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MPP for University-Rosedale | jbell-co @ndp .on.ca | 416 535 7206 |

Toronto, Ontario

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Jessica Bell

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Presse Internationale has been on Bloor St W for almost two decades. It’s a small business that helps to create a thriving main street, but next month it is closing because of an unaffordable $4,000 rent hike. It doesn’t have to be this way. It’s time to look into commercial

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Jessica Bell

2 years

Today, @fordnation introduced legislation to remove the rights of education workers to negotiate a fair deal. Here's the facts: Education workers earn an average of 39K a year. 2/3 are women. 1/3 rely on food banks to survive. 1/2 have a second job. They deserve better.

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Jessica Bell

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This is the part of the Greenbelt that's being rezoned to permit development. That area in red is owned by the De Gasperis family, a huge PC party donor. 1/

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Jessica Bell

2 years

Not once in my time in office has a resident told me that Toronto is in dire need of an exclusive spa and an expensive amusement park. I do hear many requests for more free public parks, playgrounds, swimming pools with longer opening hours, and community centres. #Onpoli

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Ontario Place for All ©

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All the red dots are trees that will have to be removed.

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Jessica Bell

3 years

A Dr from one of Toronto’s major hospitals just called me, demanding #PaidSickDaysNow . He said: ICUs are full. Italy and NY we couldn’t foresee, but what is happening here, a year later, is a preventable human tragedy caused by failed public policy @fordnation @celliottability

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Jessica Bell

2 years

Ford gov’t just passed Bill 23, a sweeping pro-sprawl bill that harms affordability, municipalities, farmland and the precious Greenbelt. Ontarians will grapple with the consequences of this damaging bill for years. #onpoli

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Jessica Bell

2 years

Wow - the PC government just shut down committee hearings on Bill 23, the most sweeping land-use planning bill in years. The City of Toronto was next up to speak about the bill’s impact on Canada’s largest city. Now they are shut out. #onpoli #bill23

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Jessica Bell

6 years

Blown away by the student walkout at Rosedale Heights School of the Arts happening right now. 500+ students standing up and showing us all how it's done. Powerful speeches, heartfelt original songs, & lots of dance breaks. #StudentsSayNo #cutshurtkids #NoCutsToEducation #onpoli

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Jessica Bell

1 year

New evidence shows that the Conservatives used a rigged and secretive process to allow Therme to build an exclusive luxury spa at Ontario Place. We're debating a motion this afternoon calling for the contract to be cancelled. #onpoli

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Marit Stiles

1 year

Today, the @OntarioNDP revealed that we obtained documents from Infrastructure Ontario containing mounting evidence of a Conservative rigged process for the #OntarioPlace redevelopment. Watch below ⬇️ #ONpoli

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2 years

The public consultations show that Doug Ford is completely out of touch with what Ontarians want. Ontarians want homes to be affordable, farmland to remain farmland, and Greenbelt protection. We are outraged. #onpoli

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Ford government forges ahead with Greenbelt development plan despite 'broad opposition' in public...

The Ontario government has officially removed environmental protection for approximately 2,995 hectares of Greenbelt land in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area (GTHA) despite widespread opposition...

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Jessica Bell

4 years

You can't make this stuff up. On Apr 17 @fordnation + @Sflecce said 21,000 new iPads were on the way to families in need to support online learning. The truth is school boards won’t get a single extra device. They took credit for devices already owned/distributed by school boards😡

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Jessica Bell

2 years

The Ford government just voted to make Bill 39 a law, marking the moment when undemocratic minority rule arrived to Ontario. Democracy is a fundamental human right, it is never unnecessary red tape. #onpoli

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Jessica Bell

3 years

This is 666 Spadina Ave. This entire floor has only three occupied units. Residents tell me the entire building is 60% empty. Will Toronto apply its vacant home tax to these rentals? This is why we need a provincial vacant home tax. #ONPoli #TOPoli #Affordablehousingnow

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Jessica Bell

1 year

There are now over 25,000 listings in Toronto on @Airbnb , and more than 20,000 are for properties rented for 28 days or more. These mid-term rentals don't register with the city, or follow city rules. Airbnb is morphing into a rental company.

