Going to start greeting others the way I’m greeted when people hear I live in T.O.: wow, I hate Toronto! Sorry you have to live there! I used to live there—I hated it and left! So very many unsolicited (and unwelcome) opinions
NEW: "As people saw I was out there non-stop speaking to the people," Premier Ford claims and accused a Liberal MPP of "hiding in his basement."
In fact, the premier admitted he went snowmobiling in cottage country during a crucial weekend during the Occupation.
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If each application was for 1 kid, this represents $90 million dollars. Don’t ever let @sflecce tell you he doesn’t have enough money to lower class sizes, fix our schools, or properly compensate education workers. Starving our public education system is a CHOICE. #onted
@DrMicroChem @LizWFab But how do we balance this with this generation who’ve now gone through some big pandemic-related problems? Sometimes an assist with the small problems makes a pandemic-tinged life a little bit easier
15 years ago my PhD advisor taught me One Weird Trick for editing your own writing. Edit **back to front**, paragraph by paragraph. I still use it and it still surprises me how well it works. When I get my students to do it, it often blows their minds. Try it!
Imagine the $$ Conservative Premiers would have saved if they had just handled COVID right from the start: testing, stay-home w paid sick days, mask mandates. Instead we have dead lovies and failing medical systems.
#Opinion: The loss of sticker fee revenue will cost Ontario $1.1B a year from now on.
That money could have gone to public services, like our crumbling health-care system. Or supports for children with autism. Or into the pockets of Ontarians in poverty.
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If you've been waiting for a sale, the Star is currently having a really good subscription deal. $2/month for 6 months or $40 upfront for the year.
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NEW: The Ontario Liberals have received leaked Ontario Health data that shows the state of provincial hospitals this past August.
The data shows a majority of patients are waiting upto 33 hours for an inpatient bed -- 54% higher than Aug 2021.
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I have seen so much reaction to the Blue Jays collapse and still waiting for someone to say: if you play that ball off the bounce it’s a one-run single not a three-run double. Again, little-league stuff.