Dad, Grandpa, Former Teacher, Skateboarder, @OntarioNDP Shadow Minister for Sport, Technology, and Democratic Reform, MPP for Spadina—Fort York
Toronto, Ontario
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BREAKING: I’ve been ejected from the chamber today because I am FIGHTING for ALL WORKERS RIGHTS and HUMAN RIGHTS across Ontario.
FORD IS DEMOLISHING OUR DEMOCRACY so I’m STANDING UP and FIGHTING BACK. ✊
#ONTedSolidarity #ONTed #ONpoli
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Ford finally released the lease.
We are giving Therme a $1.5B subsidy and $1.4B in property, & they only have to pay us the full rent if they make a profit.
Our children, grandchildren, great grandchildren are going to be paying for this fiasco here at ON Place.
#ONpoli
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Trees are coming down at Ontario Place. This is absolutely shameful & a crime against future generations.
This is a forest & public parkland in downtown Toronto being destroyed for a private mega spa.
This destruction is being subsidized with $1.5 billion tax dollars.
#ONpoli
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BREAKING: 800,000 Ontarians are out of work. 1 in 6 young people can’t find a job—and Doug Ford has no plan to fix it.
“No Plan” Doug Ford is a Jobs Disaster.
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Every single Canadian should have access to clean drinking water. Full stop.
#ONpoli
Several dozen First Nations in Ontario called for the resignation of the province’s environment minister Wednesday after he asked the federal government to not reintroduce a bill that would enshrine clean drinking water rights in law.
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Cancel the deal with Starlink.
Canadian cos, Bell, Rogers, & Telus offer satellite internet service.
Instead of Musk, buy satellites from Canadian manufacturer Telesat.
#BuyCanadian
#onpoli
NEW: The freshly canceled $100Million Starlink deal, is now back on.
A single-day, double-reversal.
#onpoli
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The Ford Conservatives have destroyed a public forest & park in order to give this valuable waterfront property to a private Austrian Corp to build a mega spa in a 95 year lease.
It's a scene of devastation that 190 bird species, fox, mink, & beavers used to call home.
#ONpoli
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🚨 Another Ontario Place scandal
This morning The New York Times reported that Therme made false claims to get the deal. Therme claimed they ran spas across Europe. They don’t. They just stole another company’s name and logo.
Turns out Therme was hunting for a jurisdiction with weak oversight—and found it right here in Ontario, courtesy of the Ford Conservatives.
Our public parkland is being handed over to a company that misrepresented itself.
It’s time to cancel the deal. Ontario Place should showcase Ontario innovation.
#ONpoli
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Ford's response to tariffs needs to include:
➡️ canceling Service Ontario contracts with Wal-Mart & Staples & restoring the local Ontario businesses he shut down
➡️ canceling the liquor sales at 7/11 & Circle K
➡️ canceling #ontarioplace deal & $2.2 B tax subsidy that benefits Live Nation, an American corporation
#onpoli
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CUPE was at the negotiating table Thursday evening while PC MPPs jeered and laughed and waved to education workers in the public gallery during our vote on Bill 28.
And Ford thinks CUPE is bargaining in bad faith? I THINK NOT.
#ONpoli #ONTed #ONTedSolidarity
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Ford says it's "none of his business" where Therme gets their money.
He's giving $2.2 billion of YOUR hard earned money to a company that lied about their credentials.
Cancel the deal at #OntarioPlace. Now.
#ONpoli
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Today's scandal:
Conservatives chose a Yonge subway extension route that:
"offered the poorest performance for commuters, with the fewest expected riders and lowest travel time savings"
-but is on land acquired by Ford's developer buddy
Ford is #PillagingOntario
#ONpoli
How developers will benefit from the Yonge subway route change – and why it’s raising the spectre of the Ford government's Greenbelt scandal #StarInvestigation
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Ford selling off ON
2020: Ford met secretly with 7-Eleven CEO
2024: 7-Eleven set to make millions selling alcohol
$2.5 Billion in LCBO revenue siphoned off to 7-Eleven & Loblaws
LCBO revenue pays for our hospitals and schools. Corp revenues go to CEOs & shareholders.
