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@daretodare.bsky.social
· Mar 6
Lurking on Bluesky for news and posts has been fun, but it’s time to find my peeps! How do I track down my future moots here? Point me in the right direction. Help a newbie out!! #Newbie #BlueskyMoots
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December 8, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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Right-wing premiers across Canada are using the notwithstanding clause to target trans kids, public sector workers, and people who use drugs with laws that violate their rights.
@desaima.bsky.social writes about how Saskatchewan has shown you can build unlikely alliances to try to stop them.
@desaima.bsky.social writes about how Saskatchewan has shown you can build unlikely alliances to try to stop them.
A Prairie alliance of trans advocates and unions should be a national model ⋆ The Breach
Right-wing premiers are using the notwithstanding clause to target trans kids, workers, Muslims, and drug users. Saskatchewan shows how a united front could stop them
breachmedia.ca
December 5, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Right-wing premiers across Canada are using the notwithstanding clause to target trans kids, public sector workers, and people who use drugs with laws that violate their rights.
@desaima.bsky.social writes about how Saskatchewan has shown you can build unlikely alliances to try to stop them.
@desaima.bsky.social writes about how Saskatchewan has shown you can build unlikely alliances to try to stop them.
Ontario, don’t fool yourselves. Canada isn’t immune to Trumpism. Ford is showing it in full colour: consolidating power, punishing dissent, and treating democracy like an inconvenience. This is what creeping authoritarianism looks like before it fully arrives. Wake up, Canada #ONPoli #CDNPoli
December 8, 2025 at 7:18 PM
At this point, if Ontarians don't start pushing back, ON will be sold off piece by piece under the Ford government. The damage from this level of corruption and short-term greed will linger for decades, and recovering from the destruction being set in motion now will not be easy #ONPoli #ONFightBack
What did Doug Ford steal from you yesterday? Oh nothing. Just your Provincial Parks. His developer friends already have all the unprotected land locked up. So, they had to go. You understand yet? Doug Ford does not work for you. #onpoli #FordFailedOntario
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/12/05/n...
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/12/05/n...
Ford strips protections from Wasaga Beach to sell for development
Under its controversial omnibus Bill 68, more than one per cent of the park — with some estimates suggesting up to 60 per cent — has been removed from protection. Wasaga Beach is the province’s most v...
www.nationalobserver.com
December 8, 2025 at 5:07 PM
At this point, if Ontarians don't start pushing back, ON will be sold off piece by piece under the Ford government. The damage from this level of corruption and short-term greed will linger for decades, and recovering from the destruction being set in motion now will not be easy #ONPoli #ONFightBack
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Follow the money.
#NeverVoteConservative #onpoli #FightFord #FordIsCorrupt #SaveOntario #FordFailedOntario #OntarioSky #ImWithMarit
#NeverVoteConservative #onpoli #FightFord #FordIsCorrupt #SaveOntario #FordFailedOntario #OntarioSky #ImWithMarit
December 7, 2025 at 4:43 PM
It’s exhausting to see so little good news coming from the Ford government. So much of it feels like helping friends, cutting corners, and leaving the consequences for Ontarians to deal with. Our future does not look promising if Ontario continues voting Conservative. #ONPoli #FordFailedOntario
December 8, 2025 at 4:41 PM
It’s exhausting to see so little good news coming from the Ford government. So much of it feels like helping friends, cutting corners, and leaving the consequences for Ontarians to deal with. Our future does not look promising if Ontario continues voting Conservative. #ONPoli #FordFailedOntario
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Between the news about Ford changing loyalty points laws and todays news about #loblaws selling PC Financial to EQ bank, something definitely smells fishy !
Time to use up all those #PCpoints !
#CDNpoli #ONpoli #PresidentsChoice #PCfinancial #EQBank #Ontario #CanadaSky #ConsumerProtection
Time to use up all those #PCpoints !
#CDNpoli #ONpoli #PresidentsChoice #PCfinancial #EQBank #Ontario #CanadaSky #ConsumerProtection
December 4, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Between the news about Ford changing loyalty points laws and todays news about #loblaws selling PC Financial to EQ bank, something definitely smells fishy !
Time to use up all those #PCpoints !
#CDNpoli #ONpoli #PresidentsChoice #PCfinancial #EQBank #Ontario #CanadaSky #ConsumerProtection
Time to use up all those #PCpoints !