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Jessica Bell

2 years

To pressure the PC government to double social assistance, myself and my MPP colleagues are living on a “welfare diet” grocery budget of $47.60 a week. We encourage the Minister of Social Services Merrilee Fullerton to join us and double the rates. #onpoli

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Jessica Bell

2 years

The collapse in housing starts tells us a clear story: to build the homes we need at the scale we need them built at, government must resume its traditional role of building, investing, and financing housing. The private sector cannot meet the needs of Ontarians on its own.

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Jessica Bell

4 years

Today in the legislature, I honoured the life and legacy of Karima Mehrab, the Balochi human rights activist who was found dead in Lake Ontario in December. I join calls for a full & independent investigation of her death.

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Jessica Bell

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Conservatives just voted to cancel the GO TTC fare discount, which will cost GO riders who use the TTC $720 more a year. Ford is not a friend to commuters.

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Jessica Bell

2 years

People are fighting back against #Bill23 . We say NO to paving over the Greenbelt, and YES to affordable housing, good public services and infrastructure, and renter protections. #Greenbelt #onpoli

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1 year

The Conservatives don't care one bit about affordability. If Premier Ford was serious about making homes affordable, he'd bring in strong rent control, including vacancy control, on all rental homes. No one can afford a 20% rent hike. #Onpoli @

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Average Toronto rent prices just skyrocketed by a shocking amount

Toronto's rent prices continued their meteoric ascent in April, and it will now cost you a shocking average of $2,822 to rent a home in Canada's ec...

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Jessica Bell

3 months

Here we are at the intersection of Bloor St and Avenue Rd. I have never seen this many people at a memorial ride for a killed cyclist. We are mourning. We are angry. We demand safe streets.

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Jessica Bell

2 months

It is quite simply terrible that 234,000 Ontarians are homeless. That number is NINE times higher than the Auditor General's earlier estimate. Don't think for a second the Conservatives published this figure. The statistic was unearthed by The Trillium through a Freedom of

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Jessica Bell

2 years

Ford is continuing his steady concentration of power and erosion of democratic norms. Now, he wants to hand pick a chief justice, politicizing Ontario’s legal system, whose independence keeps government in check. #onpoli

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‘An aberration’: Ford government’s process to select next chief justice violates separation of...

The provincial government is taking control over the selection of the next chief justice of the Ontario Court of Justice using a process the judges say “will erode public confidence” in the courts,...

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Jessica Bell

4 months

On a frrday afternoon heading into a long weekend, the Conservatives quietly announce they're making renting even more expensive by greenlighting the maximum legally allowed rent hike of 2.5 percent in 2025. This is so messed up. #onpoli .

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Jessica Bell

2 years

A new report from the FAO has found that the Ford government is withholding $6.4 billion from health care, education, justice and children’s services. The budget is set to be tabled March 23. We need to invest in community, infrastructure and the people of Ontario. #onpoli

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Jessica Bell

2 years

This morning, the Government voted down our motion to let the city protect renters if their home is demolished or renovated by guaranteeing their return once construction is complete. #Bill23 will mean more renters will be evicted, and more renters will pay unaffordable rent.

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Jessica Bell

2 years

This new report proves that Ontario doesn’t need to open up farmland and Greenbelt land to address our housing supply shortage. That’s why we are calling for Greenbelt protection, a freezing of municipal boundaries, and more density in areas people already live in. #onpoli

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New report from the Alliance for a Liveable Ontario - we have the land for over 2 million homes already!!! Read the full report here: #HamOnt #ONpoli

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Minister Calandra needs to understand very quickly that Ontarians don't want a review to justify taking more land out of the Greenbelt, they want all land returned immediately. #Onpoli

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Jessica Bell

9 months

Giving Staples a secret contract to provide a government service is a classic Conservative move: help your donor friends at the expense of our public services.

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Marit Stiles

9 months

Media reports are confirming that the Ford Conservatives intend to use public money—our money—to retrofit Staples locations with ServiceOntario kiosks. The government MUST come clean about the details behind this decision. 🧵 #ONpoli

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2 years

This looks suspicious. Farmland can be bought cheap, and then sold off or developed for incredible profit when the land is rezoned for sprawl. The Auditor General needs to investigate. 2/

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Jessica Bell

2 years

Former Mayor John Sewell is disrupting proceedings because he has been denied the right to speak to Bill 23, one of many people who have been denied. #onpoli @SteveClarkPC - I am calling on you to extend the hearings.