#ONpoli
NEW - Not only are almost all Ontario 7-Eleven stores going to sell beer wine and coolers starting September 5th, but most locations will start to allow consumers to drink the booze inside the stores starting next year. toronto.citynews.ca/2024/08/…
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A former Metrolinx exec said "he's confident the province has the capability to complete the 401 tunnel, citing the Eglinton Crosstown as an example of Ontario's credibility on transportation projects"
Crosstown is $4B over budget & 4 years late.
#onpoli
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🚨 BREAKING 🚨
My office just uncovered that, buried in their Fall Economic Statement, Ford’s Conservatives are quietly seizing control of Exhibition Place.
They’re bringing the land under the Rebuilding Ontario Place Act—legislation that lets the Premier override provincial and municipal laws, including heritage protections, environmental safeguards, and even labour laws.
This scandal-ridden government cannot be trusted with more public land.
RT if you agree.
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Ford has just found a way to put himself above the law.
It's a dangerous precedent, especially for a government as corrupt as his.
Our democratic rights are in jeopardy.
#ONpoli #saveOntarioPlace
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We won!
Our filibuster efforts derailed Ford’s power grab. We’ve pushed the committee process into next week.
We won’t let the Conservatives off the hook for this undemocratic piece of legislation.
#ONpoli
We're filibustering tonight to fight against Bill 5.
Bill 5 is a dangerous power grab that creates special economic zones where municipal and provincial laws don't apply.
This is the loss of our democracy. The @OntarioNDP is committed to fighting back.
#ONpoli
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Ford says we should respond to tariffs by "onshoring everything".
Lets start by canceling:
➡️ ServiceOntario contracts with Wal-Mart and Staples
➡️ US contracts with our social and employment services
➡️ #OntarioPlace foreign megaspa spa deal with Therme
#ONpoli
Canada shouldn’t settle for anything less than the right deal. Now is not the time to roll over. We need to stand our ground.
The increase in U.S. tariffs to 35 per cent is concerning, especially with tariffs still in place on steel, aluminum, autos, forestry and now copper. While Canada continues to benefit from zero tariffs on all trade that’s USMCA compliant, representing over 90 per cent of our American exports, we need to do everything in our power to protect workers, businesses and communities from the impact of tariffs. The federal government needs to hit back with a 50 per cent tariff on U.S. steel and aluminum.
Canada has what the United States needs: oil and gas, critical minerals, steel and aluminum, electricity, potash and uranium. We’re America’s number one customer and keep millions of Americans working. The federal government needs to maximize our leverage and stand strong in the face of President Trump’s tariffs.
Our government will do whatever is needed to support workers and businesses. We’re building a more competitive, self-reliant and resilient economy by speeding up approvals, building new infrastructure to diversify our trading partners and onshoring every widget we can to fortify home-grown supply chains.
Canadian workers and businesses are desperate for certainty. Let’s work together, united, to deliver it.
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I’m calling on Minister Kinga Surma to resign.
This scathing report shows an irresponsible government mismanaging your money.
#ONpoli
#Breaking: Ford government’s Ontario Place redevelopment was ‘not fair, transparent or accountable,’ AG finds in scathing report trib.al/wLQWlK3
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Ontario Place is Ford's 407.
The last Conservative government gave away Hwy 407 for 99 years for $3 billion, this Conservative government is considering buying it back for $35 billion.
Will the future Ontario government have to buy back our parkland from Therme?
#ONpoli
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Claudia, a small business owner of 23yrs, is a victim of the #ServiceOntario Scandal
"I've been a PC my entire life, I am finally done."
The people of ON are done with Ford giving our public assets & services to foreign corporations!
#onpoli
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No, Premier, the people of ON don't love this.
They don't love the province being sold off 1 piece at a time to foreign owned companies.
This sole-sourced & secret deal reeks of corruption.
What are you hiding? Show us the business case!
#ONpoli #corruption
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Remember when Doug Ford said, "all you need is your OHIP card, never your credit card"?
He was lying.
MRI = $2500
#onpoli
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Doug Ford says he has stored about $22 billion in excess funding for a rainy day.
Today is a rainy day.
The past 5 years have been a rainy day.
It's raining Doug so you better start spending.
