Nig Narain

Personal acct | Lecturer PoliSci UWO & KUC | TJ UG Chair | UWOFA PastPrez 23-24 | OCUFA Pres 23-25 | Chief Butler for 3 dogs| Serial Gif(t)er | Optimist

[Nig Narain @nigmendra]

EASILY make Tweet images Accessible: 1) add pic/gif/etc.; 2) under pic click "Add description"; 3) type description and save; 4) post pic/gif/etc. EASY! Thanks to @A_Kim_Clark for nudge. @uwofa1 @OCUFA @CAUT_ACPPU
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[P.b.Freire @Freire1Pb]

Tina Yazdani reported Ford won’t commit to paying taxpayers back $190K in additional cost for Ford's $30M gravy plane, calling the controversy an “old story,” after 16 Ford gov gravy stained MPPs billed taxpayers $107K for overnight stays in Toronto. .”

[Frank Domenic @TheFrankDomenic]

There's an AI Data Center going up in Burlington, let's talk about it, because this isn't the first time the city has been surprised by a development. A steel manufacturing plant in Alton Village? Hundreds of trees cut down in Millcroft and surprise extra developments? We are

[alan drummond @alandrummond2]

St. Joseph's Healthcare Hamilton exhibit highlights abuse, violence faced by hospital staff
Reported violence against St. Joe's workers rose 30% over a year, survey finds
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[TheTrillium.ca @Thetrilliumca]

Ontario paid Rogers $64M while company owed $200k in back taxes https://t.co/8O1aRRzkRN

[Isaac Callan @isaaccallan]

NEW: Last night, Stan Cho's office said he would repay some of the hotel stays he claimed in Toronto, where he lives.

Hours later, after the story broke this morning, he said he would actually repay the full cost. #Onpoli
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[Colin D'Mello | Global News @ColinDMello]

NEW: A senior cabinet minister in the Ford gov’t billed taxpayers thousands of dollars for hotel rooms in downtown Toronto, despite living just a few kilometres away from Queen’s Park — public money that he’s now promising to partly pay back.

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#onpoli

[Nig Narain @nigmendra]

@blynne43 @mindingottawa @TomTSEC @AnitaAnandMP @GAC_Corporate @rcmpgrcpolice RCMP does their job regardless of party. Doug Ford is Conservative and under investigation by them.

[Mary-Lou Schagena @radiogirl985]

Hey Ontarians! Capital Power is a private electricity provider from AB. Albertans pay more for electricity than Ontarians. AB’s deregulated market, coupled with local access & delivery fees, results in higher overall per-kilowatt-hour costs than ON’s regulated system. @Sflecce

[Marit Stiles @MaritStiles]

Doug Ford voted down the Ontario NDP's solutions to lower grocery bills and offered nothing of his own.

Ontarians literally can't afford it: grocery prices have risen faster than inflation every month for over a year and a half.

That's why we're pushing for real action:

✅ No tax on food
✅ Ban surveillance pricing
✅ End property controls that block competition
✅ Expand the Ontario Food Terminal

[CTV News @CTVNews]

New Mexico attorney general says DOJ is withholding ‘critical’ information related to Epstein’s Zorro Ranch https://t.co/jFx64ZI0K7

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

President of Mexico Claudia Sheinbaum will seek criminal charges over the deaths of 17 Mexican nationals who have died in US ICE custody.

[LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @LongTimeHistory]

ICE officer sexually assaults U.S. Army veteran—detained at an ICE private prison.

Started as a pat down—but turned into sexual groping of his groin.

When he objected they handcuffed him—took him for full body strip search.

He called 911—but police said his word wasn't enough and there was a lack of evidence to make an arrest.

"To be willing to die for this country and to be put in a cage after that service is the deepest betrayal," said lawyer.

"After having been rendered disabled and being in chronic pain every day of his life, now he's inside of a cage."

Garnet Smith has filed a report alleging the incident violated the federal Prison Rape Elimination Act.

He has been locked up for 9 months at the Northwest ICE Processing Center—operated by the private prison company GEO Group in Tacoma, Washington.

[Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick]

Remember, just last week it came out in court that ICE outright invented a fake murder attempt on one of their officers and tried to send a man to prison for decades on claims he choked an agent, even though THEY were the ones who actually put the guy in a chokehold!

[Tyler Watt 🇨🇦 @tylerwatt]

Doug Ford claims to be making record investments in Ontario’s healthcare system. The reality? Hospitals are being forced to work more with less. The QCH announced the layoffs of 87 RN’s, citing financial pressures.

This government has gotten their priorities all wrong. We need to be adequately funding our public health care system, invest in access, prevention, and community care, and ensure they have the resources capable of providing the quality-of-care Ontarians deserve. #onpoli
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[Toronto Star @TorontoStar]

A Toronto man who kidnapped a man at gunpoint in London has charges thrown out after police beat him during his arrest and lied about it in court https://t.co/Jb9lxPLtB9

[Jack Hauen @jackhauen]

New: Ontario is refusing to release four internal forensic audits, including one into an SDF recipient, arguing that doing so could interfere with law enforcement matters.

There are at least two related police investigations and a court case.

#onpoli

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[Derek Thompson @DKThomp]

The Atlantic’s new cover story by @rosehorowitch is absolutely definitive on the end of the age of reading in America—and the emergence of a new post-literate age in modern life

Some core facts and anecdotes:

1. Reading is shrinking. The share of Americans who read for pleasure declined by 43 percent between 2004 and 2023. While Americans might see more words than ever—between all those texts, posts, emails, and captions—less than half of Americans read books, anymore. The average sentence in NYT bestsellers are one-third shorter than a century ago.

2. Americans can swallow words and sentences, but they’re losing the ability to think deeply about writing that’s longer than an Instagram post. Nearly 30 percent of American adults cannot paraphrase or make inferences from a multipage text. In 2017, that number was less than 20 percent.

3. It’s worse for the young. Fourth- and eighth-grade reading scores have slid for the past decade. From 1984 to 2025, the percentage of 13-year-olds who said they rarely or never read for fun rose from 8 to 29 percent.

4. “Every year older a child gets, the less they like to read”: Most high-schoolers consider reading for pleasure an alien practice. Margaret Rennix, Harvard’s assistant director for humanities and social-sciences support, says some students view reading as an unnecessarily burdensome way of acquiring knowledge. “By asking them to read,” she said, it's as if “professors are arbitrarily withholding information from students by forcing them to get it through this more difficult medium.”

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[P.b.Freire @Freire1Pb]

The repulsive & repugnant Sylvia Jones, Minister of over 1,400 patients per day treated in "unconventional hospital spaces" from hallways, washrooms, closets to storage rooms eliminated "unconvential hospital spaces" statistics from her annual report while laying 700 nurses.

[Dr.VivianS @DrVivianS]

We have to do better than this. https://t.co/GKMzvI94z2