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#MayorFillmore #TimHouston take note for your war against residents: Today's Ontario court ruling said "The evidence shows that restoring lanes for cars will not result in less congestion, as it will induce more people to use cars and therefore any reduction in driving time will be short-lived, if at all, and will lead to more congestion," said Schabas in his decision.

#OnPoli #NSPoli #BikeLanes #VisionZero

cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ont

CBCOntario court strikes down Ford government's plan to remove Toronto bike lanes | CBC NewsAn Ontario court has deemed the province's plan to remove three major Toronto bike lanes unconstitutional. A spokesperson for Ontario's transportation minister said the government will appeal.

This is absolutely unbelievable, that your health records in #NovaScotia could be accessed so easily.

Premier had data leaks affecting 1 million Nova Scotians that has not been addressed, and a Privacy Minister #TimHouston won't grant power to do her job.

#Dalhousie University and #NovaScotia Health are refusing interviews to discuss the situation after a Nova Scotian woman learned that a fellow student snooped repeatedly in her medical records. #NSHealth #NSpoli

cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia

CBCShe only learned her privacy had been breached by filing an access to information request | CBC NewsA woman in Nova Scotia says people should not assume their health records are safe from snooping, something she discovered for herself only after filing an access to information request.
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Other Canadian politicians are weighing in w/retaliatory measures of their own. #TimHouston, the premier of #NovaScotia, said American companies would no longer be able to bid on provincial procurement contracts & could see their existing contracts cancelled. “Unfortunately, some people need to touch the hot stove to learn, & while we cannot control or predict their behaviour, we can control how we respond,” Houston said in a post.

The bill is only *controversial* to Premier #TimHouston who is on his own addenda since reelection. None of his activates, public or private, are in line with Healthcare, GST or anything he promised Nova Scotians. He should be fired for dereliction of duty

NS Premier Tim Houston says there will likely be changes to legislation that the province’s freedom of information commissioner says weakens the public’s right to access government records and documents.
globalnews.ca/news/11050622/no #NSpoli

Global News · Nova Scotia premier says changes likely to controversial freedom of information billBy The Canadian Press

#Canada - The Halifax Examiner is responding to Tim Houston's bid to Dismantle Democracy

> Now, though, autocrats are much more likely to pretend to operate within the democratic system. Rather than seizing power, he said, many times, leaders will keep the trappings of a republic, while incrementally eliminating the institutions that enable competition. It’s the “dismantling of democracy from the inside,” halifaxexaminer.ca/dismantling #NSpoli #TimHouston