NEW: Premier Doug Ford has charged Ontario taxpayers more than $140,000 over the past year to charter private flights across Canada and the United States, according to publicly available records.
https://t.co/JBjy2tQ3R3
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Premier Ford says he'll be busy all day during the legislature's five-month break.
Of course, we can't fact-check this because his calendars are no longer FOI-able.
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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.
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New: the education minister expects class sizes to be a key issue in upcoming contract talks with Ontario’s education unions.
Pressed on large class sizes, staffing cuts and concerns that teachers are being stretched thin, Paul Calandra said: “let’s talk about it at the table.”
NEW: the Ford government confirms the Ontario legislature will begin a 102-day summer break today, not returning until Oct. 27.
Government house leader Steve Clark explains the province doesn’t want to interfere with the municipal elections, so they’ll return the day after.
Ontario NDP Leader Marit Stiles is writing to Prime Minister Mark Carney, urging him to block the Ford government’s plans for Billy Bishop Airport, arguing he is the “only one who can stop this expansion.”
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We wrote a two-part series on Bill 5, and part two explains Special Economic Zones.
Please read it. There's no paywall, it's free.
You will be horrified, I promise.
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This isn't just a Toronto concern, this should be a concern for all of Ontario and Canada.
I'm in Northeastern Ontario and this is very concerning to me. It should be to all of us!
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.
But I think the facts are pretty clear cut. According to Nieuport's own website, a guy named Hai-Gi Li is "primarily responsible for the day-to-day management" of the company. According to his own LinkedIn and JPMAM's investor presentations, Li works for JP Morgan.
We need to show up to protests if possible and contact our MPPs. The next protest is on the 30th of May and is happening all across Ontario.
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An AMERICAN investment bank is behind the lobbying effort to destroy Toronto Islands and waterfront.
Doug Ford is going against the overwhelming objections of Torontonians to enrich AMERICAN corporations and is using billions of our money to do so.