Markshawtoronto

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Fun fact! 🫶 More kids (0-14) in Toronto live in high rise apartments now than in single family homes! 🧵

C Bailey

@CBailey6

4 months

Do people not know that you can look up where kids in Toronto generally live? Hint: quite a few live in the neighbourhoods being dumped on here. We put enough on kids. Don't make them responsible for your aesthetic judgments too.

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Mark Shaw

@Markshawtoronto

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I grew up on Bloor and watched my SFH neighbourhood *shrink* by 35.7% in population. The first thing you notice is no more children. No more trick or treaters. No more kids playing in the street. Young families can’t afford it. It’s actually sad 😔

C Bailey

@CBailey6

1 month

For the infrastructure understanders defending Ford, a reminder that 56 of Toronto's 140 neighbourhoods lost population from 1971-2016; 80% of growth has been in 20 neighbourhoods. Ontario has infrastructure that the Premier is too scared to make use of.

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Mark Shaw

@Markshawtoronto

4 months

You’re trolling me. The middle of old city hall is a car park? Am I the last to discover this? 😵‍💫

How-Sen

@HowSenChong

4 months

Toronto’s Old City Hall should be turned into a museum (Toronto museum? Ontario Museum?). Or a central library. That centre courtyard being used to park the cars of thirty people would make fantastic glass-ceiling atrium.

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Mark Shaw

@Markshawtoronto

4 months

The Toronto portion of my condo property taxes are going up ~ $19-20 / month. Thoughts and prayers appreciated while we consider our options in this trying time. 🫶 Leave suggestions in the comments.

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Mark Shaw

@Markshawtoronto

2 months

Why is blocking a bike lane only $150 when... - Failure to pay for the TTC is $425 - Blocking the box is up to $450 - Failing to stop for a school bus is $400 - Driving while holding a cell phone is $615 Toronto city hall debates bike lane fines *tomorrow* March 20th! 🤞$500🤞

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Mark Shaw

@Markshawtoronto

3 months

We must never let Toronto draw their own election map. Willowdale school districts as evidence:

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Mark Shaw

@Markshawtoronto

7 months

@BikeLaneDiary 3 homes become 170 homes right next to the subway. This is a great thing, so many more happy people housed, and for much cheaper than $3 million SFH 🥰

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Mark Shaw

@Markshawtoronto

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👉👈 I've been really good this year...

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Mark Shaw

@Markshawtoronto

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I found a map of the entire known world! Bookmark in case you get lost 🥰

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Mark Shaw

@Markshawtoronto

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@padeliciouss Kristoff!

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Mark Shaw

@Markshawtoronto

3 months

Chat, what's more unhealthy, living in a lovely walkable neighbourhood or being homeless? Who's to say 🙄

Peter Waldkirch 華彼德

@pwaldkirch

3 months

This woman is against the project because of "liveability" and "scale". "Highrises are unhealthy", "alienation", people's lives shorten with the height of the building, some talk about "global investors", Condon says these aren't green, and there ya go. NO HOMES FOR YOU

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@Markshawtoronto

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Toronto Star

@TorontoStar

23 days

Just in: Jagmeet Singh backpedals on consumer carbon levy and distances the NDP from support for Justin Trudeau’s policy. From @markramzyy : #cdnpoli

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Mark Shaw

@Markshawtoronto

3 months

😕 Hey, management would like you to identify the difference between these two trains. What do you say?

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Mark Shaw

@Markshawtoronto

4 months

Quick PSA that seniors and low income households in Toronto can defer or cancel their property tax increases until they sell or die. This is a 2009 Ontario-wide law. Your grandma will be fine.

Property Tax, Water & Solid Waste Relief Programs

The Property Tax, Water and Solid Waste Relief application (both paper-based and apply online) will be available in the spring of 2024. Your completed application must be received by the extended...

www.toronto.ca

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Mark Shaw

@Markshawtoronto

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What's the most Toronto thing about you? I'll go first... I used to live above the streetcar, and when it stopped running one night I couldn't sleep because I need the whooshing and the bells to put me to sleep 😴

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Mark Shaw

@Markshawtoronto

2 months

This heatmap of downtown TO shows 1,145 "parking in a bike lane" violations, as submitted by @bikelaneuprise users. The fine (if you're ever caught!) is only $150. Big truck just expenses it. 🙄 Raise the fine to $500! City council debates fine changes March 20th.

