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The $616-million extension of Highway 427 near Toronto sits unused and off-limits to drivers amid a legal dispute between the Doug Ford government and the private consortium hired to build it, CBC News has learned.To the naked eye, the extension appears complete: the lanes are painted, road signs are up. Bridges and off-ramps have been built. Traffic lights are installed.But the provincial government has told CBC News the highway, built as part of a public-private partnership, can't open due to safety concerns.The consortium, LINK427, disputes that. In a lawsuit filed this week, it accuses the government of stalling the opening of the extension so it can delay paying the consortium more than $144 million it is owed.
That seems doubtful to me. Why would the government not want this to open, just to save themselves paying for the job immediately... $144 million?
Yeah, that doesn’t really make sense. More likely is shoddy work by the company. Which also doesn’t look very good for the Ford government.
Ontario Premier Ford finally emerges from his hideyHole!... and proceeds to (once again) blame Ontario's COVID-19 pandemic's third wave on the federal government's poor response in handling travel through "porous borders." DOFO actually labels the COVID-19 B.1.617 variant as, "the Indian Variant"... one that, "didn't swim here"! Meanwhile Public Health Ontario's own Apr 17-24 data shows travel related cases only accounted for... 1%... of total new infections - 1%!
1% that's 100% preventable. Why is anyone travelling right now?
Why was anyone travelling months ago?What was it about closing international airports that was so hard to get?
about those minuscule number of Ontario travel cases... case type data graphed showing travel as purple line barely registering - mostly returning Canadians... you know, sumthin bout the Charter & Mobility Rights
The Ontario PC party said Thursday it regrets sending fundraising letters labelled "invoice." The letters were blasted by opposition parties and those who received them as a scam meant to trick vulnerable people into donating to Premier Doug Ford's re-election fund.On Wednesday, Ontario Provincial Police confirmed it had received a complaint about the letters and is now looking into whether or not a criminal investigation should be launched. The Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre has also been notified, CBC News confirmed.