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Welcome to the new /c/Ontario on Lemmy.world!

I hope to grow this community to be the unofficial home of Ontarian's on Lemmy. Please read the rules of the community for participating.

Now for the gritty - Rules

Golden Rule: Be Excellent to each other (Treat other’s the way you wish to be treated in kind). 

If we find people attacking eachother, we will remove posts. Continued behaviour will result in a removal from the community.

Do not change headlines of linked articles to attempt to editoralize the story in any particular way. let users form their own opinions on the news / article link.

Keep posts substantive to the topic. Low quality posts intended to troll or rile up that are clearly not discussing the topic at hand will be removed. Frequent offenders will be removed from the community.

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Spamming the same news articles will be removed and offender removed from the community.

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Editorials maybe removed at Mod discretion if they do not meet the same above requirements. Editorials are not news.

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Only post in Canada’s official languages: English or French. Other language posts will be removed.

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I encourage anyone joining to post about themselves (what they're comfortable) and what they wish to see in our new community.

If we grow we also will look to open moderation team.

Province says work ongoing to streamline process at Landlord and Tenant Board

Number of people age 75+ in the province forecast to rise by 350,000 in next 5 years

The region is an 'epicentre' for trafficking in Ontario, says local YWCA

Province will not appeal decision and instead repeal bill 'in its entirety in coming weeks'

Ontario Health Coalition wants Superior Court of Ontario to reverse licence to Southbridge Care Homes

The Ford government announced legislation on Thursday that, if passed, would ban tolls on Ontario major highways, except for Highway 407.

Brampton, ON. (February 13, 2024) – Peel Public Health (PPH) is investigating a confirmed case of measles in a child with a recent history of international travel.

About 124,000 blue licence plates still on the roads, government says

More than a dozen hospital leaders have signed a letter denouncing demonstrations and trespassing on hospital property at Toronto's Mount Sinai Hospital Monday night.

The oversight body for London, Ont., police is asking the force to explain why roughly 40 per cent of sexual assault reports filed last year did not lead to charges.

A list of Ford government policy reversals

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/8278907

TORONTO – Reacting to news of Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow’s plan to hike property taxes by more than 10%, the 9 or so people that collectively own all Toronto real estate expressed outrage, saying that Chow is making the city unaffordable.

“This city is expensive enough,” said the landlord who owns everything south of Front Street. “For the mayor to then turn around and raise property taxes knowing that I’m obviously going to immediately pass on that cost to my tenants is truly unconscionable.”

“Sure I can only raise the rent so much every year, but if tenants don’t play ball let’s just say I’ve got a cousin moving from overseas who’s going to need their place,” he added.

Members of the small handful of people that own most of Toronto’s houses, townhouses and condos expressed concern that the tax hikes would have a disruptive effect on their cash flow.

“For the odd person here and there who owns a property not owned by me, this is going to cost them another $300-$600 a year, or about $25-$50 a month,” explained a property manager for the consortium who own the west end. “For someone in our situation, this is going to cost us millions of dollars. How am I going to explain to my bosses that we’re going to make slightly less money this year?”

Others were more pointed in their criticism, calling the abrupt property tax hikes “reckless”, and poorly thought out.

“People are struggling to put food on the table, pay their car bills or, in my case, attain the exponential growth that investors have come to expect from REITs no matter what, and this property tax hike isn’t going to help any of us with our equally relatable problems,” said a private investment fund manager who controls Scarborough and most of Leaside.

“It’s almost like they don’t want massive private investment from outside Canada controlling the market of the country’s largest city?” he added.

At press time, Toronto area home improvement stores have already reported a marked uptick in the sale of cheap paint brushes, ladders, plastic tarps, wall mounted shelving, and other mainstays of performatively large renovations that result in the property looking the exact same.

link: https://www.thebeaverton.com/2024/01/the-9-people-that-own-all-of-torontos-real-estate-extremely-upset-about-property-tax-hike/

A man who allegedly waved the flag of a terrorist group while marching in downtown Toronto has been arrested and charged.

OPINION: Nearly half of the province’s publicly funded universities are heading for the red. The Tories’ response has been wholly inadequate — and unsurprising

Crombie, who won Ontario Liberal Leadership, officially resigns as mayor on Friday

Police chief says while case is 'unusual,' clerk's arrest was 'about the law'

Ontario ministry says move is attempt to improve customer experience