🍁Elle Kay🍁

[Bev 🇨🇦 @Garnet_2203]

Doug Ford is deliberately weakening public education. Strong schools produce critical thinkers, informed voters, and engaged citizens. When education is underfunded year after year, it’s fair to ask: who benefits from a less educated population?

[Matt Stamper @Sneketoshi]

I want to introduce you to Steve. He’s 83. His wife died a few months ago and he comes to this lodge in Spring Mill, Indiana and draws. He taught art in Terre Haute, IN his whole life. He also did courtroom sketches in court cases. In the comments I’ll share some pics from his sketchbook. He was excited when I said I was going to share his sketches with the world.

[Kavita Algu @KavitaAlguMD]

Multiple "Protect Ontario" ads (paid for by Ontario taxpayers) were shown during Canada's world cup game last night. The slots are reported to cost about $200,000 USD each.

The same day, @fordnation posted a photo op with Daily Bread Food Bank because the people he is supposed to serve literally cannot afford to feed their families because of his abysmal corruption and policies.

Disgraceful.

[Frank Domenic @TheFrankDomenic]

A secret audit report commissioned by the provincial government suggests selling off Royal Ontario Museum artifacts and says the ROM has financial difficulties. The ROM had a surplus last year. #ontario #onpoli #dougford #royalontariomuseum #frankdomenic🍁

[Tina Yazdani @TinaYazdani]

SCOOP: Angus Reid confirms it has sent a legal letter to Premier Doug Ford and wants the “public record corrected” after Ford dismissed a recent poll as “fake.” More to come.

[Tina Yazdani @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.

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

Doug Ford bought a $29M private jet but says there isn’t enough money for community support workers who help children with autism and adults with disabilities.

Is this who you want deciding Ontario’s priorities?

#onpoli

[uskokatwit @uskokatwit]

@JessicaBellTO @Soplet The volunteer Ontario Corp requires that applicants complete a criminal record check provided by a PRIVATE corp which CANNOT provide vulnerable sector checks!

Their privacy policy ⬇️ describes that your information may be accessed by foreign agencies.

https://t.co/UI5FwzsZj6

[Chris Glover @chrisglover]

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

[Marit Stiles @MaritStiles]

This is what eight years of Doug Ford has done to our healthcare.

Patients who need a hospital bed are stuck in the ER for 17 hours. The government's own target is eight hours, and even that's too long.

Three-quarters of ER doctors say their departments are critically overcrowded.

Doug Ford broke our healthcare system.

https://t.co/V1rHNtdI1k

[Colin D'Mello | Global News @ColinDMello]

Premier Doug Ford received a sharp rebuke from a Canadian polling firm after he cast doubts on the authenticity of the results.

The poll found Ford's personal approval rating now sits at 21% in the wake of the 'gravy plane' scandal.

#onpoli

[Jessica Bell @JessicaBellTO]

$1 billion dollars.

That’s how much money the Ford government is giving to private companies to run our public services and social agencies.

These services are facing worker layoffs and cuts. Where is the money going?

This is the exact question I’ve asked Ontario’s Auditor General to look into.

📺 CTV News Toronto

[Tyler Watt 🇨🇦 @tylerwatt]

Where have I heard this type of rhetoric before? 👀

[Corruptario @corruptario]

Ford also seized the Metro Toronto Convention Centre. That's the length of Front St. from Union Station to the CN Tower.

+ Exhibition Place
+ Ontario Place
+ the Toronto Islands
+ the island airport

With Palantir building a mysterious something right in the middle.

[TDot Resident @TDotResident]

Doug Ford and Paul Calandra won’t fund teachers in schools, but they will fund more police in schools.

[Tina Yazdani @TinaYazdani]

The Ford government is escalating its fight to cancel all summer meetings of the committee responsible for vetting PC appointees to provincial agencies & boards, now taking the dispute to the Speaker.

Critics say it’s “astonishing the lengths they’ll go to not be held accountable.”

But the government argues historically, this committee has never met during breaks.

[Colin D'Mello | Global News @ColinDMello]

NEW: Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s approval rating falls to its lowest level since he first took office in 2018.

The latest Angus Reid data shows a 10 point drop down to 21% approval.

Ford also finds himself at the bottom of the list among fellow Premiers.

#onpoli

[Marit Stiles @MaritStiles]

Doug Ford chartered a private jet with taxpayer dollars to Washington so he could play Captain Canada for a day.

And he still couldn’t get a meeting with the U.S. administration.

So what did Ontarians pay for? A photo op? A headline? Another round of Ford pretending to be Prime Minister while families here are paying more and getting less?

Ontarians need their Premier focused on Ontario.

[Laura Stone @l_stone]

NEW: Federal Transport Minister Steve MacKinnon today announced that the federal government is launching consultations about the future of Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport - which Prime Minister Carney last week said would happen. #onpoli #cdnpoli

Details:

[Chris Glover @chrisglover]

Doug Ford has the bulldozers on standby after he changed the law to silence the people of Toronto's opposition to his Billy Bishop scheme.

If he refuses to listen to the community, then the Prime Minister needs to stand up for them, and kill this plan to destroy our waterfront.

#ONpoli