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PRESS RELEASE: Detailed review reveals MegaSpa slated for Ontario Place relies on massive injection of taxpayer money #topoli #onpoli

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@ONPlace4All

11 months

We have asked the Federal Government to step in at Ontario Place. No one should be able to cut 850 trees, wreck fish & bird habitat, and drop a glass MegaSpa in a migratory bird runway without some level of scrutiny! #topoli #onpoli

Advocates ask federal government to step in and assess Ontario Place plans - Toronto | Globalnews.ca

Ontario Place for All, which has rallied and organized opposition to current plans to redevelop the area, has retained a lawyer to outline its case that Ottawa should step in.

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7 months

We are heartbroken to learn that the Ontario Government will dismantle the Moriyama designed Temple Bell at Ontario Place this Monday. This government is showing an incredible level of disrespect to the Japanese-Canadian community. Bring signage to our rally on Saturday! #onpoli

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11 months

. @maritstiles rightly calls out Premier Ford for putting $650 million of taxpayer money into a private spa at Ontario Place while the government shuts emergency rooms like the one in Minden. Priorities are clearly out of whack. #topoli #onpoli

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1 year

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Ontario Place for All Condemns Lack of Transparency and Consultation Around the Science Centre Move to Ontario Place #topoli #onpoli

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@ONPlace4All

8 months

🎉 TIFF has paused their Therme MegaSpa partnership, thanks to all of you speaking up and sending our open letter! Let’s thank them for taking this step and ask them to end the relationship entirely! #topoli #onpoli

TIFF pauses relationship with Ontario Place redeveloper Therme Group

10-year philanthropic partnership between the festival and company was intended to help promote the role of film in creating ‘more human cities’

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@ONPlace4All

7 months

Thank you @oliviachow for proposing this alternative. Having the proposed MegaSpa at Better Living Centre is a far better alternative. Parking, transit, city services already there. Don’t need to destroy a heritage public space! #topoli #onpoli

Olivia Chow has an idea for where Therme spa should go – and it's not Ontario Place | CBC News

Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow has proposed an alternate location for Theme Group’s spa– the Better Living Centre, part of Exhibition Place,

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@ONPlace4All

7 months

Ford just reversed the Greenbelt changes; it's not too late to reverse course on the MegaSpa at Ontario Place! #HandsOffTheGreenbelt #SaveOntarioPlace #onpoli

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1 year

In today’s @TorontoStar : Dougzilla, Destroyer of Heritage and Public Space. #topoli #onpoli

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@ONPlace4All

7 months

The Japanese Canadian Centennial Bell at Ontario Place on the West Island this morning. In 1977, Japanese Canadians gifted the temple bell to the people of Ontario. The belfry was designed by Raymond Moriyama.

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1 year

THIS just appeared near the entrance of Ontario Place’s West Island. It’s getting getting real folks. Get ready to fight for our public space! #topoli #onpoli

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@ONPlace4All

1 year

After news broke today on the 95 year giveaway of Ontario Place to a private spa, @maritstiles asks the government to come clean about this backroom deal! @KingaSurmaMPP repeats no one goes to Ontario Place. Please reach out & let her know that how you enjoy it! #onpoli #topoli

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1 year

“To top it off, there’s the provincially-led redevelopment of Ontario Place. The proposal to give over waterfront land for a privately run spa — using public lands and public money — is a disgrace and should be stopped.” #topoli #onpoli

Star Editorial Board: Doug Ford should use the new year to make a fresh start

From houses on the Greenbelt to a private spa at Ontario Place, the new year gives Doug Ford the chance to right some wrongs.

