Environment & development law & policy. The Hands off the Greenbelt guy. Brown loyalist🍁🗳️. Tweets aren't advice or statements from my client. he/him
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Over the past year, I've connected with the candidates in Peel Region, Durham, Halton, Guelph, Kitchener, Niagara, Simcoe, Northumberland, Kingston, Belleville, Toronto, Hamilton, Ottawa and Oxford County to adopt our MoreHomesFaster.ca reforms. Now it's up to you! 🧵👇
Third, Enable New Homes Without Parking: Repeal any bylaws MANDATING parking... but also make it practical for families to live car-free, by increasing bus service & converting some existing car lanes on key arterials into quick-rollout bus rapid transit lanes w signal priority.
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The Globe: "During the [last] three years .. the City of Toronto has become a significantly safer place, and is one Canada’s safest cities. Murders, shootings and violent crime are all down...the lowest in 50 years. Car thefts... are down dramatically..."
theglobeandmail.com/canada/a…
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Remember! Polls close today at *8 pm*, an hour BEFORE most shops. Don't get confused.
Go NOW & vote for pro-Greenbelt, pro-midrise, pro-4plex candidates who WONT impose parking.
There are so many CLOSE races where you could be the deciding vote in your municipal election.
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I just voted because it matters - NOT as a symbolic gesture.
After 10+yrs making things worse, Toronto's FINALLY making pro-environment, pro-housing change. Beaches-East York must *elect* a Mayor & Councillor committed to continuing that brand new path.
environmentaldefence.ca/2026…
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Holt Renfrew on Bloor has this beautiful, and illegal, tiny elevator. Something housing advocates say we should be allowed to build.
The City of Pickering's Council has been making the housing shortage WORSE, scoring just 18/500 (yes, eighteen) on the MoreHomesFaster.ca scoresheet. Use your vote today to force a pro-housing, pro-environment u-turn. Here's how! 🧵👇act.environmentaldefence.ca/…
(3/5) Second, support candidates who want to roll back post-2022 boundary expansions in Pickering, & sharply increase the planned job and housing density of the vast area of development land approved BEFORE 2022.
(4/5) Third, use your #Pickering vote this evening to support candidates who'll fix NIMBY zoning & infill DCs so Pickering adds lots of new family-sized 4-plex or six-storey midrise flats to existing family neighbourhoods. (image by Lanefab)
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Detached homes, not purpose-built rentals, are the most financialized asset in the country.
Its increible how much of the political and finanical system depends on home values of this very particular asset never falling. Just look at all the policies we put in place - from banking to zoning to taxes - to ensure it doesn't.
REITs and PBR don't have a similar backstop.
Also ask yourself who REITs are buying purpose-built rental buildings from, something the G&M article glosses over.
It isn't some benevolent owner. It's from someone who wanted to make a profit. All that's happening now is that the profit is being split from one or a few owners to many.
After decades of NIMBY & sprawl planning caused a housing shortage, Hamilton's finally improving, rejecting boundary expansion, & starting to legalize "neighbourhood" midrise & multiplex. Elect a mayor & council who'll KEEP GOING, not surrender to sprawl. act.environmentaldefence.ca/…
Bryn! This is beautiful!
Agreed. Unfortunately, under s. 45 of the Ontario Municipal Elections Act, 1996, voting hours across all Ontario municipalities are legally established to run from 10:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. on Election Day (1/3)
