Simon Baron

Fan of electoral reform, public education and Canadian soccer.

[Marit Stiles @MaritStiles]

Not every Ontarian has an OHIP card: refugees, unhoused people, those with mental health challenges.

Some are eligible but don’t have the means to register.

Ford’s turning his back on them all.

Once again, he’s choosing to hurt those who need help the most. #onpoli

[David J. Doorey🇨🇦 💙 @TheLawofWork]

It’s so sad that this is the Conservative Party today.

Nobody in Canada gives a shit about this little file involving a single person and a professional body, except a weird fringe of angry men who wake up screaming into the wind every morning.

Pierre’s guys.

[Elamin Abdelmahmoud @elamin88]

The turnout for the strike vote at TVO was 96%. The strike mandate was 100%.

I care about TVO a lot, and you should care too. TVO employees have watched inflation go up while their wages were either completely frozen or grew well below inflation. https://t.co/4OdywkpRRn

[Birgit Umaigba-Omoruyi @birgitomo]

I met two experienced nurses who just quit to join private agencies. Nurses continue to quit in droves from the public sector as Doug Ford keeps wages frozen at one percent while outsourcing surgeries to for-profit clinics. Doug Ford is intentionally starving public healthcare.

[Colin D'Mello | Global News @ColinDMello]

Ontario’s teachers’ unions are warning the Ford government that they are ready to “mobilize” if the province imposes a contract on educators or uses the notwithstanding clause to settle any bargaining dispute.

https://t.co/IR4thXPlol

#onpoli #onted

[Tyler Watt 🇨🇦 @tylerwatt]

Doug Ford claims he has to be a “prudent fiscal manager”. Here’s a 🧵 thread on some of his prudent fiscal history, starting with:

“Fiscal restraint? Doug Ford's Ontario government spent billions more than Wynne had planned in 2018-19”

https://t.co/dyckhaB1m0 #onpoli

[Global Kingston @CKWS_TV]

Wednesday the Queen's University Faculty Association, which represents professors at the school, voted 82 per cent in favour of a strike should negotiation with the university not become fruitful. #ygk

https://t.co/CkwWdFHl3k

[Jessica Bell @JessicaBellTO]

Ford is continuing his steady concentration of power and erosion of democratic norms. Now, he wants to hand pick a chief justice, politicizing Ontario’s legal system, whose independence keeps government in check. #onpoli https://t.co/GNKz7i4tjT

[Marit Stiles @MaritStiles]

Because the courts keep overturning the Conservative's anti-democratic laws, they're going to politicize the courts.

Ford is undermining the independence & integrity of the judicial system because he didn't get what he wanted.

#FordGravyTrain #onpoli

[Richard Southern @RichardCityNews]

#BREAKING - An Ontario court has struck down a bill that limited wages for public sector workers. The Ford governments bill 124 capped public sector wage increases to 1% per year. The court decision opens the door for unions to take the government to court for backpay.

[Martha Hradowy @marthahradowy]

Doug Ford Quietly Reduced Education Spending By Nearly a Billion Dollars Last Year(https://t.co/R4WlOrWmJu)

[Nora Loreto @NoLore]

The hardest part for education workers in Ontario starts on Monday and then gets even harder every day after.

These workers absolutely need the support of other unions. Wildcat strikes are critical. #canlab needs to spend this weekend securing wildcat mandates ...

[Craig Needles @NeedlesOnNews]

If this were about keeping kids in class and nothing more, the government would agree to binding arbitration.

It's not.

It's about crushing a union to send a message.

[David Moscrop @David_Moscrop]

I cannot stress enough how critical this moment is. If governments in Canada can smash the constitution and legislate away the right to strike, collective bargaining rights are dead.

If collective bargaining rights die, workers across the country are goners.

That means you.

[Andrew Coyne 🇺🇦🇮🇱🇬🇪🇲🇩 @acoyne]

Well this is troubling...

Pierre Poilievre’s YouTube channel included hidden misogynistic tag to promote videos - https://t.co/ISpfvF6ehv
https://t.co/YTPjt9vtxe

[Warren Kinsella @kinsellawarren]

I was asked what I thought about ⁦@PierrePoilievre⁩ on ⁦@CFRAOttawa⁩ this morning. Here’s what I said. #cdnpoli #cpc #lpc #ndp

[Equal Power ⚡️ @EqualPowerCAN]

If Pierre Poilievre becomes Prime Minister of a majority govt with only 40% or less of the vote, it will be Justin Trudeau and the Liberals fault for not implementing Proportional Representation when they promised to.

[Ted Hsu @tedhsu]

Are you in high school? Do you live in Kingston & the Islands? Do you want to make a difference at the provincial level? I want to hear from you!
Apply for my Constituency Youth Advisory Council by 11:59pm on October 1st & help draft solutions to some provincial issues! #youth

[Suzi @SuziElizabeth11]

@YasminRafiei @ryanlcooper @NewYorker In Ontario (Canada) one study found Covid-related deaths 25% higher in private LTCH: https://t.co/6ao9ZNA5FY