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Mark Shaw

@Markshawtoronto

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"Hey Mark, do you have any normal hobbies?" Not really. Canadian Housing Ministers Tier List:

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Mark Shaw

@Markshawtoronto

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And they all lived happily ever after, the end. 😌 #onpoli

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Mark Shaw

@Markshawtoronto

1 month

😕 Can someone explain Green party voters who want to abolish the carbon tax to me?

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Mark Shaw

@Markshawtoronto

2 months

The memes continue until the Housing Affordability Report is implemented, sir!

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Mark Shaw

@Markshawtoronto

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Babe wake up, new Ontario NDP TikTok and it’s super cute and weird ☺️

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Mark Shaw

@Markshawtoronto

2 months

New game! How has your city changed since 2007? Google Maps -> Street View -> See More Dates I'll go first: Toronto, Yonge St, 2007-2021

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Mark Shaw

@Markshawtoronto

6 months

This is how Rosedale & Cabbagetown became "heritage conservation districts" ... 😞

Damien Moule

@damienmoule

6 months

Toronto needs to be more thoughtful about Heritage Conservation Districts. In practice they are mostly used by wealthy single family home neighbourhoods on the edge of downtown to exempt themselves from development and establish or maintain segregation.

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Mark Shaw

@Markshawtoronto

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Tim Thielmann

@timthielmann

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“A kick in the gut”. That’s how a lifelong NDP voter in Victoria just described David Eby’s ban on short-term rentals as I spoke with him this evening. After a workplace injury took his job a few years ago, he and his wife bought a condo in Victoria and began renting it out to…

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Mark Shaw

@Markshawtoronto

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Toronto heritage planning explains what REALLY matter to the youths...

Alex Bozikovic

@alexbozikovic

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Toronto heritage planning is still doing this kind of thing, and will until city council tells them to stop

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Mark Shaw

@Markshawtoronto

2 months

I grew up in Etobicoke centre. I learned to ride a bike on these roads 🤕 I would like to not be murdered. I would like to get to the subway station without a car. Am I asking too much?

The Biking Lawyer (Dave Shellnutt)

@TheBikingLawyer

2 months

Our letter to @stephenholyday calling on him to publicly denounce anti-cyclist violence incited by his latest cycling network town hall. Should any cyclist be targeted & injured following this event in Etobicoke, blame may fall at your feet #BikeTO :

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Mark Shaw

@Markshawtoronto

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Attention passengers, getting to Yonge from here will take *50 minutes*. 🙄

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Mark Shaw

@Markshawtoronto

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OK a lot of confusion, let me try. 😔 Apartment buildings built before 2018 already pay 1.8x the property tax rate of condos and SFH in Toronto. This comes out of your rent. Apartment buildings subsidize condos and houses. This is not fair. 1/2

CityNews Toronto

@CityNewsTO

3 months

Mayor Olivia Chow says she is reducing the proposed tax increase for multi-residential properties to keep landlords from passing the cost onto renters.

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Mark Shaw

@Markshawtoronto

4 months

Now that King streetcar works again taking it home feels…patriotic? Like I can’t explain but I love streetcar and he loves me. 🚋 ❤️‍🩹

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Mark Shaw

@Markshawtoronto

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🙌 GLORY to concrete, protector of the innocent, guardian of the faithful! May her concrete separation engulf the lands in eternal road safety 🙌

kanchan 🍿

@inHrEye

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Also, this won't be (easily) possible by the end of next year. Concrete separation , green planted areas, raised transit stops and parking protected bikeways are coming to #BikeTO HH.

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Mark Shaw

@Markshawtoronto

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🙌 QUEEN OLIVIA CHOW saved King street! 🙌 All we need now is those automated laser canons the province has to approve.

