The mayor @MayorOliviaChow has been the only person to step in for the Dawes road residents. The mayor hopeful, @BradMBradford has been ignoring his constituents for the past 8 years.
Olivia has to clean up his messes. #topoli
NEW: the Ford government promised 86,000 new child care spaces by 2026. A new AG report has found they’ve created 36,000, less than half their target. The report also found Ontario is behind other provinces in reaching the $10/day average, while several others already have.
Just a reminder my Canadian friends. Many spring projects.
Home Depot is 100% American owned. The owner is Bernard Marcus is a huge Trump supporter.
Home hardware is 100% Canadian owned.
Pass the word repost.
Voter turnout was predictably abysmal in Ontario yesterday.
Doug Ford won a third majority without campaigning. He just told people he'd protect them from Tariffs (which he can't), pretending to stand up for Canada.
His party didn't debate outside of one televised leadership debate. No interviews. No Platform.
Enough people bought it, but more don't care.
Bonnie Crombie ran a faceless campaign—void of passion or strong leadership.
Marit Stiles refused to focus on economic growth, just social programs.
Unless the LIberal/NDP parties start taking getting elected in the 21st century seriously, Doug Ford will destroy the middle/lower class, Health Care, social programs over the next four years. Ontarians under the age of 25 will never be able to buy a home and your tax dollars will continue to be stolen and misappropriated for Doug's friends.
Both parties need strong leadership who care about real kitchen table issues AND economic development. Both parties must invest in information warfare, narrative, and community building. And both parties need to elect leaders with the stones to get muddy. Online and off.
You have four years to run a campaign. Claiming Doug cheated by calling a 30 day election means you wasted four fucking years dithering, pretending to be better than Ford's PC's but you keep losing. Embrassingly. Because you refuse to elect real leaders and refuse to do what truly needs to be done.
I don't blame Ontarians for Ford's third Majority. He does what needs to be done: media partnerships, bulletproof mailing lists, and communities, partnering with industries who truly own this province.
The LPC/NDP refused to do any of this for four years. A month doesn't influence public opinion; years and honoring the time-tested tradition of strategic political and economic partnerships do.
So get the lead out. Look for strong leaders with values and virtues who will do what NEEDS TO BE DONE.
Hey! @elonmusk your doge minions just fired me and my colleagues at CMMI. We were working on improving maternal health outcomes AT LOWER COSTS so that less pregnant women would die in this county. I thought that would fit nicely into your agenda?
Say what you will about our outgoing PM, no federal program has impacted my family more directly than the national child care program has/is. Can’t overstate the difference it has made for us with two kids in daycare. And I worry about what it could mean if Poilievre scraps it.
Dear Ontario Premier Doug Ford (@fordnation),
My 10-year-old son was identified with a need last year and had to change public schools.
I now bike him 2.2km to school in the mornings and he bikes home alone.
We use the 8-year-old Bloor Street bike lanes which make the roads safe for him to do this.
With the roads full of Amazon delivery vans, speeding Ubers, massive buses, and whizzing food delivery e-bikes my son was nervous to bike alone.
We got him a rear view mirror and bike lights and practiced together a few times.
He uses the Bloor Street bike lanes which are full of many other kids riding to and from school.
You are now proposing to spend $48M in provincial taxpayer money (1) to overrule the wishes of the City of Toronto (2, 3, 4) to rip out these bike lanes, which you know pose a direct safety threat. (5)
If this happens we’ll need to ask his grandfather to pick him up in his car.
I’ll likely start driving him in the morning more since his grandfather's car can’t fit his bike on the way home.
Instead of what we need and want—*more* bike lanes that are proven to ease congestion, traffic, and pollution (6)—you’re proposing I spend more money, use more gas, spew more fumes, get less exercise, and create more car traffic.
In 2017 you spoke about bike lanes on @TVO and said: "You're nervous when there's no bike lanes. At least I was. We have to make sure there's never a death in the city. One death is way too many when it comes to bicycle riders. I felt so much safer when it's separated." (7)
Please reverse course here.
Keep the bike lanes.
It’s not too late.
Thank you,
Neil Pasricha
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(2) https://t.co/iUtYBV0Oon
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(4) https://t.co/2KFaHnQIoO
(5) https://t.co/JVP4TuOAUv
(6) https://t.co/bV3WO9gboI
(7) https://t.co/TO9TdnGZn4
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CC: Ontario Minister of Transportation Prabmeet Sarkaria (@PrabSarkaria), Ontario MPP Marit Stiles (@MaritStiles), Ontario MPP Jessica Bell (@JessicaBellTO), Ontario MPP Chris Glover (@chrisgloverndp), Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow (@oliviachow), Toronto Councillor Alejandro Bravo (@bravodavenport), Toronto Councillor Dianne Saxe (@DianneSaxxe), Doctors for Safe Cycling (@Docs4Cycling), Cycle Toronto (@CycleToronto) Chrystia Freeland (@cafreeland), Justin Trudeau (@JustinTrudeau), Jon Haidt (@JonHaidt), Lenore Skenazy (@FreeRangeKids), and Jeff Speck (@JeffSpeckFAICP)
I am just a girl desperately pleading with @JustinTrudeau and @theJagmeetSingh to put their egos aside and do the right thing so that Canada doesn’t repeat last night next year.
The Province’s move to remove bike lanes from major streets in Toronto is completely irresponsible + shortsighted. As we work to build a world-class city that can handle + sustain massive population growth + pressure in the coming years, this is a disappointing step backwards.
Yesterday, I had the rare opportunity to sit down w/ @Tim_Walz to talk about the issues that were important to me as a Muslim. As many of you know, these past few months have been haunting. But even with my misgivings about the campaign, it was important to bring up Sudan to..🧵
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