Kathy

mom, teacher

[Isaac Callan @isaaccallan]

🧵It's been less than a month since the government changed the freedom of information laws, but a slew of updated rejection notes have started to land in the inboxes of journalists, advocates and others.

Here's a look at the first few. #ONpoli

[Isaac Callan @isaaccallan]

NEW: Flu briefings prepared for Health Minister Sylvia Jones. That’s the latest batch of documents blocked from release under the government’s freedom of information clampdown. #OnPoli

https://t.co/J3dr3oAUSm

[Colin D'Mello | Global News @ColinDMello]

NEW: The supervisors the Ford government appointed with direction to bring order and financial restraint to Ontario school boards are billing the province substantially different sums — with one charging almost $240,000 for six months of work.

https://t.co/qucmlkC7EH

#onpoli

[TDot Resident @TDotResident]

For a classroom of 30 students, that is $25 per student.

It is estimated that Doug Ford's government has reduced funding by over $1500 per student.

[Colin D'Mello | Global News @ColinDMello]

NEW: Ontario hospitals are facing a billion-dollar structural deficit and are now preparing for “difficult decisions” unless the Ford government increases health-care funding in its upcoming budget, the finance minister has been told.

https://t.co/rbWDzE8bij

#onpoli

[Rachel Gilmore @atRachelGilmore]

The Air Canada strike is a huge deal in so many ways — and lots of them should matter to every single working Canadian.

The flight attendants are ignoring a back to work order. Canadians unions are behind them. The CUPE National President is prepared to go to jail.

Let's talk about it:

[Kathy @Katiesrant]

@PattyHajdu Shame!

[Kathy @Katiesrant]

@AirCanada Pay your workers fairly and negotiate

[Kathy @Katiesrant]

@AirCanada Shameful. Pay your staff what they deserve.

[PressProgress @pressprogress]

Anti-union lobby groups are endorsing Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives

The Conservative Party of Canada is receiving endorsements from "open shop" groups with a long history of anti-union lobbying

https://t.co/B4w8BVMmTR #canlab

[Kathy @Katiesrant]

@chrisglover The federal cabinet has 12 less cabinet members than Ford’s cabinet. Corruption and abuse of the public purse for his cronies.

[Chris Glover @chrisglover]

Ford 2018 - We are focused on reducing the size and cost of government.

Ford 2024 - Creates the biggest cabinet in ON political history.

-45% of PC MPPs are cabinet ministers.
-36 ministers at a cost of $5,970,636 per annum.

All aboard the gravy train 🚂

#ONpoli #GravyTrain

[guyfelicella🇨🇦🍁 @guyfelicella]

Woah❗@MarkJCarney calls out @PierrePoilievre

[Kathy @Katiesrant]

@alivitali @WayTooEarly @Eleanor_Mueller @abedelman @CFColemanJr @JuliaManch Comments like that legitimize threats to Canada.

[Kathy @Katiesrant]

@alivitali @WayTooEarly @Eleanor_Mueller @abedelman @CFColemanJr @JuliaManch Canadian here and Morning Joe listener. I was shocked by your comment this morning a/b Republicans having to go back to town halls to explain the economic & financial cost of “adding another state.”Attempting to annex an ally through economic warfare isn’t “adding” a state.

[Kathy @Katiesrant]

@Mikeggibbs What did he win?? The 25% tariffs have not changed. The only thing he avoided were harsher tariffs, which were threatened in response to Ford’s electricity tariff. Nothing else has changed.

[ChrisO_wiki @ChrisO_wiki]

1/ Donald Trump may be aiming to annex the Great Lakes – and possibly south-eastern Ontario in a maximalist scenario – and kick Canada out of NORAD, judging by first-hand accounts of talks between Canada and the Trump Administration. ⬇️

[Kathy @Katiesrant]

@FourWinns298 Does Canada rely on the US for flu vaccines?

[Mike Crawley @MikeCrawleyCBC]

Ontario PC Leader Doug Ford blames the ever-longer waits in hospital emergency rooms on people with “a little scrape on the knee or whatever.” #onpoli https://t.co/c0206wCe6y

[Colin D'Mello | Global News @ColinDMello]

NEW: Ontario's Liberals are releasing what they are calling "hidden" healthcare data on access to primary care:

- 3 million people are at risk of losing their family doctor in the next 5 years, with 2,300 family doctors on the verge of retirement
- 205 communities don't have a single family doctor
- 4.1 million people are not rostered with a family doctor.

#onpoli