Matt Elliott

@GraphicMatt

3 months

New data from the city suggests the presence of traffic agents on the King Street transit corridor reduced average eastbound streetcar travel time in the evening rush from 45-65 minutes to 17-21 minutes.

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Mark Shaw

@Markshawtoronto

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@TorontoPolice Good time to remind folks about the $134 million we’ve spent paying suspended cops. 🫤

Paid to stay home

Police suspensions across Ontario have cost taxpayers approximately $134 million over the past 11 years, according to an exclusive database compiled by CBC News that surveyed reports about hundreds...

www.cbc.ca

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Mark Shaw

@Markshawtoronto

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Colin D'Mello | Global News

@ColinDMello

2 months

NEW: Premier Doug Ford says his government will build more jails, as his continues his tough on crime comments. “I’ll build as many jails as we need,” Ford says. #onpoli

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Mark Shaw

@Markshawtoronto

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Hear me out, I think I found the solution to carbon tax. Give everyone a "carbon credit card". You get $840 of carbon credits per year. Tap it to expense your carbon use. Unused credits give you a big cheque - "you did it, your carbon footprint is below X% of Canadians! 🌞🌳"

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Mark Shaw

@Markshawtoronto

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"Earth to millennials: Pierre Poilievre is playing you on housing" 🤔 Allow me to translate this into the language of my people, one moment...

Max Fawcett 🇨🇦

@maxfawcett

2 months

David Eby is leading the country when it comes to getting housing built. Mike Moffatt has been championing housing affordability for years. So why is Pierre Poilievre attacking them? Oh, right: his housing policy is really just about politics. #cdnpoli

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Mark Shaw

@Markshawtoronto

2 months

“It ought to embarrass Ontario that B.C. housing minister Ravi Kahlon said on a podcast this week that part of its success was simply due its having read Ontario’s housing-affordability task force report…” Mm hmm!! cc. @helenlw_

John Michael McGrath

@jm_mcgrath

2 months

And while we're at it, here's my latest column at TVO, riffing on yesterday's housing cash announcement.

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Mark Shaw

@Markshawtoronto

1 month

DON’T THINK VOTE TWINK

New Liberals 🌐🇺🇦

@CNLiberalism

1 month

(1) 2023 Runner-Up Chief Shill @JosephPolitano Vs. (6) Our Biggest Shill in Europe @TrueSlazac

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Mark Shaw

@Markshawtoronto

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Condo retail doesn't suck! I live in a condo and here's the story of the nine small businesses that live with me. 1/7

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Mark Shaw

@Markshawtoronto

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@_senseofreason @Boenau If a car hits me, I might die. Hope this helps!

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Mark Shaw

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@Canardiain 😓 Before masks were widely available, it was a sign to wear a scarf around your face during the first COVID lockdown

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Mark Shaw

@Markshawtoronto

2 months

This pleases me in a way no man ever could 🥰

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Mark Shaw

@Markshawtoronto

4 months

Fun fact! 🫶 The early Toronto Streetcar system was equipped with "people catcher" fender, in an attempt to reduce pedestrian injury and death in the event of a collision. At the time, every pedestrian fatality on the road got newspaper coverage.

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Mark Shaw

@Markshawtoronto

2 months

Can we start shaming people who spend more on carbon tax than they get back in the rebate? You spent >$900 on carbon tax last year? a. How? 🤨 b. That’s embarrassing, maybe stop heating your cottage with jet fuel?

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Mark Shaw

@Markshawtoronto

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Think no one gets caught parking in a bike lane? In 2021, Toronto issued 10,520 tickets! Big Truck (Purolator, UPS, FedEx) pays their employees tickets though. 🙄 On March 20th, City Hall debates raising the fine. (it's only $150 right now!)

