"The slow suffocation of public services has gone on for too long."
Real per-capita Ontario spending (from 2018):
Down 11% Post-Secondary Education
Down 12% in Children & Social Services
Down 11% in Education
Justice -2%
Excellent mini-budget analysis from @CCPA_Ont#onpoli
This right here! The half a billion dollars+ going into a MegaSpa at Ontario Place could keep emergency rooms open, or build thousands of affordable housing units or long term care beds! Ontarians deserve a say in how our dollars are spent. #onpoli
A reminder that the Bank of Canada does not take this plea into consideration, and this is just Doug Ford trying to take credit for something if it’s good, then blaming someone for his failures if it’s bad. This is low hanging talk radio politics. It makes everyone dumber.
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We’ve tabled a motion to cancel the shady $650 million private luxury spa deal—because Ontario Place belongs to all of us.
Show your support: https://t.co/tbZRwHe5ey
Doug Ford is spending $650 million of your tax dollars on a private luxury spa - while my community in Fort Erie is facing a shortage of care at the urgent care centre.
Share if you agree - taxpayers shouldn't be paying a dime to a spa when people don't have 24/7 health care.
A reminder that @marksaunders_TO was paid $700 a day for a maximum of 245 days, or $171,500 a year, to produce absolutely nothing. The entire MO of @fordnation is to clean out the public purse to line the pockets of friends and insiders — this is definitive corruption.
URGENT! Time is running out. We need the @RCMP or someone to step up and stop demolition until an investigation is done. Where's our Auditor? (who's replacing Bonnie?)
Vehicles are getting bigger every year. Obscene rolling fatsos are ruining our city streets, killing children & the elderly while hogging space we need for walking, cycling and everyday life.
We need two things:
1) a weight tax on all vehicles, including electric vehicles (terrible offenders), to encourage the production and use of lighter vehicles that are less damaging to the environment, roads and pedestrians.
2) use proceeds from this tax to incentivize what we want: electric bikes are city savers. You can travel good distances on them, in almost any weather (heat in the summer is a current problem for many).
Imagine if we normalized electric bikes in cities?
https://t.co/VLeT54UywF
You know who is responsible for the Greenbelt scandal?
Doug Ford!
It's great that Amato and Clark are gone. But there will be no full accountability or justice until Ford resigns.
https://t.co/TT2k99YA7D
Will we ever stop missing David Bowie? No. Never.
(Note George Michael in the background during this amazing session where Annie Lennox blows the roof all the way off.)