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@ONPlace4All

4 months

The world is watching, and is dismayed by your destruction of the Ontario Place Forest, @fordnation & @KingaSurmaMPP ! #topoli #onpoli

World Monuments Fund

@WorldMonuments

4 months

WMF is dismayed at a proposal to demolish the urban forest of Canada’s Ontario Place. In 2020, we named this Toronto landmark to the World Monuments Watch out of a belief that it was a modernist icon deserving of protection. Read our statement:

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@ONPlace4All

1 year

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Ontario Place for All Condemns the Century-Long Lease Offered to Foreign-Owned Spa Company, Demands that the Ontario Government Release the Lease #topoli #onpoli #SaveOntarioPlace

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@ONPlace4All

9 months

We appreciate the Auditor General's report into the scandalous dealings of the Ontario Government on the Greenbelt; we've requested a similar audit, as we think what's happening at Ontario Place and the Science Centre is just as scandalous: #onpoli

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7 months

And now a message from the aquatic life at Ontario Place: #topoli #onpoli

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@ONPlace4All

5 months

PRESS RELEASE: Ontario Place for All takes legal action to stop the destruction of West Island #topoli #onpoli #SaveOntarioPlace

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@ONPlace4All

11 months

“If Ford’s Ontario Place plan is about tourism, then he should preserve existing natural environment & fresh water. Instead, Therme’s proposal will remove more than 800 trees, devastating the habitat of beavers, minks, foxes & 170 bird species” #topoli

The Ontario Place redevelopment isn't about tourism - Spacing Toronto

There’s a lot to question about the Ontario government’s plans for Ontario Place. The 95-year-long lease of the land on the site’s West Island to Austrian spa company Therme, the secrecy of the total...

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@ONPlace4All

11 months

We told Doug Ford Enough is Enough! Great march today in solidarity with @OFLabour . #EnoughIsEnoughON #EnoughIsEnough #onpoli #topoli

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@ONPlace4All

6 months

So glad the auditor general has agreed to our request to audit the rushed and secretive process that is leading to the ruin of Ontario Place and the Science Centre! Look forward to a light being shone on the process. #topoli #onpoli

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@ONPlace4All

2 months

We’re sending a message to the Ontario Government and Therme to Release the Lease! Ontarians deserve to know what our duplicitous government has signed us up for over the next 95 years! #onpoli #topoli #ReleaseTheLease

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@ONPlace4All

11 months

Article demonstrates the Ford Government did special favours for Therme with the taxpayer funded parking lot, and now Kinga Surma is using the science centre to justify the parking lot! Are they moving the Science Centre to justify the lot? #onpoli #topoli

Parking garage added to Ontario Place redevelopment at request of bidders

Further details of the Ontario Place redevelopment were revealed at committee on Wednesday

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@ONPlace4All

7 months

The bell has been removed from the Temple Bell, and the rest of the structure is being taken down. It will be moved to a site agreed upon by the National Association of Japanese Canadians once Ontario Place reopens. A sad day at Ontario Place. #topoli #onpoli

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@ONPlace4All

7 months

We say it’s Ontario Place, not Ford Place! Ontarians want an Ontario Place for all, not a MegaSpa for the few! #topoli #onpoli

‘Ontario Place, not Toronto Place’: Doug Ford defends spa, parking garage plan for waterfront site

Despite protesters in the audience, the Ontario premier vowed the stay the course on waterfront development.

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@ONPlace4All

1 year

“A Secret Doug Ford Deal”: More Red Flags Raised Around Ontario Place Development #topoli #onpoli

"Secret Doug Ford Deal": More Red Flags Raised Over Ontario Place Project

Members of Parliament Kristyn Wong-Tam and Chris Glover lambasted the government's Ontario Place plans, questioning the lack of transparency.

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@ONPlace4All

1 year

Premier Ford said last year that selling the 407 was a mistake "as it was selling HydroOne". So why are you selling off Ontario Place for generations, Premier Ford? #topoli #onpoli #SaveOntarioPlace

‘I would have never sold it’: Doug Ford says privatizing Highway 407 was a mistake

It was as big a mistake for the Progressive Conservatives to privatize Highway 407 as it was for the Liberals to sell Hydro One, charges Doug Ford.

