#Ontario
keep your eye on the ball. We are about to find out who owns us. The most corrupt cabinet in history, beholden to people named Mr. X and The Fixer, with an OPP who admit they can't or won't investigate, and a federal agency that is "considering it". We are being played.
Us: Healthcare is crumbling, Covid is still making homeruns, teachers are inundated, grandma is terrified of a Home, my kids can't afford housing and my community has record numbers of unhoused freezing in winter.
Doug Ford: Here's some more booze.
#onpoli
The vaccine rollout in Ontario is controlled by Shopper's Drug Mart??
@fordnation
this is a travesty- a deadly one. Our local pharmacies have saved our lives. They're not getting vaccines. No testing, no publicity and no accountability. We need the
#auditorgeneral
again.
#onpoli
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.
Waiting for the rest of the world to discover the premier of Ontario called in the bomb squad for a totally secret (twitter, reddit) mail in insurrection consisting of (checks notes) 99 cent packages of (checks notes again) gravy.
Dear Doug: I can't thank you enough for ditching that stupid vehicle registration. I can finally ignore all those fines, get rid of that expensive car insurance and tell my kids' other parent they'll never find me for child support. I'm free!
#ONpoli
At a time when monuments and naming rights are being changed after history has pointed out the error of dubious honours, folks, I give you Rob Ford Stadium.
Dude, these are paper bags that your buddy makes. The rest of the country has figured out bringing a carrier with them. It's not rocket surgery. But it does smell like when I throw corruption on a bonfire. Of the vanities. Nod to Tom Wolfe.
We're committed to improving affordability and convenience for everyone in Ontario.
That's why we're calling on the LCBO to bring back paper bags, at no cost to consumers.
It's 5:03 p.m. in Ontario but we've got BREAKING NEWS: The Narwhal has learned the Ontario government is mulling changes to environmental laws that it believes will block lawsuits from landowners and fast-track highway, energy and transit projects.
#onpoli
Ontario's Minister of Health has a diploma in radio broadcasting. Before becoming John Tory's EA. World's biggest pandemic goes on and we're being led by...
#onpoli
NEW - Health Minister Sylvia Jones announces that starting this spring the government will expand the number of private surgical and diagnosed centres. Will be OHIP covered.
For a driver who fills a 50-litre tank once a week, the ongoing cut to the provincial gas tax means saving $148 a year.
For the provincial treasury, it means forgoing revenue of about $1.2 billion a year.
#onpoli
Remember when the excellent show Veep closed up shop, saying they couldn't make a parody any longer when the real thing was out-circusing their writers? Welcome to Ontario.
Ontario wants to expand a licensing regime that allows residents to unleash dogs in an enclosed area to teach them how to hunt captive coyotes, foxes and rabbits.
I would like to see a Doug Ford presser with
@RichardCityNews
and
@ColinDMello
and Doug can't leave until he answers all their questions. Ketchup throwing is optional.
Gravy gripers: if I'm gonna be forced to watch billions of dollars land in crooked pockets and be wasted on backassed licence plates and miracle bracelets you're damned straight I'm gonna be ok with wasting a few more to be entertained by the stupidity of this corrupt government.
I'm an auto journo who wants fewer cars. I want pedestrian only spaces. I want cities that put people first, not vehicles. I'm writing myself out of a job. We're doing this all wrong.
More predictable, formula-baked pieces like this compromise the integrity of local journalism. Facts don't seem to matter.
This highway would never be built today because it kills & injures human beings, by design.
"Brace Yourself" for more yawns.
BREAKING: The Ford and Trudeau governments have announced a joint agreement that will allow Ontario to begin working to build its signature Highway 413 on the western edge of the Greater Toronto Area.
#onpoli
Literally our federal parliament allowed a nazi - a real one - in their House and gave him a standing ovation. Maybe get your House in order before you start telling us how to run ours?
Something tells me the RCMP will be dusting gravy packets for prints before they figure out why the Greenbelt was going to the highest bidders.
#onpoli
PP is me by the third date: glasses are back on and I'm eating leftover shepherd's pie in bed at 10. Don't be fooled by first date party manners, voters. I remain a catch; him, not so much.
#canpoli
So
#KieranMoore
is doing a call to action over spiking covid rates and all I can think is "who"?
May every member of this corrupt government go play in traffic.
If you haven't swayed in a bar belting out The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald while beer is simultaneously raining down and lapping at your boots are you really Canadian?
The scary thing about listening to Trump babbling on at these rallies about demonstrably dumbshit nonsense is that he's saying it to people who are demonstrably even more dumbshit than he is.
โYou got to give this one upโ Premier Ford tells me when I ask him if he was aware of ServiceOntario changes. Last week he says โNone of us delt with itโ Without answering that question or where the business case is, Ford instead said โBuddy, you got to get a new storyโ
Whenever I do a speaking gig and they let me know they have an honorarium for me I ask them to forward it to the local foodbank. Hundreds have gone that way this year. Money I wasn't expecting anyway, so I'm no hero. But if you have unexpected $, please help your locals.
Of all the terrible things Doug Ford has unleashed on this province, I think the explosion of promotion and access to gambling might end up being the most costly.
Waiting over two years to stop putting politics over people DYING speaks volumes about first doing no harm...to yourself. Waiting a further two years to finally speak is indefensible.
Dr. Merrilee Fullerton, who resigned from Premier Doug Ford's cabinet & as a PC MPP just under a year ago, has released the prologue of her book: A Physician in the Political Arena.
Here's the former long-term care minister's long-awaited explanation of why she quit politics.
Wanna know how seriously to take covid? Forget your "leaders". Watch movie sets and pro sports. How they protect the people who matter. Unlike the rest of us.
Mayor
@AndreaHorwath
publicly calls on Councillors Francis, Jackson, Pauls, Clark, Beattie, Tadeson, Spadafora, and McMeekin to reconsider their vote against affordable housing development at 5 and 13 Lake Avenue South in Stoney Creek.
#yhmcc
#HamOnt
Exactly one year ago today, Premier Doug Ford hosted a $150/ticket stag and doe in his family backyard.
The Integrity Commissioner:
โThe premier confirmed that those guests, identified as developers, are personal friends.โ
#onpoli