Music-“Open The Floodgates”-The Smile, “Drowning Simulator”-Effigy Girl The Ontario Government’s recent passing of Bill 23, in a supposed attempt to end our housing crisis, has in effect ended the 17 year moratorium Ontario had on our Greenbelt. This Bill will, among many other things, override municipal powers on the (false?)premise that More Housing=Affordable Housing under the terms of a few private developers. Mary-Ellen Abberger led a protest at Landsdowne and Park on November 26th in protest of Bill23. This was part of a larger contingency of protests against Bill 23 that are happening across the province. Sadly, you have to hear my suspicion of both Bill 23 and the Ontario government’s connection with the developers. To see Mary-Ellen look on https://www.facebook.com/maryellen.abberger/or check out https://forourgrandchildren.ca/

Correction: Mary Ellen has informed us that she mis-spoke regarding changes to Inclusionary Zoning (IZ) requirements in Bill 23. The changes that were made to Inclusionary Zoning requirements for municipalities will actually prevent the creation of sufficient affordable housing, as the new IZ requirements are weaker than those that were in place in many municipalities before Bill 23 was proposed and passed.