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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Doug Ford says: "Buy Ontario."
Ford threatens to shut off Ontario electricity flowing to the US in the trade war.
Ford then signs a contract to buy electricity from the US, supporting US companies & making us vulnerable to US trade retaliation.
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The end of municipal democracy in Ontario.
Ford appoints his cronie as Chair of Muskoka Region.
Ford has stripped the people of Muskoka, Peel, York, Halton, Niagara, Durham, Waterloo, and Simcoe County of the right to elect a Regional Council Chair in next week's election.
Instead, he will appoint the Chairs—who will be able to force through decisions even if 2/3rds of elected Councillors vote against them.
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NEW: The Ford government is expected to name Conservative MP Scott Aitchison as Muskoka’s first “strong chair,” @readpolicorner has learned.
Aitchison announced late last month that he would leave federal politics to “explore new opportunities.”
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💰Ford's OSAP Scandal
➡️Academy of Learning Directors donate $11,466 to PC Party in 2024-2025
➡️Conservative MPPs attend the opening of Academy of Learning's Brampton East Campus in 2025
➡️Academy of Learning campuses received $219 million tax dollars through OSAP in 2024-2025
💸That's a Return of Investment of 1.9 million %
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Student recruiting company hawking OSAP grants linked to private college at centre of student aid controversy thetrillium.ca:443/news/educ…
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Did Ford violate our constitutional rights when he gave himself permission to break any laws with the redevelopment of Ontario Place?
This Thursday, the Supreme Court of Canada will hear a final appeal that raises a fundamental question: can governments pass laws that shield their projects from meaningful legal scrutiny?
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🚨 BREAKING 🚨
It looks like Ford is planning a major sell-off of schools.
Through the TDSB, Toronto taxpayers own 612 properties worth $20 billion.
Ford changed the rules so his Minister of Education could sell any school to anyone he wants.
Ford's TDSB supervisor met twice as often with the TDSB's property management arm as with parents.
#OntEd
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TDSB supervisor’s calendar shows more than twice as many meetings with $20B real estate arm as parent groups thetrillium.ca:443/news/educ…
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Why the delay & silence on the RCMP Greenbelt investigation?
The evidence is overwhelming:
➡️August 2022: Ford's friends donated at his daughter's wedding
➡️September 2022: His friends bought Greenbelt property. They then specifically asked for their property to be removed from the Greenbelt
➡️October 2022: Ford passed legislation to remove the Greenbelt protections
The Auditor General estimates that Ford's friends stood to make $8 billion on the deal.
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‘It’s unfair’: Silence and uncertainty define RCMP’s Greenbelt investigation at 3-year mark thetrillium.ca:443/news/poli…
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💸$13.3 million spent on ads last year
Meanwhile:
❌15 nurses left Oakville Memorial due to overcrowding
❌413 jobs cut at Hamilton Health Sciences
❌22 registered nurses cut at Brant Community Healthcare System
❌288 registered nurses cut at London Health Sciences Centre
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NEW: Ontario’s Health Ministry spent $13.3M on advertising last year, new FOI records show.
That brings our tally of the Ford government's advertising spending to more than $90 million across five ministries.
The health minister's office says advertising remains an "important tool" for informing families about programs & initiatives.
Opposition says the government should be using that funding on life-saving treatments or relieving hospital pressures. thetrillium.ca/news/health/o…
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🚨 Ford scandal of the day.
This one is huge.
Allegations in court documents state that Ford's Chief of Staff would give Rob Godfrey's company Keel Digital Solutions a taxpayer grant—if Rob could convince his father, Paul Godfrey, to run a Conservative op-ed in the National Post. Paul was then the CEO of the National Post.
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Postmedia ex-CEO alleges Doug Ford’s office used ‘leverage’ over son’s company to get newspaper chain to publish pre-election letter thetrillium.ca:443/news/poli…
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Paul Godfrey in sworn testimony states that in the run up to the 2025 elections, Ford's Chief of Staff said, "he would approve Keel Digital’s proposal for a new three-year agreement with the Ministry of Colleges and Universities, but 'in the meantime, the Premier needed a favour from Postmedia'.