#CDNpoli #ONpoli #PresidentsChoice #PCfinancial #EQBank #Ontario #CanadaSky #ConsumerProtection
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The separatists are turning against Danielle Smith. With @clareblackwood.bsky.social and @ianmmacintyre.bsky.social
December 4, 2025 at 9:11 PM
The separatists are turning against Danielle Smith. With @clareblackwood.bsky.social and @ianmmacintyre.bsky.social
Ford’s corruption is everywhere. It baffles me that so many in Ontario still vote Conservative while watching the province be dismantled or sold off. It is disheartening, and I fear the damage his cabinet has done will linger for generations. #ONPoli #Ontario #FordFailedOntario
NEW: The Ford government is routinely making decisions before environmental consultations have concluded and under-resourcing public education about those consultations, the auditor general has found in her annual report. #OnPoli
globalnews.ca/news/1155566...
globalnews.ca/news/1155566...
Ontario government routinely ignoring environmental consultations, AG finds | Globalnews.ca
The Ford government is routinely making decisions before environmental consultations have concluded and under-resourcing public education about those consultations, the AG found.
globalnews.ca
December 2, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Ford’s corruption is everywhere. It baffles me that so many in Ontario still vote Conservative while watching the province be dismantled or sold off. It is disheartening, and I fear the damage his cabinet has done will linger for generations. #ONPoli #Ontario #FordFailedOntario
This government is deeply corrupt. It is hard to find a decision that does not reek of misconduct. Greenbelt giveaways, blue licence plates, misused post-secondary funds, contracts for friends and family. They do not even try to hide it anymore. #ONPoli #FordDestroyedOntario #VoteFordOut
The Ontario PC govt spent more on public advertising in the run-up to Feb’s snap election than any other Ontario govt in history, the auditor general has found, pushing commercials with a message that “promotes the governing party.”
#FordIsCorrupt #onpoli #cdnpoli
globalnews.ca/news/1155560...
#FordIsCorrupt #onpoli #cdnpoli
globalnews.ca/news/1155560...
Ford government sets spending record for commercials ‘promoting’ governing party | Globalnews.ca
Auditor General Shelley Spence’s annual review of advertising found, in the fiscal year ending in March 2025, the province spent $111.9 million on advertising.
globalnews.ca
December 2, 2025 at 5:28 PM
This government is deeply corrupt. It is hard to find a decision that does not reek of misconduct. Greenbelt giveaways, blue licence plates, misused post-secondary funds, contracts for friends and family. They do not even try to hide it anymore. #ONPoli #FordDestroyedOntario #VoteFordOut
It's honestly alarming how little transparency and accountability we are seeing from this government. The pattern is clear: decisions benefiting insiders, rushed policies, and a refusal to answer to the public. It feels like they believe they OWN Ontario instead of serving it. #OnPoli #VoteFordOut
NEW: A company that got $2M from the Skills Development Fund is run by a dentist who boasts about having the Ford family among his patients.
Ford says he had nothing to do with it getting a grant: “I don't believe in micromanaging.”
www.thetrillium.ca/news/the-tri...
Ford says he had nothing to do with it getting a grant: “I don't believe in micromanaging.”
www.thetrillium.ca/news/the-tri...
Company given $2M from Skills Development Fund run by Ford family dentist: sources
The company’s CEO also worked closely with the wife of the minister in charge of the grant program at the time
www.thetrillium.ca
November 28, 2025 at 12:55 AM
It's honestly alarming how little transparency and accountability we are seeing from this government. The pattern is clear: decisions benefiting insiders, rushed policies, and a refusal to answer to the public. It feels like they believe they OWN Ontario instead of serving it. #OnPoli #VoteFordOut
It is worth repeating that the president of Conestoga makes over $600K while colleges face cuts, frozen budgets, and declining student supports.
Meanwhile, the Ford government continues directing public PSE funds toward private projects instead of strengthening our campuses. #OnEd #ONPoli
Meanwhile, the Ford government continues directing public PSE funds toward private projects instead of strengthening our campuses. #OnEd #ONPoli
Conestoga College offering full-time, active support staff voluntary exit incentive packages
All full-time, active support staff at Conestoga were given the option to accept a voluntary exit incentive package.