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@ONPlace4All

8 months

“Mayor Chow just ran on a platform to save Ontario Place. Mr. Ford is politically weak. It’s time for a standoff. The city has political leverage if its planners and politicians have the guts to stand up and claim it. Planners: Just say no” #topoli #onpoli

It’s time for politicians and planners to say no to the Ontario Place redevelopment plans

There is no way heritage planners can earnestly approve the complete destruction of an important 12-acre landscape

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@ONPlace4All

7 months

Gee that’s a lot of visitors for a place no one visits, according to Surma and Ford. They were heard saying “Nobody goes there; it’s too crowded!” 2.9 million visited Ontario Place in 2022 & OP generated a $5 million profit. #topoli #onpoli

2.9 million visited Ontario Place in 2022: internal letter

Critics of the PCs' redevelopment said last year's visitor total shows a private spa — part of plans to attract 4 to 6 million visitors a year — isn't necessary

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@ONPlace4All

16 days

Show us the real numbers then. We said it right in our press conference; come out from the back room and show us how the MegaSpa isn’t going to be a drain of taxpayer dollars. We used assumptions because your government is hiding financial info from the public. #onpoli #topoli

Kinga Surma

@KingaSurmaMPP

16 days

We will not be taking advice from a political activist group that has zero experience on how to build infrastructure and presents an “audit” that is based on, by their own admission, assumptions.

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@ONPlace4All

11 months

Toronto just lost access to part of Ontario Place as construction looms and people are livid #topoli #onpoli

Toronto just lost access to Ontario Place as construction looms and people are livid

Runners, cyclists and others taking a scenic jaunt along Toronto's waterfront on Monday morning were met with startling new fencing blocking off a ...

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@ONPlace4All

7 months

A blustery and beautiful fall morning around the West Island at Ontario Place earlier today 🍂

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7 months

It’s our hope that Mayor Chow can get the Provincial Government to pause the imminent tree cutting at Ontario Place. The Province should have never scheduled this work right in the middle of the development application process at City Hall! #topoli #onpoli

Edward Keenan: Why Doug Ford’s political woes might be good for Olivia Chow — and Toronto

The two are expected to hold their first meeting this coming week, which could help both of them

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@ONPlace4All

3 months

#BoycottTherme ! Let the Therme MegaSpa know that you won't attend if they press ahead with their plans to destroy Ontario Place's West Island with a MegaSpa no one wants. Send the letter at or post your msg here with #BoycottTherme ! #onpoli #topoli

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1 year

It’s the Highway 407 all over again, but this time it’s our prime waterfront public space, given away for generations. #topoli #onpoli

Colin D'Mello | Global News

@ColinDMello

1 year

NEW: Therme, the company behind a controversial waterpark and spa that’s set to take over a major portion of Ontario Place has signed a 95-year lease with the province of Ontario, Global News has learned. #onpoli

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11 months

We’re not going to take the fencing off of the Ontario Place trail sitting down. Come and rally with us this Sunday at 12pm, and bring a picnic to enjoy at Ontario Place Beach! #topoli #onpoli #SaveOntarioPlace

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11 months

Public locked out of still unapproved Ontario Place development site. #topoli #onpoli

Public locked out of still unapproved Ontario Place development site

Toronto's waterfront was disrupted this morning by newly erected fencing blocking off a portion of the Ontario Place property

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1 year

Ontario Science Centre employees ‘angry and confused’ by plan to move to Ontario Place. Really no surprise that Premier Ford fibbed here when he suggested they were excited, as Ford doesn’t consult anyone. #topoli #onpoli

Ontario Science Centre employees ‘angry and confused’ by plan to move: union | Globalnews.ca

Premier Doug Ford said Tuesday that the employees are "excited" by the prospect, but the union says that's not the case.

