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Chris Glover
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Dad, Grandpa, Former Teacher, Skateboarder,
ONDP Shadow Minister for Sport, Technology, and Democratic Reform, MPP for Spadina—Fort York

www.chrisglovermpp.ca
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🚨 BREAKING 🚨

My office just uncovered that, buried in their Fall Economic Statement, Ford’s Conservatives are quietly seizing control of Exhibition Place.

#ONpoli
Spa could take 9 years.
Of course, it may never get built

5 years after signing the contract, Therme still does not have an investor to build the spa at Ontario Place

Not surprising, they lied about their financing to get the 95 year-lease on our parkland.

www.thetrillium.ca/insider-news...
November 24, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Want a job on Ford's gravy train?

Donate $6,208 to the Conservative party, get appointed to the Council overseeing College of Early Childhood Educators.

No need to know what an ECE is.

My colleague Alexa Gilmour questions the appointee in the Legislative committee.

#ONpoli #OntEd
November 22, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Ford's reason for seizing control of Exhibition Place makes no sense.

He says it's to access water & power lines for the Therme spa.

But the water company doesn't take ownership of your property when it needs to access pipes on your land.

#FordIsCorrupt
#ONpoli

www.thestar.com/news/gta/dou...
Doug Ford government offers reason for its unusual move to control Exhibition Place land
A spokesperson for the provincial government confirmed the reason Bill 68 included clauses about the ownership of Exhibition Place land.
www.thestar.com
November 20, 2025 at 6:45 PM
🚂 On Ford's gravy train, the last are first:

Lowest scoring applicants got the highest taxpayer payouts.

#ONpoli #firePiccini

www.thestar.com/politics/pro...
Low-scoring applicants averaged the highest payouts from Doug Ford’s Skills Development Fund
Until the Star obtained the database, scores were such a closely guarded secret the public didn't know the application scores of funding recipients.
www.thestar.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Shoppers Drug Mart rides Ford's gravy train:

SDM pressures pharmacists to make unnecessary "medscheck" calls to customers at $75 each.

Total cost to taxpayers?
$225 million since 2020

*Pharmacists have launched a lawsuit against this unethical practice

#onpoli

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Shoppers Drug Mart billed $81M for MedsChecks in 2 years when COVID services waned | CBC News
Shoppers Drug Mart billed the Ontario government’s MedsCheck program $81.2 million for medication reviews over a two-year period when some of its current and former pharmacists said they were facing “...
www.cbc.ca
November 19, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Ford's gravy train,

Today's stop:

Ford's Minister gave Keel Digital Solutions (now under OPP investigation) $4.79 million tax dollars in spite of staff warning the company could "use the money to buy its own software" & "directly profit the company.”

#ONpoli

www.thestar.com/politics/pro...
This $4.79M skills funding application set off warning bells. Ontario’s labour minister approved it anyway
A company that received $4.79 million from Labour Minister David Piccini through Ontario's Skills Development Fund was flagged by a bureaucrat over concerns it might use the money to buy
www.thestar.com
November 18, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Buried in the Fall Economic Statement, Ford's Conservatives are quietly seizing control of Exhibition Place.

#ONpoli
November 14, 2025 at 10:30 PM
🚨 BREAKING 🚨

My office just uncovered that, buried in their Fall Economic Statement, Ford’s Conservatives are quietly seizing control of Exhibition Place.

#ONpoli
November 13, 2025 at 9:22 PM
🚨OPP investigating

Did Ford's Minister of Labour give $8.5M tax dollars to Get A-Head?

A routine audit revealed "irregularities” with Get A-Head, a business owned by Keel Digital Solutions.

#ONpoli
November 12, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Ontario taxpayers paid for a 401 tunnel study in 2021. Ford refuses to release it.

Now he’s handing a $9.1 million contract to a company that’s being sued by the City of Toronto.

Doug Ford: ”We are the only party that's fiscally responsible."

#ONpoli
NEW: 4 years ago, the government studied whether or not a tunnel under Highway 401 was doable, finding a risk of collapse and eventually pausing the work.

Now, it is refusing to release the study - after paying a company $9.1M to do it again. #Onpoli globalnews.ca/news/1151718...
Ford government refuses to release completed work on Hwy. 401 tunnel idea | Globalnews.ca
Ontario is refusing to release already completed work on the viability of Premier Doug Ford's Highway 401 tunnel vision after signing a $9.1 million contract to study it again.
globalnews.ca
November 10, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Want millions in tax payer 💰 from the Skills Development Fund?

Hire a lobbyist.

Proportion of successful applicants using a lobbyist is up 60%

Lobbyists include Labour Minister's wife, Doug Ford's Campaign Manager, Conservative Party President.