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Jessica Bell

2 years

The Ontario government has just released a new proposed regulation requiring 29 municipalities to report quarterly on their progress to meet the 1.5 million home target. First thing I noticed is there's no requirement to track new affordable homes, or unit size. #Onpoli 1/

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Jessica Bell

2 years

When courts uphold workers’ rights by repealing Bill 124, Ford’s next move is to give himself the power to politicize the judiciary and handpick the top judge.Coincidence?

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Jessica Bell

2 years

Debate on #Bill39 went deep into the night last night, and the bill is expected to go to a final vote this morning after question period. Ford is mistaken if he thinks Ontario will forget his deceit with the Greenbelt and authoritarian ways come next election.

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Jessica Bell

2 years

Bill 39 is an assault to the environment and democracy. I'll be interviewing Minister Clark on the first day of hearings, and I'll be bringing this map up. If you have other questions for me to ask Minister Clark, please let me know. 3/

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3 years

To cleanup the $30B in GTA housing linked to money laundering, I've introduced a bill requiring Ontario to establish a public land registry that discloses the true human owners of all Ontario properties. Sunlight is a powerful disinfectant. @ainsleysmithy

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Nearly $30 Billion in GTA Housing Linked to Money Laundering

As home prices in the GTA continue to rise, it's being said that a major contributor to the rising prices is money laundering.

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Jessica Bell

8 months

Ontarians are being told the “the Get it Done Act” will save them money from license plate renewals, driver’s license fees, tolls on highways that don’t even have tolls, and carbon taxes. This is not what the bill is about. It’s really about Sprawl 2.0 and giving huge gifts to

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Jessica Bell

2 years

Today, I was removed from the legislature for protesting @Fordnation 's plan to violate the charter rights of education workers. The gov't must return to the table and negotiate a deal. Invest in kids. Invest in schools. #39kIsNotEnough #onpoli #onted

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Jessica Bell

4 years

Could have been us. Should be us. Instead we're in halfway mockdown hell.

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This week, New Zealand marked the one year anniversary of their first lockdown. They listened to science, acted hard, and moved fast. On the anniversary, Jacinda Ardern spoke to her people. She didn't boast, or take any credit. She just wanted to say thank you. #Leadership

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Jessica Bell

2 years

Because Ford's bill 23 gives developers a tax break, Ontarians are paying more. Municipalities have been forced to increase property taxes while decreasing services. The Ford gov't promised to make these municipalities whole. So far, we’ve seen no plan to follow through. #onpoli

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Jessica Bell

2 years

They have political power. We have people power. People power always prevails, provided we exercise it.

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Jessica Bell

1 year

Who pays somebody to produce nothing?

@CityNewsTO

CityNews Toronto

1 year

A FOI request from an NDP MPP found that there were no recommendations, reports or advice from Mark Saunders while he was a Special Advisor on Ontario Place development. @TinaYazdani

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Jessica Bell

4 years

Just spoke to a principal in my riding. All kids will be closer than two metres, except in the gym. Teachers don't have class assignments or class lists as classes are being collapsed. There's no librarian. Daily schedule hasn't been worked out yet either. School starts Tue.

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Jessica Bell

6 years

So impressed by the student walkout at Harbord Collegiate Institute! Inspiring to see hundreds of students stand up for what’s right and take back their education #StudentsSayNo #CutsHurtKids #ONpoli

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Jessica Bell

3 years

When Alexi returned home after getting a vaccine he found his landlord had changed the locks and removed his belongings. This is an illegal eviction that took place during the stay-at-home order that bans all evictions. 1/4

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Jessica Bell

6 months

Yesterday, parents from Kensington Community School came to Queen's Park to ask the Minister of Education why he thinks it's okay to starve the TDSB to the point where it's sticking kids in a grade 4,5,6 split class. Our kids deserve better. The TDSB is asking for a new funding

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Jessica Bell

3 months

No one wants an LCBO strike. Respect for workers should not be a tall order.⁠

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Jessica Bell

3 years

#AZ first, #Moderna second. I took what I was offered, and I am so grateful for it. Thank you modern medicine. This #GenXer is happy and thankful.

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Jessica Bell

3 years

Just met with a constituent and cyclist who asked me to support the Idaho Stop for cyclists. The Idaho Stop would allow cyclists to treat a stop sign as a yield sign, and a red light as a stop sign. What do you think? @CycleToronto

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Why doesn’t Canada allow cyclists to use the ‘Idaho Stop’?

