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Mark Chamberlain, Hamilton Spectator:
Ontario Place a $2-billion test of priorities! Private offshore or public interest? Housing vulnerable homeless people the province could save $3-5mil in public services!

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#Onpoli #DougFord #OntarioPlace #BoycottTherme #OntarioPlace4All
Redirecting half the funds for a revamped Ontario Place would have a big impact on housing, health care and public safety, Mark Chamberlain writes. Richard Lautens/Toronto Star file photo By Mark Chamberlain “If Ontario housed the roughly 8,000 people living in encampments, the province could save $300 million to $600 million every year in health care, police, and emergency services. Those savings would be felt immediately in communities like Hamilton, where hospitals operate under chronic pressure and municipalities struggle to fund front line services. At the same time, public reporting has put Ontario's exposure in the current Ontario Place plan at roughly $2.2 billion. Even redirecting half of that would free up $1.1 billion - enough to fund more than 3,000 permanent supportive homes and cut encampments by a third in one decisive move. Mark Chamberlain is the former chair of the Hamilton Roundtable for Poverty Reduction.” “Hamilton knows better than most what happens when housing shortages, mental-health gaps and strained emergency services collide. We see it in overcrowded emergency rooms, in paramedics stretched thin, and in police increasingly asked to manage social crises. We also see it in encampments — not as a failure of individuals, but as a failure of systems that respond to crisis instead of preventing it. That is why Ontario's plan to spend more than $2 billion relocating the Science Centre and subsidizing a private spa and massive parking garage at Ontario Place deserves a serious second look.” Because those same dollars could do something far more powerful. “People living in encampments cost public systems an estimated $60,000 to $100,000 per person every year through emergency health care, policing, courts, shelters, and crisis response. Permanent supportive housing costs about $25,000 a year - and dramatically reduces emergency service use. Providing permanent supportive housing is not just compassionate policy. It is smart public finance. If Ontario housed the roughly 8,000 people living in encampments, the province could save $300 million to $600 million every year in health care, police, and emergency services. Those savings would be felt immediately in communities like Hamilton, where hospitals operate under chronic pressure and municipalities struggle to fund front line services.” “If Ontario housed the roughly 8,000 people living in encampments, the province could save $300 million to $600 million every year in health care, police, and emergency services. Those savings would be felt immediately in communities like Hamilton, where hospitals operate under chronic pressure and municipalities struggle to fund front line services. At the same time, public reporting has put Ontario's exposure in the current Ontario Place plan at roughly $2.2 billion. Even redirecting half of that would free up $1.1 billion - enough to fund more than 3,000 permanent supportive homes and cut encampments by a third in one decisive move.”
January 24, 2026 at 4:41 PM
skaface.bsky.social
#biketo
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"We're on a road to nowhere"
January 13, 2026 at 10:18 PM
evdelen.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy
@christyceeck.bsky.social

Wow, that kind of a response to a media inquiry means a nerve has been touched.

Also, the use of the past-tense in the second paragraph, is that a tell?

#topoli #tocouncil #toronto #onpoli #ontario #ontarioplace #ontarioplacescam #ontarioplacescandal #ontarioplace4all
Excerpt from the originally linked article reading: “These risks are for the company and its shareholder to evaluate and manage, neither of whom have asked for the unsolicited opinions of these advisers,” Therme said. “Therme has had sufficient capital to continue its development projects.”
August 16, 2025 at 1:04 PM
greenpeaceca.bsky.social
STOP the anti-democratic, nature-destroying Bill 5 power grab >> act.gp/3HedPZP

#ONpoli #Ontario #DougFord #DougFordIsCorrupt #OntarioPlace #OntarioPlace4All #Bill5 #StopBill5
May 19, 2025 at 11:36 PM
alouzon.bsky.social
#OnPoli #Ontario
#OntarioPlace4All
#Therme
#FuckFord
peipolitical.bsky.social PEIPolitical 🇨🇦 @peipolitical.bsky.social · Dec 12
Ontario - The Therme Spa will have cost Ontarians $85.7 Billion after the 95 year lease is done.
The worst deal in the history of the province.
Nina Deeb
If the Province applies all the rent the tenant pays to the 2.237 billion debt, the balance owing at 95 years is $85.7 billion ⁦ #cdnpoli #onpoli
December 13, 2024 at 6:04 AM
janiek.bsky.social
When I hear Ford talk about how parks should be for families, I couldn't help think about how he destroyed #OntarioPlace4All and gave it to a foreign owned spa for the rich. #BoycottThermeCanada
December 12, 2024 at 10:04 PM
janiek.bsky.social
Sign the letter to Doug Ford and Kinga Surma to end this abomination of land use and abuse of tax payer money. #Onpoli #DougFord #OntarioPlace #BoycottTherme #OntarioPlace4All
December 12, 2024 at 3:06 PM
kristynwongtam.bsky.social
How would you prefer the Ontario Government spend the $400 per household Ford is spending for a luxury spa no one wants? #AskingForAProvince #OntarioPlace #ontarioplace4all #OnPoli #TorCen
December 6, 2024 at 4:06 PM
janiek.bsky.social
Current state of Ontario Place after all the trees were cut down under cover of darkness. Countless species of birds and animals were left homeless. #OntarioPlace4All #ThermeCanada #FordNation #OnPoli
Ontario Place after 1000 mature trees were cut down and species at risk left homeless.
December 5, 2024 at 2:36 PM
Will Ontarioplace4all have an account here?
November 20, 2024 at 12:29 PM
janniemcjanjan.bsky.social
Looks like a great place for growing mushrooms.
#ThermeSCAM
#OntarioPlace4All
October 25, 2024 at 2:44 AM