Mike Harris is being appointed to the Order of Ontario while serving as Chair of Chartwell, which raked in massive profits as residents fell ill and died.
No words.
As Chancellor of the Order of Ontario, it is with great pride that I congratulate the 2019 and 2020 Order of Ontario appointees.
Read about the 47 new appointments ➡
And it’s just SUCH A COINCIDENCE that the Ontario Science Centre board, who last night decided to close the site, is stacked with Conservative insiders…
#onpoli
#BREAKING
The Ford government is closing the Ontario Science Centre today. They say a report has found the roof is at risk of collapsing. Fences are already going up here.
Solid analysis from
@CBCQueensPark
shows just how much critical revenue the LCBO generates for all of us.
It pays for schools, healthcare, roads, + other public services.
Yet again, the Conservatives are taking our money and giving it away to their friends.
#onpoli
NEW: Here's an in-depth look at how the LCBO makes money, from the really huge numbers ($7.4 billion in gross sales last year) to the small ones ($5.97 from a $14 bottle of wine.)
This morning
@MaritStiles
challenged Ford’s Conservatives to implement three simple solutions to help shorten ER wait times and prevent closures right away:
1️⃣ Drop appeal of
#Bill124
2️⃣ Establish safe nurse-patient staffing ratios
3️⃣ Cap private healthcare agencies
Ford’s Conservatives saw the engineering report on the Science Centre roof as a convenient way out of a political problem. “Unsafe! Put up massive fences to underscore the point!”
Huge political miscalculation.
Now the original architectural firm is calling their bluff.
#onpoli
Instead of fixing this, the Conservatives are spending our tax dollars on a private luxury spa and to rip up contracts a couple years early.
They don't care about you.
#onpoli
A local MPP posted shocking images of a partially flooded Humberside Collegiate Institute, calling out the Ford government for letting Ontario's public schools fall into a desperate state of disrepair.
"We have hit rock bottom."
Patiently waiting for a
@ShopprsDrugMart
cashier earlier. They encouraged me to use the self-checkout. I said I didn’t like to use those because I thought they were bad for workers.
They told me “there’s trouble” if less than 50% of their sales aren’t through those machines.
While Premier, he helped build Ontario’s immoral long-term care system, which is one of the finest examples of “profits over people.”
Here’s
@CanadiansOrg
on the matter.
38 years ago today, Toronto Police arrested 286 people after raiding four gay bathhouses with sledgehammers and axes.
The next day, 3,000 took to the street to protest police harassment.
(Photo by Gary Hershorn, via
@queer_history
)
#PrideTO
#canqueer
#topoli
#onpoli
Mainstreet's latest polls show Ontario starting to gather behind
@AndreaHorwath
and the
@OntarioNDP
—look at that voter intention line.
They also have the NDP seat count ahead of the Liberals by a full 20 seats.
And here’s
@TorontoStar
on how Chartwell paid out $98.3 million to shareholders after receiving more than $3 million from provincial governments for front-line workers’ pandemic pay.
.
@maritstiles
is the real deal. Not only will she hold Ford to account in the Legislature, but she will use her background in organizing to bring people together for meaningful change. I’m really excited about what this means for the
@OntarioNDP
and for our province.
#onpoli
I’m honoured to be the next leader of Ontario’s NDP.
The work to defeat Doug Ford and form a government that works for people starts right now.
Be a part of it:
#onpoli
Every. single. move. Ontario's Conservative government makes stinks of corruption.
They are taking our money and using it to enrich a select few of their already wealthy friends.
#onpoli
#NEW
: The Financial Accountability Office of Ontario is launching a formal inquiry into the Ford government's decision to close 9 ServiceOntario outlets and convert them into Staples Canada stores, 680 NewsRadio has learned.
In Wilmot, Ontario, farmers are being told that they have to sell their land to the government or it will be confiscated.
We held a town hall to get to the bottom of this with nearly 500 in attendance.
#ONpoli
These companies pay workers a poverty wage, then try to squeeze out even more profit by moving the labour onto the customer.
Then these companies further punish the workers if not enough customers don’t want to use those machines.
Brutal: as many as a third of unemployed Canadians will not qualify for either EI or CERB. This program has more holes than swiss cheese. Fix it now!
