Steve McKay

Cinnamon bun enthusiast/mortgage broker/formerly incredible drummer

[Chris Cowley @oectagovernor]

There are 37 days until Christmas.

Or 12,110 Lecce days.

[Steve McKay @SteveMcKaySays]

I recall experiencing one strike from 1986 to 2000 and it was for a 2-week stint (ie 10 days) under Mike Harris and a similarly ridiculous minister of education.

[Stephen Lecce @Sflecce]

We are at the table ready to land a fair deal that invests more in lower income workers & keeps kids in class.

It's time for CUPE to take yes for an answer & cancel the strike.

These kids have endured enough of these strikes. 2,246 days out of class to be precise, since 1989.

[Steve McKay @SteveMcKaySays]

Neighbors by chance; friends by choice #hamont #durand #coffee

[Steve McKay @SteveMcKaySays]

The response from an MPP office should never include the phrase “look it up”. Ford’s PCs are anything but accountable for their bills. #onpoli

[Jennifer Keesmaat @jen_keesmaat]

Your regular reminder that the smartest place to build new housing is where we have existing roads, parks, transit (subway is below capacity), and schools. Majority of schools through our city of 2.9 million are hovering around 50% capacity. Great urbanism = great for families.

[David Moscrop @David_Moscrop]

Doug Ford isn't a populist. He's a clientalist. He's a right winger and that informs his politics. But he also creates relationships of exchange in the right wing universe between electoral constituencies in return for support, narrowly serving those sectors through patronage.

[Steve McKay @SteveMcKaySays]

If you re-arrange the letters in DONNA SKELLY, it spells “I AM VOLDEMORT”
#stopsprawl #onpoli #HamOnt

[𝚂𝚎á𝚗 𝙾’𝚂𝚑𝚎𝚊 Global News @ConsumerSOS]

What @fordnation promised—on camera: #onpoli

[Steve McKay @SteveMcKaySays]

This is what we Ontarians call an #onpoli hat-trick! Rarely does a gov’t mismanage labour issues with healthcare, education and transit all at once.

[Ahmar Khan @AhmarSKhan]

BREAKING:

2,200 GO Transit workers, will go on strike this coming Monday after rejecting Metrolinx's latest offer.

[Maureen Wilson (She / Her) @ward1wilson]

Let’s call this exactly what it is, a betrayal of public trust & contempt for the people of Hamilton. Bad planning, financially irresponsible & environmentally disastrous.Our City Council must use every available tool to obstruct its implementation. #Planningdisobedience #HamOnt

[Steve McKay @SteveMcKaySays]

@r_quinla What’s more - a business does not have the power to force staff to work legislatively.

[David J. Doorey🇨🇦 💙 @TheLawofWork]

There you have it folks, Ontario Conservatives are the first Canadian government to use the Notwithstanding clause to override Constitutionally protected Labour Rights.

Quite a day in Canadian Labour law and Constitutional history.

[Michaela Kargus @ClancyMichaela]

As you hear about CUPE strike action, never forget that @Sflecce took $465 million out of the education budget to pay parents, when $235 million would have avoided a strike.

#39KIsNotEnough #onted #IStandWithCUPE

[Cass! :) @isoprudence]

I won’t cut my nose off to spite my face, but as a young journalist who doesn’t pretend to know everything - I consult the Canadian Press Style Guide (every news writer’s Bible) a lot.

Here’s what it says about headlines:

[Steve McKay @SteveMcKaySays]

⁦@PaulBerton⁩ says the heart of this story is a community member losing his life in a home invasion. The lede says otherwise:

“A community organizer who has called for the defunding of police has been charged in relation to the kidnapping of a Mount Hope man.”

[Cameron Kroetsch @CameronKroetsch]

Not the way I wanted to start things off, but important to speak out about this as soon as possible. For those who have been asking, here's our public statement on journalistic integrity at @TheSpec. For an accessible and downloadable PDF - https://t.co/NKTgHa7mLJ. #HamOnt

[Steve McKay @SteveMcKaySays]

3,900 square feet x $600/sq ft = $2.34M construction cost. Make it 4 townhomes and it’s under $600k/unit.

[Phil Pothen 🇨🇦 he/him @pothen]

The avg square footage of a Canadian house in 1975 was just over 1000 square feet.

The avg single detached house built in Mississauga today is 3906 square feet.

This is the crux of why, despite a LOT of construction, we have a shortage of homes.

https://t.co/m8gHbd3sfh.

[Steve McKay @SteveMcKaySays]

This new #Hamont city council is like switching from dial-up to fibre.

[Steve McKay @SteveMcKaySays]

My son: “The voting sticker is a good idea - it will tempt people to vote. Everyone will know that you’re important because you have the sticker”

[Steve McKay @SteveMcKaySays]

@ca_klassen2 Yes yes yes!!!