The idea of a rolling stop – often called the Idaho Stop – has slowly been gaining momentum across the U.S

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Jessica Bell

2 years

It appears the PCs are going to permit green building standards to remain. Over 100 pages of amendments to #Bill23 are planned for clause-by-clause tomorrow - many of them are ours. Here's what we know. #onpoli

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Jessica Bell

3 years

I support the call to have eye services funded by #OHIP . It's nonsensical to have a publicly funded health care system that doesn't provide care for parts of our bodies, like our eyes and teeth.

@shaw_sandy

Sandy Shaw MPP

3 years

Unfortunately Doug Ford has done nothing to protect Ontarian’s access to OHIP insured eyecare! My letter urging the Minister to act! #SaveEyeCare

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Jessica Bell

5 months

A tenant contacted us about a court decision forcing tenants to pay their landlord's delinquent tax bill to the CRA. When he asked the CRA what to do, they told him to withhold 25% of his rent. His landlord then threatened eviction. This is unfair—no tenant should risk eviction

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Jessica Bell

1 year

This is shocking. Investors own 30 per cent of Canada’s housing stock, up from 20 per cent in 2020. Lax rules on speculation have destroyed the hopes and dreams of first-time home buyers. What is Ford's plan to increase home ownership rates?

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Investors took a bigger chunk of housing market during the pandemic, data shows

Investors own 30 per cent of Canada’s housing stock, up from 20 per cent in 2020, Bank of Canada says.

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Jessica Bell

5 months

Did you know the Canada Revenue Agency can go after a tenant if their non-resident landlord doesn’t pay their tax bill? To avoid this, the CRA is telling tenants to withhold 25 % of their rent to pay their landlord’s delinquent tax bill. The catch? Tenants can be evicted for

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Jessica Bell

2 years

We braved the storm and rallied to stand up for public health care! Thanks to all who joined. Tomorrow there are @ontarionurses picket lines. Visit their site for your closest location and don’t forget the “welcome” back Doug Ford protest this Saturday!

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Jessica Bell

2 years

We did a scan and found that nearly every municipality across the Greater Golden Horseshoe Area is being forced to hike taxes and freeze or cut service because of rising costs and Bill 23. #onpoli via @cp24

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Toronto, Canada & Global Breaking News – CP24

Most recent News News business news stories and video from CP24

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Jessica Bell

6 years

Thank you to everyone who cast a ballot in this election. I cannot wait to represent #UniRose in the legislature. Together we will stand strong for our community. I am humbled by tonight’s outcome in our riding.

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Jessica Bell

4 years

A year ago today @fordnation cut public health funding. Bad decision.

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Jessica Bell

11 months

The Feds gave the provinces bucket loads of money for housing and healthcare, and Ontario decided to horde it. No wonder the Feds are bypassing them.

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Rob Shaw

11 months

One of the more interesting things to come out of Council of Federation meeting with premiers today is call on Ottawa to stop signing one-off housing funding deals with munis (ex: housing accelerator fund) and put money through provinces first. Provinces considering legislation.

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Jessica Bell

2 years

Ontario should be working with municipalities to build more homes and increase density in areas already zoned for development to spur the construction of more affordable homes, not multi-million-dollar homes on farmland. #onpoli

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Jessica Bell

2 years

ACTION ALERT! Join me this coming Monday, January 23 at noon in front of the Sheraton Centre (123 Queen St W) as we stand in solidarity with to protect the greenbelt. To RSVP go to .

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Jessica Bell

1 year

We need to get serious about helping people buy their first home by making it more expensive for people to buy their third, fourth and fifth home. This data is very concerning.

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Jeremy Withers

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StatsCan finds investors own a huge share of housing in Ontario’s 10 largest urban areas.🧵 In Toronto investors own: 37% of condo apartments 9% to 16% of houses 57% of condo apartments built in the past 5 years 14% to 32% of houses built past 5 years ()

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Jessica Bell

9 months

This landlord has harassed these tenants for months, and when the tenant gives up and leaves the company converts the apartment into a weekly illegal short-term rental. This building is a very sorry case study of the province's failure to protect renters.

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Tenants without heat, hot water for weeks as landlord struggles with repairs at Toronto apartment...

Residents of a downtown apartment building in Toronto’s Church-Wellesley neighborhood have been without heat and hot water since Dec. 19, when Enbridge shut off the gas due to serious safety concerns...