#ONpoli
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For 3 decades, the NDP fought for $10/day childcare.
On the brink of success, Ford PCs are holding Federal $ hostage & pushing childcare centres into bankruptcy.
ON received a 17% funding increase, but only passed on 2% to the operators.
Sign the petition to support childcare.
The operator of 25 child-care centres in Toronto cuts wages for hundreds of employees, citing lack of funding through the federal-provincial $10/day program.
The Trudeau and Ford governments are blaming each other.
👇Story by @helloryanjones 👇
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Happy Canada Day 🇨🇦!!!
This morning, 48 people from 25 countries walked into Fort York. An hour later, 48 Canadians walked out!
Congratulations!!!
An honour to be part of your citizenship ceremony on this Canada Day!
#canadaday #canada
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Ontario Place is Ford's 407. How did we end up with one of the worst deals in provincial history?
It is being given away to an Austrian spa company for 95 years.
Did Therme get preferential treatment? @OntarioNDP is asking the Integrity Commissioner to investigate.
#ONpoli
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The Conservatives are bankrupting our hospitals, our schools, our colleges & and universities.
Instead of funding vital services, they use our tax dollars on #SuperBowl ads to tell everyone what a great job they are doing.
#onpoli
“Paid for by the Government of Ontario”.
False.
These ads are paid for by the People of Ontario.
How much of our money is @fordnation spending on this propaganda? Are ad rates in Canada higher during the #SuperBowl? I don’t want my money being wasted this way. Do you? #onpoli
ALT Ontario ad
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Ford's Conservatives have appointed 2 of his staffers to sit on the committee that appoints judges in Ontario.
This is an attack on our democratic right to an independent judiciary.
This is frightening when you consider that this govt is under criminal investigation by the RCMP
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Today, the Conservatives began cutting down trees at #OntarioPlace.
This is just the beginning of the destruction planned by the Ford government.
This mega-spa is an attack on taxpayers, the environment, and our democratic rights.
#ONpoli #OntarioPlaceForAll
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Rumors have been circulating that Ford plans to call a Fall election.
Why call an election 2 years early when you have a majority government?
Does he want to get ahead of the RCMP investigation into the #GreenbeltScandal?
#onpoli
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Our tax dollars are now going to renovate Staples stores. The Chair of Staples is a conservative donor. Which one of their friends are the conservatives going to make rich, next? Note: in December they voted down my Cleaning Up Corruption Act. #onpoli
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The $200 election bribe Ford is pedaling...it's coming from healthcare cuts.
Cancer patients have to buy their own bandages.
#onpoli
Ford is using your healthcare dollars to pay for his vote-buying gimmick thespec.com/news/hamilton-re… #onpoli #ONhealth
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Premier Ford: “Life is better in Ontario than 6 years ago”
-234,000 homeless
-tent encampments in every community
-1 million used the food bank
-2.5 million without a family doctor
-50,000 young people left ON in the last year
...solutions
#ONpoli
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Without Warning, The Ford Conservatives closed and locked the gate on #OntarioPlace, shutting Ontarians out from accessing public parkland!
To the Conservative government: take down the sign, open up the gate, and reopen the park to the people of Ontario!
#ONpoli
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Chartwell has received $75M in taxpayer subsidies since 2004 & is now evicting 200 seniors.
Their actions are a clear indictment of any gov't that hands over the care of our seniors to private, for-profit corporations
Seniors in Chartwell & across this province deserve better.
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Ford can’t be trusted with OSC.
Funding for critical maintenance was repeatedly denied. A world-class institution was allowed to deteriorate.
We all know the real motive is to justify the private Therme mega-spa.
#ONpoli
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As @fordnation claims his Minister of Education 'is a champion' and he shamefully describes "reducing class sizes from 28 to 25 and reducing online courses from 4 - 2" #VoteFordOut2022 is now trending. FYI Class sizes are currently 22, and online courses are at 0 #onpoli #onted
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I have one question for this government: Which of his developer buddies is buying the #OntarioScienceCentre land and when did they know that it would be available to them?
#ONpoli #OntarioPlace
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Remember when Ford said we'd pay for healthcare with our OHIP card, not our credit card?
He lied. Extra billing for "uninsured services" is now policy.