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Mark Shaw

@Markshawtoronto

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Given Canadians blame the feds for everything Ontario is in charge of anyways, may as well keep overriding them! 🙇‍♂️

Colin D'Mello | Global News

@ColinDMello

1 month

NEW: Weeks after Premier Doug Ford ruled out 4 units as-of-right across the province, the federal government is launching a $5B housing fund for provinces if they adopt the fourplex policy. Ford now has until Jan 1, 2025 to change tracks to get the funds. #onpoli

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Mark Shaw

@Markshawtoronto

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@TrueSlazac I can excuse a lot of tweets, but I draw the line at Botswana erasure!

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Mark Shaw

@Markshawtoronto

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Calling it, by end of year there will a sob story in Toronto Star about someone with $6,000+ in red light tickets who won’t stop driving down King. Locking it in now universe 🙏

Pedro Marques

@MetroManTO

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Alright, adding more signage failed as we all said it would. Mayor @OliviaChow would you like to start listening to what Torontonians who actually live on King Street have to say, or is the city going to perpetually continue the same mistakes of prior administrations? #TOpoli

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Mark Shaw

@Markshawtoronto

2 months

The Province is the right jurisdiction to lead zoning reform in every way: - you have the power - you have the Housing Affordability Task Force report - you have the political support - BC already did it It’s time. 🙏

Polling Canada

@CanadianPolling

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Ontario - "There is (X) housing being built in..." My Community: Right amount: 57% Too much: 17% Not Enough: 16% The Province: Not enough: 55% Right amount: 23% Too much: 8% Liaison Strategies / March 9, 2024 / n=1283 / MOE 2.7% / IVR

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Mark Shaw

@Markshawtoronto

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@GeorgistSteve “Environmentalism is when I see trees.” 🙄

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Mark Shaw

@Markshawtoronto

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@SeanFraserMP This is the future Liberals want 👻

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Mark Shaw

@Markshawtoronto

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"We looked at our BC Housing Task Force recommendations. Imagine that, a report and we're actually actioning it. We also looked at Ontario's housing task force and took many things from theirs." - BC Minister @KahlonRav ... At least *someone* is acting on our housing plan 🙃

Helen LW

@helenlw_

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Urbanism Vancouver S2E1 is up ft. Housing Minister @KahlonRav ! We chatted about his key goals for the housing file; how he & his team dreamt big on new policies, as well as the work still to do moving forward. Thanks @KahlonRav for meeting with us!

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Mark Shaw

@Markshawtoronto

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@SeanFraserMP @PierrePoilievre should call Ford out. Unless all that “gatekeeper” talk was hot air 😔

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Mark Shaw

@Markshawtoronto

5 months

We just spent half a *billion* dollars upgrading the Yonge subway line to run more trains more often. Garden suites next to the Yonge subway isn’t enough.

More Neighbours Toronto

@MoreNeighbours

5 months

We're calling on city council to explicitly commit to implementing at least the density allowed in the BC policy framework in all of its MTSAs. That's the difference between southern Rosedale only permitting multiplexes, and it being upzoned for at least 8 storeys. (4/12)

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Mark Shaw

@Markshawtoronto

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This is the future Liberals want. 💁‍♂️

Kristan Mundy

@ObviousElk

1 month

@ProstheticLeg3 @ColinDMello No it doesnt. 4-plexes are a great way to add density. It sucks to be forced to choose between McMansions or hi-rises.

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Mark Shaw

@Markshawtoronto

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There's a vote *next week* to - Allow fourplex/four story apartments province-wide. - Allow mid-rise on transit corridors and main streets. How about both PCs and Liberals put your votes where your rhetoric is? Kthx I'm watching. 👀 #LegalizeIt

Paul Calandra

@PaulCalandra

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We are in a once-in-a-generation housing supply crisis, and a permit is not a shovel in the ground or a home to live in. Ontarians deserve results, and Bonnie Crombie has failed to deliver.

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Mark Shaw

@Markshawtoronto

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@mikebednarski That’s right. Guess which one is the “fancy/rich/highscore” school 🙈

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Mark Shaw

@Markshawtoronto

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@Sharon_Kuruvila All in on the GenZ vote eh.

