Category: Ontario

A new trouble for Ontario’s premier Doug Ford: the “MZOs”

TORONTO – There’s a new, big “trouble” for Premier Doug Ford, and it’s called MZO, which stands for “Minister’s Zoning Orders”, a powerful tool the Province can use to accelerate building development on a specific plot of land: basically, a minister can ignore local planning rules, avoid public consultation and change what can be built on the property. Well, the Ford government has distributed MZOs at an unprecedented rate: at least 110 since 2019. Previous Liberal governments had issued just 18 between 2003 and 2018. 

LTC in Marylake, many reasons against

TORONTO – Protests continue follow one after the other at the intersection of Keele St. and 15th Sideroad. It is the entrance way to the Shrine at Mary Lake. The construction/expansion project to demolish the Marylake Augustinian Monastery and “build” the St. Rita at Mary Lake Long Term Care Home (LTC) is raising the ire of local residents in King Township.