#ParkHP
#cdnpoli
New financial supports are in place to help unemployed Canadian workers during
#COVID19
but new analysis from
@DavidMacCdn
shows how many workers are left out.
#cdnecon
#cdnpoli
The Ford Conservatives' front-page ad takeover of the National Post is focussed on attacking Andrea Horwath and the Ontario NDP today.
Tells you something about who's the real threat to a Ford majority.
#ParkHP
#onelxn
#onpoli
Del Duca: "governing is about choosing."
When he was last at Queen's Park, he and his team chose to:
- fire nurses
- let class sizes balloon
- let rents and house prices soar
- privatize Hydro One
- triple the school repair backlog
- blow billions on scandals
#onpoli
#onelxn
@ConsumerSOS
@selwynpieters
Two things can be true at once.
1. Homelessness in Toronto is a crisis.
2. It's shitty to film an unhoused person without their permission and post it on the internet.
Polls don't vote.
Projections don't vote.
People vote.
So go vote! And vote for the candidate you *want* to win—the candidate who most closely reflects your values, who shares your vision for a better province, and who you want to represent your voice.
Hold on—Trudeau came to Parkdale Legal's temporary home, did a photo op and announced funding for legal aid services for refugees + immigrants, and it turns out the clinic won't see a cent? All that public money is going to private bar lawyers using LAO certificates? Wow.
#ParkHP
Shut down by the very same Conservative MPP who supported the closure of a busy ER in her own riding.
Conservatives promised an end to the Ontario Liberals’ scandals + secrets. To be the most transparent gov’t in Ontario’s history.
Instead, they doubled down.
#onpoli
Yesterday we gave Ford and his politicians a chance to testify about why they closed your Ontario Science Centre.
They shut it down hard.
Ontario, you deserve answers.
#ONpoli
@MacLeodLisa
Another bad faith, willful misunderstanding that does nothing more than sow the seeds of division.
If MPP MacLeod were in Cabinet, she'd be the Minister of Rage Farming.
Compare two
#onpoli
leaders:
@MaritStiles
announces a smart idea the gov't could do *right now* to make life better for people and takes it to debate in the Legislature.
Crombie pops out of hiding to announce what she wouldn't do if she hypothetically became Premier in 2026.
This inspired me to make a donation to
@stjoespromise
in support of their
#COVID19
response.
Kudos to the healthcare professionals for keeping our
#ParkHP
communities safe.
Went into the Emergency Dept. at St Joseph’s Hospital in
#Toronto
for a suspected broken finger. I was asked to wear a mask, which I refused to do. As a result, hospital staff asked me to leave and immediately called 3 security guards to escort me out.
#filmyourhospital
Imagine losing thousands of your colleagues, being forced to take on their work, having your budget to do that work slashed, and then being told that your right to negotiate your wage is being taken away. That's what the Ford gov't did to public servants today.
#canlab
#onpoli
No better cautionary tale to temper excitement about the privatized redevelopment of Ontario Place and those flashy renderings than Hotel X.
how it started how it’s going
Let's do a little tax credit policy round up, shall we?
Liberals: Up to $2,000 to go camping!
Conservatives: Up to $1,000 for organized kids' sports!
NDP: Up to $5,000 so your family can have a roof over their heads!
#ParkHP
#cdnpoli
BREAKING: the Ford government is trying to find close to half a billion dollars in savings from OHIP. It’s looking at reducing pain injections, some MRI’s, sedation for colonoscopies and more - determining which are overused or unnecessary. A
@CityNews
exclusive tonight.
"You cannot elect a leader who takes money from the same people who are donating to Doug Ford and says that somehow they're going to act any different."
–Liberal Yasir Naqvi on Bonnie Crombie
#onpoli
On last night's virtual
@NDP
rally, dozens of young people—many of whom who said they've never taken political action before—sign up to host virtual phone banks for
@theJagmeetSingh
.
It was remarkable. And the organizers were so excited!
Even more wind in the sails.
#NDP
NEW - NDP leader Marit Stiles says she is calling on the Auditor General to start a probe into “private fee-based health care” It comes as some nurse practitioner clinics charge for access.
At the same time
@MaritStiles
was working hard to stand up for thousands of small businesses facing layoffs and closure...
