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Laura Babcock

8 months

🎯 NEW: "When an issue's this hot why wouldn't you just back away from developers? That's why it feels to me there's another shoe to drop" Former Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne #GreenbeltScandal #Greenbelt #GreenbeltGrab #HandsOffTheGreenbelt #Onpoli ▶️

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Laura Babcock

@LauraBabcock

3 years

So let me get this straight: I am safer in a restaurant in Ontario where vaccination is required than a healthcare setting?

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Laura Babcock

@LauraBabcock

2 years

340,000 people in TORONTO had to use food banks last month because they can't afford food!!! Tell me again how much profit Galen Weston made this year selling expensive groceries??? It's outrageous. #inflation #TO #Grocery

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Laura Babcock

@LauraBabcock

3 years

Wow Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is PISSED and calls on all of us to stand up against politicians who use coded language to pander to intolerance and hate especially after what we saw on #January6th

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Laura Babcock

@LauraBabcock

6 years

What #Haitians have done for America. What #Africans have done for America. If you see one clip tonight make it this from @JoyAnnReid

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Laura Babcock

@LauraBabcock

9 months

An exhausted looking Ford just now 'Ontario is too big for me to micro manage.. I didn't know..' What total BS - developing #Greenbelt is his biggest file and policy reversal. No way he was in the dark. The people of Ontario aren't buying the spin. #GreenbeltScandal #onpoli

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Laura Babcock

@LauraBabcock

8 months

Whenever a friend or neighbour tells me they'll vote for Poilievre I ask why? The answer is always sick of Trudeau and something's got to change. Then I ask what specific policies of Poilievre they embrace and I get a blank stare. Populism 101: Grievance over substance. #cdnpoli

Emmogene 🇨🇦🇺🇸

@emmogene

8 months

@LauraBabcock I know it's coming, but I can't believe that people like my neighbours can't see that PP is a petulant authoritarian who will only make life more difficult. The 'gatekeepers' he rails against are the ones who protect our health, safety, and human rights.

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Laura Babcock

@LauraBabcock

1 year

WOW the mayor of Toronto John Tory just resigned over a sex scandal!! Media: don't take your eyes off Premier Doug Ford's growing stag and doe Greenbelt scandal! #onpoli #TO #cdnpoli

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Laura Babcock

@LauraBabcock

3 months

So Ford gave almost two million dollars of our money to a donor who runs a company owned by an American private equity firm and as a result they laid off Canadian staff? Either Ford is the most incompetent business person I've ever seen or he's corrupt AF #StaplesScandal #onpoli

Richard Southern

@RichardCityNews

3 months

NEW - Staples Canada laid off head office staff this week, CityNews has learned. It comes as the U.S.-owned chain takes $1.75M Ontario taxpayer dollars for store retrofits to install ServiceOntario outlets, some of which opened inside Staples stores today.

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Laura Babcock

@LauraBabcock

8 months

Did I hear correctly? Mr X is a former Mayor turned lobbyist who was offered a MILLION DOLLARS to get some of those lands out of the #Greenbelt and offered senior Ministry staff Raptors tickets and dinners to get it done? Could this be any shadier!? #GreenbeltScandal #onpoli #ON

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Laura Babcock

@LauraBabcock

3 years

The YUKON is deploying to Ontario. Doctors from over 5,000 kms away are having to help us in the GTA because our Premier Doug Ford didn’t listen to science and lacked the courage to do the hard things. I’m grateful to the Yukon but embarrassed to be an Ontarian tonight. Argh.

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Laura Babcock

@LauraBabcock

8 months

95% of the push back I've had today from "parents" have been anonymous accounts. That further proves my point this is a political operation to whip up fear and a cynical culture war. We've seen how this played out in America. Please Canada let's not fall for right wing hate here.

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Laura Babcock

@LauraBabcock

6 months

Did I hear that right? Mayor Olivia Chow is beseeching feds for half a billion dollars to build affordable housing for people to have shelter from the cold, meanwhile Doug Ford is spending a half a billion on a garage so cars can park at a SPA? #cdnpoli #onpoli #TO #OntarioPlace

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Laura Babcock

@LauraBabcock

10 months

Wow it's been a very bad, no good week for Poilievre: he denigrated a woman's home as a "shack", his supporters acted like vile lunatics in Belleville & his campaign caught financing whistle-blower who took out his leadership opponent. No new outfit can fix this look. #cdnpoli

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Laura Babcock

@LauraBabcock

6 months

Perhaps CBC should spend more time investigating the background of the man who would be Prime Minister than that of an 80 year old music legend.

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Laura Babcock

@LauraBabcock

10 months

You don't have to like Trudeau or his Covid policies but he's not a "POS criminal pedophile" and other garbage labels being hurled. That rhetoric is straight out of American MAGA right-wing conspiracy swamp and shameful to see Canadians using such language and bullying tactics.