kitchener.citynews.ca
November 28, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Things are still looking pretty dire for colleges in Ontario. More cuts are coming, services are stretched, and yet college Presidents are pulling in salaries around half a million dollars. No media coverage whatsoever! Make it make sense. @colindmello.bsky.social
#onpoli #OntEd #PublicEducation
#onpoli #OntEd #PublicEducation
November 26, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Things are still looking pretty dire for colleges in Ontario. More cuts are coming, services are stretched, and yet college Presidents are pulling in salaries around half a million dollars. No media coverage whatsoever! Make it make sense. @colindmello.bsky.social
#onpoli #OntEd #PublicEducation
#onpoli #OntEd #PublicEducation
It feels like a never ending blues riff of wasted taxpayer money. Every verse brings another decision that puts well connected players first while everyday Ontarians fall further back. Ontario deserves leadership that serves the people, not the privileged few. #VoteTheConsOut #FirePiccini #OnPoli
Venue of $10M Skills Development Fund recipient, partners now licensed as an ‘adult entertainment club’
For decades, Zlatko Starkovski has leased the historic Exhibition Place building, which hosted PC fundraisers and the party’s campaign manager’s wedding in recent years
www.thetrillium.ca
November 4, 2025 at 4:32 PM
It feels like a never ending blues riff of wasted taxpayer money. Every verse brings another decision that puts well connected players first while everyday Ontarians fall further back. Ontario deserves leadership that serves the people, not the privileged few. #VoteTheConsOut #FirePiccini #OnPoli
What can we do to pressure Piccini's resignation: 1) request an Integrity Commissioner inquiry; 2) ask the Lobbyists Registrar to review lobbying/gift compliance; 3) press police/Crown if there’s evidence of criminality; 4) use public/political pressure and electoral routes. #FirePiccini #OnPoli
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www.oico.on.ca
November 4, 2025 at 4:21 PM
What can we do to pressure Piccini's resignation: 1) request an Integrity Commissioner inquiry; 2) ask the Lobbyists Registrar to review lobbying/gift compliance; 3) press police/Crown if there’s evidence of criminality; 4) use public/political pressure and electoral routes. #FirePiccini #OnPoli
Is anyone really surprised by this? I’m not. Piccini is the MPP for a very strong “Freedom Convoy” area in Northumberland County. People who voted him in will still vote for him again next election. I feel like the Ford government has broken Ontario beyond repair, and they did it on purpose #ONPoli
NEW: The Liberals have asked the integrity commissioner to launch an investigation into David Piccini and the skills development fund.
Elsewhere, a poll finds 60% of people aren't aware of the controversy, but majority think Piccini should resign. #OnPoli
globalnews.ca/news/1150827...
Elsewhere, a poll finds 60% of people aren't aware of the controversy, but majority think Piccini should resign. #OnPoli
globalnews.ca/news/1150827...
Liberals ask integrity commission to investigate minister over skills development fund | Globalnews.ca
For weeks, David Piccini has been under growing pressure for the controversial retraining scheme, which the auditor general determined was 'not fair, transparent or accountable.'
globalnews.ca
November 4, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Is anyone really surprised by this? I’m not. Piccini is the MPP for a very strong “Freedom Convoy” area in Northumberland County. People who voted him in will still vote for him again next election. I feel like the Ford government has broken Ontario beyond repair, and they did it on purpose #ONPoli
This is not a drill, Ontario! The Ford government is stripping away your healthcare to hand it over to their rich friends. They’re selling off our province piece by piece. If we don’t vote them out, there’ll be nothing left to save. Wake up, Ontario. before it’s too late! #Ontario #OnPoli #OnHealth
An Ontario’s Financial Accountability Office report reveals that if the Ford government fails to improve health-care funding, 7,263 nurses could be cut by 2027-28, worsening Ontario’s nurses per capita.
Read more: https://ona.org/news/20251028-fao-report-nursing-cuts/
#onpoli #onhealth #onlab
Read more: https://ona.org/news/20251028-fao-report-nursing-cuts/
#onpoli #onhealth #onlab
October 29, 2025 at 1:49 PM
The Ford government and his scoundrels are pocketing as much money as they can. They’re ransacking this province for everything. Wake up, Ontario, this is only going to get worse. #FordFailedOntario #OnPoli #VoteTheConsOut #Ontario
Greenbelt scandal-involved developers' company got $1.6M from Skills Development Fund.
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www.thetrillium.ca/news/politic...
#OnPoli
#OntarioSkillsDevelopmentFundScandal
#FordAbomiNation
#FordFailedThePeople
#FordCorruptAF
#NeverVoteConservative
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www.thetrillium.ca/news/politic...
#OnPoli
#OntarioSkillsDevelopmentFundScandal
#FordAbomiNation
#FordFailedThePeople
#FordCorruptAF
#NeverVoteConservative
Greenbelt scandal-involved developers' company got $1.6M from Skills Development Fund
Base31 Partners received funds to train workers, in partnership with Loyalist College, at the company's Prince Edward County development site
www.thetrillium.ca
October 28, 2025 at 7:09 PM
The Ford government and his scoundrels are pocketing as much money as they can. They’re ransacking this province for everything. Wake up, Ontario, this is only going to get worse. #FordFailedOntario #OnPoli #VoteTheConsOut #Ontario
Colleges keep saying they can’t afford to keep support staff because of “financial” concerns, yet George Brown College is handing out big bucks to hire a Provost. A Provost! How does that make sense? At this point, it feels like a money grab for everyone at the top. Shameful! #OPSEU #ONEd #ONPoli
October 28, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Ford is literally selling Ontario’s education to his ultra-rich friends.
Education money should stay in education, not in private, well connected companies.
