If I’m understanding this properly the $750 for #OntEd elementary teachers is…a bit of a scam.
$450 is funding from the government. $300 is being taken directly from school budgets.
Per teacher.
And the vendor is TBD.
No CUSMA.
No BOOZE-MA.
🇨🇦
If the Trump administration wants us to sell US booze again, President Trump needs to drop his tariffs that are making life more expensive on both sides of the border.
Premier Doug Ford says other North American leaders “think it’s a joke” that Ontario doesn’t have a dedicated government jet.
He made the comment Thursday while defending his use of chartered flights from Toronto to Ottawa, arguing that flying commercially can consume an entire workday.
“We’ve got to stop treating Ontario like a banana republic, because that’s what it’s being treated like,” he said. Full story icymi: https://t.co/AJI2vzyr0H
Flashback: when discussing Therme, Doug Ford said multiple times: "there is no public money in this deal"
This was completely false. We are spending billions to make the Therme spa happen.
Growing waitlists. Layoffs. No wage increases for front-line staff.
But funding for private administration? It's tripled under Doug Ford.
Turns out there is money - it's just being redirected from care into profit.
“Committees still sit,” Premier Ford said this week, defending the record-long summer break at Queen's Park.
But PC MPPs are now trying to cancel all summer meetings of the committee that reviews government appointments, calling it "routine" scheduling: https://t.co/LrItfUDO5S
NEW: the Ford govt has moved to cancel all summer meetings of the committee that vets PC appointments to provincial boards & agencies.
The move came after opposition MPPs questioned two nominees who had donated a combined $13K to the PCs.
Full story w/ @steve_cornwell to come.
NEW: Doug Ford has charged Ontario taxpayers more than $140,000 over the past year to charter private flights, according to publicly available records, revealing a change in habits for the once infamously penny-pinching politician. #OnPoli
https://t.co/OZFxV64kNJ
Ontario's education unions are heading into contract talks united in their warning that schools are in a 'dire' state & pushing for smaller classes, spec ed funding & wage increases to retain staff.
Ford govt says it hopes to reach a deal before Sept: https://t.co/rLKWwPAPQI
How much of the $1.6 Billion in PPE that Doug Ford bought and left sitting in a warehouse was from his buddies? Remember, the biggest PPE contract of all was for his Deco Labels customer Apollo Health & Beauty:
BREAKING: Ontario recorded its steepest drop in labour force participation since 1976 excluding the pandemic, with 71,300 people leaving the workforce in the first quarter of 2026 according to the Financial Accountability Office of Ontario — Global News
Because Doug Ford bought $1.6 Billion of PPE and left it to expire in a warehouse instead of distributing it.
Zero media coverage or opposition coverage of a scandal far bigger than any gas plant.
Premier Ford and his staff have flown on five separate private flights in a single year
The chartered flights cost anywhere between $1,800 to nearly $9,000 per person, depending on the distance, costing taxpayers a grand total of $143,498.16.
https://t.co/JBjy2tQ3R3
#onpoli
Doug Ford: ‘Teachers are lazy! It’s insane that they get 2 months off during the summer!’
Also Doug Ford: ‘There’s nothing wrong with us getting a 3 month winter vacation and a 5 month vacation over summer! We work so hard!’
Days after the Ford government claimed it didn’t want to “interfere” with Municipal elections, Premier Doug Ford praises Mississauga Mayor Carolyn Parrish and says his “MPPs can go out there and support whoever they want.”
#onpoli
NEW: Premier Doug Ford has charged Ontario taxpayers more than $140,000 over the past year to charter private flights across Canada and the United States, according to publicly available records.
https://t.co/JBjy2tQ3R3
#onpoli