From Manitoulin Island, up to Elliot Lake, along the North Shore of Lakes Huron and Superior, and around to Manitouwadge, Hornepayne, and Chapleau. #MightyAM
"This airport expansion would have jets flying over our waterfront every 2.5 minutes. The noise, the pollution, would absolutely destroy the waterfront." @OntarioNDP MPP @ChrisGlover calls on the Ford & Carney governments to give Torontonians their plan for Billy Bishop airport.
"We had no money. We had no power. We just wanted to change the world, and we did."
At Hanlan’s Point, I sat down with Cheri DiNovo to talk about Canada’s first Pride, the activists behind We Demand, and the fight for basic human rights: to work, to rent, to parent, and to live openly.
Premier Ford promised 30,000 new hospital beds - he's delivered 3500. Premier Ford promised 30,000 new long-term care beds - he's delivered 6700. All of this impacts the ER across Ontario. @MaritStiles
NDP calls for audit into Ford government giving $1 billion to private administrators of public services
From @JessicaBellTO#onpoli
https://t.co/XQNvZNCTu2
Imagine how many ER nurses you could hire for the amount the Ontario government is using to defacto run a partisan campaign while they have a majority government for the foreseeable future. They spend our money on dumb stuff that doesn't matter. @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.
Premier Doug Ford, in Thunder Bay, says he’s been getting a lot of calls about improvements to highways 11 and 17 in Northern Ontario.
“We’re going to go as quickly as we can, Ford promises. “Safety is a massive issue.”
Here’s what critics are saying about the issue.
#onpoli
Doug Ford: “one of the most transparent governments in the history of Ontario.”
Has blocked freedom of information requests for:
❌ his phone records
❌ the convention centre
❌ Billy Bishop airport
❌ the Greenbelt
❌ hospital budget cuts
❌ the Skills Development Slush Fund
❌ the Ministry for Seniors
❌ the taxpayer funded payout to his friend Carmine Nigro...
#ONpoli
The next question we should all be asking: which wealthy Conservative donor owns an office supply store chain? Do we need to look at Ford family wedding and party guest lists again?
Let’s not forget that under the Ford government’s new Freedom of Information rules, these documents would never see the light of day.
Is the Premier trying to hide a pattern of backroom deals and preferential treatment at the people’s expense?
https://t.co/6Vqqd1RmpQ
Stiles calls out Ford’s pattern of preferential treatment following Star investigation into Kinross deal
From @MaritStiles#onpoli
https://t.co/OBh8v1Llna
Ontario has fallen to last place on housing. While other provinces build, Doug Ford keeps getting in the way of Ontario's housing goals. It's time to get out of the way, it's time to get Ontario back in the business of building housing.
https://t.co/I7pV8ZxtZ0
Ontario ER doctors raise alarm on hospital overcrowding. Three-quarters of Ontario ER doctors say their departments are critically or severely overcrowded. The pressures facing emergency care are growing, and patients are feeling the impact.
https://t.co/tVJ864GW7d
The pro-jets survey put out by the Liberal government makes it clear that Toronto Liberal MP’s are backing Ford. @canadaGray makes that clear in his point by point assessment. You should use this survey to push back and the MP’s should back their constituents not Ford.
"Who's gonna pay that five billion dollars? I don't want taxpayers' dollar to pay for a long runway. So who's gonna pay for it?" @MayorOliviaChow tells @JohnTory that she still hasn't seen a business plan from the province for expanding Billy Bishop airport to accommodate jets.
Staying informed on all the issues is difficult. Look at the source of the information; find the experts; differentiate facts from opinion; make your own decisions.
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
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