#ONpoli #OntHealth
NEW: $6,000 per surgery, and the ability to offer patients "uninsured upgrades."
That's part of the package private health facilities will receive if they're greenlit by the Ford government this summer.
Critics are calling for more patient protection.
#onpoli
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Ford gave developers a $5 billion tax break by downloading developer charges on to Toronto taxpayers.
Now the city has been forced to raise taxes by 7% and cut services to balance the budget and Ford wants to choose OUR mayor!?
#ONpoli #TOpoli
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Ford in public: "Do you still consider yourself a Donald Trump supporter?"
Ford: "Absolutely not. I'd never support that guy in my entire life."
Moments later in private: "On election day, was I happy Trump won, 100% I was..."
With our country under threat, can we trust him not to sell us out to Trump?
#onpoli #pantsonfire
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Ford's gravy train stops at a strip club.
$10 million of Skills Development Fund went to the owner of a strip club.
Women refused to work and walked out because they were expected to wear fishnets and g-strings.
This is where Ford is spending our tax dollars.
#ONpoli
NEW: Millions from the Ford government’s Skills Development Fund is benefiting the owner of a new Toronto “adult entertainment club,” where strippers give lap dances & scantily clad aerialists perform while suspended from above by their teeth or hair. thetrillium.ca/news/politics…
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77% losing faith in Ford's government. Maybe because he's:
- creating a crisis in our schools & hospitals to privatize them
- giving tax $, parkland & public services to Therme, Walmart, Staples, & Shoppers Drug Mart
-paving the #Greenbelt instead of building housing
#onpoli
People are losing faith in the Government of Ontario and public services blogto.com/city/2024/03/peop…
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#FordMath
Either Ford's Finance Minister was lying when he said "I don't know" when asked about the cost of privatizing LCBO liquor sales.
OR
He doesn't read financial reports before making billion dollar decisions with our tax dollars.
#ONpoli
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Ford is letting private staffing agencies gouge public hospitals.
They provide temporary nurses, use surge pricing just like Uber, & charge our hospitals 3-4X as much.
The results:
- tax dollars wasted
- staffing shortages
- hospital closures
- hospital deficits
#onpoli
Pressure is building on the Ontario government to take action against temporary agencies that charge hospitals high rates for replacement nurses amid a worsening staff shortage and growing hospital deficits. trib.al/Ib7vzPF
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Documents obtained via an FOI show the closure of the Ontario Science Centre wasn’t about safety—it was about spin.
Engineers didn't recommend shutting it down. They called for repairs. The Ford government appears to have pressured them to say otherwise.
Ford's Conservatives manufactured a crisis in order to close the OSC. The goal was to provide cover for the boondoggle at Ontario Place.
#ONpoli #saveOSC
The Ontario Science Centre was shuttered on June 21, 2024, with the Ontario government claiming that a structural roof issue made it unsafe. New documents suggest that the engineers inspecting the roof didn't agree.
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It appears the Science Centre had already applied for a building permit to replace the roof.
Did the Conservatives cancel the building permit to have an excuse to close the Science Centre & justify the billion dollar Therme boondoggle at Ontario Place?
#onpoli
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6 years ago Ford spent $231 Million canceling wind turbines that were already under construction.
Today he’s announcing investments in renewable energy projects.
We need our tax dollars to be wisely spent on public services and a green energy transition.
#ONpoli
NEW: Premier Doug Ford’s big shift on wind and solar power.
His government scrapped hundreds of green energy projects shortly after taking office, but is now poised to launch Ontario’s biggest expansion of renewable power in nearly a decade. #onpoli cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/o…
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850 mature trees on public parkland worth $1.4B to be razed, destroyed and given for free to a private, for-profit spa in a 95-year lease we still don't know the terms of. This math isn't adding up. #onpoli
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What is in this deal with Therme that the Ford Conservatives want to push through so badly, that they are stripping Ontarians of their right to take the government to court when they break the law?
#ONpoli #OntarioPlace
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🚨LCBO revenues down $300 million
💰 that pays for schools, healthcare, infrastructure
Canceling beer store contract cost $225 million
▶️Cost to Ontarians of privatizing alcohol sales:
$300 M + $225 M = $525 million
#ONpoli
NEW: For the first time in a decade, the LCBO is expecting to see less than $2 billion in revenue.
