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Amy Coulterman retweeted
Elon Musk is an idiot on an almost inconceivable scale. He had his high-school toadies pull a random list from a database he doesn’t understand, and on that basis alone decided that 60 MILLION SOCIAL SECURITY ENROLLEES, out of 72 million total, are fraudulent. 83% fraudulent!
Amy Coulterman retweeted
After several delays, @DOGE has finally posted its purported savings. Why did it take so long to create a simple webpage with a 1000-row table? Who knows! Let's dig in.
Headline number: $55B saved. They list the savings per nixed contract. This should be easy to verify then.
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It's Monday. @DOGE is the laziest, most overpaid bunch of incompetent, unelected bureaucrats we've ever seen.
Amy Coulterman retweeted
Ford majority passes law to use largest budget item to subsidize private for-profit health care, a plan never raised during the election just one year ago cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/o…
Amy Coulterman retweeted
NEW: A wealth tax on the super rich would raise an estimated $32 billion in the first year and $409 billion over ten years.
Enough to pay for pharmacare, free tuition, 100K affordable homes per year & a major increase in public transit investment combined policynote.ca/wealth-tax-2/
Amy Coulterman retweeted
As of today, Belgians biking to/from work can receive compensation of €0.27/km ($0.48 mile).
For someone with a modest 5 km commute, that amounts to ~€54/month.
brusselstimes.com/358636/all…
Amy Coulterman retweeted
Rising food prices are a chronic trend in Canada—and the main driver isn't COVID-19, war in Ukraine or farmers charging more.
It's oligopolistic companies taking ever-larger pieces of the pie, as farmers and consumers get screwed, @emmapaling reports.
breachmedia.ca/2023-food-pri…
Amy Coulterman retweeted
NEW: Ford Conservatives voted against the Ontario NDP motion to bring in REAL rent control for ALL buildings. (33 yes - 67 no)
Rents for a one-bedroom apartment is now over $3K a month for the first time ever in Toronto. Minister of Housing led the charge to oppose our motion.
Amy Coulterman retweeted
“In Finland, the # of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.” scoop.me/housing-first-finla…
Amy Coulterman retweeted
Don't let anti-renter NIMBYs like this guy dominate the conversation on legalizing multiplexes.
Register your support for multiplexes by filling out @CityPlanTO's survey today. Time is running out and this is what we're up against! s.cotsurvey.chkmkt.com/?e=30…
Amy Coulterman retweeted
Public space taken up by:
TTC rider: 6 square feet
Parking spot: 156 square feet
Fine for non-payment:
TTC rider: $235-$425
Car: $30-$50
Cost of fine per square foot:
TTC rider: $39 - $71
Car: $0.19 - $0.32
TTC riders pay 121X - 374X more per sqft of public space misused.
Amy Coulterman retweeted
The Toronto Parking Authority runs @BikeShareTO.
It is proposing to increase bikeshare fees to 12-20 cents/minute.
Meanwhile, this same organization charges just 1.6 to 13 cents/minute to let an empty car take up 155 sqft of space.
Casual @BikeShareTO users could be charged $1 unlock fee and then 12-20 cents/minute. Annual members will continue to get unlimited 30- or 45-minute use, it appears, though they would pay 10 cents/minute for power-assist bikes (if you can ever find one)
secure.toronto.ca/council/ag…
Amy Coulterman retweeted
The city’s climate plan calls for transit to be free. Yet, the TTC is resuming fines.
The fine for evading a $3.10 fare? $425.
How much are you charged when you drive an astounding and incredibly dangerous 40km/h over speed limit?
Just $280.
cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/t…
Amy Coulterman retweeted
Pretty much everything @fordnation just said about the Greenbelt at the presser just now is false or misleading. Quick fact checking thread. #onpoli
Amy Coulterman retweeted
My favourite charts from this year's Oxfam Davos report, Survival of the Richest. 1/9
Amy Coulterman retweeted
What is something that the very wealthy inherit more of from their parents?
This paper shows the answer is "a job." In Canadian data, on average 40% of all kids worked at some point at the same place of work as their dad, but for the top 1%, it is 70%. iza.org/publications/dp/4819
Amy Coulterman retweeted
A Dutch supermarket chain introduced slow checkouts for people who enjoy chatting, helping many people, especially the elderly, deal with loneliness.
The move has proven so successful that they installed the slow checkouts in 200 stores.
Amy Coulterman retweeted
SPEAK OUT at the police board meeting this Monday January 9th
say no to @JohnTory's plan to give millions to cops while starving city services
sign up by Friday at Noon: tpsb.ca/meetings-mobile/maki… or call 416-808-8080
make your deputation in person, virtually, or in writing
Amy Coulterman retweeted
1) A 🧵…. If you have been following the controversy about the Ford government’s plans to redevelop the West Island of Ontario Place into a private spa, you might be interested in some of these excerpts from the Province’s 2013 Statement of Cultural Heritage Value:
Amy Coulterman retweeted
Average rents in the GTA have increased 50% faster than median renter household incomes between 2006 and 2021.
Two reasons: existing apartments got more expensive and new builds are mainly high rent condos. #AffordableHousing
wellesleyinstitute.com/housi……