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[Sam Cooper @scoopercooper]

The fentanyl epidemic I tracked from 2012 in Vancouver has hit Ontario and across Canada full force. This cannot be addressed without major legal reforms targeting China, Iran, Mexican cartels and the explosion of organized crime and street gangs in Canada. That a person running for the Ontario Liberals is recognizing the Vancouver-Model problems albeit in a limited ‘housing’ way so far, is a major positive development for Canadian democracy. That Ontario party will want to keep its rigged nominations and diaspora interference rackets going, through, I suspect. God speed to Eric Lombardi and Canada’s silent majority.

[Siobhan Morris @siomoCTV]

Premier Doug Ford went off on an Angus Reid poll that puts his approval rate at 21%, his lowest ever.

The pollster stands by its research and methodology, noting Ford had no issue with them when his numbers were more favourable
https://t.co/MtY8XUCJz0

[TDot Resident @TDotResident]

Doug Ford is trapped so deep in his billionaire private jet bubble that he won’t even listen to Angus Reid when they tell him his corrupt and incompetent government is unpopular.

[Eric Lombardi (EricForOLP.ca) 🇨🇦🚀 @EricDLombardi]

Yesterday, I was in London visiting local Liberals. I wish I could say I enjoyed the day, but I didn’t. Not at all.

I’m going to say it bluntly.

The situation in downtown London is a total catastrophe.

I live downtown east in Toronto. My family is in Hamilton. I’ve travelled to a lot of cities in the province.

The plight of Ontarian’s suffering from severe addictions and homelessness has become a huge problem everywhere.

Two years ago, when I last visited London, I thought it was getting rough. Just like so many of our urban centers under the Ford era’s provincial decline.

But downtown London now?

DYSTOPIA.

I feel completely disgusted by what we’ve allowed to happen. It is totally immoral.

It should be treated as a provincial and national emergency.

And by the way, downtown London is otherwise GORGEOUS. Even if half the storefronts are closed.

One of the regional MPPs, @RobFlackEML, is Minister of Housing and Municipal affairs.

How can you let this happen to your city?

How can we turn such a blind eye to the suffering?

How do you tolerate the billions of dollars your government spends on scandalous priorities as this gets ignored?

How can London possibly attract better jobs, people, and employers when its downtown is like this?

- - -

It also made me realize that my plans on this file are not enough.

Money for supportive and transitional housing, secure rehab and mental health facilities, ODSP benefits, etc may be sufficient to stop more people from ending up on the street.

But there are an estimated 2,300 people homeless in London. Many need shelter, treatment, medium-to-long term care.

The new HART Hub has 60 beds.

It’s inadequate by an order of magnitude.

I met with a local shelter providing detox and transitional housing services (who is being shut down later this year, no less).

Even when they form people (involuntary entry into hospital/ward to prevent violence or self harm), they are usually out in 24hrs.

It’s not the hospitals fault… they don’t have the space.

There is no space for people who voluntarily want rehab.

Or those who don’t want it voluntarily.

Police move people around blocks. There is nowhere for them to go.

I left feeling sick and daunted. We have failed so many people.

[TDot Resident @TDotResident]

#ONpoli

Doug Ford, on the island airport:
"private equity is going to invest over $5B, not a dollar of taxpayer money"

This is clearly false - even just the basic cost of acquiring the land would be taxpayer money.

[David Fisman @DFisman]

It’s pretty incredible that the sketchiness around the Therme Ontario Place deal was a major story in the @nytimes but has warranted so little coverage in Canadian media outlets

https://t.co/nx9zk5oqK0

[TDot Resident @TDotResident]

#ONpoli

Doug Ford and Paul Calandra went through this ridiculous photo op to actually CUT funding for supplies?!?!???

[Wab Kinew @WabKinew]

We are saying no to a data centre in Île-des-Chênes because there are big threats to the environment and not much benefit to the economy.

Our message to any tech company out there… if you want to build technology with a thoughtful, human-centred approach that puts humanity first, then Manitoba is open for business. 🦬

[Captain Dick @CaptainDick12]

Doug Ford has racked up the largest subnational debt in the world. No province, state or small country has as much debt as Ford. Ontario's net debt is projected to surpass half a trillion dollars, sitting at around $507.1 billion and he goes off on vacation for five months?

[TDot Resident @TDotResident]

And the cottage… and then the cottage… and then some cottage.

[Toronto Star @TorontoStar]

#Opinion Doug Ford has made MPPs into seasonal workers, and we all suffer https://t.co/8vqhrkRdTF #onpoli

[Andrew Coyne 🇺🇦🇮🇱🇬🇪🇲🇩 @acoyne]

Nor should he have the power to shutter the provincial legislature for five months. Honestly this country…

https://t.co/kvYUZHI5Fp

[TDot Resident @TDotResident]

Because Doug Ford bought $1.6 Billion of PPE and left it to expire in a warehouse instead of distributing it.

Zero media coverage or opposition coverage of a scandal far bigger than any gas plant.

[TDot Resident @TDotResident]

So now we are paying millions of dollars for ads to promote how Ford removed license plate sticker fees 4 years ago?!?!???

[Great Canadian Moose @Great_Cdn_Moose]

LISTEN UP ONTARIO:
Something big is happening in Ontario, and almost no one is talking about it.
Premier Ford has quietly passed a law that opens the door to water privatization across Ontario - and he's hoping you won't notice.

The Water and Wastewater Public
Corporations Act lets the government seize your local water system and hand it over to a for-profit corporation without your consent.
History is clear: when for-profit corporations control our water systems, the results are disastrous:

Bigger bills!
Bad service!
Dirty water!

Water is a human right not a commodity. It's not too late to stop this.
& Tell Premier Ford our water is NOT for sale. Take action now!

[TDot Resident @TDotResident]

Your government forgave $1B that the 407 owed the province.

$5M doesn’t seem like much.

[Corruptario @corruptario]

Don't get lost in the sauce.

JP Morgan owns the island airport, and it also owns a chunk of Palantir.

The president of Palantir is building a secret something at Ontario Place.

[Raghu Venugopal MD @raghu_venugopal]

Dr. Gorfinkel writes a master Op-Ed on how not to govern. Premier Ford's "public-health policies share a recurring thread - out of sight, out of mind. These are not accidents, but deliberate attempts to push health crises out of public view. @DrGorfinkel
https://t.co/q81X4emmX1

[Chris Glover @chrisglover]

🚨 Breaking 🚨

JP Morgan hired lobbyists to lobby the Ford Conservatives & federal Liberals to expand Billy Bishop... and they may have broken the rules governing lobbyists.

#ONpoli
#Cdnpoli

[Darwin @ThisIsDarwino]

BREAKING: We now know the municipal/provincial and federal lobbyists behind the Billy Bishop airport expansion in Toronto is Nieuport Aviation, an asset among many, controlled by the IIG which was founded by JP Morgan. Yes, an AMERICAN bank is trying to destroy our waterfront.