That's something workers at the Crown corporation warned could happen after alcohol liberalization was introduced. #OnPoli
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#DougFord & Minister of Health have repeatedly said the Minden hospital is not closing.
But the sign is coming down this morning.
They lied.
#onpoli
#MindenMatters
@OntarioHealthC
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It’s not enough that Ford’s PCs are giving a $2.2 billion subsidy - $400 from each household in Ontario - for this megaspa. We’ve now learned that the plan includes diverting sewage into Toronto’s waterfront.
The government MUST cancel this bad deal and protect our waterfront.
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We either cancel the #OntarioPlace deal with Therme or have taxpayers subsidize the mega spa for 95 yrs.
With #Bill154 the Conservatives exempted the project from all Ontario laws, including breach of contract.
Q: Can the govt cancel the project without penalty?
#onpoli
Ontario’s three opposition parties have vowed to rip up the Ford government’s Ontario Place deal — a move that would involve paying the private spa giant Therme millions of dollars — if they win the next provincial election.
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Ford 2018 - We are focused on reducing the size and cost of government.
Ford 2024 - Creates the biggest cabinet in ON political history.
-45% of PC MPPs are cabinet ministers.
-36 ministers at a cost of $5,970,636 per annum.
All aboard the gravy train 🚂
#ONpoli #GravyTrain
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This is an appalling abuse of power.
Only a corrupt gov't would jam through a bill to retroactively break its laws and permit misfeasance with impunity.
Knowing they couldn’t win the case on merit, they passed Bill 154 to avoid accountability and handcuff the courts.
#ONpoli
PRESS RELEASE: Ontario Place for All Expresses Disappointment and Concern after Motion Quashed by Superior Court of Justice mailchi.mp/6253ee5784ca/pres… #topoli #onpoli #SaveOntarioPlace
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When asked by @MaritStiles whether he would cancel the megaspa at #OntarioPlace costing every household $400, Ford refuses to answer.
Instead pivots to saying he is cutting taxes. How so, Doug? When you’re forcing every Ontario family to pay for your luxury spa?
#ONpoli
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Ford is spending $650 Million tax dollars to build an underground parking garage for a private Austrian spa company in an area prone to flooding.
There's still time to stop this heedless plan before it becomes another boondoggle.
#ONpoli
Lake Shore Blvd W fully closed in both directions near Ontario Place.
#onstorm
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When asked by @maritstiles if the Conservatives will promise never to use the notwithstanding clause in future labour negotiations, @Sflecce refused to answer.
Take that as a clear indication they intend to use the notwithstanding clause again.
#onpoli #bill28 @CUPEOntario
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This is not private property.
The Ontario Science Centre is paid for and owned by the people of Ontario. It belongs to all of us!
The @OntarioNDP will fight to reopen the Ontario Science Centre.
Sign the petition:
ontariondp.ca/ontario-scienc…
#ONpoli #saveOSC
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Ford’s move to scrap speed cameras isn’t about affordability or safety—it’s about protecting his inner circle.
When his daughter supposedly racks up 83 tickets and his ministers are caught speeding, it’s clear who he’s really looking out for.
#ONpoli
NEW: Vehicles registered to Doug Ford's cabinet ministers have been caught by automated speed cameras more than 20 times.
In one case, they were driving 70 in a 40 zone. On average, they were 17 over the limit. #OnPoli
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As wildfire smoke engulfs Ontario and the Federal government sends in Armed Forces to help.
Ford cuts the budget for wildland firefighting and goes on vacation for 4 months.
Toronto had the worse air quality in the world this week due to smoke from wildfires.
#ONpoli
NEW: The Canadian Armed Forces have been deployed to northwestern Ontario to fight the ongoing #wildfires. trib.al/I9myKfY
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6 Years in Office
-234,000 Homeless
-1400 Encampments
-2 Years after announcing attainable housing program
Conservatives still working on the definition of "attainable housing "
#ONpoli
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Why are Ontario tax dollars being wasted on a second study of the 401 tunnel?
We already paid for one in 2021 that Ford refuses to release.