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@ONPlace4All

5 months

Ontario taxpayers would save over half a billion and we would save 1,500 mature trees if @ThermeCanada moved their MegaSpa to the Better Living Centre at the Ex. Great article by @KGreenbergTO , and stay tuned for actions to encourage Therme to move the MegaSpa! #topoli #onpoli

Ken Greenberg

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5 months

Move the spa to save Ontario Place

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@ONPlace4All

30 days

PRESS RELEASE: Ontario Place for All Successfully Moves to Next Phase in Legal Action to Save West Island: 🎉 #topoli #onpoli #SaveOntarioPlace

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1 year

Thank you for standing up for an Ontario Place for All @JoshMatlow ! Appreciate the stance of not surrendering City land to facilitate a private MegaSpa at Ontario Place. #topoli #onpoli #SaveOntarioPlace

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@ONPlace4All

1 year

Yup, cutting down 850 trees at Ontario Place, all vegetation, disrupting 170 species of animals, at a taxpayer cost of $650 million, or $60 per Ontarian, just so that we can say goodbye to our public space and pay for a private spa. That about sums it up! #topoli #onpoli

Norm Di Pasquale

@normsworld

1 year

Thanks for the Ontario Place interview @CBCToronto . What Ontarians want is an Ontario Place for All, that doesn’t displace current users like boaters & the public & makes everyone feel welcome at the site, not just those who can afford a private spa! #topoli #onpoli @ONPlace4All

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7 months

This week, the NDP tabled a motion to terminate the lease with Therme at Ontario Place. It is expected to go to a vote in the Legislature on Monday, October 16. 👏 👏 ⁦ @OntarioNDP ⁩ : Why is Ford keeping Therme’s Ontario Place deal a secret? #onpoli

NDP: Why is Ford keeping Therme’s Ontario Place deal a secret?

QUEEN’S PARK – Official Opposition Leader Marit Stiles joined MPPs Chris Glover (Spadina—Fort York), Jennifer French (Oshawa), and Bhutila Karpoche (Parkdale – High Park) to raise concerns about the...

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@ONPlace4All

1 year

Thank you @maritstiles ! Kudos for listening to Ontarians who don’t want the MegaSpa, and do want to be consulted on what comes next at Ontario Place; it’s our money, and it’s our Ontario Place! #topoli #onpoli #SaveOntarioPlace

Marit Stiles

@MaritStiles

1 year

Ontarians know a bad deal when they see one. This week at Queen's Park, your @OntarioNDP team will be calling on Ford to cancel his sweetheart deal for a private luxury spa on public parkland at #OntarioPlace and imagine something better. #topoli #onpoli

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5 months

So why is it our problem that the province signed such a ridiculously accelerated contract with Therme, with penalties if approvals weren’t done by the end of this year? The more we learn about this contract, the worse it is! Please hurry, Auditor General. #topoli #onpoli

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@ONPlace4All

1 year

The @TorontoStar Editorial Board nails it! “Leasing this public space to a for-profit company is just another example of Ford’s short-term thinking. Like Buck a Beer or developing the Greenbelt.” Ontario Place should be an urban oasis #topoli #onpoli

Star Editorial Board: Ontario Place should be an urban oasis

Doug Ford’s latest proposal for Ontario Place Ford’s doesn’t consider the bigger picture — its value as urban parkland.

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@ONPlace4All

1 year

Powerful @globeandmail letter from @OntScienceCtr architect Raymond Moriyama! OSC was conceived by PC Premier John Robarts. Requesting "an institute of international stature," he directed that it be outside of downtown Toronto & that it last beyond 250 years! #onpoli #topoli

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7 months

Thank you @OntarioNDP for standing up for Ontario Place at Queens Park today! @MaritStiles kicks off the presser, noting it isn’t “bold vision” to spend hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars to enable a MegaSpa on public land. #topoli #onpoli #SaveOntarioPlace

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5 months

Thank you Walter Kehm for your bravery & insight! ‘In more than half a century, the 800 trees on the West Island have developed their own ecological niche. More than the trees, we’re talking about a home for all the species that live there.” #topoli

‘It’s time for telling the truth’: Ontario Place architect steps away from Doug Ford’s revamp to...

