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Fully caffeinated Ph.D. Science Nerd, policy nerd, education advocate, outdoor enthusiast, canoeist, climber, active travel, sewist, baker, YIMBY, on my own journey to be a good ally and build belonging 🇨🇦🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

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ArtsNScience @borgalerp.bsky.social · May 22

Thank-you @wencyleung.bsky.social and @thelocal.to for this amazingly clear explainer of the complex beast that is education funding (underfunding)!
#education #onpoli #publiceducation #school

thelocal.to/tdsb-2025-26... Understanding the TDSB’s Budget Woes in Five Charts | The Local

Understanding the TDSB’s Budget Woes in Five Charts | The Local

The province says the school board has a spending problem. The board says it’s chronically underfunded. We sort through the numbers.

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ArtsNScience @borgalerp.bsky.social · 3h

“These issues ripple out to affect the entire classroom. A stable workforce of skilled staff with specialized training who are *compensated competitively* is essential if inclusion is to be a reality and not just a slogan.”

ArtsNScience @borgalerp.bsky.social · 3h

“Importantly, increased funding is also necessary. School staff, such as education assistants, are often required to support far too many students, with a lack of replacements when they are absent.”

#onpoli #Ontario #inclusion #education

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Many autistic students are denied a full education — here’s what we need for inclusive schools

Integrating autistic students fully and meaningfully in classrooms is important for their education, for broader classrooms as well as for families’ employment security and well-being.

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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 4h

Ontario hospitals say they're underfunded by $1 billion https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/article/ontario-hospitals-say-they-have-1-billion-in-funding-needs/

More news → CanadaHealthwatch.ca 🍁

The Ontario Hospital Association says hospitals had a collective deficit of $360M last year and face more pressures this year.

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ArtsNScience @borgalerp.bsky.social · 4h

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#onpoli #ontario #government

Ford Government Restricts Livestreams of School Board Meetings, Raising Transparency Concerns

The Ford government has quietly directed Ontario school boards to block public livestreams of their committee meetings, a move critics warn represents a step backward for accountability and public …

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ArtsNScience @borgalerp.bsky.social · 6h

Hint hint #Toronto

Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 19h

“In a city once choked with cars and infamous for its traffic snarls, Paris has pulled off a remarkable turnaround…the French capital has officially become Europe’s best city for children to walk, cycle, and move around independently.” Via @momentummag.bsky.social

A victory for FAST leadership.

Paris Pedals to the Top: How the City of Light Became Europe’s Best for Young Cyclists

The French capital has officially become Europe’s best city for children to walk, cycle, and move around independently

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 19h

Paris Pedals to the Top: How the City of Light Became Europe’s Best for Young Cyclists

The French capital has officially become Europe’s best city for children to walk, cycle, and move around independently

momentummag.com

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Library Girl @jenniferlagarde.bsky.social · 17h

📢 Celebrate #BannedBooksWeek with your #library people! Tomorrow’s #TLSkyChat starts at 8pm EST / 5pm PT. Questions are already posted here 👉 www.tlskychat.com/schedule

#TLSky #Librarians #Skybrarians #EduSky

Slide promoting #TLSkyChat on October 8, 2025. Topic: “Banned Books Week.” Includes reminders to use #TLSkyChat, respond to Q1–Q3, and start replies with A1–A3. Text invites discussion on protecting the freedom to read. Resources at tlskychat.com.

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ArtsNScience @borgalerp.bsky.social · 7h

www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/poli...

#onpoli #ontario

‘Something doesn’t smell right’: $100 million in Skills Development Fund grants traced to lobbyists with ties to Ontario premier

Clients of lobbyists with ties to Ontario's premier and his office snagged at least $100 million in Skills Development Fund grants, according to an analysis of the data by CTV News.

www.ctvnews.ca

ArtsNScience @borgalerp.bsky.social · 7h

There has been amazing support from actual neighborhoods but vehement opposition from people who don’t even live nearby, a few who cared more about losing a poorly maintained parking lot…

ArtsNScience @borgalerp.bsky.social · 7h

Same “housing for seniors at risk of homelessness” went up in my neighborhood a few years ago. It’s a beautiful, quiet building with an inter-generational learning partnership with nearby schools. Collaboration with the city also improved local infrastructure.

toronto.citynews.ca/2025/10/06/c...

