Wasted PPE-this could’ve been distributed and used cuz hospital staff do still use the same PPE-makes me wonder what company lobbied Ford to buy all this and let it sit while hosptials kept buying their own supply. But nooo hospitals are overspending and wasting $
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.
BREAKING: 7 SESSIONS!! Doug Ford was present for in one year.
I know as well as anyone how much work MPs and MPPS do away from legislatures but this is still outrageous.
If you can't be questioned in a democracy it's not a democracy
Attendance report card:
Data tracked by the Ontario NDP shows Premier Doug Ford skipped roughly one in three sessions of question period during the spring sitting and was only present for 7 full-length sessions.
https://t.co/CLFTt6XOkm
#onpoli
So let me get this straight…
Doug Ford can take a 102-day summer break with full pay, taxpayer-funded pensions, benefits, travel budgets, and perks while classrooms are overcrowded, hospitals are understaffed, ERs are closing, and families are struggling to survive?
Teachers are being told there’s “not enough money” for smaller class sizes, educational assistants, special education supports, or properly funded public schools.
Healthcare workers are burning out. Parents can’t find family doctors. Students are falling through the cracks. But Queen’s Park gets a 3+ month vacation?
How is this acceptable?
And before anyone says politicians still “work behind the scenes,” most Ontarians don’t get 102 days off with six-figure salaries and guaranteed pensions while the systems WE pay for collapse around us.
Public education and healthcare are not luxuries. They are the backbone of a functioning society.
Maybe if politicians had to live in overcrowded classrooms, wait 14 hours in ERs, or watch children lose supports because there aren’t enough EAs, they’d stop treating public services like a budget line to cut while protecting their own comfort.
Ontario deserves better than a government that always seems to find money for itself while telling everyone else to lower their expectations.
The Ford government confirmed we won’t be back at Queen’s Park for 102 days.
While I’m excited to spend the summer in Nepean meeting with residents, businesses, and community groups, Ontarians deserve a government that’s willing to show up and do its job.
After calling a snap election to “Protect Ontario,” it’s hard to understand why this government is taking 5 months off while families continue to struggle with the cost of living, health care, and housing. #onpoli
@MaritStiles@CanadianCoffey Well his own chair was upset they weren’t going to get free money to top up their pensions. So not a good look for either there.
Moments ago: NDP leader Marit Stiles demands an apology from Premier Doug Ford for “betraying the people of Ontario” during this 29-day session.
“He spent their money on a luxury private jet… sold out the Toronto waterfront… & changed laws to hide his cell phone records.”
If we are going to call the cost of public services a “loss,” then Canadian police forces lost $20 billion last year while delivering no birthday presents and also killing a lot of people.
I wish the Ontario patient in agony in an ER chair (because there are no open beds) had the same lobbying capacity like the American bank JP Morgan worth $795 billion and who own Billy Bishop airport. Protect Ontario. Op-Ed by @richardwarnica
https://t.co/97RNJb2AXK
Sobering reporting how the Ontario Conservative government put public hospitals into deficit, resulting in cuts while directing millions to for-profit private facilities. Thank you @TinaYazdani
Results are in. Guess what we detected the most of on money?
1. fentanyl
2. Norfentanyl (fentanyl metabolite)
3. Synthetic opioid (we tested several)
4. Cocaine
5. Benzoylecgonine (cocain metabolite)
6. Naloxone
7. Cotinine (nicotine analog)
8. caffeine
An online conspiracy theory suggested planes were dropping ticks over Ontario. Here is the real reason why there are more ticks this year. https://t.co/dUxmzVsY6Y
No matter where you stand on Billy Bishop airport expansion, the apparent fact that lobbyists for secretive private capital have been granted far more influence over local decision-making than the voters of Toronto should scare the bejeezus out of you. https://t.co/DfalMkRJAG
The view and sounds from the Toronto Islands this afternoon as Doug Ford's Conservatives voted to cut Torontonians out of decision-making about the future of this public space (Doug didn't even show up to vote.) #onpoli