Matthew Bingley

City Hall Reporter w/ @globalnewsto, music fan, and live-action cartoon character. | Story ideas? [email protected] | DM's are open.

[Matthew Bingley @mattybing]

Unsure of how much longer I’ll stick around here. I’ve also made the jump over to blue sky. https://t.co/DaQhfFtctB

[Matthew Bingley @mattybing]

I'm struggling to understand why this petition and video omits any request directed at the provincial government, when it funds both healthcare and addiction treatment.

[A Better City (ABC) Toronto @abctoronto_]

#NEW: Toronto can be compassionate & safe.
We're calling for 400 new recovery spaces, faster access to treatment, compassionate encampment reform & cleaner, safer public spaces across our city.
Recovery must replace neglect. Read our plan: https://t.co/Y1HKYDoUK1

[Colin D'Mello | Global News @ColinDMello]

Opposition parties are calling the Ford government's reason for an extended legislative break "BS."

The government house leader, who oversaw the slashing of Toronto City Council in 2018, now claims the PC don't want to "interfere" with municipal elections.

#onpoli

[Colin D'Mello | Global News @ColinDMello]

NEW: A heated confrontation over the rollout of the MPP pension plan and Premier Doug Ford’sdecision to buy a government jet led to the effective firing of the Progressive Conservative caucus chair, Global News has learned.

https://t.co/6IwnaJHP7o
#onpoli

[Matthew Bingley @mattybing]

@dmrider Promise?

[Isaac Callan @isaaccallan]

NEW: Ontario Premier Doug Ford says “no one is more ticked off” than him about the extra $191,000 in sunk costs for the government’s brief purchase of a private jet, but did not say he would cover them. #OnPoli
https://t.co/V77FD3KRmH

[Isaac Callan @isaaccallan]

The government is embarking on another legal challenge to quash an order for it to release freedom of information documents.

This time, lawyers are seeking to have a decision siding with @allisonjones_cp over blue licence plates thrown out. #Onpoli
https://t.co/3gaq2cMAxQ

[Isaac Callan @isaaccallan]

NEW: Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow will run again in October’s municipal elections, kicking off an intriguing battle with Coun. Brad Bradford to head up council for the next four years. #ToPoli
https://t.co/8UVe7FdNLz

[Colin D'Mello | Global News @ColinDMello]

Premier Doug Ford, asked about Olivia Chow seeking reelection:

“I really like the Mayor. I know exactly where she’s coming from, she knows exactly where I’m coming from.”

Ford says he won’t endorse anyone.

#onpoli

[Colin D'Mello | Global News @ColinDMello]

NEW: The latest in Premier Doug Ford's cellphone transparency saga:

The government's appeal of a court order has been dismissed, the IPC's directive to hand over records is back in force:

Civil servants have been told to “obtain from the affected party (Ford) any government or departmental related entries from his personal cell phone’s call.”

The government's retroactive FOI changes however could block that.

https://t.co/KRADEzWOcY

#onpoli

[Steve “Dangle” Glynn @Steve_Dangle]

🤠🤠🤠

[Caryn Lieberman @caryn_lieberman]

Have you seen Esther? Keep your eyes open. She’s been missing for more than a week.

[Amal Parameswaran @amalparames]

@abctoronto_

[Jessica Bell @JessicaBellTO]

200,000 people live on Toronto’s waterfront.

A supersized Billy Bishop jet expansion would dramatically increase pollution and put their health on the line: from cancer, to heart attacks, to asthma.

I asked the Minister of Transportation if he had investigated this. Several times.

With no answer.

[Isaac Callan @isaaccallan]

UPDATED: The IPC says she hasn't been given any official notification of the FOI freeze by the government and is relying on media reporting.

She's tried to reach the government and hasn't heard back.

“We will continue reaching out,” she said. #OnPoli
https://t.co/eZUUQDraxn

[Theo Moudakis @TheoMoudakis]

Please enjoy my cartoon for Thursday's @TorontoStar

[Omar @TicTacTOmar]

win the Walter Cup and celly with your wife

[Caryn Lieberman @caryn_lieberman]

Have you seen Esther? Her family and @TorontoPolice are desperate to find her.
Esther’s mother says: “I really hope she’s ok and maybe she’s just scared to come home.”

[Jack Hauen @jackhauen]

Another Metrolinx delay unearthed by @andy_takagi.

https://t.co/u8KjwGsut2

[Matthew Bingley @mattybing]

We're into silly season and it's worth noting that mayoral candidate Brad Bradford voted against a member's motion in December from Councillor Jon Burnside focusing on increasing on E-Bike Enforcement on sidewalks.
https://t.co/rJvOa0wkrN #topoli

[Brad Bradford @BradMBradford]

Mayor Chow has asked us to accept that motorcycles on the sidewalk and battery fires in our buildings are the price of a growing city. They are not.

It’s time to crack down on these mini motorcycles. 👇

https://t.co/0lUwpLHhMV

[Matthew Bingley @mattybing]

If only you could trade this for a 2-4...

[Mackay Taggart @mackaytaggart]

In a uniquely Canadian way to kick of a uniquely Canadian long weekend, I just received $24.11 from the Canadian Packaged Bread Class Actions Settlement.