#PaytoPlay #ONpoli
November 9, 2025 at 4:30 PM
🚨LCBO revenues down $300 million

💰 that pays for schools, healthcare, infrastructure

Canceling beer store contract early cost $225 million

▶️Cost to Ontarians of privatizing alcohol sales:

$300 M + $225 M = $525 million

#ONpoli #FordMath
November 8, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Ford's gravy train stops at the strip club:

▶️May 2021- Z. Starkovski hires Ford's Campaign Manager as a lobbyist

▶️March 2022- Starkovski receives $251,998 from the Skills Development Fund

Starkovski's company has received $10 million from the SDF to date.

#ONpoli #Strippergate
November 7, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Doug Ford refuses to release a 2021 study for 401 tunnel that found a “potential for 401 roadway collapse”

Now he’s spending another $9 Million of our 💰 on a do-over.

#ONpoli

globalnews.ca/news/1151529...
Ontario awards $9.1M contract to study Hwy. 401 tunnel concept | Globalnews.ca
Internal studies into the concept at the Ministry of Transportation were paused in 2021 and found there was a 'potential for roadway collapse.'
globalnews.ca
November 7, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Ford gravy train stops at the strip club

▶️May 2021- Z. Starkovski hires Ford's Campaign Manager as a lobbyist

▶️March 2022- Conservative party paid Starkovski $31,947 for hosting fundraisers

#ONpoli #Strippergate
November 6, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Ford's gravy train stops at a strip club.

$10 million of Skills Development Fund went to the owner of a strip club.

Women refused to work and walked out because they were expected to wear fishnets and g-strings.

This is where Ford is spending our tax dollars.

#ONpoli
November 4, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Another family stop on Ford's gravy train.

Ford's campaign manager Kory Teneycke's sister in law scores $2.2 million in taxpayer funds to produce ads.

Creative Currency has also been paid over $4.8 million since 2022 by the Ford Conservative Party.

#ONpoli #FirePiccini
November 3, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Accountability on Ford's gravy train?

▶️55 recipients that failed to achieve goals
▶️13 recipients that failed to report outcomes

Received even more slush fund grants in later rounds of the Skills Development Fund.

#ONpoli #firePiccini
November 1, 2025 at 2:35 PM
The family rides on the gravy train.

Conservative Labour Minister's wife hired to lobby for private colleges who received $900,000 from the latest round of the Skills Development Fund.

🚨 Piccini is still in charge of distributing another $260 million tax dollars!?

#ONpoli
October 31, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Ford's gravy train is a circular economy.

Donate to the Conservatives, receive taxpayer money.

▶️FGF brands
Donated $34k
Received $1.25 million Tax Dollars
ROI 3,806%

▶️Ontario shipyards
Donated $18k
Received $26 million Tax Dollars
ROI 75,000%

#ONpoli #GravyTrain

globalnews.ca/news/1149929...
Critics claim skills development fund is ‘circular economy’ of tax dollars, donations | Globalnews.ca
Ontario Liberal MPP John Fraser claimed the process appears to be a 'scheme.'
globalnews.ca
October 29, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Latest stops on Ford's gravy train:

PC party vice-president got $1.75 million

Losing PC candidate got $4 million

Did anyone in the PC party executive not pocket money from the Skills Development Slush fund?

#ONpoli
October 24, 2025 at 12:02 PM
The Ford PCs took a program meant to help workers and turned it into a donor rewards system.

Most of Ontario’s latest “Skills Development” grants went to PC insiders.

We deserve a fair program that helps workers—not insiders.

#ONpoli

www.thetrillium.ca/news/the-tri...
Groups led by PC donors received majority of recent Ontario training funds
One group received $14 million, the largest grant of the Skills Development Fund’s fifth round, after hosting a $120,000 fundraiser for the labour minister’s riding association
www.thetrillium.ca
October 22, 2025 at 2:17 PM
House resumes today
Will we get answers or more diversions?

▶️Recap: Auditor General called the Skills Development funding program "not fair, transparent or accountable."
▶️Piccini attends the Paris wedding of a lobbyist who got $8.5M
▶️Piccini attends Leafs game with a lobbyist who got $7.5M

#ONpoli
October 20, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Listen:
Did he or didn't he pay for the hockey tickets?

What do you think?

Ford's Minister attended Leafs game with lobbyist who then receives $7.5 million from Skills Development Slush Fund.

#ONpoli
October 18, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Today's stop on the Ford gravy train:

Ford's Minister tipped off donor about the #Greenbelt sell-off at fundraiser just before 2022 election.

#ONpoli
NEW: ‘Mr. X’ claims Minister David Piccini tipped him off about Greenbelt removals
John Mutton made the claim in an interview with the integrity commissioner and then on a podcast. The minister denied it through a spokesperson.
www.thetrillium.ca/news/politic...
‘Mr. X’ claims Minister David Piccini tipped him off about Greenbelt removals
John Mutton made the claim in an interview with the integrity commissioner and then on a podcast. The minister denied it through a spokesperson
www.thetrillium.ca
October 17, 2025 at 8:50 PM