Chris Espo

proud Canadian 🇨🇦. travel enthusiast. music lover. party goer. lifelong learner.

[Tina Yazdani @TinaYazdani]

Moments ago: NDP leader Marit Stiles demands an apology from Premier Doug Ford for “betraying the people of Ontario” during this 29-day session.

“He spent their money on a luxury private jet… sold out the Toronto waterfront… & changed laws to hide his cell phone records.”

[Bev 🇨🇦 @Garnet_2203]

288 nurses cut.
40 vice-principals cut at the Toronto District School Board.
Public services stretched to the breaking point.

But somehow there’s room for this?

Since 2022, Kara Ford has seen her salary increase by over $83,000 a year.

While the rest of Ontario is being cut and starved?

Doug Ford, Ontario deserves better than this.

[Unlearn16 @unlearn16tweet]

This is why we teach.

[Ontario Liberal Party | Parti Libéral de l'Ontario @OntLiberal]

It’s World Autism Day, and @paulcalandra has chosen to starve special education, leaving students with special needs to fend for themselves.

When will he stop passing the buck and start funding schools properly so kids get the support they need to thrive?

#onpoli

[Marit Stiles @MaritStiles]

This Premier and this Minister think they know better than the parents and teachers in our communities.  But their decision to seize control of school boards and fire 40 Vice Presidents is leaving students behind. 

 Perhaps they should visit a classroom and listen to what kids and their families really have to say about their reckless cuts to education.

[Marit Stiles @MaritStiles]

Doug Ford’s approach to education is a disaster.

This government has the money to pay 124 Metrolinx VPs. But when it comes to our schools, there’s not enough. 

Doug Ford’s invasive, big government approach isn’t working and it’s Ontario’s kids who get left behind.

[Ontario Liberal Party | Parti Libéral de l'Ontario @OntLiberal]

More teachers are getting fired everyday, and this time, it’s 18 in Brampton and 8 in Mississauga.

At a time when class sizes are growing and special education is being starved, why is @PaulCalandra firing the teachers who are qualified to help?

Make it make sense.

#onpoli

[Nate Erskine-Smith @NateForOntario]

Tunnel but no Go Rail expansion?

Read my reaction in full on my Substack (link in bio)

#ontario #onpoli

[Nate Erskine-Smith @NateForOntario]

Ford’s 2026 budget: no plan.

Read my reaction in full on my Substack: https://t.co/bfkWvrDpTn

[Jason Bradshaw 🇨🇦🇧🇧 @JBradshaw01]

This letter came as a surprise to my colleagues and I. We feel that it’s far too vague to provide any sort of direction, if that’s the intent, and its tone and language come across as hostile.
Not exactly a warm welcome back! #OntEd

[Morgan J. Freeman @mjfree]

This is a current picture of Tehran for you uneducated, never-served, warhawks licking your chops of bombing it.

It's not some low population desert. There are families, children, girls in schools, pets, regular working class people with dreams.

You're sick to want war.
You’re sick to want Trump.

[Norm Di Pasquale 🇨🇦 @normsworld]

What’s the ultimate goal of these Ford crony supervisors that Calandra has appointed? Dismantle public education, sell off public schools that we’ll never get back to private interests and lay the groundwork for charter schools, none of which benefits our students.

[Norm Di Pasquale 🇨🇦 @normsworld]

We can’t afford what is coming out of our education budget and going to Ford cronies! This money could be going to student supports like more staff and learning devices.

[Norm Di Pasquale 🇨🇦 @normsworld]

Their accomplishments?
*Firing experienced school board directors & replacing them with cronies, costing taxpayers millions
*Selling off schools from under our noses to private bidders
*Prepping under Calandra’s direction to selloff schools en masse
*Ignoring parent concerns

[Norm Di Pasquale 🇨🇦 @normsworld]

A refresher on the Ford crony supervisors now “running” school boards comprising 40% of Ontario’s students. What they have in common are connections to the Ford government (donors, friends etc), as well as possessing absolutely no experience in public education. #onted #onpoli

[Marit Stiles @MaritStiles]

Today, we launched our campaign to Save OSAP.

Doug Ford is gutting OSAP grants and paving the way for tuition hikes, forcing students to choose between an education or a lifetime debt sentence.

At a time when everything costs more and youth unemployment is at an all-time high, young people need more support, not less.

➡️ We're fighting to reverse this, and we need your help to ramp up the pressure: Go to https://t.co/A7Bn7D86aP and take an action with us now.

[Chris Glover @chrisglover]

Doug Ford promised to end hallway health care in Ontario, but after eight years as Premier, it's become the norm.

Ontario's health care system is already buckling thanks to the lowest staff to patient ratio in Canada.

Can you imagine what health care will look like when the Conservatives make even more cuts?

#ONpoli #OntHealth

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

🚨 BREAKING: CBS reportedly refused to air Stephen Colbert’s interview with Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico after pressure tied to Trump’s FCC.

Let that sink in.

A network news giant backing down because a president doesn’t like the politics.

Trump isn’t afraid of “fake news.” He’s afraid of losing Texas.

Here is the full 14 minutes for you to see what they tried to censor.

[Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @JoshEakle]

It’s important that you understand what happened last night.

Last night, Stephen Colbert interviewed Democratic Texas Senate candidate James Talarico, a candidate who, by all accounts, is on track in the polls to flip Texas blue.

In response, Trump’s FCC reportedly threatened CBS if the interview aired.

CBS caved and pulled the segment, citing “financial reasons.”

In modern American history, no president has been more hostile to free speech than Donald Trump.

But censorship always backfires.

Here’s the full segment Trump didn’t want you to see.