Kathy Wilson

Mother, wife, grandma, dog momma/ Love food, wine and travel - not necessarily in that order!

[Kathy Wilson @WilsonKathyM]

@cambridgetimes This project is too big for the site

[Raghu Venugopal MD @raghu_venugopal]

2024 MAID facts:
-16,4999 cases (5.1% of all national deaths)
-Vast majority - 95.6% Track 1: i.e., foreseeable death
-Track 1: median age 78 years
-Cancer was the #1 reason in Track 1
-No excess deaths among poor and disadvantaged
-These are facts
https://t.co/XWqq4WI5Vc

[Kathy Wilson @WilsonKathyM]

@DrKateTO

[Elementary Educators @ETFOeducators]

"So far, there are around 800 job cuts at the Toronto District School Board (TDSB), including 300 elementary teachers, 145 model school teachers, 72 English as a second language teachers, 40 special education assistants and 150 lunchroom supervisors." #onted

And who will be most impacted by these cuts, courtesy of Ford's underfunding? It's children! Shameful. https://t.co/0QDHO9EWcA

[Iris Gorfinkel, M.D. @DrGorfinkel]

Last year @FordNation spent a record $112 MILLION on government ads.

TAXPAYER $ that could have bought -

🏥 5 million hours of HOME CARE
🧲 37 brand new MRI SCANNERS
🏠 HOUSING for 3,600+ homeless Ontarians for a YEAR

This makes my blood boil

@DFisman @raghu_venugopal

[Tina Yazdani @TinaYazdani]

NEW: we’re learning more about the cost of “Protect Ontario” ads to taxpayers.

FOI records show the cost for just one ministry to produce & run them last year was nearly $10 million.

The total the Ford government has spent across all ministries is expected to be much higher.

[Kathy Wilson @WilsonKathyM]

@cambridgetimes Such a shame. Saw many kids and families turned away over the weekend. No way this should be open until 11 pm, and security cameras are needed in this park and have been for many years.

[Cambridge Times @cambridgetimes]

Hate-motivated graffiti forces closure of Cambridge's new $1.12M inclusive sports court https://t.co/SDGoKhTxKe

[Raghu Venugopal MD @raghu_venugopal]

For the record, Premier Ford promised 30,000 new LTC beds and 28,000 upgraded beds by 2028. 6,700 have been built and 4,297 upgraded. That's a 47,000 bed deficit with 2028 coming up.

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

There is no F—king way Trump is getting out of this one.

He falls asleep at the loud and exciting Knicks game, and then jolts awake suddenly.

What a low energy, sleepy, old man.

[Raghu Venugopal MD @raghu_venugopal]

ER waiting room chair medicine is replacing hallway medicine in Ontario. The patient seen, examined, tests ordered, tests explained and discharged without setting foot inside the ER proper. Hospitals (outside of the URTI season) are too overcrowded.
@CAEP_Docs

[Colin D'Mello | Global News @ColinDMello]

NEW: Ontario’s financial watchdog says the province’s labour force declined in the first quarter of this year at the sharpest rate since records began, excluding the pandemic lockdowns.

https://t.co/SAd3r5LsGP

#onpoli

[Gianl1974 @Gianl1974]

*BRITISH WRITER PENS THE BEST DESCRIPTION OF TRUMP*
Someone asked "Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?" Nate White, an articulate and witty writer from England wrote the following response:

A few things spring to mind. Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem. For instance, he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility, no honour and no grace – all qualities, funnily enough, with which his predecessor Mr. Obama was generously blessed.
So for us, the stark contrast does rather throw Trump's limitations into embarrassingly sharp relief.
Plus, we like a laugh. And while Trump may be laughable, he has never once said anything wry, witty or even faintly amusing – not once, ever.
I don't say that rhetorically, I mean it quite literally: not once, not ever. And that fact is particularly disturbing to the British sensibility – for us, to lack humour is almost inhuman.
But with Trump, it's a fact. He doesn't even seem to understand what a joke is – his idea of a joke is a crass comment, an illiterate insult, a casual act of cruelty. Trump is a troll. And like all trolls, he is never funny and he never laughs; he only crows or jeers.
And scarily, he doesn't just talk in crude, witless insults – he actually thinks in them. His mind is a simple bot-like algorithm of petty prejudices and knee-jerk nastiness. There is never any under-layer of irony, complexity, nuance or depth. It's all surface.
Some Americans might see this as refreshingly upfront. Well, we don't. We see it as having no inner world, no soul. And in Britain we traditionally side with David, not Goliath. All our heroes are plucky underdogs: Robin Hood, Dick Whittington, Oliver Twist. Trump is neither plucky, nor an underdog. He is the exact opposite of that. He's not even a spoiled rich-boy, or a greedy fat-cat. He's more a fat white slug. A Jabba the Hutt of privilege.
And worse, he is that most unforgivable of all things to the British: a bully. That is, except when he is among bullies; then he suddenly transforms into a snivelling sidekick instead.
There are unspoken rules to this stuff – the Queensberry rules of basic decency – and he breaks them all. He punches downwards – which a gentleman should, would, could never do – and every blow he aims is below the belt. He particularly likes to kick the vulnerable or voiceless or female – and he kicks them when they are down. So the fact that a significant minority – perhaps a third – of Americans look at what he does, listen to what he says, and then think 'Yeah, he seems like my kind of guy' is a matter of some confusion and no little distress to British people, given that:
• Americans are supposed to be nicer than us, and most are.
• You don't need a particularly keen eye for detail to spot a few flaws in the man.
This last point is what especially confuses and dismays British people, and many other people too; his faults seem pretty bloody hard to miss.
After all, it's impossible to read a single tweet, or hear him speak a sentence or two, without staring deep into the abyss. He turns being artless into an art form; he is a Picasso of pettiness; a Shakespeare of shit. His faults are fractal: even his flaws have flaws, and so on ad infinitum. God knows there have always been stupid people in the world, and plenty of nasty people too. But rarely has stupidity been so nasty, or nastiness so stupid. He makes Nixon look trustworthy and George W look smart. In fact, if Frankenstein decided to make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws – he would make a Trump.

[Mike Schreiner @MikeSchreiner]

This whole Billy Bishop expansion is being driven by an American bank that won't even disclose its role in the lobbying campaign. Doug Ford is destroying Toronto's waterfront to help out American bankers at our expense.

[Dylan Byers @DylanByers]

NEW: Sharyn Alfonsi goes scorched earth on Bari Weiss:

"Over the weekend, my contract with CBS News expired, drawing to a close nearly twenty years with the network, including more than a decade at 60 Minutes.

Following an intense editorial dispute over our CECOT story, repeated attempts by my representation to establish a path forward were met with absolute silence from network executives. The message could not be clearer: my time at 60 Minutes is apparently over.

In the coming days, network leadership may attempt to hide behind corporate euphemisms like "modernization" and “restructuring” to explain away my departure. Don't be misled. This was not a routine corporate transition; it was a deliberate choice to penalize a journalist for refusing to sanitize factually accurate reporting, and it sends a chilling message to the entire newsroom.

Fearless, independent reporting has always been the defining standard at 60 Minutes. Today, CBS management is abandoning that mission, choosing access journalism over accountability and protecting power rather than scrutinizing it.

The wall between editorial independence and corporate interest at CBS is being methodically torn down. Journalists willing to challenge authority are being pushed aside in favor of those who will not. If this continues, the result will be a broadcast that looks like 60 Minutes but lacks the courage and character to produce journalism that matters.

To my colleagues, who became family - working beside you has been the privilege of a lifetime. You are second to none. I’ve learned exactly what it costs to hold the line right now. Hold it anyway. Viewers and the people who trust us with their stories deserve nothing less."

Backstory:

- January: https://t.co/l518elnE4b

- April: https://t.co/8pWTTjOIbk

- May: https://t.co/LfKHnm18nF

[Tina Yazdani @TinaYazdani]

New: the Ford government has voted against an NDP bill to remove HST on food products & non-alcoholic beverages.

[TheWolf @bigcrazewolf1]

@mehdirhasan And this is the POTUS and his bestie.

[Marit Stiles @MaritStiles]

#BREAKING: In April, Doug Ford rewrote the law to hide his own phone records and cabinet documents.

Now his government has told public servants to stop answering Freedom of Information requests altogether, the ones the law still requires them to answer.

First he changed the rules. Now he's stonewalling.

I've written to the Secretary of Cabinet demanding answers.

[Rehan Mazid @Rehan_Mazid]

I asked MPP Riddell to meet with my board to discuss non-partisan topics and youth issues in his constituency. His response? Refusal without reason.

What does that say about the state of our government?

[Raghu Venugopal MD @raghu_venugopal]

It’s sad but some of my best years was seeing ER patients in hallway beds. Chair medicine is now the new reality. I saw a patient in a hospital courtyard last night. Premier Ford has wholly abandoned his promise to end hallway healthcare. @RobinLennox