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New: Engineers warned Metrolinx of ‘fall hazard’ months before GO train passenger fell and died #onpoli www.thetrillium.ca/news/municip...
Engineers warned Metrolinx of ‘fall hazard’ months before GO train passenger fell and diedCracked, uneven platform contributed to woman falling, being hit by train: leaked reportwww.thetrillium.caICYMI: Metrolinx has settled, for an undisclosed amount, a $500 million expropriation dispute with a development group that includes a close friend of Premier Doug Ford. #onpoli www.thetrillium.ca/news/politic...
Ford friend’s company settles $500M air rights expropriation dispute with MetrolinxGovernment won’t say how much taxpayer money went to Carmine Nigro’s development groupwww.thetrillium.caPremier Doug Ford said he will not ban companies from charging two people different prices for the same item, saying that doing so would be “socialism.” #onpoli www.thetrillium.ca/insider-news...
Metrolinx said it fired the German partners who were supposed to take over GO trains because they couldn't meet deadlines. Internally, however, the group found they were waiting on several key tasks being "blocked" by Metrolinx. #onpoli www.thetrillium.ca/news/municip...
Metrolinx ‘blocked’ key tasks, then fired partners for missing deadlines: reportInternal emails and minutes hint at what a source called 'pure chaos' behind the sceneswww.thetrillium.caNew: Metrolinx's plan to run more frequent, shorter GO trains is now “unlikely to materialize” after it fired the European partners who planned to make it happen, according to a draft of the agency's internal fleet strategy. #onpoli www.thetrillium.ca/news/municip...
Shorter, more frequent GO train plan ‘unlikely to materialize’: leaked documentMetrolinx locked into agreements for trains it no longer needs, draft fleet strategy sayswww.thetrillium.caNew: Ontarians could be waiting another decade or more before they can hop on an electric GO train. #onpoli www.thetrillium.ca/news/municip...
Metrolinx could run first electric GO trains in 2036: leaked documentElectrification to start with Lakeshore lines; no word on other routes in agency's internal fleet strategy draftwww.thetrillium.caNew: Metrolinx’s GO train fleet is in "poor" condition and assets could "begin to fail" this year, according to an internal draft report. #onpoli www.thetrillium.ca/news/municip...
GO trains in ‘poor’ condition; assets could ‘begin to fail’ this year: leaked documentMetrolinx still trying to replace expertise lost after ending Deutsche Bahn contract, according to internal fleet strategy draftwww.thetrillium.caNew: The Ford government secretly reduced Canadian content requirements for two of its biggest transit projects, and when confronted, said no policies had changed. #onpoli www.thetrillium.ca/news/municip...
Ford government hid decision to lower Canadian content requirement for new trains: emailsMetrolinx learned about Cancon exemption years after decision was made, internal notes saywww.thetrillium.caNew: How Ontario Place almost became a Universal Studios-style amusement park #onpoli www.thetrillium.ca/insider-news...
New: The OPP's anti-rackets branch is investigating Jake's House, another group given millions by the Ford government, including through the Skills Development Fund. #onpoli www.thetrillium.ca/news/the-tri...
OPP investigating another group given millions by Ford governmentOntario cut funding to Jake’s House after ‘years’ of managing ‘issues and risks,’ including related to the disability charity’s ‘governance … and fiscal responsibility’www.thetrillium.caICYMI: Months before he was labour minister, David Piccini was in Leafs glass seats with a director of a company he later granted $7.5M to. Piccini attended the Parisian wedding of the company’s lobbyist. From me and @charliepinkerton.bsky.social. #onpoli www.thetrillium.ca/news/politic...
Labour minister was in Leafs glass seats with director of company he granted funding toThe ‘lower-scoring’ company got $7.5M of tax dollars through David Piccini’s office and is a client of the lobbyist whose Parisian wedding the minister recently attendedwww.thetrillium.caNew: Ontario's labour minister said he was personally involved in picking “lower-scoring” Skills Development Fund recipients. He held up one whose lobbyist's wedding he attended as an example of a lower-ranked applicant with sizeable impact. #onpoli www.thetrillium.ca/insider-news...
NEW: David Piccini, the minister whose office picks Skills Development Fund recipients, was in Paris this weekend at the wedding of a lobbyist whose clients received millions from that fund. From me and @charliepinkerton.bsky.social. www.thetrillium.ca/news/politic...
Ontario labour minister attended lobbyist’s wedding after granting his clients millions in training fundsTwo clients of lobbyist Michael Rudderham have received more than $8.5 million in Skills Development Fund grants, records showwww.thetrillium.caNew: Clients of lobbying firms with close connections to Premier Doug Ford and his nephew have been hugely successful in applying to the province’s Skills Development Fund. Full analysis: www.thetrillium.ca/news/politic... #onpoli
Clients of lobby firms connected to premier, his nephew given tens of millions in training fundsGroups represented by a lobbying firm owned by the premier’s campaign manager got more than $100 million in grant money, a Trillium analysis has foundwww.thetrillium.caNEW: The organization that’s supposed to be making sure the people building your home aren’t cheats, liars or swindlers is asleep at the wheel, Ontario’s auditor general has found. From me and Steve Cornwell. #onpoli www.thetrillium.ca/insider-news...
Become a Trillium insiderwww.thetrillium.caBREAKING: The Ford govt has given groups hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars against the advice of civil servants who’d evaluated their applications, per Ontario’s auditor general. @thetrillium.bsky.social has been covering this story in depth. #onpoli www.thetrillium.ca/news/politic...
BREAKING: Ford government skills training funding ‘not fair, transparent or accountable’: auditor generalFord government labour ministers overruled civil servants to fund skills training by groups with lobbyists, according to a scathing new reportwww.thetrillium.caFacing pressure from above, Ontario's psychologist regulator has voted to cut training requirements and allow unlimited exam attempts. It's a fascinating debate. What's more important: the highest bar for mental health docs — or more of them? #onpoli www.thetrillium.ca/news/health/...
College looks to cut psychologist training requirements, citing Ford government changesNational association warns proposal a ‘serious threat to public safety’www.thetrillium.caPremier Doug Ford says speed cameras don't slow people down. They do. #onpoli www.thetrillium.ca/news/municip...
Ontario to ban speed cameras, fund other road-calming measures insteadFord makes series of false claims in announcementwww.thetrillium.caOntario's highest court will now decide whether Doug Ford's government can have its way with three major Toronto bike lanes. #onpoli www.thetrillium.ca/news/municip...
Ford government appeals decision blocking its bike lane removalsLower court 'exceeded its jurisdiction' and 'made multiple errors of law', Ontario argueswww.thetrillium.ca