“The Premier wanted to make his case to voters for calling an early election … (and) to publish a letter to voters in all Ontario Postmedia newspapers before he officially called the election,” continued Paul Godfrey in his declaration.
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Ford has underfunded our hospitals to the point that they've had to borrow $70 million from banks to keep operating.
Now they have to pay interest on that debt, leading to even more cuts.
#Onthealth
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2 years after allegations were raised and after giving $2.4 billion OSAP dollars to private career colleges — the Ford government is now referring the matter to the OPP, alleging fraud.
Ford government refers OSAP ‘criminal allegations’ to police, more than two years after concerns first raised thetrillium.ca:443/news/educ…
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A year ago, the Auditor General found that Ford's government “gave $126 million to questionable applicants who hired well-connected lobbyists — while rejecting others with stronger proposals."
Ford’s fix:
They now require applicants to disclose use of lobbyists.
Real solution:
The NDP is calling for a full investigation and the return of tax dollars that have been squandered.
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Some private career colleges were defrauding OSAP.
Some students were completing "entire courses in one day."
"A few students couldn’t name their school or program."
Ford's response
✅Sue the offending colleges
❌Cut OSAP grants to download more debt on all students
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Trump is supporting Alberta separatists...
Alberta separatists are running to Trump, offering our oil and water in exchange for American support to break up Canada.
A traitor to this country doesn’t have to wear a foreign flag. Sometimes they wave ours while selling out our future.
This is a national emergency.
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Ford's scandal of the day:
David Piccini, then Ford's Minister of Labour, attended the Paris wedding of a lobbyist for Keel Digital Solutions.
Piccini then grants $7.5 million taxpayer dollars to KDS through the Skills Development Fund.
Now the Ford government is suing KDS for "defrauding the province"
➡️& KDS is going bankrupt
➡️& Ford has promoted Piccini to the Ministry of Infrastructure where he is in charge of billions of taxpayer dollars.
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Ford's Minister of Education makes "no apologies" for spending taxpayer dollars on ads attacking teachers while increasing class sizes for elementary students and students with disabilities.
#onted
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Ontario’s education minister tells me he makes “no apologies” for spending taxpayer dollars on government ads promoting his education agenda & plans to keep spending on campaigns — even though he doesn’t know how much they’ve cost so far or what they’ll cost in the future.
He also says he doesn’t know how much his appointed school supervisors have billed school boards.
Estimates recap here:
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Ford spent $4 billion on private-for-profit health services.
They charge taxpayers more for the same service e.g. $1200 for cataract surgery vs $500 in a public hospital.
The result:
❌ wait times are up
❌ public hospitals cutting staff because of funding shortfall
If Ford squandered less on private-for-profit services, our public hospitals wouldn't be facing such drastic cuts.
#ONpoli
#Onthealth
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The people told Ford he couldn't buy a private jet so now he's leasing them for his trips.
One of his ministers even said "the general needs to bring all his soldiers when it comes to this economic trade war."
What ever happened to respect for taxpayers?
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‘General’ Ford flies private with ‘all his soldiers’: cabinet minister thetrillium.ca:443/news/poli…
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Ford spent $4 billion on private-for-profit health services.
They charge taxpayers more for the same service e.g. $1200 for cataract surgery vs $500 in a public hospital.
The result:
❌ wait times are up
❌ public hospitals cutting staff because of funding shortfall
If Ford squandered less on private-for-profit services, our public hospitals wouldn't be facing such drastic cuts.
#ONpoli
#Onthealth
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Ford cut 215 nurses from Ontario hospitals this year.
❌15 registered nurses left Oakville Memorial Hospital due to overcrowding and safety issues
❌Hamilton Health Sciences plan to cut 413 jobs
Funding is not keeping up with rising costs so each year there are more staff cuts.
Ford is breaking the system in order to privatize it. Patients and staff are being sacrificed for his privatization goal.
#OntHealth
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