“The Premier can’t give your kids a safe classroom, but he can put more police on the street to arrest them,” Toronto city councillor Gord Perks said in a tweet.
Infrastructure failings mean Ontario schools are primed for spreading disease, teachers warn
The windows on Vamvalis’ floor do not open, and ventilation is poor.
Vamvalis lives with a chronic lung condition, and the air quality in her
school has always exacerbated the problem. Before the COVID-19
pandemic, she worked with the school’s caretakers to try to improve the
ventilation through regular filter changes with little success.
Ontario Yours to Protect! – Zombie quarry stalks Burlington’s Escarpment – Environmental Defence
They are also alarmed by the increasing heavy gravel truck traffic on the rural roads and the irritation caused by the dust and vibration associated with the blasting and the trucks used to haul the rock.
Additional concerns include the possibility of contaminated fill being added to Nelson Aggregate’s current quarry site and the threatening impact this could have on the future safety of drinking well water.
If the quarry goes ahead it will lead to the permanent destruction of 124 additional acres of prime farmland and green space in the increasingly urban GTHA. Promises of future restoration decades into the future do not offset the impacts of the destruction of these precious open spaces in Burlington’s backyard.
This is not new.
According to Security and Exchange Commission information, the OTPP has owned shares in Lockheed Martin dating back to at least 2011.
Lockheed Martin is the world’s biggest arms manufacturer. In 2017, the company’s arms sales totalled US44.9 billion and it recorded a profit of US$2 billion.
Its operations are not without controversy.
If passed, Bill 195 would allow employers to override collective
agreement provisions and the grievance arbitration procedure for
Ontario’s frontline workers. The very workers your government has
depended on to bring us to the possibility of reopening the economy are
the ones being thrown under the bus through this proposed legislation.
It is appalling that the rights of these workers are at stake –
especially at a time when they are being rightfully touted as heroes and
heroines.
It is difficult to comprehend the degree of stress nurses and other
health care workers are currently under. Over the course of the
pandemic, I have heard regularly from nurses about having to sleep in
their basement after working a double shift, being deprived of the
chance to spend time with loved ones. They are terrified of contracting
the virus and are deeply frustrated by the lack of PPE made available in
their workplaces.