#ONpoli
NEW: The Ford government started studying Hwy. 401 tunnel back in 2019 after the province received unsolicited proposals to relieve congestion.
The work however was “paused in late 2021”
Fresh revelations from internal docs and emails.
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The LCBO generated $2.5B in revenue for ON in 2023. It funds OUR healthcare and education.
Ford PCs are once again putting private interests over public good.
@ontariondp stands in solidarity with @OPSEU workers to ensure that public revenue STAY in public hands.
#ONpoli
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Ontario taxpayers paid for a 401 tunnel study in 2021. Ford refuses to release it.
Now he’s handing a $9.1 million contract to a company that’s being sued by the City of Toronto.
Doug Ford: ”We are the only party that's fiscally responsible."
#ONpoli
NEW: Ontario is refusing to release already completed work on the viability of Premier Doug Ford’s Highway 401 tunnel vision after signing a $9.1 million agreement for a Canadian company to re-study the plan.
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#onpoli
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The Conservatives are plowing ahead with the development of a private spa at #OntarioPlace without telling taxpayers how much it will cost them.
Knowing this government, it will cost us big $$$.
We've tabled a motion to terminate the lease with Therme.
#ONpoli
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Ford's attack on bike lanes is a distraction from Conservative failures to build transit that would actually relieve congestion.
➡️1 line of transit carries 40,000 people per hour
➡️A road carries 2,800 people per hour
#ONpoli
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Ford’s Conservatives are using MZOs to take our public parkland and give it to Therme.
But there are still two court cases and an Auditor General report coming out soon.
The fight isn’t over.
#ONpoli #OntarioPlace
We are disappointed the MZO process is being used to steal city owned land at Ontario Place and place it into the control of a private MegaSpa for 95 years. The Ministry of Infrastructure using MZO powers here sets a terrible precedent.
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Ford is wasting tax dollars on private MRIs while machines in public hospitals sit unused due to staffing issues.
Private clinics cost 2x more and rake in more Conservative donations.
Our taxes should support public healthcare, not profit.
#ONpoli
The Ford government has issued a call for applications, asking interested private clinics to step forward and integrate into the public health-care system for MRI and CT scans.
READ MORE:
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Under Ford, the number of homeless in ON rose from 21,000 in 2018 to 234,000 in 2024.
Why?
Supply - ON housing starts are the lowest per capita in Canada
Rent control canceled on units occupied after 2018
Ontario Disability ($1200/month) doesn’t cover rental costs
#ONpoli
The government doc @jackhauen & I reported on also notes:
—In April, Ontario's shelters were 97% full, & 59,100 recipients of Ontario Works & Ontario Disability Support Program payments were homeless.
—In Dec. 2022, 176,804 households were waiting to access subsidized housing.
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Tell Ford to take down this fence, save the trees, cancel the deal with Therme, and keep Ontario Place Public!
Sign the petition: chrisglovermpp.ca/saveontari…
#onpoli @ONPlace4All
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80% of Ontarians do not believe the Ford government is putting the province's best interests first with the closure of the Ontario Science Centre.
Reopen the OSC now!
Sign the petition:
chrisglovermpp.ca/save_our_s…
#ONpoli #SaveOSC
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Imagine living in a province where, instead of spending our tax dollars on Oscar ads, we invested in our hospitals, schools, colleges & universities, & where we brought an end to homelessness & food insecurity.
It's possible.
#ONpoli
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The Ford gov’t failed to conduct a full environmental assessment of the #OntarioPlace mega-spa plan.
Today, the court will hear a case to decide whether the gov’t can exempt itself from provincial laws.
Thank you, @ontarioplace4all, for fighting to save our green spaces!
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Is there anyone who supports the Ontario Place scandal who is not being paid by Therme?
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Enbridge lobbyists secured a billion $ subsidy to expand their gas lines.
Records show the Ford gov & Enbridge worked together to overrule the ON Energy Board, an independent regulator.
This government decided to put corporate & developer profits ahead of Ontarians.