Mickey Djuric

@MickeyDjuric

10 months

WATCH: An event for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was cut short in Belleville, Ont., today after nearly 100 protesters surrounded him and his motorcade. READ:

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Laura Babcock

@LauraBabcock

8 months

Canada is bruised from the pandemic, inflation, climate crisis and out of touch politicians. But make no mistake we are not broken. We are kind, tough and generous people who create a great country through hard work and caring for others especially those in need. 🇨🇦 #cdnpoli

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Laura Babcock

@LauraBabcock

2 years

We have to hunt for vaccines. We have to hunt for tests. We have to hunt for information about our kids’ school schedule. Either Ford government is insanely incompetent or they enjoy making us suffer.

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Laura Babcock

@LauraBabcock

8 months

As a former tv journalist I've NEVER seen I politician tell a live press conference that they know where a Reporter lives and quality of their home. Ford was trying to silence Colin and set him against people who can't get a house. Dirty as it gets. #GreenbeltScandal #onpoli

Ahmar Khan

@AhmarSKhan

8 months

The Premier’s tone and response to Colin was significantly different than his interactions with other reporters. I’ve posted all the clips — you can go take a look for yourself. There were many probing questions throughout the presser, but only Colin was personally attacked.

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Laura Babcock

@LauraBabcock

9 months

This #GreenbeltGrab #onpoli

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Laura Babcock

@LauraBabcock

8 months

Every MPP in the PC Party of Ontario has to have a chat with their families and friends today about how soon they need to distance themselves from Ford to preserve their political future and rep. The house of cards is falling. #GreenbeltScandal #Greenbelt #Onpoli #LabourDay2023

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Laura Babcock

@LauraBabcock

9 months

Consequences should include but not limited to: halt all land acquisitions, resignation of Minister and chief of staff, public naming and shaming of developers involved, an OPP investigation into any illegal activities and charges laid, and Ford run out of office ASAP #onpoli

Ameil J. Joseph Ph.D. (he/him)

@ajesusjoseph

9 months

We have an AG report detailing corruption. The provincial government helping developers get rich, while people suffer in our underresourced healthcare system, while people are living outside, while our education system is in need. What is the consequence? Who is calling for one?

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Laura Babcock

@LauraBabcock

9 months

This is near my home and pisses me off every time I see it. It's demeaning to women as though we need to be guided by a man to make a good decision about our bodies. I often wonder how men might interpret it. Reminds me of the same mentality we are seeing in some US states. Ugh.

Amie Archibald-Varley-Speaker #RadicalTransparency

@AmieVarley

9 months

I took this picture today. This is not Florida. This is Canada. Hamilton, Ontario to be more precise. He helped her choose life. He did. Because—after all, us women should not be in control of our own bodies or minds. This is Disgusting! @DrJenGunter

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Laura Babcock

@LauraBabcock

8 months

Ford just announced a cabinet shuffle and and another attempt to explain his way out of this exploding mess tomorrow at 10 am. Unless he's shuffling himself out of the Premier's office, Ontario won't buy his spin. WE. ARE. NOT. FOOLS. #Greenbelt #GreenbeltScandal #onpoli #ON

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Laura Babcock

@LauraBabcock

8 months

The Ford political brand is DONE. He needs to resign now for his MPPs and Party. There needs to be a Public Inquiry and an RCMP investigation. There will be no "rebuilding trust" Ford treated the People of Ontario with contempt. #GreenbeltScandal #GreenbeltGiveaway #onpoli

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Laura Babcock

@LauraBabcock

8 months

"Well there were 14 recommendations we're going to follow them" NO Premier there were 15 recommendations in the AG report. The fifteenth told you to return the #Greenbelt lands. Stop treating the people of Ontario like fools. #GreenbeltScandal #GreenbeltGiveaway #onpoli #Ontario

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Laura Babcock

@LauraBabcock

7 months

YES!!!!! The RCMP is officially investigating the Ford government for the #GreenbeltScandal !!! What great news for the millions of Ontarians who have been calling for this! #onpoli #cdnpoli #Greenbelt #GreenbeltGrab

RCMP investigating Ontario government's plan to open Greenbelt land for development | CBC News

The RCMP announced Tuesday it has launched a criminal investigation into Ontario Premier Doug Ford's plan to open up Greenbelt land for development.

