I live in Northwestern Ontario. Right now, the Boreal forest is burning.
I'm writing this beneath the dark orange plume from the Quetico wildfires.
These are some of the reports coming out as communities fight to survive:
"No fire crews left for new fires."
"We had no warning."
Families are self-evacuating by private boat across lakes because they didn't receive evacuation information. They're fleeing towering flames with nothing but the clothes on their backs.
This is unacceptable in a province as wealthy as Ontario.
I'm calling out Doug Ford. His government has underfunded Ontario's wildfire management capacity by tens of millions of dollars.
@fordnation you want our Ring of Fire, our water, our forests. You want to store nuclear waste in our bedrock and run an oil pipeline through our watersheds.
But you won't work with northern communities. You make decisions for us without us, and then fail to provide the basic public services we PAY FOR and rely on: wildfire protection, health care, education, safe highways and social services.
Northern Ontario deserves better than this feckless leadership.
#onpoli #onted #70KIsNotOK #cdnpolitics #DontLookAwayOntario #ABC
We got evacuated from forest fire. OPP left before everyone was gone. Disgusting. MNR no show. No water bombers. You fail @fordnation Time for inquiry @TinaYazdani
Stan Cho who lives in Toronto and owns at least 4 properties, including his home. He knew he didn't qualify for a housing allowance because he lives just less than 6 km from Queen's Park. But this grifter tries to stick $16K of luxury hotel stays to Ontario taxpayers anyways.
I guess the ‘Protect Ontario’ thing was more of an advertising concept than actually protecting anything. Hundreds of millions to ad agencies and not to the upgrade of fire crews & equipment. We’re being led by a mindless, self serving oaf.
We need mandatory nurse-to-patient ratios now.
Manitoba’s NDP government has done it and so can we.
Ontario patients deserve it.
Ontario nurses deserve it.
New from me: Ford-appointed school supervisor attended just one meeting with public since provincial takeover, records show.
Calendar entries obtained through FOI show Peel supervisor’s meetings since March consisted almost entirely of closed-door sessions with board’s director & ministry officials, prompting questions about transparency & accessibility to families. https://t.co/vlsdX4LiIo
Doug Ford promised ‘no front-line job losses.’ Well, 87 cut in Ottawa is a broken promise. With 9,000 projected cuts across the province, this would be a major disaster. It’s time to hold this government accountable for creating a crisis by design. Drop a comment, share this
Doug Ford said students were abusing OSAP and used that to justify deep cuts.
But internal government documents tell a different story: 95% of the increase in provincial OSAP grant spending came from private career colleges - not students at Ontario's public colleges and universities.
If the government knew what was driving the costs, why did every student pay the price? #onpoli #FixOSAPASAP
If your wondering why Ford would give $360,000 to a private golf club let me help. The manager of the Kapuskasing Golf Club, André Robichaud, is a
former PC candidate for Doug Ford. This is just another case of a PC insider getting special access to public funds. Disgusting?
Ford is cutting thousands of nurses from Hospitals & Long Term Care homes across Ontario.
"The Ford government is intentionally underfunding our public health-care system in its quest to justify more privatization," Ontario Nurses Association.
#onpoli
https://t.co/vN8HgrFsUX
Every voter needs to remember two things he doesn't want you to think about:
1. He's been under active RCMP investigation for over 1000 days
2. He actually changed the law so that freedom of information requests - including his phone - can be ignored
Why? 🤔
Vote accordingly
Ontario’s second-largest school board is facing questions after it unveiled an unexpected $42.3M surge in capital spending, while spec-ed funding falls.
Critics argue the Ford government is investing in the wrong parts of the education system, prioritizing infrastructure over classroom needs.
https://t.co/UaxAsqf0Fs