Ann Silversides

independent journalist. Author, AIDS Activist, Michael Lynch and the Politics of Community (BTL), Taking Our Place, Champions of Medicare etc.

[Karen Kenyatta Russell🍀 @Karen_Russell]

Now I get it!

“The kicker: the same people killing the monitors want to mine the deep sea for minerals. So they are destroying the only tools that could measure what that mining does. That is not an accident.

That is the point. You cannot see the damage if you break the instruments first.”

[P.b.Freire @Freire1Pb]

Ontario, Harmon Brampton announced its closure two days after it didn't win the $140 million facade subcontract for Peter Gilgan Mississauga Hospital after MAGA Ford's regime awarded $140M subcontract to a U.S. company as 700,000 Ontarians were unemployed.

[Ann Silversides @ASilversides]

"...an Abacus Data poll found 70 per cent of Ontarians believe it is time for a change in government from his Progressive Conservatives."

[Robert Benzie @robertbenzie]

NEW: As 70% of Ontarians say it’s time for a change in government at Queen’s Park, Premier Doug Ford calls a five-month timeout.

https://t.co/Vp1S9stkjp

[Mark Evans @markevans]

The root of the Billy Bishop Airport expansion plan is that Nieuport Aviation Infrastructure Partners (aka JP Morgan) wildly overpaid Porter ($750M) in 2015.

Without an expansion, Nieuport likely has no way to recoup its investment.

It's about the $$$$
https://t.co/sT0PMdUIjJ

[Acyn @Acyn]

Trump has a meltdown and ends the interview

Welker: Just to be very clear, there's no evidence of what you're saying.

Trump: There’s a lot of evidence. There’s tremendous evidence. There’s nothing but evidence. The election was rigged. And it’s happening again in California. They’re cheating.

Welker: Do you have evidence?

Trump: All I have to do is look.

Welker: That’s not evidence. The local officials acknowledge they are slow

Trump: They’re crooked. Just like you’re crooked. You’re either crooked or stupid.

[Andrew Coyne 🇺🇦🇮🇱🇬🇪🇲🇩 @acoyne]

Jesus. There really is no bottom.

[Thomas Fazi @battleforeurope]

Crazy that this is getting barely any coverage. This year’s European Press Prize was just awarded to an investigative report by the Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant. It is entitled “What the Wounds Tell” and in it the journalists Maud Effting and Willem Feenstra document the cases of 114 children in Gaza under the age of 15 who were struck by a single bullet to the head or chest. Almost all of them died or were left severely disabled. They chose to document only the cases of boys and girls under the age of 15 (though often much younger: aged 3, 4 or 7) because these are children who can be immediately identified as such. “A single bullet in these parts of the body is a clear indication that these children were deliberately targeted“, the two journalists write.

This is the article: https://t.co/YkZrpqBWBQ

[Scott Robertson @sarobertson_]

"It is obvious that the intent is to privatize water in Ontario, and this, as we know from countless international examples, is a disaster in the making."

Avi Lewis responds to the Ford government’s move to strip municipalities of control over water infrastructure, handing it to newly created water corporations.

[Alberta NDP @albertaNDP]

“Not one of the separatist signatures was verified, and, given the data breach, there was ample ability to forge signatures. But Danielle Smith didn’t care,” said @nenshi

“This was always her plan. She promised separatists the referendum in return for their support, and now we are all living with the consequences. She can’t blame this referendum on anyone but herself.”

https://t.co/nKNb5ruAkc

[Colin D'Mello | Global News @ColinDMello]

The Ontario legislature is expected to rise today after seven weeks. MPPs have spent just 29 days introducing, debating and passing legislation.

Queen’s Park is now widely expected to take an extended summer break - with 5 planned sitting weeks to be erased.

#onpoli

[Phil Pothen 🇨🇦 he/him @pothen]

The jet runway scheme would take a wrecking ball to plans for housing, walkability in Toronto, and likely make the harbourfront a polluted cesspit. That's why my @EnviroDefence team is funding @NoJetsTO & @normsworld to ramp up their important work!

https://t.co/juzEdVMWDO

[Bruce Arthur @bruce_arthur]

Of all of Poilievre's questionable verbal forays today, this was the one that made me guffaw

[Tara Blume @tcblume]

Science gasps for breath. They are removing all the ocean monitors to understand changes in currents and climate, and the excuse is a master class in obfuscation & double speak . (1/2) https://t.co/vs782YbcI3

[Rep. Mike Levin @RepMikeLevin]

Trump wants to hand out 250 pardons this summer to celebrate America’s 250th birthday. 

And guess who’s lining up for a pardon? Ghislaine Maxwell, convicted of helping sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein recruit and groom underage girls. Sam Bankman-Fried, the crypto fraudster convicted of one of the biggest financial frauds in American history, who wiped out the life savings of thousands of ordinary people. Jho Low, accused of stealing $4.5 billion from his own country’s government. 

Welcome to the latest episode of the Pardon Papers. 

A presidential pardon is one of the most serious decisions a president can make. It exists for when the justice system genuinely gets something wrong, not to be handed out by the hundreds. 

The President of the United States is not a king. What Trump is doing is an abuse of power, plain and simple. I’m fighting for a constitutional amendment to put limits on it, because no president should be able to do this. Not now. Not ever.

[Robert Downen @RobertDownen_]

Over the weekend the former head of Trump's Border Patrol attended a summit with fascists from around the world who are calling for "Weimar solutions" and it for some reason has received almost no press coverage.
https://t.co/nI5SyCBuS2

[cherie @imherenow1]

💯👇 #onpoli

[Ann Silversides @ASilversides]

I think Torontonians have a right to be concerned that an American investment bank is behind such a massive, and so far seemingly successful, campaign to permanently change Toronto’s waterfront. https://t.co/wAVLHiUQBI

[Scott Stossel @SStossel]

"The only thing he had to do was—for once in his life—not act like an insane egomaniac.

He couldn’t do it."

https://t.co/o9dpZNjmfb

[Ann Silversides @ASilversides]

Who is Watching Over Ontario’s Most Vulnerable Seniors? https://t.co/mbbrWHJGir via @TheLocal_TO