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Laura Babcock

@LauraBabcock

8 months

Good god this keeps getting worse by the hour #GreenbeltScandal #GreenbeltGrab #onpoli #cdnpoli

Joel MacLeod

@JoelEMacLeod

8 months

Is this a photo of Pierre Poilievre with the now infamous Mr X of the #GreenbeltScandal in #onpoli ? #cdnpoli

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Laura Babcock

@LauraBabcock

8 months

Really? "Adam and Eve no Adam and Adam" is the rallying cry? Sooo much for the 'parents rights' this was supposed to be about. We all know this is just a poorly veiled anti LGBTQ+ protest fuelled by far right political interests. Canadians are not stupid. #1MillionMarch4Kids 🇨🇦

Rob Hindi

@rhindi800

8 months

@AM800CKLW Here is one of the speakers at today’s rally. #cklw @AM800CKLW

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Laura Babcock

@LauraBabcock

8 months

Another embarrassing press conference by Ford. It's like watching a drowning man flailing around grabbing at anything to stay above water. The only thing that can save him is to make this right and return those lands to protection. #GreenbeltScandal #GreenbeltGiveaway #ONpoli

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Laura Babcock

@LauraBabcock

4 months

We don't want American style healthcare in Canada. We don't want pandemic profiteering by private sector nursing agencies. We don't want Ford to underfund our public system to enrich donors. We do need to speak up like our lives depend on it. #onpoli #onhealth #cdnpoli 🇨🇦

tru'dat

@trudat2020

4 months

I can't understand why ppl who blame #Trudeau for affordability crisis are so excited to bring American-style healthcare to Canada. If you think you can't afford food& mortgages now, wait til you're charged for every x-ray, bandage, syringe, IV pole, ECG, chemo, suture+surgeries.

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Laura Babcock

@LauraBabcock

8 months

Woah! It's worse than I thought! New survey says more than half say Ford should RESIGN over #GreenbeltGiveaway and a quarter were PC voters! You know the brand damage is deep when your own voters have had enough. It's time for Ford to return those lands #onpoli #GreenbeltScandal

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Laura Babcock

@LauraBabcock

3 months

There's a seething anger in Poilievre that is tremendously off putting. It manifests in arrogance and concerns me for our country.

Dean Blundell🇨🇦

@ItsDeanBlundell

3 months

…and this whole deal is the exact fucken opposite of leadership. Lying. Self serving. Ego driven. Emotional. Sarcastic. Aggressive. This is the last human being I trust any decision when it matters the most. He’s embarrassing.

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Laura Babcock

@LauraBabcock

5 months

OMG I'm dying 🤣🤣🤣🤣 best Canadian heritage moment ever

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Laura Babcock

@LauraBabcock

8 months

Now THIS is what I'm talking about. All Opposition MPPs should wear a #Greenbelt every day until we get real accountability from Ford #onpoli #GreenbeltScandal

Marit Stiles

@MaritStiles

8 months

@jenniferolchowy @LauraBabcock @QPnewsboy @MarkCripps @MikeSchreiner @JohnFraserOS

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Laura Babcock

@LauraBabcock

8 months

Woke up to news that Ford's ratings have hit an historic low. Only 3 in 10 people in Ontario approve of him. There can be no more denying the damage #GreenbeltScandal is doing. His MPPs are right to worry. Time to return the land and end the #GreenbeltGiveaway #onpoli #HamOnt

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Laura Babcock

@LauraBabcock

8 months

This is one of the worst performance moments I have seen. And out-of-control Premier Ford can't handle the truth in the Attorney General's report so he lashes out personally at a reporter. Embarrassing and unprofessional. #GreenbeltScandal #ONpoli #GreenbeltGiveaway #cdnpoli

Ahmar Khan

@AhmarSKhan

8 months

My colleague @ColinDMello asks about the incompetence, as per AG report, throughout the process from the Chief of Staff to the Premier. Asks when does Ford personal responsibility. The Premier responds loudly and takes personal shots at Colin. He didn’t answer the question.

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Laura Babcock

@LauraBabcock

8 months

Yes!!! The Housing Minister has RESIGNED from his Cabinet post! He was a diminished man going along with this corrupt scheme! Keep up the volume Ontario and let's get more accountability in this exploding #GreenbeltScandal !! #onpoli #Greenbelt #GreenbeltGiveaway #Cdnpoli #ON

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Laura Babcock

@LauraBabcock

8 months

We are just beginning to meet the cast of ridiculously shady characters in this scandal and all the other scandals it may be linked to. There will be fascinating weeks and months ahead while we learn who's really been running Ontario #GreenbeltScandal #onpoli #HamOnt #Greenbelt

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Laura Babcock

@LauraBabcock

8 months

Pierre can't clap. He knows he is a weak man in a suit playing a dangerous game of stoking people's fear and anger for popularity, while Zelenskyy is a powerful man in battle fatigues using courage and character to save the world from fascism. The contrast is too stark. #cdnpoli