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Jessica Bell

7 months

The Ford Conservatives are telling Ontarians that if you cannot afford a single detached home, you may not be welcome in the neighbourhood you want to call home. This is a gut-punch for the millions of Ontarians currently struggling to pay rent, or save up for their first home.

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Jessica Bell

5 months

The CRA is completely out of touch with the reality of renters. The CRA needs to stop targeting renters and come up with a better plan to compel landlords to pay their fair share of tax. @the_cra

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Jack Hauen

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The CRA confirms that tenants are responsible for withholding 25% of their foreign landlords' rent and paying it to the CRA — something almost no one was aware of a month ago. "The Government of Canada continuously reviews the tax system to ensure it is both fair and efficient."

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Jessica Bell

2 years

Instead of using machinery to destroy an encampment, Toronto and Ontario should provide permanently affordable housing to people who have no home. What a cruel, heartless government we have.

@ESNParkdale

ESN Parkdale

2 years

Context from the clearing of the encampment at Richmond and Simcoe: Some of its residents were living at the Novotel shelter hotel just months ago. When the Novotel closed, they were kicked out of their homes with no place to go. Toronto has brutally displaced them once more.

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Jessica Bell

3 years

I am proud to say that all MPPs present voted for the Vulnerable Road Users Law tonight to bring in tougher penalties for careless drivers who kill or injure a pedestrian, cyclist or worker. The bill has now passed 2nd reading and will go to the Justice Committee. #FFSS #CycleTO

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Jessica Bell

11 months

Here's Doug Ford getting angry at the Federal government for making good decisions on housing funding and zoning rules without consulting with Ford first. Has Ford looked at his track record of consultation lately?

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TDot Resident

11 months

#ONpoli Doug Ford says that he “hopes the Feds will put and end to” the municipal funding deals??? Ford’s government just called affordable housing projects something from “communist Russia” and said they have no interest in building any of it!

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Jessica Bell

3 years

Household income needed to buy an average home in Toronto $205,400 Avg. household income of homeowners $133,300 Avg. household income of renters $65,900 Canada is experiencing the biggest and fastest rise in inequality in decades.

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How much income do I need to buy a home in Toronto? The answer is shocking

A red-hot housing market and tight mortgage rules might give prospective buyers sticker shock.

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Jessica Bell

2 years

Yesterday, #Bill39 left the Heritage, Infrastructure and Cultural Policy Committee unchanged, to head back to the legislature for third and final reading. Our goal is to stop the Bill and make it a political non-starter for any mayor to use minority rule.

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Jessica Bell

3 years

"Currently, investors account for one in five home purchases in Canada, according to a Bank of Canada review in May." We can't just solve the housing crisis by building new supply, we must also address the issue of who is buying the housing that is built.

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The Liberals promised to make housing more affordable. What if their policies do the opposite?

As housing prices in Canada continue to climb, experts are cautioning prospective buyers not to be too hopeful that the reelected Liberal government’s promises to help make homes more affordable will...

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Jessica Bell

3 years

The price of an average home has doubled since 2015 - because the Liberals have decided investor profits are more important than ensuring all Canadians have a home they can afford.

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The price of an average home has doubled since 2015 — and the Liberals say they have a plan to fix it.

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Jessica Bell

2 years

No one in Ontario should have to live in poverty. Proud to stand in solidarity with the Ontario Disability Coalition and @ODSPAction in calling on Ford double ODSP rates. #odsp #onpoli

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Jessica Bell

2 years

Doug Ford says one thing before an election and does something completely different once he has power. For the sake of our farmland, the natural environment and our future, we must protect our Greenbelt. #onpoli #greenbelt

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Jessica Bell

3 years

Today, I wrote a public letter and hosted a press conference calling for the Ontario government to establish a maximum temp. law for rentals. Climate change is making homes too hot and unsafe. We have a minimum temperature for winter; we should have a maximum one for summer.

@ONDPPressOffice

Ontario NDP Press Office

@ONDPPressOffice

3 years

NDP demands protections for renters living in hot apartments from @JessicaBellTO #onpoli

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Jessica Bell

2 years

The mass exodus of workers from Toronto and Ontario is a direct consequence of our decades-long failure to make homeownership and renting affordable. #onpoli

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‘A canary in the coal mine.’ People keep leaving Ontario in record numbers for affordable homes and...

