Hilary Harding

[(((Brian Dijkema))) @BrianDijkema]

This is another area where we see a focus on ending life replacing, or crowding out, the space that should be given to making life better for the disabled or deeply infirm. It happens with health spending, so that the funding for MAiD comes from the same limited purse that funds palliative care. MAiD crowds out the thing that would, if we had a commitment to palliative care, address a lot of the drivers of MAiD. Kurt’s thread shows that a similar thing happens even in terms of time spent in discussions. Worthwhile thread.

[Diane Langberg, PhD @DianeLangberg]

It is a grievous failure of those who claim to be the people of God when they not only fail to be a sanctuary for the traumatized but also create the need for one.

[Hilary Harding @MmeHarding]

@BrianDijkema The humility and dissonance columns seem to be contradicted by the center acceptance column. Approaching this topic in humility and with a willingness to be uncomfortable is the opposite of approaching the issue with a predetermined conclusion.

[Hilary Harding @MmeHarding]

@BrianDijkema Great program for students https://t.co/0CVPNdB06V

[Diane Langberg, PhD @DianeLangberg]

If you want the trauma survivor to understand that God is a refuge, then be one.

[Kimiko Shibata 🦋 @ESL_fairy]

Our taxpayer dollars are being spent at an American company (in the middle of a trade war) that offers better deals to folks walking in off the street than to teachers ordering through the Ontario Ministry of Education portal. Make it make sense!!! #OntEd

[HSPhysicsteacher @HPhysicsteacher]

Imagine a government boasting that nurses will finally receive $750 to buy hospital supplies, or police officers an allowance for essential equipment.

It would be an admission of systemic failure.

But when it’s teachers, chronic underfunding gets rebranded as generosity #onted

[Jason Kenney 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇮🇱 @jkenney]

How is it possible for a Canadian politician to comment on this *without even mentioning* the constant, unprovoked attacks on our economy, and our sovereignty, by the Trump Administration?

This comment👇 bizarrely suggests that the Governments of Canada and Ontario are to blame for MAGA protectionism.

Why is the Blame Canada crowd so eager to forget that Canada negotiated and respected the terms of both NAFTA and CUSMA, but that the Trump Administration decided to begin levying prejudicial tariffs on Canada immediately after taking office?

Are Mr. Jivani and his fellow travellers suggesting that Canada somehow began this trade war? Or that we should just cravenly surrender to the latest demands of the United States, no matter how outrageous, up to and including a US veto on Canadian trade with other countries?

Are Mark Carney and Doug Ford responsible for President Trump threatening to “use economic force” to “annex or acquire Canada?” (January 7, 2020)

Did Carney or Ford cause Trump to talk endlessly about making Canada “the 51st state,” or about our “imaginary border” based on a “fake treaty?” Did they send President Trump the maps he displayed in the Oval Office depicting Canada as subsumed by the United States?

Are Ford or Carney to blame for dishonouring Canada’s war dead (“they stayed a little back, a little off the front lines;” “they’re never been there for us.”)

Was Stephen Harper somehow responsible for hoodwinking the Americans when he agreed that Canadian taxpayers would pay 100% of the Gordon Howe Bridge costs in exchange for toll revenues?

Did Canadian governments contrive the calumnies used to justify US tariffs, like:

- Canada is a major source of fentanyl exports (when the data confirm that less than 1% of US fentanyl imports are from Canada);

- Canada is a major source of illegal migration (when the data confirm that less than 5% of illegal border crossings to the US are from Canada);

- Canada is a hotbed of modern slavery / human trafficking (the insane rationale employed for today’s 50% tariffs);

When JD Vance said “the whole point of this (dispute) is to change Canada’s behaviour,” what did he mean? Change the behaviour of a reliable friend and ally that honours its trade agreements, while respecting its sovereignty?

Of course it’s fair and legitimate to offer constructive criticism of how Canadian governments have managed this impossibly difficult crisis.

But surely after 18 months of these provocations and attacks, it’s time to put patriotism ahead of partisanship.

[Hilary Harding @MmeHarding]

@DrKateTO School starts Sept 1st here in the OCDSB. Great timing.

[Hilary Harding @MmeHarding]

@howllr running an MRI machine overnight cuts down wait times. I had one once at 4 am. Was it ideal? no. But better than doubling the wait time!

[Tyler Watt 🇨🇦 @tylerwatt]

The Ford government's $750 classroom gift card gimmick was insulting and admits that our schools are underfunded.

Asking teachers to buy classroom supplies is like asking nurses to shop for medical supplies before work because the hospital can't provide them.

Now we learn that $300 of the promised $750 isn't even new funding - it's being taken from existing education dollars. That's not an investment in public education. It's a shell game.

Ontario students and educators deserve properly funded classrooms, not government announcements that sound bigger than they really are. #onpoli #onted
https://t.co/sA7jOKwkHi

[Hilary Harding @MmeHarding]

@cselley I'm an elementary teacher and all 4 are still alive and well today!

[Markus de Domenico TCDSB WARD 2 Trustee Etobicoke @Markus4Ward2]

Brutally honest condemnation of Calandra's Min of Ed

"The minister has said repeatedly that financial mismanagement by trustees is behind the deficits at many Ontario school boards. To fix that, Calandra sidelined trustees, imposed supervisors at eight boards, and limited the future role of trustees.

And yet, the AG’s report obliquely offers an alternative reason for school-board shortfalls. It says that 46 of the province’s 72 school boards spend more money on special ed than the province provides. The total in 2023–24 was $397.9 million. That’s about double the total of school board deficits.

It’s reasonable, then, to conclude that the root cause of school-board deficits is provincial underfunding of special ed."

https://t.co/pKuHSFClGf via @nationalpost

[Hilary Harding @MmeHarding]

@drewdyck Not an unc. Just unc. Like he's unc. ( trust me..made this mistake lol)

[𝓝𝓸𝓼𝓯𝓮𝓻𝓪𝓽𝓾 @ActualNosferatu]

In other countries people mentioned even peripherally in the Epstein files are resigning or being investigated but in the US where so many people are mentioned prominently there is nothing.
WHAT IS GOING ON?

[Brent Terhune in Ashville Nov 14 @BrentTerhune]

“Since you failed to give me the peace prize, of which I am so deserving, I am forced to show you how unpeaceful I can be.”

[Hilary Harding @MmeHarding]

@Thefakeone12345 @emilykmay Try googling Amish made furniture in your city/closest city. We bought through a store that brought in furniture from a community across the province.

[Marc Owen Jones @marcowenjones]

Trump, the FIFA peace prize winner.

Graphic from @AJEnglish