Mark Gerretsen 🇨🇦 🇺🇦

@MarkGerretsen

8 months

The man has spent the last year and a half fighting one of the largest military forces in the world and the best @PierrePoilievre can do is give a half-hearted round of applause for the President of Ukraine. #cdnpoli

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Laura Babcock

@LauraBabcock

5 months

WTF?? Ford was on his cellphone with a leader of 'Freedom Convoy' giving him assurances? How does a group that illegally occupies Ontario's second largest city get to chit chat plans with the Premier?? Who the hell is running Ontario???? This is MADNESS #cdnpoli #onpoli #Ottawa

TDot Resident

@TDotResident

5 months

Video shows the Freedom Convoy speaking with Doug Ford on his burner phone!

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Laura Babcock

@LauraBabcock

2 years

“Know that there are people more tired than you” Trudeau telling us to buck up for the sake of healthcare workers. Point taken. 🇨🇦

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Laura Babcock

@LauraBabcock

9 months

"My job is to build housing!" No Premier that's what your developer friends do. Your job is to do much more - it's about the big picture and building a strong Ontario - and that includes honouring municipal housing plans and protecting the #Greenbelt like you promised. #onpoli

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Laura Babcock

@LauraBabcock

5 months

A construction worker in Ontario died yesterday on the job - fell through a skylight while working on a roof - the day after Ford decided to make construction sites less safe by removing mandatory coroner inquests into worker deaths. It's beyond shameful. #Ontario #onpoli #ON

Woke Mind Virus Patient Zero K.C.

@Matt18548209

5 months

@LauraBabcock @ONPlace4All 💯 And he's gifting everything they could ever want including exempting their workplaces from being investigated when they kill workers

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Laura Babcock

@LauraBabcock

9 months

Bullshit. Ontario is not buying the spin. We all know there is sufficient space to build the needed housing without damaging the #Greenbelt WE ARE NOT STUPID. Stop making excuses for corruption. #onpoli #cdnpoli

Ivana Yelich

@yelich_ivana

9 months

“We have two choices: we can build more homes or we can sit back and let the crisis get worse. Our government is choosing to build.”

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Laura Babcock

@LauraBabcock

3 months

I don't want cheap beer. I want our tens of thousands of neighbours to have the safety, dignity and humanity that comes with shelter. Giving up 200M in beer tax that could help build shelters is obscene when you actually meet people living on our streets. Shame on Ford. #onpoli

Abe Oudshoorn

@AbeOudshoorn

3 months

I don't want cheap beer. I want affordable housing and a family doctor or nurse practitioner. #onpoli

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Laura Babcock

@LauraBabcock

7 months

Right wing fearmongering and bigoted "parents rights" platform lost last night. It's time to end Canada's flirtation with populism and grievance politics. It's time to get back to building a better Canada where we CARE for each other and use hope not hate to motivate #cdnpoli 🇨🇦

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Laura Babcock

@LauraBabcock

3 months

It's ok not to want Trudeau as PM, work to hold him accountable in his current term and vote accordingly next election ... because democracy. But to send hateful messages to the venue he visits? That's bullshit intimidation tactics to scare the public. Who would do that? #OnPoli

CTV Toronto

@CTVToronto

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Ontario brewery gets hundreds of hateful messages after hosting Trudeau.

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Laura Babcock

@LauraBabcock

6 months

OMG! Ford gave a developer permission to build skyscraper in the flight path of an international airport? They didn't even check the developers' demands just rubber stamped them all? That settles once and for all who's running Ontario and it ain't Ford #onpoli #GreenbeltScandal

Colin D'Mello | Global News

@ColinDMello

6 months

The Ford government was forced to scale back a Minister’s Zoning Order after a developer was given permission to build a skyscraper right in the middle of the flight path of Pearson International Airport, sources told Global News.

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@LauraBabcock

8 months

Poilievre has officially jumped the shark with this glib and inaccurate response. As a clever career politician you would think he knows what Marxism is. If he does know and still says this, he is willfully misleading this Canadian. That's not leadership it's pandering. #cdnpoli

Mark Gerretsen 🇨🇦 🇺🇦

@MarkGerretsen

8 months

Say what you will about about our political leaders, but to refer to *any* Canadian Prime Minister as a Marxist not only shows a massive misunderstanding of the term but indeed is an insult to all those who have been subject to the political ideology. #cdnpoli

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Laura Babcock

@LauraBabcock

8 months

WOW! Huge crowd of protestors force Premier Ford's SUV to take a different road after his driver and police can't make a path for him. There is no path for this Premier until he puts those lands back in the #Greenbelt #GreenbeltScandal #HandsOffTheGreenbelt #onpoli #Ontario

