LL Hardacre

Retired President OPSEU Local 237 Retired Professor Early Childhood Education

[NDP @NDP]

Tommy Douglas knew then what New Democrats still know today.

If we could mobilize the resources of this country to defeat Nazi tyranny, there is no reason we cannot do the same to make sure that each and every person has what they need to live a dignified life.

Happy Birthday, Tommy.

[Chris Glover @chrisgloverndp]

💰Ford government squandered $117 million to advertise itself, a new record.

💸Beating the record they set last year, by $5.1 million.

Meanwhile he's cutting special education kindergarten classes and nurses from hospitals, because there's no money.

#onpoli

[MPP Jamie West @jamiewestndp]

Hospitals should never have to choose between balancing their budgets and having the staff they need to care for Ontario patients. Health Minister Sylvia Jones needs to recognize what matters most: patient care.

[MichaelHurleyCUPE @HurleyOCHUCUPE]

Thousands of nursing and other positions are cut as hospital funding comes in at 1/2 of cost increases. Hallway medicine will balloon.

Ontario hospital in deficit cutting over 100 nursing roles, adding other positions https://t.co/fOBBEhCIs6 via @Thetrilliumca

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

And if you believe that, I have nice towers in Paris and Pisa to sell you! Russia’s destabilization agenda reaches from pushing immigrants to Europe to sponsoring far left and far right political groups and violent agitators. You never have to dig deep to find the Russian money.

[Lana Payne 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦 @Lanampayne]

Support the right to strike.

Support fair collective bargaining.

Support unions.

No nation on the planet has achieved shared progress without strong unions and strong collective bargaining rights.

[P.b.Freire @Freire1Pb]

The Ford gov claimed they buried the iGaming problem gambling study because it “didn't meet policy standards.”
But internal leaks tell a different story: they allegedly hid it to protect their multi-billion dollar market and avoid bad headlines right before an election⬇️ #ONpoli

[OSSTF Communications @osstf]

What do the Ford government's cuts actually look like?

Toronto Life lays it out across the TDSB:

✂️ 175 teaching positions cut from low-income schools
✂️ 40 vice-principal positions eliminated
✂️ 218 central positions cut
✂️ Nine school cafeterias closed
✂️ Programming cut at five outdoor education centres
✂️ Nearly 800 jobs eliminated overall

And at one school featured in the investigation, the student population has doubled over roughly 20 years while the number of social workers, child and youth workers and teacher assistants has been cut in half.

This is what “finding efficiencies” looks like in practice: fewer adults, fewer supports, and more pressure on classrooms already stretched thin.

And this isn’t just a Toronto story.

Across Ontario, school boards are facing staffing shortages, cuts to student supports, and growing pressure to do more with less.

When supports disappear, every student feels it.

Full article at Toronto Life: https://t.co/dfChFwl089

#OSSTF #OntEd #OnPoli

[Eric Lombardi 🇨🇦🚀 @EricDLombardi]

Yes, just like the RCMP has been “investigating” Ford for the Greenbelt scandal for like 4 years now.

Still shocks me that RCMP leadership sees it as appropriate to drag it out so long.

Really makes you wonder if our policing agencies really serve the public interest anymore.

[Dr. Adil Shamji 🇨🇦 @ShamjiAdil]

Ontario promises you'll get life-saving care when you need it. Under @SylviaJonesMPP, that promise is broken.

She has gutted a program that helps people with rare diseases get care when it's not available in Ontario.

People have died from this. More will if she doesn't change course.

[Stephanie Bowman @stephaniebowman]

I’m deeply troubled by the Toronto Star’s reporting that the Ford government hid a study showing problem gambling rates significantly higher than expected. Ontarians deserve transparency, not a government that keeps them in the dark.

As premier, I’ll put an end to Ford’s harmful online gambling advertising scheme and make sure Ontarians have the treatment and support they need to recover from gambling addiction.

#ONpoli

[Raghu Venugopal MD @raghu_venugopal]

Premier Ford - due to your hospital underfunding the Queensway Carleton Hospital whose work you are recognizing today is cutting 119 positions, including 87 registered nurses. There's no galaxy where that makes sense. Shame on you. @fordnation

[TDot Resident @TDotResident]

1) American subway cars
2) American nuclear reactors
3) American software and IT contracts
4) American hospital construction deal
5) American classroom supplies portal

[TDot Resident @TDotResident]

#ONpoli

Great reporting from Tina and the team… it is confirmed that the private career colleges benefiting from these OSAP programs also own immigration/recruitment agencies promoting OSAP as “free money”. It is an end-to-end immigration and funding and marketing company.

[David Brown 🇨🇦💪 @OrbitStudios]

I keep saying it: Doug Ford has about 15 scandals that, on their own would’ve brought down any other government. And yet, no updates on any of these investigations. When is the Ford government gonna be held accountable for literally anything?

[Timothy Snyder @TimothyDSnyder]

No amount of support for Russia can end the war, because Russia is the criminal aggressor. A modicum of support for Ukraine could, however, end the war, by making it impossible for Russia to continue. This should not be a hard choice.

[MichaelHurleyCUPE @HurleyOCHUCUPE]

The Premier visited the Queensway-Carleton hospital, where over 100 staff positions have been cut this year. What the hospital needs isn't a photo-op, it is to have its deficit covered by his government.

[Jill Promoli @jillpromoli]

While we've failed to receive credible justification for PDSB's takeover by the provincial government, there is strong suspicion that the valuable property owned by the board may be at play.

Meanwhile, parents still reach out to me almost every day for support. #onted

[Ross McLean @McLeanChronicle]

I worked with CBC Fifth Estate for one investigation they did. Don't confuse this group with rest of CBC, they do very good work, confirm it, and deliver. You can take it to the bank if it's on Fifth Estate. Watch this, the Ford's govt knew about all of this 4 years ago, and now are crushing innocent schools and students. Share widely. #osap

[Robin Lennox @RobinLennox]

If public money is buying promotional ads for the Ford government instead of being invested in our public health system, Ontarians deserve to know.

#onpoli #health #ads