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Mark Shaw

@Markshawtoronto

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@ScottAAitchison 🙁 Can you call out specifically the NIMBY gatekeeper Doug Ford? Or maybe convince him to change? It’s hard to take the CPC seriously on housing when your platform is to stop gatekeepers but you aren’t naming them.

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Mark Shaw

@Markshawtoronto

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This is the future Liberals want / C'est l'avenir que veut le Parti Libéral de l'Ontario 🙄

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Mark Shaw

@Markshawtoronto

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@RazzberryYams You have to maintain historic character with a $10million façadectomy, while also being affordable. But not *too* affordable or you're destroying the "character" of the neighbourhood.

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Mark Shaw

@Markshawtoronto

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For those of you curious how Britain did it, here's a good overview from a few years back. TLDR: * Drop all coal power * Early adopter of price on carbon (cap & trade) * Political consensus, less partisanship (see my replies 🙄)

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Mark Shaw

@Markshawtoronto

3 months

This kind of mixed use walkable dinosaur habitat is ILLEGAL to build in most Canadian cities #legalizeit

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Mark Shaw

@Markshawtoronto

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This is the future Liberals want.

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Mark Shaw

@Markshawtoronto

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😞 My fear: Federal Conservatives remain great at messaging (it's a crisis! We understand you!) But they're unwilling to intervene in housing when it's an ally's jurisdiction so we end up with: - Cut the deficit - Fight with NDP provinces - Blame the last PM - 🔁 4 years

Alessandro ⏸️

@polisisti

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weird possible future in Canadian federal politics: * the federal Liberals copy aggressive pro-housing policies from the Tories [already happened] * the Tories get negatively polarized against YIMBYism * Tories win landslide victory in 2025 * four more years of federal inaction

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Mark Shaw

@Markshawtoronto

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@bellachu10 Angular planes! Official Toronto policy is: “shade” comes from trees and is good, “shadow” comes from buildings and is bad.

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Mark Shaw

@Markshawtoronto

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How the King lights work in practice (Cars cannot go straight)

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Mark Shaw

@Markshawtoronto

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On behalf of Ontario I would just like to apologize for causing housing shortages in the following cities: - Halifax - Calgary - (maybe soon) Edmonton We’re sorry 🙇‍♂️

Brendon Bernard

@BrendonBernard_

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Ontario outflows by destination

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National Newswatch

@natnewswatch

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Alberta premier says she's prepared to take Ottawa to court over housing deals. #cdnpoli #ableg Find out more at

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Mark Shaw

@Markshawtoronto

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Just saw a parking enforcement officer and warned her about 2 cars parked in the bikelane around the corner. 🥰 Stay out of the bikelane folks! 🫶 She caught them, $300 served

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Mark Shaw

@Markshawtoronto

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There are only two kinds of voters: - people who blame Doug Ford for the housing crisis - people who blame Trudeau for the housing crisis No exceptions. Sorry I don’t make the rules 🤷‍♂️

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Mark Shaw

@Markshawtoronto

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@TMrakas House / fourplex / house. It's fine!

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Mark Shaw

@Markshawtoronto

2 months

Doug Ford’s PCs deserve way more criticism for their record than they get. The province has jurisdiction to enact housing affordability reform and has failed to. Most of the strip mall diploma mills are here but they undid the previous ON Liberal gov’ts crackdown.

Dr. Mike P. Moffatt 🇨🇦🏅🏅

@MikePMoffatt

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Ontario has only released a handful of timid housing reforms, let the international student issue get massively out of control, and experienced some of the fastest home price growth and rents in the world. Is it all the prov gov’t’s fault? No. But they did play a big role.

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@TheJoeRagusa @jen_keesmaat Seniors can defer or cancel their property tax increase until they sell or die:

Property Tax, Water & Solid Waste Relief Programs

The Property Tax, Water and Solid Waste Relief application (both paper-based and apply online) will be available in the spring of 2024. Your completed application must be received by the extended...