𝚂𝚎á𝚗 𝙾’𝚂𝚑𝚎𝚊 Global News

@ConsumerSOS

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NOW Doug Ford OPP protective vehicle turned away at Ford Fest in Kitchener, @tylerthornley #FordFest

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Laura Babcock

@LauraBabcock

9 months

"We have two choices... " Ford is going to keep pushing through this scandal and throw all kinds of other non-controversial housing announcements into mix to confuse the narrative. Don't fall for the spin. It's not binary. We don't need to use this land. #onpoli #GreenbeltGrab

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@LauraBabcock

4 months

Lemme get this straight: The Ontario health care system is collapsing and Ford is funding billion dollar America businesses Walmart and Staples with our tax dollars? How is this anything but malfeasance? It's obscene. #onpoli #StapleGate #StaplesScandal #Ontario #HamOnt #onpol

Richard Southern

@RichardCityNews

4 months

NEW - Deputy Premier Sylvia Jones claimes putting ServiceOntario outlets in Staples and Walmart will save $1 million dollars, but she won’t answer my repeated questions as to why the deals are sole-sourced and how many taxpayer dollars are going to the retail giants.

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Laura Babcock

@LauraBabcock

4 months

This is Anne. She's been cooking since 2 am for 800 people lining up at Gore Park. She wants the rescued food we serve to be hot. A mom of 5, she was a talent agent who got injured and depressed. Cooking for homeless neighbours gives her purpose. She is a force. #HamOnt #ONpoli

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Laura Babcock

@LauraBabcock

1 year

I get Trudeau is attractive but a party in a Canadian Tire parking lot to F*** him? That's just lame. 😂

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Laura Babcock

@LauraBabcock

7 months

Wow. So it's official. Ford's secret 95 year deal for Ontario Place was as dirty as #GreenbeltScandal Once again the process was rigged for the wealthy at the expense of the people of Ontario. It's time to end the deal and get RCMP on this too. #HamOnt #OntarioPlace #onpoli

Keith Leslie

@QPnewsboy

7 months

NDP Leader @MaritStiles says FOI documents show there was a "rigged process" for redeveloping Ontario Place. She says @fordnation gifted a $500 million parking garage to Therme in a "shady backroom deal," wants the gov't to terminate the 95-year lease it gave the spa. #onpoli

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Laura Babcock

@LauraBabcock

8 months

When Ontario legislature is back in session all the opposition members should wear Greenbelts. Everyday. #GreenbeltScandal #Greenbelt #ONpoli

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Laura Babcock

@LauraBabcock

4 months

The way Ford is running Ontario into the ground is unconscionable. ERs are closing. Seniors are living in tents. Food banks are overwhelmed. Tens of thousands are homeless and he's taking our money to profit his pals. We have three more years of this? #ONpoli #Hamont #onhealth

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Laura Babcock

@LauraBabcock

8 months

Love to see so many Canadians standing up in large numbers to support kids, freedom and #LGTBQ

Brian Lilley

@brianlilley

8 months

So far, the counter protest at Queen’s Park is bigger than the main protest. The main protest is still gathering in the north park.

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Laura Babcock

@LauraBabcock

5 months

Unbelievable. #Ontario has had over 800 ER hospital closures in the past year and Ford isn't even tracking them!!! There is no government list. No sense of urgency. No acknowledgment of the actual collapse of our public health system! How incompetent are they? #onpoli #onhealth

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Laura Babcock

@LauraBabcock

9 months

"We moved too fast and their were flaws in the process BUT..." what a load of crap. They gave access to select group of developers who stand to make BILLIONS. They broke a promise, broke all rules of due diligence, got caught and are racing to cover it up. #GreenbeltGrab #OnPoli

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Laura Babcock

@LauraBabcock

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Enough with your boring booze news. We need emergency rooms open and affordable housing not access to beer in 2 years. Get back from your 9 week vacation and get to work on what actually matters! People are suffering Premier Ford. DO YOUR JOB! #ONpoli #onhealth #HousingCrisis

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@fordnation

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#ICYMI

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Laura Babcock

@LauraBabcock

6 months

COME ON! Did we elect a government or a crew of grifters?! Now even our vaccine program is a scheme to reward Ford's wealthy friends? Has the PC party absolutely no shame left? How do they sleep at night? Unbelievable. #onpoli #FordCorruption #GreenbeltScandal #Ontario #HamOnt

Keith Leslie

@QPnewsboy

6 months

Pharmacies bail on Ontario's vaccine program after @fordnation rewards Shoppers Drug Mart with sole distribution rights. The PC government modus operandi is to rewards its friends in every way possible, at the expense of everyone. #onpoli

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Laura Babcock

@LauraBabcock

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I wonder if the F*** Trudeau crowd realize that they are so annoying with their trucks and constant trolling online that people may vote for Trudeau just to spite them? #cdnpoli

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Laura Babcock

@LauraBabcock

6 months

I'm getting increasingly concerned about the influence of American right wing politics in Canadian politics. Money in "freedom convoy", the leader of the Conservative party echoing Fox News... There are lots of reasons why some MAGA types want Canada to tilt hard right. #cdnpoli

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Laura Babcock

@LauraBabcock

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Picking up my son and I have to ask: When did highschool fashion become hoodies and jammies? And why did generations of us suffer in tight jeans and buttoned shirts when we could just roll right out of bed to school? Or is this just a Hamilton thing? A pandemic depression thing?

