The big announcement?
About 46 cents per day, per student for math & literacy support.
Lecce focuses on big sounding numbers like "$180 million" but we have 2 million students in Ontario.
How much support do you think your child will get for 46 cents?
#onpoli#onted#yrdsb
Not every Ontarian has an OHIP card: refugees, unhoused people, those with mental health challenges.
Some are eligible but don’t have the means to register.
Ford’s turning his back on them all.
Once again, he’s choosing to hurt those who need help the most. #onpoli
Dear school principals and university presidents
Wear a mask.
Wear it all week. Wear it next week. Wear it in January.
Show your community that you actually care about the paediatric units overflowing with little children.
The Ford government's education spending was $413 million below budget in the first half of the fiscal year, according to Ontario's budget watchdog. The only increase in education spending was $371 million for the Catch Up Payments program (a one-time $200 payment to parents)
Every day, the consequences of @fordnation political arrogance become clearer. When pressed, he shrugs his shoulders and says, "We're doing the best we can."
That just won't cut it. Doug Ford, this #healthcarecrisis is on you.
https://t.co/9TK7ngzucm
#ONpoli
Until a few weeks ago none of us knew @fordnation was about to hand over chunks of #Greenbelt to his billionaire developer buddies or gut broader environmental protections w #Bill23. If he gets away with this, none of protections we hold dear for clear air, water, nature are safe
BREAKING: @fordnation & all of his MPPs have once again voted against giving all workers 10 permanent #PaidSickDays.
It's the 28th time they've denied workers legislated Paid Sick Days.
This isn’t a government working for workers.
This is a government working against workers.
"The system is crashing. Wait times are at record highs, surgeries are being cancelled, ERs are closing & pediatric ICUs are above capacity," today Ontario's 5 largest healthcare unions joined forces to send a message to the Ford government: "your plan is failing miserably."
AWESOME: Ontario’s 5 largest healthcare unions have joined forces to warn the public that the Ontario government is intentionally manufacturing our current massive healthcare crisis…to justify privatization.
Who else agrees with them? ✋🏾
Some like to blame mask wearing last year for a grotesque spike in severe child illness this year.
That view is entirely wrong. But regardless, BC had no protections to blame. No masks or HEPA filters at school. Unsurprisingly, they had record levels of RSV last year.
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Observation: It is increasingly difficult for the general public to understand current infectious disease threats here due to well-organized disinformation campaigns, misinterpreting & over-interpreting of data by some, overconfidence, meaningful debate & general uncertainty.
A 13-year-old Ontario journalist who has interviewed big names in Canadian politics says the Minister of Education has been rejecting or ignoring interview requests from him for almost a year.
https://t.co/IjZWBB7XtV