Ted Miller

🐳 problem-solver, dad, cautious optimist, producer of tv shows incl umbrella☂️academy, star trek discovery🖖.Views are my own. He/him

[Marit Stiles @MaritStiles]

Ontario's new subway cars: Maryland. Our highway maintenance: Texas. Our teachers' supplies: American-owned Staples. Doug Ford has been playing Captain Canada for 18 months – but every one of these deals still stands. Recall the legislature so we can cancel the U.S. contracts.

[Chris Glover @chrisglover]

Ford says: "when you are at war, you protect your own. You don't go to the U.S. and buy a product."

Ford signs exclusive $66 million deal for school supplies with Staples, an American corporation.

Staples rewards Ontario taxpayers with higher prices on their products.

#onpoli

[Kimiko Shibata 🦋 @ESL_fairy]

Our taxpayer dollars are being spent at an American company (in the middle of a trade war) that offers better deals to folks walking in off the street than to teachers ordering through the Ontario Ministry of Education portal. Make it make sense!!! #OntEd

[Marit Stiles @MaritStiles]

Notebooks on Doug Ford's Staples portal: $2.51. Retail price: 79 cents. Exercise books teachers bought in June for $7.49: now $17. This gov't locked 80,000 teachers into one American-owned company. So much for Doug Ford’s tough talk. Cancel the deal. Let teachers buy local.

[Graham Churchill @GraChurch]

Erin, I’m surprised you are taking this position. I think very highly of you so it makes me a sad to see you parroting Ford’s “Trumpy” talking points. The business case for Billy Bishop is exceedingly weak, and the Ford government should be embarrassed for the amateurish way they have conducted themselves.

Business cases have to be weighed against alternatives. The alternative to Billy Bishop is not business as usual. It is what the Toronto waterfront could be with a little imagination and leadership; it is about opportunity cost. What are we giving up? The benefits of extending BB airport are small potatoes compared to what we could have in its place.

Consider Chicago. Many years ago, they were faced with similar debate about what to do with their waterfront. Like Toronto, they even had a harbour airport, Meig’s Field. In 2003, mayor Richard Daley abruptly closed the airport by covertly digging up the runway at night. He took a lot of heat for it, but it turned out to be the right decision.

Chicago developed its Lakefront Trail—a contiguous public walking trail running along Chicago’s waterfront. It stretches 18 miles for cyclists and 18.5 for pedestrians. It links Lincoln Park, North Avenue Beach, Navy Pier, Grant Park, Millennium Park, Museum Campus, Soldier Field, Burnham Park, and Jackson Park.

What makes it important is that it acts as the spine of Chicago’s public waterfront, connecting beaches, parks, harbours, museums, neighbourhoods, and downtown—a place for residents and visitors alike.

Millennium Park alone is now one of the 10 most visited destinations in the US with 25 million visits annually. Chicago earns $22B USD in annual tourist spend. By comparison, Toronto’s annual tourist spend is a measly $6B USD. Chicago’s McCormick Place, which faces Millenium Park, is the largest convention centre in North America—2.6 million sq feet of exhibition space. What Mayor Daley did was create an economic cash cow for his city—against the entrenched interests.

Compare that to Ford’s muddled thinking. He wants to extend a runway that will go right in front of Ontario Place—his supposed new entertainment complex. He is spending public money to build a parking garage for a spa operator. He wants to build a convention centre somewhere at the Ex—although, God knows where he would put it and how it would function.

The problem with Doug Ford is he thinks about issues about as clearly as Donald Trump, and makes as many economically stupid decisions as The Donald. The Ford government has the misguided view that extending Billy Bishop will bring more conventioneers. It won’t. People are not attracted to a city because of an airport.

To attract conventions, city’s have to offer something special. We should be selling our waterfront—we are blessed with a natural asset better than Chicago’s. We should build a convention centre in the Port Lands at Polson Pier overlooking the greatest skyline in the world and putting in a streetcar loop joining the Islands, the Port Lands and Harbourfront. A connected waterfront in Toronto is capable of bringing in far more tourist business than Chicago.

Air travel capacity can be accommodated in many places and in many ways — including $3B in capacity increases to Pearson, the UP Express, regional transit upgrades, and the Alto train.

The issue we need to understand is that Toronto has only one downtown waterfront. Let’s use it for its highest and best use—not some dumb airport that could go elsewhere. Any smart business person should be able to do the math.

I’ve done the math and I’m happy to show you my work—including in person. As I said, I respect you. I would honoured to show you what is possible. My DMs are open.

[seira ⚢ (7.1 AQ SPOILERS) @lha2tham]

IT WAS THE SAME FUCKING REFEREE???????????

[Ted Miller @tedmiller88]

https://t.co/hpHmyYsHzD

[Ted Miller @tedmiller88]

@hockeyesque Yes she was holding back

[Kyro Maseh @KyroMaseh]

👨‍⚕️ We want to thank all our patients and supporters for trusting us with their healthcare needs over the years. It's been an honor to serve our community, and we hope for better days ahead.

[Kyro Maseh @KyroMaseh]

🙏 After we complete our current supply, we'll have to take a step back. It's not manageable to be bombarded by requests for vaccines, with the government providing no supply, and sometimes facing abuse from walk-ins.
Patients will suffer, and it didn't have to be this way.

[Kyro Maseh @KyroMaseh]

💔 Over the past several years, Lawlor Pharmacy has saved countless lives through our vaccination efforts. However, with a distribution plan that resembles sabotage, we simply cannot provide this service while safely dispensing medications.

[Kyro Maseh @KyroMaseh]

This logistical nightmare has resulted in wasted time and resources as we're expected to ship these back to their distribution centers, and without shipping labels, the boxes have been piling up.

[Kyro Maseh @KyroMaseh]

To no one's surprise, they've been delivering samplings of the quantities we ordered in massive containers without shipping labels. Sometimes these massive shipping containers would arrive empty.

[Kyro Maseh @KyroMaseh]

It meant asking Shoppers Drug Mart, who typically deliver solely to their own pharmacies, to handle distribution to us (their competitor). A task they were understandably, not prepared for.

[Kyro Maseh @KyroMaseh]

The vaccine rollout this year has been the worst we've experienced, raising questions about how the ministry of health operates. @ONThealth

[Kyro Maseh @KyroMaseh]

🏥After administering thousands of vaccines over the past few years, we've made the tough decision to conclude our vaccine season, & possibly for all future seasons for publicly funded vaccines.

[Ted Miller @tedmiller88]

@teresawprice The alternatives are not great…

[Ted Miller @tedmiller88]

@jamespmcleod @realCraigA Ouch…

[ian bremmer @ianbremmer]

at least 31 journalists killed so far in israel/gaza war

the deadliest period for journalists covering conflict since the founding of committee to protect journalists

- @pressfreedom