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Laura Babcock

@LauraBabcock

9 months

Ford and co are trying to flood the zone with other news. It won't work. What happened today will keep happening with every announcement Ford and co make until the people of Ontario see them held accountable for the #GreenbeltScandal and the #GreenbeltGrab reversed. #ONpoli

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Laura Babcock

@LauraBabcock

8 months

Anyone else get "American carnage" vibes off of #PierrePoilievre "Canada's broken" speech? No thanks. #cdnpoli

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Laura Babcock

@LauraBabcock

5 months

This morning I've been called pregnant, c-word and something worse involving intercourse - just for posting about Poilievre. I'm sensing a theme. So weird.🤣 #cdnpoli

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Laura Babcock

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5 months

Ford is so overexposed on the Spa deal on the waterfront he pretty much gave Mayor Olivia Chow his wallet. Question is why? Why give up so much for a spa no one needs? Why the secret 95 year deal? What is the real value and end goal for #OntarioPlace #onpoli #Toronto #HamOnt

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Laura Babcock

@LauraBabcock

8 months

WOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!! Congratulations to EVERYONE who fought so hard to stop this horrible land grab and bring this corrupt Premier to his knees!! NO ONE treats the people of Ontario like fools and gets away with it!!! WE. ARE. NOT. FOOLS. #GreenbeltScandal #ONpoli #ON

Ahmar Khan

@AhmarSKhan

8 months

BREAKING: Ontario Premier Doug Ford says his government is reversing its Greenbelt land swap deal. He apologizes to Ontarians and says he broke his promise. Here’s the video:

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Laura Babcock

@LauraBabcock

8 months

Fact that Ford can put these lands back into the Greenbelt because he's already lost control of his developer buddies, shows Ontario that he can do it with ALL the lands his government secretly removed. Don't stop until he does exactly that! #GreenbeltScandal #onpoli #Ontario

Colin D'Mello | Global News

@ColinDMello

8 months

BREAKING: A private real estate listing for formerly Greenbelt lands in Ajax required potential bidders to sign non-disclosure agreements and submit bids by Sept. 14. The premier is now threatening to revert the land back into the Greenbelt. #onpoli

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Laura Babcock

@LauraBabcock

7 months

👀 On the very day Ford is being forced to give back lands because of opposition party work and public outcry on #GreenbeltScandal the Official Opposition reveal secret half a BILLION dollar deal between Ford and @ThermeGroup and is tabling motion to STOP #OntarioPlace ! #onpoli

Marit Stiles

@MaritStiles

7 months

Today, the @OntarioNDP revealed that we obtained documents from Infrastructure Ontario containing mounting evidence of a Conservative rigged process for the #OntarioPlace redevelopment. Watch below ⬇️ #ONpoli

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Laura Babcock

@LauraBabcock

8 months

When you have to attack a reporter you've lost the narrative. It's time Ford stop digging his government into a deeper hole and fire Clark and return those lands #GreenbeltScandal #onpoli

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Laura Babcock

@LauraBabcock

6 months

OMG! So it wasn't just Ford going under radar using a private cellphone - seems some of his cabinet ministers also ditching their official devices so comms couldn't be tracked. This looks more like a criminal enterprise by the day #GreenbeltScandal #OntarioPlace #onpoli #HamOnt

Colin D'Mello | Global News

@ColinDMello

6 months

NEW: It’s not just the Premier. Newly released cell phone records show several prominent cabinet ministers had large stretches of inactivity on their official devices when critical government decisions were being made. #Onpoli

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Laura Babcock

@LauraBabcock

8 months

The longer Ford takes to fire Minister Clark, the more the people of Ontario and the media will speculate as to why? What does Clark know? Who is he protecting? It's only a matter of time before we find out. #GreenbeltScandal #GreenbeltGiveaway #onpoli

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Laura Babcock

@LauraBabcock

7 months

It's almost as though the RCMP should look at the Ontario Place deal while they're investigating Doug Ford's government. The stench is similar to #GreenbeltScandal #OntarioPlaceForAll #onpoli #cdnpoli

Mark Evans

@markevans

7 months

The next domino to fall for the PCs will be the Therme Ontario Place deal. It reeks so bad the auditor general has to investigate. And the findings will be juicy.

