Doug Ford tells Trudeau not to help the homeless in Ontario.

‘Jurisdictional creep’: Doug Ford slams feds for directly giving municipalities funding for housing

Ontario Premier Doug Ford is calling on the federal government to end a program that offers municipalities funding to boost their housing supply, suggesting that Ottawa is overstepping its jurisdiction.

“You can’t have a federal government going into a certain town or certain city and dumping funding and not even discussing it with the province,” Ford said in Halifax at a meeting of Canada’s premiers on Monday.

“That’s unacceptable. We call it jurisdictional creep.”

The program in question is the Housing Accelerator Fund, a $4-billion pledge meant to incentivize municipalities to update their zoning and permit systems to allow for faster construction of housing.

Multiple Ontario municipalities have already signed agreements with the federal government, including London ($74 million) and Vaughan ($59 million).

The City of Mississauga has been working with the federal government to secure $120 million in funding. The money was revoked after Mississauga city council voted to prevent four-unit homes, otherwise known as fourplexes, from being built within city limits.

Mayor Bonnie Crombie reversed the decision using strong mayor powers in hopes of getting the federal government to reconsider the funding. |Read more https://www.cp24.com/news/jurisdictional-creep-doug-ford-slams-feds-for-directly-giving-municipalities-funding-for-housing-1.6633391| cp24.com/news/jurisdictional-c…

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Edmonton activist protests climate crisis with demonstration in AB legislature

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The way Michael Kalmanovitch sees it, he had no choice but to raise a ruckus inside the Chamber of the Alberta Legislature moments after Monday’s Throne Speech.

The world is afire with climate change, he said, and governments are doing nothing – or, even worse, like Alberta’s, actually working hard to make things worse in the name of profit.

Kalmanovitch, well known in Edmonton as the founder and owner for 31 years of Earth’s General Store on Whyte Ave. until his retirement last year, said he regrets embarrassing Marlin Schmidt, his NDP MLA, who invited him to sit with other guests inside the Legislative Chamber Monday afternoon.

But he has no regrets about disrupting the ceremonial occasion. Such tactics are peaceful, and they work, he argued.

“If we stand on the outside of the halls of power … and ask them, even demand, that they do something good. You know what? They do not listen. We need to occupy those halls, instead of demanding from the outside,” Kalmanovitch said.

When Kalmanovitch took his own advice and cried out in the Legislature, the reaction to his one-man protest was swift. The Legislature’s Sergeant-at-Arms dragged him off the chair he’d stood upon, and hauled him out of the Chamber. Kalmanovitch could be heard shouting as he was escorted from the room. |Read more https://rabble.ca/politics/canadian-politics/edmonton-activist-protests-climate-crisis-with-demonstration-in-ab-legislature/| rabble.ca/politics/canadian-po…

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