Walter Kehm said he could no longer be tied to a project that threatens a decades-old wildlife habitat.

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10 months

Support our call for a Federal Impact Assessment of the MegaSpa project at Ontario Place! Ask your MP to support the assessment at #topoli #Onpoli #SaveOntarioPlace

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7 months

. @MaritStiles in QP asks why the government is hiding the attendance figures for Ontario Place? 2.9 million visited OP last year. In response, platitudes and lies like "We're protecting natural heritage", how by cutting 1,500 trees? #onpoli #topoli

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@ONPlace4All

6 months

This right here! The half a billion dollars+ going into a MegaSpa at Ontario Place could keep emergency rooms open, or build thousands of affordable housing units or long term care beds! Ontarians deserve a say in how our dollars are spent. #onpoli

Gordon Jones

@GordonKJones

6 months

Hey Windsor-Tecumseh. @fordnation wants to spend over HALF A BILLION DOLLARS on parking for a private luxury spa for Toronto. Email your Conservative MPP Andrew Dowie at Andrew.Dowie @pc .ola.org if you don't and follow @ONPlace4All #ONpoli #ontarioplace

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7 months

We canvassed Kinga Surma’s riding of Etobicoke Centre to talk about Ontario Place and encouraged her constituents to reach out to her about her terrible MegaSpa plan! Many said they would. #topoli #onpoli #SaveOntarioPlace

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9 months

In light of the Ontario Government corruption found by the auditor general on the Greenbelt, Global asked us about our AG request at Ontario Place. #topoli #onpoli

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6 months

The West Island at Ontario Place this evening 🍂 #ONpoli #TOpoli

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16 days

@KingaSurmaMPP Show us the real numbers then. We said it right in our press conference; come out from the back room and show us how the MegaSpa isn’t going to be a drain on taxpayer dollars. We used assumptions because your government is hiding financial info from the public. #onpoli #topoli

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1 year

Moriyama Teshima Architects noted: “The Ontario Science Centre is a landmark building, purposefully nestled into the natural ravine of the Don Valley. The purpose of the Science Centre is inseparable from the site it currently inhabits.” #topoli #onpoli

Raymond Moriyama’s Ontario Science Centre could be demolished under province’s redevelopment plans

A plan from Ontario Premier Doug Ford would demolish the Ontario Science Center and open a new one within the proposed Ontario Place development.

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11 months

Great article by the original architects of the Ontario Science Centre, calling to rethink the demolition of the Science Centre and expand rather than shrink it. #topoli #onpoli #SaveOurScienceCentre

Saving the Ontario Science Centre

In April, the Ontario Government announced that the Ontario Science Centre would be moved atop an underground parking garage at the redeveloped Ontario Place, and the 1969 building, by architect...

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@ONPlace4All

5 months

Thank you Chris for always standing up for an Ontario Place for all! #topoli #onpoli #SaveOntarioPlace

Chris Glover

@chrisgloverndp

5 months

850 mature trees on public parkland worth $1.4B to be razed, destroyed and given for free to a private, for-profit spa in a 95-year lease we still don't know the terms of. This math isn't adding up. #onpoli

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11 months

Enough is Enough! The $650 million the Ontario Government is putting into an underground parking lot among other things at Ontario Place could be used to fund the Minden ER they’re shutting down and stop all education cuts! We’re marching in the OFL rally; catch us @ Queen & Bay!

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6 months

Sounds like good news that the Attorney General has told the court the Federal Government is holding up decisions around Ontario Place destruction and redevelopment. Please, please intervene! #topoli #onpoli #SaveOntarioPlace

Province asks court to prevent feds from intervening on Highway 413, Ontario Place | Globalnews.ca

Doug Downey says "imminent decisions" are being held up on both Highway 413, set to serve Greater Toronto Area communities including Vaughan and Brampton, and Ontario Place.

