Geoff Knight

Producer | Editor.
Ontario Legislative Reporter for the Western Standard.
Jesus Christ is the son of God

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Someone had to say it. I've been seeing a lot of this today.

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@Martyupnorth Mulcair is a solid dude who was around before things got nutty

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Federal budget leaves Ontario taxpayers covering the bill https://t.co/XbkyNKceeL

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WATCH: Integrity Commissioner to investigate Brampton MPP over family newspaper ads https://t.co/Cp8ZCsyULO

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@rupasubramanya we all know it's @AmazingZoltan in there!

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WATCH: NDP MPP ejected after accusing health minister of lying on cancer funding https://t.co/t8wouQUmMf

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Ontario NDP leader Marit Stiles says Ontario’s Integrity Commissioner will investigate PC MPP Hardeep Grewal over taxpayer-funded ads in his father’s newspaper — the same MPP who expensed roughly $30,000 on Toronto hotel rooms while living in Brampton.

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NDP Leader Marit Stiles says Health Minister Sylvia Jones has been lying to Ontarians about a cancer patient’s denied U.S. treatment funding.

“She lied to the people of Ontario when she said that this wasn’t the advice of experts.”

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Liberal MPP Adil Shamji says Health Minister Sylvia Jones ignored her own ministry’s doctors on a cancer patient’s U.S. treatment and is costing patients time they do not have.

“The political decision has been hers to not support the advice of her own doctors.”

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NDP MPP Robin Lennox is ejected from the Ontario legislature after accusing Health Minister Sylvia Jones of lying about a cancer patient’s denied U.S. treatment funding.

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Ontario Liberal leadership candidate Dylan Marando wants to scrap income tax for workers under 35 earning less than $50,000. If more revenue is needed, he says he’ll go after “big banks and the big telcos and big tech.”

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At the Ontario Liberal leadership debate, candidate Stephanie Bowman says she’s identified $18 billion in waste under Doug Ford — including $1 billion to put beer in corner stores a year early.

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Premier Doug Ford shuts down talk of a New Deal 2.0 for Toronto:

“No, there’s no 2.0.”

He says the province has already provided $9 billion and expects the city to manage its own budget.

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CUPE education workers begin strike mandate vote as contracts remain expired https://t.co/Ws0hYznHhX

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WATCH: Ford says he cannot trust Trump, directs ministers to Washington after midterms https://t.co/V6EFQrVLr7

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Ford says KPMG will prioritize low-risk colleges as student loan freeze continues https://t.co/2MQ3WNjqDn

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Ontario Liberal Leader John Fraser on the OSAP freeze: Academy of Learning had 8,500 applications from one location. “If you do the math, that’s somewhere between $170 and half a billion. So there’s this also huge waste of taxpayer money that could have reduced hallway health care, that could have made classrooms smaller.”

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Governments around the world are advising their citizens to stock up and be prepared for a major global crisis as NATO assesses an escalated threat from Russia and the potential for an extended war.

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Premier Doug Ford on the OSAP freeze: KPMG is prioritizing low-risk colleges so they can get back up and running, but he says the province will not risk the OPP investigation. “We’re going to catch these criminals… If you want to scam the taxpayers of Ontario, we’re going to catch you.”

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Premier Doug Ford says he “can’t trust” President Trump “as far as I can throw him,” arguing the U.S. president has repeatedly changed deals and that January tariffs remain very real.

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Premier Doug Ford says American voters spoke on the cost of living and tariffs, calling a tariff on Canada “nothing more than a tax on the American people,” and says he is directing ministers to Washington once new members are sworn in while warning the trade war is “not even close to being done.”