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T/OT Bargaining Unit President, OSSTF 6B

Thoughts and tweets are my own.

[Vass Bednar @VassB]

Holy sh*t. @WabKinew's government just made using data to increase prices an unfair business practice. This is historic for Canada.

*Proposed bill bans suppliers from charging higher prices to certain consumers based on personalized or algorithmically determined information.

[Lise Vaugeois @LiseVaugeois]

A Quebec waterbomber attempts to defend Webequie First Nation from a fire threatening the community while Ontario’s waterbombers are grounded due to a lack of pilots.

A forest firefighting program that's undervalued, underfunded, and a province unprotected.

#ONpoli

[Colin D'Mello | Global News @ColinDMello]

NEW: Ontario budgeted $52M for pro-Ontario commercials that were meant to fend off U.S. tariffs.

A large chunk of it was spent on Fox News, U.S. President Trump's favourite media network.

https://t.co/z1gkLVBaBd

#onpoli

[Lise Vaugeois @LiseVaugeois]

Doug Ford promised 6 new waterbombers during the election, now he won't answer if waterbombers have been ordered for Ontario.

Meanwhile:
🔥 Wildfire budget: $130 million
💸 Ford government advertising budget: $103 million

#ONpoli

[Josh Matlow @JoshMatlow]

I’m at the TTC board advocating for platform edge doors. Cities around the world already have them. Toronto has a responsibility to prevent tragedies. We also know that trespassing onto the tracks contributes to the delays riders experience and makes the TTC less reliable.

[Chris Glover @chrisglover]

Ford government wants to hide older long-term care inspection reports, limiting public access to just 3 yrs of data.

This would shield bad actors from accountability and make it harder for families to choose safe care.

Transparency shouldn't have an expiration date.

#ONpoli

[Mike Schreiner @MikeSchreiner]

The Ford government tried to hide the truth from people when he decided to open the Greenbelt for development so a few wealthy, well-connected insiders could cash in $8.3 billion.

How can we trust them not to act the same way and enrich wealthy insiders with the special economic zones that Bill 5 will let them create?

[Adam ⚾️ @GradyTripp00]

McGuinty staffers went to jail for this.

Why is there no action by the @rcmpgrcpolice?!

[Lise Vaugeois @LiseVaugeois]

Doug Ford tried to hide his abysmal housing record—by deleting the online tracker and counting LTC beds as housing.

But the numbers don’t lie:
🔻 Housing starts down 17%
📉 Only 323 new homes/month
📉 Lowest Q1 starts since 2009

You can’t pave over failure with spin.

#ONpoli

[Lise Vaugeois @LiseVaugeois]

🚨The Ford government used code words to hide Greenbelt records.

Ontario's own privacy commissioner says it was "unduly difficult" to trace decisions that enriched developers and gutted public trust.

This scandal is corruption in plain sight.

#ONpoli

[Paul Mason @PaulMason2]

While Doug Ford pretends to be Captain Canada, let’s recall how he lowered Ontario manufacturing content from 25 to 10%.
In Thunder Bay be sure to ask @KHollandPC about why we can’t as a province ensure much higher 🇨🇦content.
#OnPoli #Alstom #Transit @OntarioNDP @OFLabour

[OSSTF D25 TBU @OSSTFD25TBU]

Imagine what that money could do for the students of SRB!

[Lise Vaugeois @LiseVaugeois]

📢 Over 3,600 @OCEU1750 members at WSIB are sounding the alarm: crushing workloads & a toxic work environment

If no fair deal is reached, a legal strike could begin on May 21. It’s time for management to stop stonewalling and come to the table with a serious offer.

#ONpoli

[Unifor @UniforTheUnion]

Unifor calls on the federal government to take immediate & aggressive action against corporations that move jobs out of Canada in response to U.S. trade measures. #canlab https://t.co/ObOk4OgpzH

[Jeff Burch @JeffBurch_]

Tomorrow I will be putting forward a motion calling for the elimination of parking fees at Ontario hospitals

Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston just eliminated hospital parking fees & is set to cover any resulting shortfalls in hospital funding. It's time for Ontario to do the same

[Mike Schreiner @MikeSchreiner]

Bill 5 puts all of Ontario's nature at risk.

Ford and his cabinet will have uncontrolled power to decide which companies get to ignore any and all laws that would keep the people and places we love safe.

https://t.co/Kkmz6eIDHS

[Lise Vaugeois @LiseVaugeois]

Thanks to Luke from StopGap Fdn and Janet from @Disability_WP the meeting .

We talked about the daily barriers Ontarians with disabilities face—and the urgent need to tear them down. Accessibility isn’t a luxury. It’s a right. Everyone deserves equal access to every space.

[Lise Vaugeois @LiseVaugeois]

In Northern Ontario, folks are still waiting for safety upgrades on Highways 11 & 17 — lifelines for national trade and local communities.

These long-promised investments keep falling to the bottom of the list — while Ford’s $100 billion dream tunnel shoots to the top. Why?

[Iris Gorfinkel, M.D. @DrGorfinkel]

Infuriating !

Ontario's Chief Medical Officer Kieran Moore has DECLINED INTERVIEWS in spite of 1,243 MEASLES CASES in Ontario

...SQUANDERING TIME-SENSITIVE OPPORTUNITIES to galvanize, educate, & prevent its spread.

WHERE HAS PUBLIC HEALTH GONE ?

[Nina Deeb @deeb_nina]

Bill 6 - fining homeless citizens $10,000 +/ 6 months jail. This bill must be abandoned. This criminalizes being homeless. ⁦@TDotResident⁩ ⁦@CFifeKW⁩ ⁦@chrisglover⁩ ⁦@JessicaBellTO⁩ ⁦@JohnFraserOS⁩ ⁦@corruptario⁩