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1 year

“Whether it’s carving up the Greenbelt, privatizing healthcare or selling off Ontario Place, this govt ignores public consultations, rejects expert advice, makes decisions behind closed doors & puts private interests before public good.” #onpoli #topoli

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@ONPlace4All

5 months

Stop lying in Queen's Park @KingaSurmaMPP ! The city does not support the demolishing and dimishing of the Science Centre, nor do they support a MegaSpa for the next 95 years instead of a public park! #topoli #onpoli

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1 year

The spa at Ontario Place cannot be fixed. It will always result in the clearcutting of hundreds of trees on West Island, destruction of a heritage site, a massive expensive underground parking lot & a scale that doesn’t fit. #topoli

Company behind Ontario Place spa ‘working furiously’ to address criticism - Toronto | Globalnews.ca

Therme, the company behind the planned waterfront spa, is under pressure after new details of its project were released and city officials take issue with the building's design.

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9 months

The 407 deal (similar super long lease) was also secret and offered no protection from price gouging. If the Ontario Place MegaSpa deal is so good, why is Doug Ford so secretive about it? via @torontostar

Linda McQuaig: If the Ontario Place spa deal is so good, why is Doug Ford so secretive?

Eliminating the secrecy would force governments to develop a backbone in dealing with private companies.

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@ONPlace4All

5 months

BREAKING: Legal action filed by Ontario Place for All to protect Ontario Place and more in our latest newsletter! - #topoli #onpoli #SaveOntarioPlace

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@ONPlace4All

2 months

Where was the consent for replacing public parkland with a MegaSpa for 95 years, Premier Ford? #topoli #onpoli

TDot Resident

@TDotResident

2 months

#ONpoli Doug Ford will get consent on carbon taxes, but not on the Greenbelt or Ontario Place or the Science Centre or Toronto elections or private healthcare or $30B in transit contracts or Staples deals or condos blocking the airport runways…

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8 months

Enough Already with the secrecy at Ontario Place! Watch and share our new video, voiced by well known broadcaster & writer @alancross , and let’s support a better idea for the future of Ontario Place,! Visit to learn more! #topoli #onpoli #SaveOntarioPlace

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10 months

So, Infrastructure Ontario completed their Ontario Place EA. This picture of the study tells you everything you need to know about the value of it. Therme, and their clearcutting of West Island was not included in the study. Some "highlights" in this thread. #topoli #onpoli

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8 months

Agree with @oliviachow ; we don’t need a rushed process the same way the province rushed the Greenbelt. It’s disrespecting the process by charging ahead with site prep and cutting down trees at Ontario Place. We won’t stand for it! #topoli #onpoli

Olivia Chow urges Premier Doug Ford to respect city planning process on Ontario Place | CBC News

Toronto mayor Olivia Chow says she hopes the province follows city planning division guidelines when it comes to its newly revised plans for Ontario Place.

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5 months

PRESS RELEASE: The Fight for Ontario Place's West Island Continues in the Face of the Toronto-Ontario New Deal Announcement #topoli #Onpoli #SaveOntarioPlace

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5 months

This really nails the governments thinking on Ontario Place, we believe. #topoli #onpoli #SaveOntarioPlace

TDot Resident

@TDotResident

5 months

“We needed a spa to make Ontario Place work, but then we needed parking to make the spa work, but then we needed to move the science centre to make the parking work, but then we needed to demolish the heritage building and fire a bunch of people to make the business case work…”

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1 year

“The private spa at Ontario Place is too large & its five-level underground parking garage contradicts the government’s policies on reducing car use, TO planners say. A new report from the city finds a long list of faults in the spa plan.” #topoli #onpoli

Toronto planners issue critical report on Ontario Place spa proposal

Therme, the Austrian company behind the plan, is tweaking its design to address some of the city’s concerns

www.theglobeandmail.com

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@ONPlace4All

1 year

This motion just carried, deferring the land swap. It’s a good day for saying YES to public space and NO to a private spa! #topoli #onpoli

@ONPlace4All

1 year

Perks has a motion! He moves that consideration of the land swap be deferred until the end of the development application, the Province provides a lease and the Federal Government provides an opinion on whether they want the land.