#ONpoli
Enbridge Gas is "freaking out" about the future of natural gas — the Doug Ford government is listening. Internal records show officials from the company and the Ministry of Energy have been in close contact about the energy transition. via @fatimabsyed thenarwhal.ca/ontario-consul…
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The draft Environmental Study is out. Excluded from the assessment - Live Nation and the Therme megaspa. Ford's Conservatives exempted private projects from environmental assessments in May 2021 - at the same time they issued the RFP for Ontario Place.
#onpoli
@ONPlace4All
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I’m out here at 8 AM at the Queen’s Park picket line with education workers! 💜✊
Thank you Kim, Haroula, Jayne, and Jan for all that you do for our students.
YOU are the people who care about our students, NOT this government.
#ONpoli #ONTed #ONTedSolidarity #39KIsNotEnough
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Ford is sacrificing workers for his well-connected friends at Staples.
#ONpoli
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A big win for Toronto!
A judge has ruled Doug Ford’s attempt to rip out bike lanes unconstitutional.
The courts just confirmed what we already knew: communities deserve safer streets — not dangerous interference.
#ONpoli
Cycling advocates have won.
The Ford government's plan to remove three major bike lanes in Toronto violates the Charter, Ontario's Superior Court rules.
Story to come.
#onpoli #topoli
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If Therme goes bankrupt, what does the lease say?
Will Ontario taxpayers be stuck with a #BillionDollarBoondoggle on the waterfront?
@ONPlace4All
#ReleasetheLease #OntarioPlace #ONpoli
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Therme does not belong at Ontario Place.
New revelations from legislative committee about this rotten deal (with many thanks to @jennkfrench):
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Breaking scandal: 7000-page FOI reveals more Ford corruption. Stay tuned to see how this unfolds. #onpoli
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The #Greenbelt scandal is the tip of the iceberg in a litany of dirty deals by the Ford Conservatives.
The Auditor General needs to investigate the $650 million taxpayer donation & and 95-year lease for the megaspa at #OntarioPlace
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My greatest fear with the Ford government is not just the privatization of our public assets and services, it's the loss of our democratic rights. Both former PM Harper & Ford are involved in the IDU. This article is a good primer.
#onpoli #cdnpoli corruptario.ca/idu-harpers-w…
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For decades the NDP fought for $10/day childcare.
On the brink of success, Ford is using every trick he can to stop families from receiving it.
#onpoli #childcare
New: The Ford govt plans to increase rents for daycares in govt buildings from $1/year to hundreds of thousands, saying they can pay it with federal funding.
"We go from 0 to almost half a million dollars that they wanted from us."
@snehduggal
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"Liberals went to jail for deleting emails" says @OntarioNDP leader Marit Stiles.
Now Ford's Conservatives have been caught deleting emails in the #GreenbeltScandal
The RCMP are investigating.
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I’ve just read through the Ontario Auditor General’s report on the #OntarioPlace redevelopment and here is what I’ve found so far.
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The Ford government is handing $2.2 billion and a 95 year lease of public land to a company caught lying to the government—claiming it ran world-class spas in Germany when all it had was a borrowed name and logo.
So, Premier: will you cancel this boondoggle, or go down in history as the mark in Canada’s most expensive scam?
#ONpoli #TOpoli #OntarioPlace #CancelTheDeal
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Today's scandal:
Ford's staff used personal email to make secret #Greenbelt deals.
Today in Question Period:
@OntarioNDP leader Marit Stiles:
"A developer sent maps of lands to Ford's Executive Assistant on a private email that he wanted removed from the Greenbelt."
The lands were removed.
And the developer thanked Ford's EA for helping with his "Greenbelt glitch".
#ONpoli
NEW: A fresh Greenbelt-related email has surfaced.
This time in the private email of Premier Doug Ford’s former executive assistant.
In it, a developer thanks staff for help addressing his Greenbelt “glitch.”
globalnews.ca/news/11194475/…
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We need a gov that will protect our public assets.
An FOI request reveal that Ford created a unique corrupt process for ON Place. The gov had power to award the contract to companies that never even submitted a proposal.
We will continue to fight to expose corruption.
#ONpoli
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Rather than preserving the green space at #OntarioPlace, Ford's mega-spa promotes a wellness experience where people pay $$$ to connect with nature by watching videos of trees.
Why is this gov't spending $650 million to cut down trees just to watch videos of them?
#ONpoli
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