Even after the pandemic and a return to work, out-migration to other provinces is soaring as Toronto loses its appeal.

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Jessica Bell

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I am calling on Doug Ford to release the rent supplement funding so municipalities can move people out of shelter beds and into rental homes. There's no excuse for this inaction on homelessness. #ONpoli

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My latest op-ed in @TheTorontoSun : @fordnation is sitting on $54 million for the Canada-Ontario Housing Benefit (COHB), a program that could house 1,500 people in @cityoftoronto right now. The money's already been allocated, so what is he even waiting for?

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Jessica Bell

1 year

We’ve had a Conservative government for over five years, and it’s never been more expensive to rent or buy a home. Ford’s plan is not working. #onpoli

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blogTO

1 year

Toronto rents hit new record high as two-bedroom prices jump more than 25% 😲 #Toronto #RealEstate #Rent

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Jessica Bell

3 years

“On June 2, 2022, Ontarians will be faced with a stark choice. Stay with a premier who’s on the side of speculators or choose an NDP government that will work to close the gap between people who own seven properties in Ontario and people who own none.”

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Changing the rules so more homes are for first-time buyers, not speculators

It’s also well past time to introduce an annual speculation and vacancy tax on residential property in Ontario. It would be a two per cent tax applied to speculators who pay the majority of their...

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Jessica Bell

1 year

Can the Federal government please explain why coops are exempt from the new GST rental rebate? The construction of non-market housing is key to solving our housing affordability crisis. @SeanFraserMP

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David Hulchanski

1 year

Canada Finance Dept. details released: New housing co-ops excluded from GST rebate. !? Why @cafreeland , @SeanFraserMP ? "The enhanced GST Rental Rebate will not apply to ... housing co-ops, and owned houses situated on leased land..."

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Jessica Bell

1 year

Minister Surma dismissed Ontario Place, saying “no one is going there. It is not being enjoyed.” 2.9 million visits later….. #onpoli

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TheTrillium.ca

1 year

2.9 million visited Ontario Place in 2022: internal letter

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Jessica Bell

11 months

The corruption embedded in Ford's Greenbelt deals with his developer friends, appears to have spread to Ford's generous cash transfers to the flourishing private health care sector as well. #Onpoli

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Here's how much Doug Ford's government pays a for-profit clinic to do OHIP-covered surgeries | CBC...

Premier Doug Ford’s government gives a for-profit clinic more funding to perform certain OHIP-covered surgeries than it gives Ontario’s public hospitals to perform the same operations, CBC News has...

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Jessica Bell

4 years

You might think that class sizes will be reduced if parents keep their kids at home. Not true. Class sizes will stay high and classes will be amalgamated because the funding formula is broken and @fordnation is not making class sizes smaller and safer.

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Erika Shaker

4 years

‘Ford didn’t appear to understand that when asked Monday about school classes being “collapsed,” and instead advised people to trust his news conferences rather than what’s on Twitter.’ #canlab #onted #COVID19 #UnSafeSeptemberON #onpoli

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Jessica Bell

9 months

Families are struggling to find safe, affordable homes and corporations are thriving on short-term illegal rentals. This photo of lock boxes at Bathurst and Lakeshore is a terrifying snapshot of how many units could be utilized in the long-term market. #housing #onpoli

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Jessica Bell

4 months

In this brutally hot weather, many renters are living in miserable and even dangerous living conditions because their home is too hot. I'm calling on Ontario to urgently establish a provincial maximum temperature for rentals, and permit tenants to safely install an AC unit to

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Jessica Bell

1 year

Lateef attended @BarrickGold AGM in May & raised concern over a mining agreement that did not have consent from the ppl of Balochistan. The CEO told Lateef to "go back to Balochistan" where he could face persecution. Today, I stood in solidarity with our friend Lateef.

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Jessica Bell

6 months

There are thousands of people who use the Bloor Stop to get to the airport. This line is also a de facto commuter line for many who live in Toronto's west end. Please explain your thinking @Metrolinx .

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WB62

6 months

Starting late April: Every other UP Express train; one every 30 minutes, will be running express to and from Pearson Airport. UP Express trains will continue stopping at Bloor and Weston stations every 30 minutes. This is to allow airport travellers to use the service.