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1 year

This is what Therme’s ads don’t want you to see; their fortress on the lake, blocking views of the Ontario Place Cinesphere and Pods, clearcutting Michael Hough’s landscape architecture along with 850 trees. #topoli #onpoli

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@ONPlace4All

7 months

Beautiful West Island trees at Ontario Place this morning, many changing into vibrant fall colours. Worth fighting for #ONpoli #TOpoli

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@ONPlace4All

11 months

Hey Premier Ford, #DontFenceMeIn ! Share your photo of how this unnecessary new fence that blocks the waterfront trail has ruined your Ontario Place experience! #topoli #onpoli

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@ONPlace4All

3 months

The halving of Toronto City Council. Ontario Place. Science Centre. Municipal boundary changes. The Greenbelt. These initiatives have been characterized by lack of public consultation, lack of transparency & the whiff of backroom decision-making #onpoli

Star Editorial Board: Province misfires moving ServiceOntario outlets

A good many ordinary Ontarians are disinclined to give the government the benefit of the doubt for the simple reason that it hasn’t earned it.

www.thestar.com

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@ONPlace4All

1 month

Our court date is today; we are asking the Ontario Government to follow its own law and conduct an environmental assessment of West Island. The government has moved to quash our action based on Bill 154, which attempts to strip all protections from West Island. Will post updates.

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@ONPlace4All

8 months

PRESS RELEASE: Ontario Place for All Condemns Province’s Plan to Imminently Cut a “Significant” Number of Trees at Ontario Place as Part of Province’s Flawed Development Resubmission #topoli #onpoli #SaveOntarioPlace

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@ONPlace4All

6 months

Thank you for continuing to stand up for an Ontario Place for all, @ausmalik ! #topoli #onpoli #SaveOntarioPlace

Matt Elliott

@GraphicMatt

6 months

Councillor Ausma Malik moves for city lawyers to look at intervening in court cases involving Ontario Place redevelopment and tree removal at the site. That CARRIES 20-1.

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@ONPlace4All

1 year

. @ThermeCanada now you're just trolling us. Your raison d'etre is to build a private spa on public space. We're happy to rename ourselves Therme Canada and announce we're leaving Ontario Place, deal? #topoli #onpoli

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@ONPlace4All

25 days

Group fighting Ontario Place spa plan scores legal victory over Doug Ford 🎉 via @torontostar #topoli #onpoli

Group fighting Ontario Place spa plan scores legal victory over Doug Ford

A group fighting construction of a spa at Ontario Place won a small legal victory over Doug Ford’s government — but the real battle is yet to come

www.thestar.com

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@ONPlace4All

7 months

Hope to see you Tuesday at 10AM for a protest! The Toronto Board of Trade decided to invite Kinga Surma & Doug Ford to talk about their MegaSpa & how it will make our waterfront “world class”. Let’s send a message that public space is world class! #topoli

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@ONPlace4All

1 month

Paving Lake Ontario for a backroom deal to privatize more of Ontario Place, Phase 2 of Ford’s plan to sell off Ontario Place piece by piece to his friends. We must stop Ford and these terrible plans now. #topoli #onpoli

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@ONPlace4All

4 months

PRESS RELEASE: Ontario Place for All condemns sudden closure of West Island #topoli #Onpoli #SaveOntarioPlace

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@ONPlace4All

7 months

Ontario Place shouldn’t be used as a bargaining chip. We must fight for our public space! #topoli #onpoli

Shawn Micallef: Ontario Place shouldn’t be used as a bargaining chip

The province may have incredible power over the city, but Ford is weak and Chow, fresh off a decisive mayoral win just months ago, is strong and has ample political capital. It’s time to fight,...

www.thestar.com

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@ONPlace4All

1 year

Thank you @BhutilaKarpoche for this powerful member statement on stopping the private spa at Ontario Place this morning at Queens Park! Thank you for caring for this public space that so many people from Parkdale-High Park and across Ontario enjoy! #topoli #onpoli

