"My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world." Jack Layton
NEW - The Ontario NDP are calling on the government to recall the Legislature "Not packing it in until February while respiratory season rages." “Doug Ford should not be closing down the legislature when critically ill children are being flown all over the province"
Not once in my time in office has a resident told me that Toronto is in dire need of an exclusive spa and an expensive amusement park. I do hear many requests for more free public parks, playgrounds, swimming pools with longer opening hours, and community centres. #Onpoli
BREAKING: Galen Weston asking folk to donate points to the needy (or food) after gouging them is pretty sad. How about donating your Billions in pandemic profiteering? Or paying tax...
It’s wild that Doug Ford is now asking the federal government to give the provinces even more healthcare dollars with absolutely no strings attached...when he literally underspent on public healthcare in Ontario by $900 million during a healthcare crisis.
This is the point I try to make in Solved: the solutions exist today to halve emissions by 2030 - we need to take what works somewhere and have it happen everywhere
BREAKING: An environmental disaster on our waterfront!! @fordnation strikes again. Ontario Place redevelopment plan features underground parking for more than 2,000 vehicles, felling of around 850 trees https://t.co/jwj1pwqaJZ via @torontostar
A government that is “working for workers” doesn’t cancel minimum wage increases, cap salaries for healthcare workers, or invoke the notwithstanding clause to strip workers of their right to collectively bargain.
#onlab#onpoli#ondp
Creating a special category for gig workers so they do not get employee rights
Keeping min wage $5 lower than the min needed for food, shelter & clothing
Boasting about giving workers the "right" to use the bathroom
#onpoli
Using the notwithstanding clause to strip workers of their Fundamental Freedoms & Legal Rights
Giving your gov't the power to discriminate against women & BIPOC workers by overriding Human Rights Code
Overriding Charter Right to collective bargaining with Bill 124
#onpoli
Wearing a mask at indoor public gathering spaces will reduce transmission of RSV, flu, COVID - it’s really that simple.
“I’m done with it”, isn”t an effective public health strategy.
#WearAMask#CovidVaccine#flushot@fordnation
Wingham, St. Mary’s, Clinton, Seaforth, Chesley– ER doors are locking shut across rural southwestern Ontario. The Ford government is on track to underspend its health budget by over $2b in 2022 – enough to solve the staffing crisis. It is making these cuts, deliberately.
The more we learn about Doug Ford’s scheme to carve up the #Greenbelt the more red flags go up. 🚩
Following my request to the Auditor General, I’ve filed a complaint with the Integrity Commissioner over these questionable land deals.
https://t.co/OWQzugsfOd
An email with links to videos and articles about student mental health for staff to explore on their own time is not the same thing as actual front-line mental health workers directly supporting struggling children in schools.
Thank you for coming to my #EdTalk.
#KidsCantWait