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Laura Babcock

@LauraBabcock

3 months

More good legal news Ontario! A class action lawsuit against Ford's minister of #LTC is going forward! Never believe a corrupt government is too powerful to be held accountable - there are peaceful methods in a democracy through public backlash and courts etc #onpoli #onhealth

Global News Toronto

@globalnewsto

3 months

Ontario's Court of Appeal is allowing a class-action lawsuit to proceed against the minister of long-term care for alleged negligence regarding the government's response to COVID. READ MORE:

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Laura Babcock

@LauraBabcock

3 months

"Things have never been worse in Ontario hospitals" that's on you Ford. You've had a majority government for FIVE YEARS! Your choices to underfund public healthcare and overpay private nursing agencies are having dire consequences on the people! Shame! #onhealth #ONpoli #Hamont

Tina Yazdani

@TinaYazdani

3 months

Hundreds of healthcare workers rallying in Toronto are demanding a 5% funding increase beyond inflation to establish staff-to-patient ratios & fair compensation. Healthcare workers here tell us under the Ford government’s watch, things have never been worse in Ontario’s hospitals

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Laura Babcock

@LauraBabcock

7 months

"Doug Ford is politically done. His party needs to tell him that" this from the National Post? Looks like call is coming from inside the house. I don't see how Ford survives with his toxic brand. His MPPs need to get him out ASAP. #GreenbeltScandal #onpol

Randall Denley: Doug Ford is politically done. His party needs to tell him that

nationalpost.com

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Laura Babcock

@LauraBabcock

8 months

We were told it was no big deal. Then the chief of staff quit. Then they told us it was no big deal. Then the minister of housing quit. Next they'll tell us it's no big deal. Don't believe them. It's just starting. Ford gov is in big trouble. #GreenbeltScandal #onpoli #ON

FBananapants

@FBananapants

8 months

@LauraBabcock @losinghopein Greenbelt is still a go and he's still an MPP. I hope no one is actually satisfied with this. As a start maybe, but yikes.

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Laura Babcock

@LauraBabcock

4 months

I can't Theo - it's too accurate

Theo Moudakis

@TheoMoudakis

4 months

Please enjoy my cartoon for Friday's @TorontoStar

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Laura Babcock

@LauraBabcock

6 months

Lemme get this straight: Ford government uses our money to pay for-profit clinics MORE for same surgeries than pays for in public system? How is this anything but a scam to enrich the private operators and enfeeble our public system? #onhealth #onpoli #ON #HealthForAll #hamont

Mike Crawley

@CBCQueensPark

6 months

NEW: Here’s how much the Ford government pays a for-profit clinic to do OHIP-covered surgeries. #onpoli 👇to read full story👇

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Laura Babcock

@LauraBabcock

1 year

So lemme get this straight: a national embarrassment happens in Hamilton when angry mob swarms the Prime Minister and sets off fireworks downtown, and only Trudeau defends our city's reputation NOT OUR MAYOR?? I can't even. Andrea Horwath is failing us. #HamOnt #onpoli #cdnpoli

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Laura Babcock

@LauraBabcock

3 months

OMG are you serious?? Ford has spent 37 MILLION of our tax dollars on PROPAGANDA? This while he underfunds public healthcare to point of ERs collapsing and homelessness increasing in towns across Ontario!? What the hell is wrong with him and his PC party? #onpoli #ONhealth #ON

Margaret Shkimba

@menrvasofia

3 months

Meanwhile, health care is collapsing, ER wait times are outrageous, family docs are looking to leave, private nurse practitioner clinics are popping up. Propaganda over public service.

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Laura Babcock

@LauraBabcock

8 months

Bravo! You captured Ford's essence #GreenbeltScandal #onpoli

David Brace

@DavidBrace2

8 months

"Burner"

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Laura Babcock

@LauraBabcock

8 months

"All roads are leading back to the Premier's office! We won't rest until we get to the bottom of this!" Ontario wants ANSWERS and real ACCOUNTABILITY from Ford not some sham "merit Review" PR tactic #GreenbeltScandal #GreenbeltGiveaway #Onpoli

John Fraser

@JohnFraserOS

8 months

It is simply not believable that a rookie chief of staff masterminded the $8.3 billion cash-for-your-land-scheme That rookie chief of staff, Ryan Amato, was chosen and appointed by @fordnation ‘s office All roads are leading us back to the Premier’s Office in this scandal

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Laura Babcock

@LauraBabcock

9 months

Half the news this morning is about wild fires, flooding, tornadoes and ocean acidity - from BC to Ottawa, Hamilton to Halifax - yet Ford's government is scandalously developing protected Greenbelt wetlands and farmlands. It's madness. We must stop him. #onpoli #GreenbeltGrab

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Laura Babcock

@LauraBabcock

4 months

Fascists count on us believing in their invincibility and inevitability. They are not invincible. They are not inevitable. We must stand up and fight back NOW.

