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Kimiko Shibata @eslfairy.bsky.social · 12h

“Unfortunately, this is like the sword of Damocles hanging over our heads now. It’s going to be a tough year because we don’t know where we’re going” #Bill33 #OntEd

www.collingwoodtoday.ca/local-news/c...

‘Catastrophic’: Simcoe school trustees fire back at education minister

‘It’s a bit overbearing and frightening knowing that the community connection might be gone because of this,’ says Collingwood/Wasaga Beach trustee

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Sara @sarablue.bsky.social · 21h

💯 they cut off livestream for the Toronto Lands Corp meetings and made public info (minutes, agendas, etc) only available at in person meetings. Not posting online at the direction of the ministry of education

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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 22h

The idea that these two traumatized peoples, one of which spent two full years grinding through the other as if with a meat grinder, have any kind of normal to ~return to~ is psychotic. The idea that *more* oppression & dehumanization of the Palestinians is what will bring actual peace is doubly so.

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Sara @sarablue.bsky.social · 22h

This is true for the disability community and all parents, caregivers and community. We see being shut out of public meetings and public information is being kept under wraps. Please call and email Ford and Minister of Ed to demand transparency #onted #onpoli

Tell Premier Doug Ford &
Education Minister Paul Calandra Supervision isn't the solution - proper funding is!
416-325-1941
416-325-2600

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Robert Benzie @robertbenzie.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: Today is the second anniversary of the RCMP investigation into Premier Doug Ford’s Greenbelt land swap. But the Mounties have only interviewed one of the four‬⁩ Tories who lost their jobs in the fallout of the scandal.
#onpoli

www.thestar.com/politics/pro...

Two years later, top Tories who lost jobs in Greenbelt scandal still haven’t been interviewed by RCMP

Royal Canadian Mounted Police officials were tight-lipped when contacted about the second anniversary of launching their criminal inquiry.

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Sara @sarablue.bsky.social · 1d

It’s Fone Ford Friday! Give our premier an earful about how to actually support our kids and our public schools! #onted #onpoli

TAKE ACTION FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS
CALL MINISTER OF EDUCATION, PAUL CALANDRA
416-325-2600
CALL PREMIER FORD
416-325-1941
Suggested Script:
I'm calling today as a parent/caregiver of a child(ren) in Ontario Public Schools, to voice my support for the role of democratically elected trustees in our school system and my opposition to Bill 33.
I am unhappy with the Minister's threats to eliminate trustees who provide parents and caregivers with a voice in education.
I'm asking the minister to commit to funding for our public schools that keeps pace with inflation, and the costs of providing the excellent public education all children in this province deserve.
I'm calling to voice my opposition to Bill 33 because it weakens our school boards and mandates policing in schools. We do not need policing in schools; we need funding for more supports and smaller class sizes.
I'm asking the minister to fund our schools and withdraw Bill 33 and reinstate our democratically elected trustees.

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Kimiko Shibata @eslfairy.bsky.social · 1d

Disability advocate concerned that families are being shut out of their child’s education: .ca/news/1147239... #OntEd

Disability advocate concerned TDSB meeting changes will shut parents out | Globalnews.ca

A prominent disability advocate says the Ford government's decision to stop live-streaming meetings at the school boards it has taken over is "troubling and undemocratic."

globalnews.ca

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The Walrus @thewalrus.ca · 1d

School trustees have existed since the early 1800s, serving as a link between classrooms and communities. Now, Ontario education minister Paul Calandra wants to eliminate them. Writer @scottpiatkowski.bsky.social examines what's at stake: thewalrus.ca/im-a-school-trus...

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Robert Zaichkowski @rzaichkowski.bsky.social · 1d

Dr. Carrie Mitchell's petition urging Ontario Premier Doug Ford to reverse his proposed speed camera ban now has over 5000 signatures! Please sign & share widely. #BikeTO #WalkTO #TOpoli #ONpoli #VisionZero chng.it/Z85n4bwgLg

Have you seen this petition yet?

Reverse the decision on speed cameras in Ontario

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Ontario English Catholic Teachers' Association @catholicteachers.bsky.social · 2d

📢GTA parents and teachers!

Can’t attend York Communities for Public Education's town hall tonight on #Bill33 and the government's school takeover?

Watch the event live via Facebook at 6:30 p.m.: https://bit.ly/479Jvds

Together, let's champion the real investments #OntEd students need to succeed!

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Sara @sarablue.bsky.social · 2d

I agree but I also witnessed a torontonian pronounce Etobicoke like a tourist the other day and I GASPED!

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Sara @sarablue.bsky.social · 2d

Noting that an elementary school is on that stretch just two blocks from that capture. Cities!!

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Scott Piatkowski @scottpiatkowski.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks to @thewalrus.ca for agreeing to publish my thoughts on the proposed elimination of school trustees in Ontario.

#OntEd

thewalrus.ca/im-a-school-...

I’m a School Trustee, and Doug Ford Wants to Eliminate My Job | The Walrus

What parents will lose: no one to answer their emails, fight for safe crosswalks, hold the system to account

thewalrus.ca

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Sara @sarablue.bsky.social · 2d

Not just you. Showing no results for anything I search for.

