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Ford government admitting that their policies will kill people

& shielding themselves with a draconian indemnification provision.

"A surprise amendment Thursday protects the government from lawsuits if cyclists are injured or killed on streets that used to have bike lanes."

#ONpoli
Ford government to ban lawsuits against province if cyclists are hurt or killed on streets where bike lanes were removed
Transportation Minister Prabmeet Sarkaria tells cyclists: for your own safety, stay off Bloor, Yonge and University when bike lanes are removed.
www.thestar.com
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Ford's solution to the Skills Development Fund scandal.

Applicants will have to disclose if they used a lobbyist.

Of course, the Minister of Labour can just ask his wife, the lobbyist.

#ONpoli #FirePiccini

www.thestar.com/politics/pro...
Ontario will require skills grant applicants to reveal if they hired lobbyists
Bowing to pressure, the Ontario government will soon require that groups hiring lobbyists for help getting millions of dollars from the $2.5-billion Skills Development Fund will now have to report
www.thestar.com
December 3, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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Ford wasted at least $2.1 Billion taxpayer dollars -Auditor General

▶️$111.9 Million on partisan ads ahead of February election
▶️$400-$600 Million in potentially suspect healthcare billings
▶️$1.4 Billion on a stockpile of masks and PPE that are being thrown out

#ONpoli
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 3, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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Ford's gravy train

Today's passenger?
Ford's family dentist:

▶️$20,000 donation to Conservatives
💰gets $2 million taxpayer dollars from Skills Development Fund
▶️Return on Investment 9,900%

#onpoli
November 28, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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Bill 60 passed on Monday, new legislation on dangerous driving, MPP Gilmour's motion on women's economic insecurity.

Let's recap another week in Ontario politics.

#ONpoli
November 28, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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Ontario NDP leader Marit Stiles asks the Integrity Commissioner to investigate the Minister of Labour's wife who is a paid lobbyist for companies that received $900,000 taxpayer dollars from the Ministry of Labour's Skills Development Slush Fund.

#ONpoli
November 30, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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Ford's Gravy Train:

Don't worry taxpayers, Ford's Minister of Labour says he takes his ethical requirements "very seriously."

#onpoli
November 30, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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While Ford's friends, family, and dentist ride the gravy train—Ontarians go hungry.

🚨Feed Ontario report:
1 million Ontarians made 8.7 million visits to food banks last year—up 87% since 2020

#ONpoli

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
More than 1 million people in Ontario needed a food bank in the past year: Hunger Report | CBC News
The Hunger Report released by Feed Ontario on Monday says more than one million people needed to access a food bank or hunger-relief organization in the last year and they made more than 8.7 million v...
www.cbc.ca
December 1, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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1/ For six months, I've been traveling the world on Pulitzer Ctr & Fund For Investigative Journalism grants investigating Trump's effect on HIV & LGBTQ health. On World AIDS Day, @theintercept.com is publishing an overview essay of Afeef Nessouli & my findings. theintercept.com/2025/12/01/w...
Trump Gutted AIDS Health Care at the Worst Possible Time
By the first World AIDS Day of his second term, Trump gutted LGBTQ+ employment globally and put humanity at greater risk of AIDS.
theintercept.com
December 1, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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Ford is violating our Freedom of Information (FOI) rights.

By law, Ontarians have the right to view government documents.

FOI requests exposed the Greenbelt & Ontario Place scandals.

Ford's government is now refusing to comply with FOI orders.

What other scandals is he hiding?

#onpoli
NEW: Ontario’s transparency watchdog has been forced to “intervene” after the solicitor general’s office repeatedly ignored orders to release information.

It’s part of a trend which has also raised questions about political interference. #OnPoli
globalnews.ca/news/1154356...
Ontario watchdog ‘intervening’ after solicitor general ignores transparency orders | Globalnews.ca
There have been several instances in recent years where the IPC has told the solicitor general's office to release information, only for the government to ignore the decree.
globalnews.ca
November 27, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Ford's gravy train rides over planning laws:

Want to build a nightclub in a residential area?

“They would simply have to claim they intend to use the bar to train service staff." -Rick Green, chair of the Federation of South Toronto Residents’ Associations

#ONpoli

www.thestar.com/politics/pro...
Ford government seeks planning exemptions for training centres built with Skills Development Fund cash
Premier Doug Ford is making sweeping exemptions to planning rules — all for the benefit of operators running worker training facilities built with money from the Skills Development Fund, warns
www.thestar.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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🚂 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
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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
November 13, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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🚨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
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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
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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
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lol she got his ass and he knows it
November 9, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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🚨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
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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
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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
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His tunnel would:
▶️Cost $50–$100 billion
▶️That's $9000-$18000 per Ontario Household
▶️Add just 1 lane each way
▶️Snarl traffic for 10+ years with construction
November 7, 2025 at 1:17 PM