We demand stricter oversight, transparency, and accountability now.
#onpoli #oned #Accountability #WorkersFirst #VoteFordOut #SaveOurColleges
Education money should stay in education, not in private, well connected companies.
We demand stricter oversight, transparency, and accountability now.
#onpoli #oned #Accountability #WorkersFirst #VoteFordOut #SaveOurColleges
Ford's gravy train
Clients of Ford's campaign manager received $100 million from the Skills Development Slush Fund.
The Auditor General called the fund "not fair, transparent or accountable."
#ONpoli
Clients of Ford's campaign manager received $100 million from the Skills Development Slush Fund.
The Auditor General called the fund "not fair, transparent or accountable."
#ONpoli
October 15, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Ford is literally selling Ontario’s education to his ultra-rich friends.
Education money should stay in education, not in private, well connected companies.
We demand stricter oversight, transparency, and accountability now.
#onpoli #oned #Accountability #WorkersFirst #VoteFordOut #SaveOurColleges
Education money should stay in education, not in private, well connected companies.
We demand stricter oversight, transparency, and accountability now.
#onpoli #oned #Accountability #WorkersFirst #VoteFordOut #SaveOurColleges
One strike may be over, but workers across Canada are still on the lines fighting for fairness. Stand with them. Support picket lines. Defend public education and good jobs for future generations. Privatization only serves the ultra rich. Stay loud, stay united. #CDNPoli #PublicEducation #ONPoli
October 15, 2025 at 8:15 PM
One strike may be over, but workers across Canada are still on the lines fighting for fairness. Stand with them. Support picket lines. Defend public education and good jobs for future generations. Privatization only serves the ultra rich. Stay loud, stay united. #CDNPoli #PublicEducation #ONPoli
Reports show the Ontario government is trying to recover funds from a defunct Skills Development Fund project that had ties to Drake. Public money should always support real training, education, and good jobs for working Ontarians. Let’s keep education public and accountable. #DoBetterDrake #ONPoli
Ford government seeking money back from defunct Skills Development Fund recipient with ties to Drake
The not-for-profit got more than $3 million in taxpayer funds before it shut down
www.thoroldtoday.ca
October 15, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Reports show the Ontario government is trying to recover funds from a defunct Skills Development Fund project that had ties to Drake. Public money should always support real training, education, and good jobs for working Ontarians. Let’s keep education public and accountable. #DoBetterDrake #ONPoli
The strike may be over, but the fight for public education continues. The CEC’s refusal to negotiate sooner has lasting effects on students, staff, and trust in Ontario’s colleges. Let’s make sure this is the moment we stop the privatization of education in Ontario.
#ONPoli #OPSEU #ONStrike
#ONPoli #OPSEU #ONStrike
Ontario full-time college support staff reach tentative agreement after nearly five weeks of strike action
After nearly five weeks on strike, full-time college support staff, represented by OPSEU/SEFPO, have reached a tentative agreement for more than 10,000 workers across all 24 Ontario colleges. “After m...
opseu.org
October 15, 2025 at 7:12 PM
After nearly five weeks on strike, the CEC finally agreed to a deal that could’ve been reached weeks ago.
Their delay cost students vital support, disrupted campuses, and strained communities.
The lesson? When employers stall, public education pays the price.
#CollegeStrike #onpoli #onted #OPSEU
Their delay cost students vital support, disrupted campuses, and strained communities.
The lesson? When employers stall, public education pays the price.
#CollegeStrike #onpoli #onted #OPSEU
October 15, 2025 at 1:20 PM
After nearly five weeks on strike, the CEC finally agreed to a deal that could’ve been reached weeks ago.
Their delay cost students vital support, disrupted campuses, and strained communities.
The lesson? When employers stall, public education pays the price.
#CollegeStrike #onpoli #onted #OPSEU
Their delay cost students vital support, disrupted campuses, and strained communities.
The lesson? When employers stall, public education pays the price.
#CollegeStrike #onpoli #onted #OPSEU
#OPSEU and #CEC reached a tentative agreement this morning after nearly five weeks on strike. The picket lines come down today, FT support staff will return to work on Thursday, October 16.
Now OPSEU will present the deal details to members this afternoon.
#StrikeOver #ONPoli #ONStrike
Now OPSEU will present the deal details to members this afternoon.
#StrikeOver #ONPoli #ONStrike
October 15, 2025 at 1:17 PM
#OPSEU and #CEC reached a tentative agreement this morning after nearly five weeks on strike. The picket lines come down today, FT support staff will return to work on Thursday, October 16.
Now OPSEU will present the deal details to members this afternoon.
#StrikeOver #ONPoli #ONStrike
Now OPSEU will present the deal details to members this afternoon.
#StrikeOver #ONPoli #ONStrike