Doug Ford was handing cash to Walmart and hosting a $1,000-a-plate fundraiser...
And Crombie was nowhere to be found.
#ONpoli
Your MPP for Toronto Centre,
@KristynWongTam
, and I are calling on the province to join the
@OntarioNDP
’s call for an extension of the CEBA loan deadline until the end of 2024.
#ONpoli
Ontarians have sacrificed a lot since March—folks have lost jobs, homes, loved ones... others have worked on the front lines (sometimes in risky situations) and kept away from family and friends.
And our finance minister takes not one but TWO holidays out of the country.
#onpoli
okay
i've oiled the wood table
descaled the coffee maker
hemmed the curtains
organized the junk drawer
sorted the recycling
arranged footwear by season, colour, and style
regrouted the bathroom tile
tightened the hinges on the french doors
now what
@Kathleen_Wynne
With respect, as Transport Minister, you helped the Fords cancel Transit City—wasting years and throwing out millions of dollars of work:
#onpoli
Premier Doug Ford says Ontario is officially in 2nd wave of COVID-19. 'We know it will be worse than the first wave and our actions will decide if it is a wave or a tsunami.'
Solidarity with the
@OPSEU
Local 535 members on strike at
@agotoronto
.
I’m a loyal AGO member who will not be crossing a picket line until these workers get a fair deal.
#ArtMatters
and so do arts workers.
#canlab
If I were Bonnie Crombie and needed to shake off my reputation as an out-of-touch, developer-connected elitist, I’m not sure I would host a $1,700-a-ticket cocktail reception with an out-of-touch, developer-connected elitist.
#onpoli
@spaikin
"...the Liberals under Kathleen Wynne have moved so far to the left..."
They literally just introduced anti-worker "back-to-work" legislation after privatizing our public hydro system, making massive cuts to hospitals, and closing schools.
#onpoli
So much for a Bonnie Bump...
Under Crombie, the Ontario Liberals have their worst polling average in the first three months after picking a new leader since the 80s.
😶
#onpoli
More cartoon villainy from the Premier of Ontario.
A secret plan to fill in part of Lake Ontario…
…what did he promise behind closed doors, and to whom?
#onpoli
We've unearthed documents revealing the Ford Conservative's secret plans for "Phase 2" at Ontario Place....
They'll override any law, pave over our lakefront , give away millions of $$, to benefit their insider friends while Ontarians struggle
New Zealand—governed by a competent leader who actually *cares* about whether people live or die—has had no reported cases in 10 days.
They used science-based policy and their economy will almost certainly be stronger for it.
Imagine that!
#onpoli
“I am not this film’s target audience.”
No, it’s made for people with empathy and humanity, a sense of humour and fun.
Honestly, the only thing exhausting here is how delicate
@Sean_OConnell
is and cis white dudes’ stranglehold over film criticism.
His loss!
#TurningRed
"You’re here, you’re queer; we got used to it a long time ago. Go find your $25,000 elsewhere."
–Liberals' "star" Etobicoke Centre candidate—their *fourth* homophobic recruit this week, on funding for Canada's oldest LGBTQ+ student org.
#canqueer
#onpoli
Make no mistake, the Premier of Ontario isn’t inept. This isn’t about “striking a balance.” This is entirely calculated. He’s made a deliberate decision to let a certain number of Ontarians get sick—largely, people who don’t look like him—to help his corporate friends.
#onpoli
Meanwhile, in Canada...
-
#NDP
has unveiled a multi-pronged plan for a
#GreenNewDeal
-
#LPC
buys an oil pipeline and sticks to Harper's emissions targets
-
#GPC
has endorsed "ethical oil"
-
#CPC
hopes no one cares about the climate crisis.
#cdnpoli
@metromorning
@RebeccaZandberg
Why is it OK for private PCR tests to only be available to those who can pay for it? Do you support two-tiered, privatized healthcare?
What a welcome surprise!
The Conservatives *specifically* refused to call IPV an epidemic for years.
Great work,
@MaritStiles
and
@OntarioNDP
Caucus!
#onpoli
BREAKING: The government has agreed to support an NDP motion to declare intimate partner violence an epidemic. This gets a standing ovation in the house
#onpoli