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Jessica Bell

1 year

Peggy Brekvald’s speech to MPPs about Bill 97 and the Conservatives new planning statement is a stark warning that Ontario’s farmland is under threat. #onpoli

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OFA Standing Committee Address on Bill 97

This week, Peggy Brekveld, President of Ontario Federation of Agriculture, addressed the Standing Committee on Heritage, Infrastructure and Cultural

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Jessica Bell

3 years

The Ford Government is forcing municipalities to expand their boundaries and permit urban sprawl on farmland at the same time as they are allowing municipalities to LOWER their density rules. This is anti-environment, anti-climate urban planning. #HamOnt residents are saying no.

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John-Paul Danko

3 years

The @OntarioPCParty spent 3 years setting growth regulations that lead to boundary expansions. After 90.4% of 18,387 #HamOnt residents said NO - the provincial government is now threatening Hamilton to force an expansion & destroy farmland. This is undemocratic & unacceptable.

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Jessica Bell

24 days

Doug Ford, once again, is putting his developer friends first, and everybody else second. This could be the Greenbelt scandal all over again.

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How developers will benefit from the Yonge subway route change – and why it’s raising the spectre...

The Premier’s office said the new route, chosen by Metrolinx, is “the best option” to serve the needs of the growing region.

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Jessica Bell

5 years

Mandatory e-learning is a way for this Conservative Government to cut education funding so they can give tax cuts to the rich. Teachers in the classroom is a better way for kids to learn than privatized online courses.

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Here For Students

@hereforstudents

5 years

Mandatory e-Learning would make Ontario the ONLY jurisdiction in North America to require more than one course. In Michigan, a recent study concluded that their online learning module has been a "failed experiment". RETWEET to tell @Sflecce that our kids aren't test subjects.

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Jessica Bell

4 years

This is the overcrowded reality of our school system. It’s time for proper funding, a real pandemic plan, lower class sizes and a new normal. C’mon @fordnation step up for our kids future and our province’s health.

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James Griffith

4 years

Started working on my classroom today. I have 33 desks (3 totally obstructed) and I need to find room for 3 more. It was 24.8 C in there on a mild day, no fans allowed. You can’t pack ppl in like this anywhere else in country, but #onted says it’s fine! #FireLecce

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Jessica Bell

1 year

Today in the legislature: The Ford govt finally introduced its legislation to return lands to the Greenbelt. We ask questions about the RCMP investigation into Ford. And, we push back against the Ford's shady deal with Therme spa & fight to keep Ontario Place public. #onpoli

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Jessica Bell

2 years

The unregulated short-term rental market is alive and well in Toronto, with upwards of 12,000 unlawful listings. At 55 Gerard St, you can rent a 600 sq ft apt for $5000 a month, if you sign a lease waiving your rights as a tenant.

Short Term Rentals Hurt Housing Affordability

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Jessica Bell

2 years

Thank you to the many people and organizations who have written to me about Bill 23. I am especially struck by the City of Toronto's briefing note that breaks down the Ontario government's radical reworking of the definition of "affordable housing". 1/

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Jessica Bell

5 years

Every child in Ontario deserves access to the educators and supports they need to learn and thrive. Thank you to Nicole and Kylie, two of the many parents in #UniRose who have spoken up about the impacts of Ford's #onted cuts on their kids. 👉ACT NOW:

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Jessica Bell

3 years

New NBC report shows that in Toronto, a household now needs to make $205K a year to afford an average home, and must save for 28 years for a down payment, 5X more than normal. Ford’s response is to cut housing $$ and form a task force to study the problem

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Jessica Bell

2 months

If it were about kids, then the Conservatives would allow safe consumption and treatment sites to be moved elsewhere, but instead, the government is banning new sites from opening up anywhere. This is just cheap and dangerous politics.

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Irwin Elman

2 months

What is obvious to ask is why a site 200 metres from a school is closed and not simply moved. It’s not about children. It’s not even about policy. It’s about money. Close some sites use the savings for these so called hubs.

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Jessica Bell

2 years

Over the next two weeks I’ll be living on a social assistance diet of $47.60 a week. The plan is to draw attention to the 900,000 people living on poverty-level Ontario Disability and Ontario Works payments, who have been ignored by governments for too long.

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Jessica Bell

5 years

Dear @JohnTory and Manager of Transportation Services, Barbara Gray, please change the roads rules to make it easier for people to walk on streets and practice physical distancing. The sidewalks are too narrow. #UniRose residents are asking, and I agree with their request.

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