Michael Knigge

@kniggem

4 months

In Hamburg, Germany, tens of thousands protest against the far-right today. The rally had to be cut short due to safety concerns because of crowd size. The wave of protests against the far-right will continue on the weekend with dozens of rallies.

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Laura Babcock

@LauraBabcock

9 months

Ford does know we have tapes right? #GreenbeltScandal #onpoli

Nathan Sager — n8sager.bsky.social

@N8Sager

9 months

Doug Ford admitted the process of uh, facilitating, the #GreenbeltScandal was "flawed." Now he is completely "unaware" of it? Maybe this will help him remember. #OnPoli

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Laura Babcock

@LauraBabcock

7 months

Doug Ford is under CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION. Let that sink in Canada. The people of Ontario didn't stop. Wouldn't stop. When we all work together we can get justice. #GreenbeltScandal #onpol #onpoli #cdnpoli

Colin D'Mello | Global News

@ColinDMello

7 months

BREAKING: The RCMP has officially launched an investigation into the Ford government's decision to open the Greenbelt for housing construction. This is, date, the most significant development in the entire affair. #onpoli

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Laura Babcock

@LauraBabcock

9 months

Hmm deleting emails to cover your tracks? Yet another discovery that shows Ford and co knew they were doing something wrong. Don't buy the spin it was for housing. Or that it's OK because the protected land was privately held. They knew it was a corrupt. #GreenbeltGrab #onpoli

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Laura Babcock

@LauraBabcock

9 months

If I were developers who got that land released from Greenbelt because I gave an envelop to Ford and co, I would be concerned about the RCMP finding out what else I might have given Ford's people in the past. The Premier took a huge risk doing this: why? #GreenbeltScandal #onpoli

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Laura Babcock

@LauraBabcock

9 months

Ford be like: We broke the rules, secretly set it up for our friends to make billions, erased emails and lied to 15 million people in Ontario about our plans for the Greenbelt - we got caught so we take accountability - but reverse our decision? Nope. #onpoli #GreenbeltScandal

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Laura Babcock

@LauraBabcock

9 months

I suspect Ford's comms team and that of every minister is tracking how many stories, tweets, calls and emails they are getting about #GreenbeltScandal in hopes we will all get back to last days of summer parties and travel and forget about it. Don't. Pressure matters. #ONpoli

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Laura Babcock

@LauraBabcock

3 months

Ooowee look at my new Tee! #Roblaws #cdnpoli #onpoli

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Laura Babcock

@LauraBabcock

3 months

Don't ever tell me public backlash doesn't work. I have 25 years of professional examples of how it does. The powerful are afraid of the people. Speak up. Never let up. Advocate for fairness. Support other's in their fights. Remain hopeful. Don't get distracted. #Cdnpoli #onpoli

CTV News

@CTVNews

3 months

Manulife to cover specialty drugs at any pharmacy following backlash

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Laura Babcock

@LauraBabcock

5 months

Why does Ford need this spa so badly it has to be a secret and fast-tracked with new powers? This is starting to look like the premier is in bed with some bad people. Why the pressure? Who benefits? Is he trying to get ahead of AG investigation? #Ontario #onpoli #OntarioPlace

Colin D'Mello | Global News

@ColinDMello

5 months

NEW: The Ford government has tabled legislation that would give itself significant new powers to fast-track the redevelopment of Ontario Place and exclude it from environmental laws, including the power to issue MZOs on the site. #Onpoli

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Laura Babcock

@LauraBabcock

5 months

Disgusting. How dare Poilievre minimize brave people of Ukraine in their fight against Putin for global democracy. This while Zelenskyy is begging MAGA Republicans not to cut off support. Don't tell me not to compare Conservative party to MAGA when they act the same way #cdnpoli

Yvan Baker, MP 🇨🇦🇺🇦

@Yvan_Baker

5 months

Today Pierre Poilievre removed any doubt about what he thinks of Ukraine. He called Ukraine a "far away foreign land". Make no mistake, this is how he feels. These are Poilievre's true colours.

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Laura Babcock

@LauraBabcock

8 months

Bit by bit, report by report, investigation by investigation, lawsuit by lawsuit this scandal will only grow until it gets the feet of Ford because it's not just about 8.3 BILLION of corruption it's land that must stay protected for our future #GreenbeltScandal #onpoli #Ontario

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