So here's the issue with the mandate letters as Global has released them.

Doug's said his team is doing a bang up job. Which, sure, is a choice.

And we also know of the cuts, and the privatization, and the decisions that actual people object to.

So how do we square this? Quite simple: nurses aren't people. Teachers aren't people. The poor aren't people. Urbanites aren't people. Developers are people. The Westons are people. *You* aren't people. So they're not *for* you.

#OnPoli

ugh doug ford is such a dishonest piece of shit, and you fucking know these idiots are going to vote for him because they always do. And then they'll blame everyone else when they take away their pension and healthcare and disability supports, and spend their money on roads to nowhere instead. #onpoli #canada

Thank you Colin D'Mello & Isaac Callan for doing what Doug Ford fought all the way to the Supreme Court of Canada to prevent. To release the contents of the mandate letters he issued to his #PCPO cabinet ministers in 2018. #ONpoli https://globalnews.ca/news/9937158/doug-ford-mandate-letter-ontario-minister-expectations/

So this is funny because, no his team hasn't taken the time to update his "about" page, but get a load of the last line in the about page as it's written now...

hahahaha we elected a joke #ottawa #ontario #onpoli

@MarilynC

Meh. After selling off majority shares in Hydro One, running several austerity budgets under the so-called Drummond Report, signing onto two gas plants without first doing a proper environmental assessment (and then cancelling them, wasting millions), keeping the minimum wage low until a last minute desperation move, and using the notwithstanding clause against teachers, I don't see why anyone would care about the Ontario Liberals.

Marit Stiles' NDP is where it's at.

#ONpoli

Toronto Hospital Board Members Are Largely Wealthy And Conservative

169 Toronto hospital board members are donors to Doug Ford's Progressive Conservative Party.

by Terra Loire Gillespie

"Unlike medical doctors, hospital board members don’t take a hippocratic oath — based on the pledge to do no harm — but their decisions nonetheless affect everyone's health care experience."

#Toronto #topoli #Ontario #onpoli #Healthcare

https://www.readthemaple.com/toronto-hospital-board-members-are-largely-wealthy-and-conservative/

The #ottawa mayor for everyday people is already bored and is apparently starting up his podcast again with other everyday man Daniel Alfredsson as his first guest (don’t have a bird site account so haven’t seen for myself).

I’m sure he’s going to feature a wide range of guests: CEOs, CFOs, COOs, would constitute a wide range right? I guess he’s feeling left out from all the other diverse groups of white male podcasters #ontario #onpoli

If anyone is interested in voting for the next Ontario Liberal leader, the deadline to sign up (free) as a member is September 11: https://ontarioliberal.ca/leadership/
There are 5 candidates, and voting is by ranked ballot. I took a look at their websites and made a spreadsheet of any climate-related policies. Feel free to review and comment! https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1bEGQ66AYHlJojnjImEwCq6_i94JT5rBI9Mj0aD73Nhw/edit?usp=sharing
#onpoli #climatechange #olp

During all the #Greenbelt controversy, the Ontario government has quietly released it's "Provincial Climate Change Impact Assessment" report: https://www.ontario.ca/.../ontario-provincial-climate...
I haven't had a chance to read it yet, but @eyeonthefly has been posting highlights on Twitter. Shocking (not really) that there has been nothing in the media so far!
#onpoli #climatechange #dougford

Local man trolls me for standing up at the #ottawa Carleton District School Board for 2SLGBTQ+ rights. Seems to think the Premier of #ontario, @fordnation, might want to reprimand me. This guy is no longer a trustee (he used to be one with the Ottawa Catholic School Board). Curious who he follows? Look. (Yes, I’d already blocked everyone). Think about organized #hate, links between #bigotry #politics and the right’s attack on #education across #canada.

#onted #onpoli #cdnpoli

Good column by Marcus Gee about how Ford's tuition freeze cut revenue to colleges and universities leading to flood of foreign students. Start by funding education properly. #onpoli https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/toronto/article-how-doug-fords-decision-to-slash-tuition-fees-backfired/

https://www.thestar.com/politics/provincial/ford-government-s-plan-to-keep-toronto-high-school-teachers-on-the-job-faces-a/article_16566283-4ef6-5817-b024-d708b4ef4933.html #OSSTF members of course have the right to decide if they want to accept this, but in my opinion they'd do well to reject it. I'd be very interested to hear the bargaining leadership's rationale for this. To start a mean and totally fictitious rumour, what if if turns out Ford offered them part of the #Greenbelt? #OnPoli #OnLabour

In my haste I said head of the Greenbelt Foundation when she is only the Vice Chair, so second to the head of the board.

But either way, she was being lobbied by her brother and her husband.

Ontario's lobby rules are way too weak.

#onpoli

Wow - appointed head of the Greenbelt Foundation is married to the owner of a developer who stands to make a lot of money off developing the Greenbelt.

It’s like they are not even trying to hide the corruption!

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-ford-governments-appointee-to-greenbelt-foundation-had-family-ties-to/

#onpoli

“we’re left with two ruling parties — both of which are led by real estate investors — that are completely bereft of ideas or even any interest in grappling with the need for non-market solutions to the housing crisis. In the meantime, silly debates about whether or not to impose a cap on international students helps both parties to avoid having these conversations.”
#cdnpoli #onpoli #nspoli #housing
https://www.readthemaple.com/blame-government-not-international-students-for-housing-crisis/

🇨🇦 #politics #onpoli #dofo #ford

Big Ford Fest rally at Bingeman's tomorrow night*.
SUPER BIG COUNTER RALLY TOMORROW NIGHT TOO!

Friday, September 8th
4:00 PM
425 Bingemans Centre Drive
Meet at the entrance to Bingemans Park on Shirley Ave.
All the unions, teachers, nurses, political parties, health coalition, & environmental groups are most welcome to come with their signs to share their concerns.
#bill60 #bill23

#kitchener #waterloo #corruption #farmland #onpoli #ontario #Guelph
@waterlooregion
https://elk.zone/mstdn.ca/@gemelliz/111026310958328941

Coming across an #ontario Reddit thread where students are posting about the temperatures in their classrooms the past two days. JK and grade 1-2 teachers taking about +35°C temps in their classrooms…

My first thought is, I hate the nternet, but that doesn’t change the fact that this shit is happening. Existing in political systems that aren’t meant to “care” about people at fucking all, is wonderful #education #cdnpoli #onpoli

Toronto City Council debates financial future as Olivia Chow presses for refugee shelter help

> Chow says the refugee shelter crisis is only getting more urgent because the city doesn’t have the financial tools to support claimants, with the city’s combined operating and capital budget pressures expected to balloon to $46.5 billion over the next decade.
https://archive.ph/2023.09.06-180038/https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/toronto/article-toronto-city-council-debates-financial-future-as-olivia-chow-presses/ #Toronto #OliviaChow #ToPoli #OnPoli #Canada

Remember tht what's important is not which developer got which parcel of land at below market rates without tender and which #Ford family friend got which favors. We need to understand that building luxury homes has never resulted in making housing more affordable. We need to reverse th #greenbelt giveaways and deveop a strategy to build affordable urban #housing, with better #rentcontrol and #rezoning to provice units near transit. #onpoli