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Meet the Toronto Raptors' newest player
The Toronto Raptors are hoping to continue the trend of finding homegrown talent and turning them into stars with Brampton's A.J. Lawson. The player has just signed a new two-year contract with the team after originally signing in December. CBC's Dwight Drummond sat down with him to talk all things Toronto.
#basketball #sports #contract #Toronto #Brampton
cbc.ca/player/play/9.6743394?c

Laing argues that eliminating the consumer carbon tax further strains municipalities and residents, who are already working with limited financial flexibility. Without this crucial revenue, local governments will struggle to fund necessary climate-related infrastructure projects and disaster response efforts
canadian-accountant.com/conten

Canadian Accountant - Accounting News, Business & Finance · Brampton: The Carbon Tax Gamble – The ‘cost of climate inaction’ will be bigger than short-term relief at the pumpBy Anushka Yadav

Well, I’m not drenched any more, nor am I frigid any more, but I *was* over two hours late for dinner tonight, and my trust in #Brampton Transit is exhausted in the wake of a four-hour reverse commute tonight during a just-this-side-of-*biblical* deluge of freezing rain on my way home to #Toronto this evening. Schedule adherence does *not* mean “we’ll come if we feel like it and if it isn’t too much like work”.

Trump, tariffs top of mind for Brampton voters ahead of federal election
With Canada's federal election just weeks away, political leaders will be looking to secure votes in battleground areas like the GTA. CBC's David Common breaks down the top issues of voters in one of the fastest-growing suburban ridings around Toronto: Brampton.
#politics #election #economics #Brampton #Toronto #GTA
cbc.ca/player/play/9.6705499?c

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In recent years, there's been a move to digitize and making freely available online whatever people can get there hands on. Some of this is legally dubious, but most is totally legit.

For the past few years, I've taught a course on the history of #PeelRegion - #Mississauga, #Brampton & #Caledon, a mainly urban area that, if it were one city, would be the third largest in #Canada, just behind Montreal. There exists a minuscule body of academic histories of the region.

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