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ArtsNScience @borgalerp.bsky.social · 3d

#Ontario Min of Ed cancelled webcasts of Special Education committee meetings calling public access “a forum for politics”.
The government believes that parents advocating for their children’s needs & disability is unnecessary “politics”.

#onpoli
toronto.citynews.ca/2025/10/07/o...

Province blocking livestreams of school board committee meetings

The chair of the TDSB's special education advisory committee says the government has given no reason for arbitrarily banning live streaming.

toronto.citynews.ca

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Sara @sarablue.bsky.social · 3d

Blocking not only livestreams, but also agendas, minutes and documents from meetings. I got this response from Toronto Land Corp (TDSB subsidiary, manages $12 Billion in Toronto properties). #onted #onpoli

Hello Sara,
Thanks for your note. While Board Meetings remain open to the public at 201 - 60 St.
Clair Avenue East, we have received direction that, while under supervision, TLC agendas will not be posted or shared online, and meetings will not be webcast. Decisions from the meetings will be posted online following a review by the Ministry of Education (including the May 25 minutes that will be approved at the outset of the October 7 Board Meeting).
Best wishes,
Markus O'Brien Fehr
Head of Communications & External
Relations
416-788-3211; C: 416-451-166Z |
mo'brienfehr.tlc@tdsb.on.ca/
torontolandscorp.com

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Aurelia Cotta The Original @originalaurelia.bsky.social · 3d

Always…he is blocking every livestream of every educational meeting and report given. Hiding everything the “Supervisors” are doing to our Boards of Education. #TDSB #TCDSB #onted #onpoli

3 Sides🪶🟥🍁🟥🖇️🐦‍⬛ @3sides.bsky.social · 3d

Doug Ford is more concerned about alcohol than he is about education & transparency.
toronto.citynews.ca/2025/10/07/o...

Province blocking livestreams of school board committee meetings

The chair of the TDSB's special education advisory committee says the government has given no reason for arbitrarily banning live streaming.

toronto.citynews.ca

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Norm Di Pasquale🇨🇦 @normsworld.bsky.social · 3d

Attend this session & learn what’s at stake with Ford planning to eliminate all elected School Board Trustees!
🗓️: Tuesday, October 14, 2025
🕰️: 6:30 p.m.
🗺️: Native Canadian Centre of Toronto, 16 Spadina Road
RSVP: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
#topoli #onpoli #onted

Flyer for:
TOWN HALL
THE FUTURE OF PUBLIC EDUCATION
WHY IT MATTERS
DATE
October 14, 2025
TIME
6:30PM
LOCATION
Native Canadian Centre of Toronto
16 Spadina Road
Child minding available and open to everyone!

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 3d

Mourning those murdered by Hamas isn't incompatible with mourning those murdered by the Israeli state.

Demanding that the hostages return isn't incompatible with naming & demanding an end to genocide.

Naming the power imbalance & impact thereof doesn't desecrate those murdered two years ago today.

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"spooky sukkot" daniel s. @self.agency · 4d

it is october 7. for two years hamas has been offering to return israel's hostages in exchange for an israeli withdrawal from gaza to which benjamin netanyahu has said "no," ignoring the hostages' families demands and prioritizing the destruction of gaza over saving the hostages lives.

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Chris Glover @chrisgloverndp.bsky.social · 3d

We’re watching the dismantling of our democracy by Ford’s Conservatives in real time.

A poll released yesterday found that a majority of Ontario parents support keeping their trustees. Ford needs to listen to parents and stop this madness.

#ONpoli #OntEd

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PEIPolitical 🇨🇦 @peipolitical.bsky.social · 4d

CityNews has learned the Ford government is restricting public access to school board committee meetings, directing boards under its supervision, including the TDSB, to block livestreams. No reason given. Marit Stiles calls it an attempt to silence parents & cut transparency. #cdnpoli

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ArtsNScience @borgalerp.bsky.social · 4d

In addition to removing elected representatives & public decisions the Minister of Education has ordered supervised school boards to stop publicly broadcasting meetings including @tdsb.on.ca Special Education committee, cutting parents off from information to advocate for their children.
#onpoli

Minister of Education has ordered supervised school boards to stop publicly broadcasting meetings including @tdsb.on.ca Special Education committee

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Isaac Callan @isaaccallan.bsky.social · 4d

NEW: Ontario's school boards have joined police chiefs, mayors and the municipal association asking the Ford government not to follow through with its plan to scrap automated speed enforcement. #OnPoli
globalnews.ca/news/1146657...

Ontario school boards join others telling Ford to reconsider speed camera ban | Globalnews.ca

The Ontario Public School Boards’ Association begged the province to 'improve and refine' the speed camera program, instead of 'dismantling a proven, life-saving safety system.'

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Norm Di Pasquale🇨🇦 @normsworld.bsky.social · 4d

A new provincial poll commissioned by @etfoeducators.bsky.social shows twice as many Ontarians want to keep elected school board trustees than eliminate them. Support for elected trustees climbs to 59% among parents with school-aged children. www.etfo.ca/news-publica... #topoli #onpoli #onted

Ontarians reject Ford government overreach: majority support elected trustees

A new province-wide poll commissioned by the Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario (ETFO) shows that twice as many Ontarians want to keep elected school board trustees (49 per cent) as want to el...

www.etfo.ca

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