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Mark Shaw

@Markshawtoronto

2 months

Oh your homeowner association wants to bury the LRT? Cool, we’ll just apply a levy of $40,000 per homeowner and… Oh nevermind? Cool, case dismissed 😎

Reece 🚇

@RM_Transit

2 months

The idea that transit costs don't matter if a local area wants a project ignores the fact that transit projects are often funded on a state / province or national level. More expensive project with *no* compromise locally means less transit elsewhere.

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Mark Shaw

@Markshawtoronto

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It’s not a big city if you can’t find good Chinese food that’s actually Indian food from Kolkata made by Chinese Canadians who speak Hindi. Sorry I don’t make the rules! 🤷‍♂️

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Mark Shaw

@Markshawtoronto

3 months

@GraChurch I agree, ban all cars downtown, no cars no congestion, no problems 🥰

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Mark Shaw

@Markshawtoronto

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Look there. That’s Aura. Aura means family. And family means nobody gets left behind. 🥹

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Mark Shaw

@Markshawtoronto

1 month

Why is Toronto replacing 2nd Elizabethan Era houses when there's all this room up here to build a new cloud city? 😕

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@Markshawtoronto

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@d_a_f_f_y_d 🫶 Thanks we will switch to mooching off our parents’ Disney plus

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Mark Shaw

@Markshawtoronto

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@not_taylorx The Toronto mind cannot comprehend a tram moving that quickly 🤯

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Mark Shaw

@Markshawtoronto

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Help I need to win an argument. Which Bay street do you choose?

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Mark Shaw

@Markshawtoronto

2 months

On March 20th, TO City Council will consider raising the fine for parking in a bike lane from $150 -> $200 This is insufficient. Big truck expenses their tickets. Many drivers simply don’t care. $500 or a demerit point! @CycleToronto @DianneSaxe

Matt Elliott

@GraphicMatt

2 months

Alas, the March break is coming to an end — get yourself set for a busy week at City Hall with a preview of the meeting schedule in this special issue of City Hall Watcher, featuring a look at 311 data for 2023 and a preview of the March Council meeting.

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Mark Shaw

@Markshawtoronto

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Happy clouds got dark for a bit day!

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Mark Shaw

@Markshawtoronto

1 month

Housing. Crisis. We need a province that cares about that more than parking convenience. 😡

Colin D'Mello | Global News

@ColinDMello

1 month

Ford says it would be a parking "disaster" if fourplexes were allowed as-of-right across the province. Ford says the strong mayor powers gives municipalities direct say over 4 units as of right. #onpoli

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Mark Shaw

@Markshawtoronto

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This is my streetcar. The rest of you are invited though 🥳 Long live the King (504)!

Laurie 🚍

@laurie_merrell

1 month

do you have a bus route that you think of as "your bus"? like if you were talking to someone else who regularly took that route you might say "that's my bus too!"

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Mark Shaw

@Markshawtoronto

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Honest answer - growing up in a suburb or rural there was a serious safety issue if you were perceived as gay. Move to the big city -> like public transit

Will

@MassJumbo

3 months

Why do gays all like trains. What caused this

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Mark Shaw

@Markshawtoronto

3 months

Google Maps, final answer.

Oliver Moore

@moore_oliver

3 months

Interesting discussion in the newsroom about what are the boundaries of downtown Toronto. Quite a range of views, it turns out. City staff make it Bathurst to Don and lake to roughly Dupont. What are your boundaries?

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Mark Shaw

@Markshawtoronto

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A must read if you care about the future of Toronto. "The city has to look at giving up the idea that you can live 50 feet from College Street in a detached house and pretend that you’re in the suburbs". 👏

Carolyn Whitzman

@CWhitzman

3 months

I’m in good company, in this overview of what the federal government needs to do to address the housing crisis @ubcHART

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Mark Shaw

@Markshawtoronto

6 months

This is how Rosedale & Cabbagetown became "heritage conservation districts" ... 😞

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Mark Shaw

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The reason? It's politically easier to raise taxes on rental than on homeowners who are, historically, louder people. Provincial law requires us to harmonize the property tax rate anyways, Olivia Chow is just doing it a little bit faster. 2/2

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Mark Shaw

@Markshawtoronto

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OK but they do...