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@ONPlace4All

7 months

The world is watching. Monument to Japanese-Canadian History Dismantled at Ontario Place #topoli #onpoli

Monument to Japanese-Canadian History Dismantled in Ontario

Locals expressed anger and sadness over the city’s decision to remove the Temple Bell less than a month after its creator architect Raymond Moriyama's death.

hyperallergic.com

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@ONPlace4All

5 months

Laws that are meant to protect Ontarians are becoming simply suggestions under Premier Ford. We can’t let him simply waive our Environmental Bill of Rights as he plans to do at Ontario Place! Call your MPP and let them know. #onpoli #topoli

Ontario Place for All

Ontario Place for All is an emerging grassroots community group with a goal of keeping Ontario Place a vibrant, publicly accessible space. We also believe that any changes to Ontario Place be part of...

ontarioplaceforall.com

Laura Babcock

@LauraBabcock

5 months

Ford is being criticized because he is trying to get things done in secret for his wealthy donors by granting himself new powers, ignoring democratic process, calling those doing their jobs right "extremists"and acting like an autocrat. #onpoli #OntarioPlace #GreenbeltScandal

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@ONPlace4All

1 year

HUGE turnout today at the Ontario Place Public consultation of folks concerned with Ontario Place! We ensured everyone got an Ontario Place for All pin! #topoli #SaveOntarioPlace #onpoli

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@ONPlace4All

3 months

What a great #SuperbOwl at Ontario Place! Lets keep Ontario Place public and ensure a #SuperbOwl like this one visits in the future! #topoli #onpoli #SuperbOwl2024 #SuperbOwlLVIII

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@ONPlace4All

7 months

Thank you for turning out in large numbers to stand up for Ontario Place’s trees! #topoli #onpoli

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@ONPlace4All

7 months

Thank you @CTVToronto for the coverage of our Tree Rally at Ontario Place! #topoli #onpoli

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@ONPlace4All

1 year

. @maritstiles continues by noting the chair of Ontario Place, who attended Ford’s wedding is brokering a backroom deal at OP with a nightclub operator who is Ford’s friend. Does the Premier not understand how bad this looks? The government responds with hollers and shouting.

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@ONPlace4All

7 months

Thank you @ausmalik for standing up for Ontario Place trees! 👏 #topoli #onpoli #SaveOntarioPlace

Matt Elliott

@GraphicMatt

7 months

Deputy Mayor Ausma Malik’s motion to take steps to protect trees at Ontario Place from the provincial redevelopment plans CARRIES 22-1.

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@ONPlace4All

8 months

“In short, the Therme project destroys more than it delivers.” Ontario Place is a battle for the public good. Its architects @DiamondSchmitt are on the wrong side. #topoli #onpoli

Ontario Place is a battle for the public good. Its architects are on the wrong side

Proponents of Ontario Place’s ‘revitalization’ say it serves the public good. The problem is, it’s not public - and that’s not good

www.theglobeandmail.com

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@ONPlace4All

7 months

See you today at 2pm for the Rally for the Trees on West Island! We’re meeting at Moose Hollow on West Island. Here’s a full map of OP including washroom locations: #topoli #onpoli

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@ONPlace4All

5 months

So the Minister of MegaSpas thinks buildings are past their prime after 50 years, but is giving the MegaSpa folks a 95 year lease? More nonsense from the Minister of MegaSpas, Kinga Surma. #onpoli #SaveOntarioPlace

Jennifer French

@jennkfrench

5 months

Why can't we look after @OntScienceCtr ? This Minister of Megaspas thinks after 50 years, buildings are past their prime. The Ontario Science Centre deserves a better landlord, proper maintenance & investment - not to be diminished & torn down. @SaveOSC

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@ONPlace4All

11 months

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Ontario Place for All Demands Accountability for Ontario Place Community Consultation Promised for June #topoli #Onpoli #SaveOntarioPlace

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