Etobicoke residents sue City over proposed homeless shelter

A community group in Etobicoke is suing the City for $1 million in damages over the plan to build a homeless shelter.

toronto.citynews.ca

ArtsNScience @borgalerp.bsky.social · 7h

Make them pay it back, including the Ministers they are connected to. Start by repossessing all their Muskoka cottages…

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🖇️3 Sides🟥🍁🟥🪶🐦‍⬛🧷 @3sides.bsky.social · 1d

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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Aurelia Cotta The Original @originalaurelia.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 1d

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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Sara @sarablue.bsky.social · 1d

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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ArtsNScience @borgalerp.bsky.social · 18h

#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

ArtsNScience @borgalerp.bsky.social · 1d

Toronto Education Action Network (TEAN) has a public facing linktree site. There you’ll find a public google drive with advocacy and support information for school councils, parents, and education supporters.
#toronto #education #onpoli
#edusky

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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 1d

More shit for the Ontario voter to eat. Eat it up yum.

Jessica Smith Cross @jessiecatherine.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: Clients of lobby firms connected to the premier and his nephew were given tens of millions from the Skills Development Fund.

Clients of Rubicon — a lobbying firm owned by the premier’s campaign manager — got more than $100M, records show.

www.thetrillium.ca/news/politic...

Clients of lobby firms connected to premier, his nephew given tens of millions in training funds

Groups represented by a lobbying firm owned by the premier’s campaign manager got more than $100 million in grant money, a Trillium analysis has found

www.thetrillium.ca

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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 1d

Saugeen First Nation in Ontario joined together for some sun and sand to celebrate getting their beach back.

The fight to be recognized as the rightful owners of a popular beach ended a month ago after the Supreme Court refused to hear a case against them.

Saugeen First Nation celebrates getting their beach back

Saugeen First Nation is celebrating having a beach returned to it after a surveying error from the 1850s excluded it from the reserve.

www.aptnnews.ca

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 1d

For every €1 provided through a Basic Income For Artists pilot program in Ireland, the government got €1.46 back. So it’s being made permanent.

Over and over we see it. It saves public money to provide public housing. And it makes public money to provide basic income.

We can’t afford to NOT do it.

Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 1d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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ArtsNScience @borgalerp.bsky.social · 1d

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Speed kills, speed kills children and children are more important than the Ministers in Ford’s cabinet who keep getting hit with speeding tickets.
#onpoli #ontario

Ontario school boards urge Ford to halt plan to scrap speed cameras | CBC News

Ontario's school boards are jointly urging the provincial government not to proceed with Premier Doug Ford's plan to get rid of speed cameras.

www.cbc.ca

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ArtsNScience @borgalerp.bsky.social · 1d

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

ArtsNScience @borgalerp.bsky.social · 2d

www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
#onpoli #cdnpoli #ontario

Ontario’s move to eliminate school trustees could stifle parents’ concerns, critics say

In June, the province appointed supervisors to oversee the finances and operations of four school boards, largely sidelining trustees

www.theglobeandmail.com

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The Narwhal @thenarwhal.ca · Sep 3

But change is coming. The town has long alleged having a provincial park inside its boundaries impedes economic growth, and Premier Doug Ford is listening. In May he announced a plan to remove more than half the beach — and all of the plover habitat — from the park and transfer it to the town. (4/6)

Red signs that read "ALL DAY PARKING" advertise the entrance to a parking lot beside Wasaga Beach.

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The Narwhal @thenarwhal.ca · Sep 3

What’s going on at Wasaga Beach? It’s a question our readers have been asking us to look into for months. So we sent @fatimabsyed.bsky.social and @a1please.bsky.social to Wasaga to document a town — and an ecosystem — at a crossroads. thenarwhal.ca/wasaga-beach... (1/6)

The uncertain future of Wasaga Beach | The Narwhal

The Ontario government is handing part of Wasaga Beach Provincial Park over to the town, leaving many wondering what will be left to protect it

thenarwhal.ca

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Jack Hauen @jackhauen.bsky.social · 7d

BREAKING: The Ford govt has given groups hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars against the advice of civil servants who’d evaluated their applications, per Ontario’s auditor general.

@thetrillium.bsky.social has been covering this story in depth.

#onpoli

www.thetrillium.ca/news/politic...

BREAKING: Ford government skills training funding ‘not fair, transparent or accountable’: auditor general

Ford government labour ministers overruled civil servants to fund skills training by groups with lobbyists, according to a scathing new report

www.thetrillium.ca

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