🚨 BREAKING 🚨 The Toronto Star reports that Carney and Ford had a deal to expand the Billy Bishop airport... and that an expansion may still happen. ▶️ Sign the petition at: savetorontoislands.ca #ONpoli #cdnpoli #topoli
Chris Glover
@chrisgloverndp.bsky.social
Dad, Grandpa, Former Teacher, Skateboarder, ONDP Shadow Minister for Sport, Technology, and Democratic Reform, MPP for Spadina—Fort York www.chrisglovermpp.ca
🚨 𝗕𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 🚨 Ford is running away. When he has to face daily questions about his private jet, his destruction of public education and healthcare, and his undemocratic consolidation of power—his poll numbers go down. So he's off to his mansion in Muskoka. #ONpoli
Ford's Greatest Hits: Number 3- "I'm the only Premier in history who refuses to fly on the government plane..." Number 2- "I will not touch the Greenbelt..." Number 1- ? Watch the video to find out. #onpoli
🚨 BREAKING 🚨 Ford's Gravy Plane Ford spent $28.9M taxpayer dollars to buy a jet for his private use. Wondering why he wants jets at Billy Bishop Airport? It'll cost at least another $1 billion tax dollars so Ford can land his jet in downtown Toronto. www.thestar.com/politics/pro...
Ontario buys used $28.9M private jet for Doug Ford: sources
A senior official confirmed that the province this week took possession of a 2016 Bombardier Challenger 650 executive jet.
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Democracy or dictatorship? T̶r̶u̶m̶p̶, I mean Ford is: ▶️Gutting Freedom of Information so he can defy order to release his phone records ▶️Applying Bill 5 so he can break any law at Billy Bishop Airport ▶️Now, will appoint 8 Regional Chairs with powers to override Council globalnews.ca/news/1175717...
Ford government planning to appoint regional chairs, give them sweeping new powers | Globalnews.ca
The same legislation will shrink the size of regional governments in both Niagara and Simcoe County, providing chairs their own version of strong mayor powers.
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Ford muzzles students. Graduates who are priced out of college or university because of OSAP cuts will not be able to mention OSAP at their graduations. Ford's Minister of Education threatens Boards where students make any political statements at their graduations. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Don’t 'engage in divisive or contentious issues of any kind,' says provincial memo on graduation ceremonies | CBC News
The memo, signed by Education Minister Paul Calandra and addressed to educators and school board staff, warns that failure by school boards to meet those expectations “poses a real risk to student wel...
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“If records about gov't business can be shielded from scrutiny simply because they sit in a minister's office, public accountability is eviscerated.” Ontario’s Privacy Comm. is warning about Ford’s plan to weaken access to information. What is Ford trying to hide? globalnews.ca/news/1173029...
Transparency watchdog blasts ‘shocking’ Ontario plan to hide premier cellphone records | Globalnews.ca
New policy will retroactively block the release of communications from the premier, ministers, parliamentary assistants or their staff through access to information requests.
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🚨 BREAKING: Doug Ford just gutted the law that allows Ontarians to request information about his government's policies These Freedom of Information requests helped uncover the Greenbelt scandal The ability to request information is why the Ford gov't is under RCMP investigation right now. #ONpoli
None of Ford's claims about the new Science Centre are true. Claim: estimated cost of new Science Centre is $322 million Reality: current estimate is $750 million www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
Ontario Science Centre’s new home is smaller, worse and probably pricier
None of the Ford government’s main claims about this new facility at Ontario Place appear to be true
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Even the Godfather of AI, one of the world's most prominent scientists, is furious about Ford's Science Centre lies. #ONpoli
Isaac Callan@isaaccallan.bsky.social · 5mo agoGeoffrey Hinton, known as the 'godfather of AI', unconvinced by Premier Doug Ford's decision to move the Ontario Science Centre. #OnPoli
Ford to students: “it's not a God-given right to take taxpayers’ money,” ... Unless you are my family dentist, you get $2M; or a friend who owns a strip club, i'll give you $10M; or you hire my campaign manager as a lobbyist, you'll get $100M. #ONpoli www.thetrillium.ca/insider-news...
Don’t be fooled by Ford’s college and university funding announcement. He’s just continuing to download more costs and debt on to students for the most grossly underfunded system in Canada. #ONpoli
Removing the hallway healthcare metric from Ontario Health’s public report doesn’t make the problem go away—it hides it. In 2024, an average of 1,390 patients a day were treated in hallways because of lack of beds. Now Ford wants to stop reporting on it #ONpoli www.thetrillium.ca/news/health/...
Hallway health care metric one of several 'to be retired' from health agency’s public report
The metric was not included in the latest Ontario Health annual report, with one emergency physician calling it ‘utter malpractice’ to not release the data publicly
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15 years, $7.7 billion over budget, and devastating closures to over 300 small businesses. That is the history of this public-private partnership—otherwise known as a P3 project. www.thestar.com/news/gta/egl...
Eglinton Crosstown LRT to open Sunday with reduced service, muted celebrations: ‘It’s too soon for a party’
Mandeep Lali said the Eglinton Crosstown LRT will open Sunday at reduced speeds and hours of operation.
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Doug Ford’s housing plan: ▶️ Paving the Greenbelt ▶️ MZO's to insiders ▶️ Strong Mayor powers ▶️ Attacking Conservation Authorities Great for making Ford's friends rich, but doesn't build housing.
How do conservatives keep getting reelected? With our money. They get tens of thousands of dollars from donors and give millions of our tax dollars in exchange. #ONpoli
Ford gave his Minister of Education, Paul Calandra, total control of the 600 TDSB schools and the education of 240,000 students. Calandra just eliminated the maximum class cap of 32 students in Middle schools. www.torontotoday.ca/local/educat...?
Why has the TDSB supervisor rescinded a class size cap?
Trustees voted last March to cap class sizes in grades 4 to 8 at a maximum of 32 students. The TDSB’s supervisor rescinded that directive
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TTC rejected for Skills Development Fund, Ford government appoints another Director of Education, Supreme Court to hear challenge of Ontario Place project. Let's recap another week in Ontario politics. #ONpoli
Doug Ford has fought transparency every step of the way with your hard-earned taxpayer dollars. If there was nothing to hide, why the secrecy? #onpoli globalnews.ca/news/1159745...
Ontario court rules Doug Ford must turn over personal phone records | Globalnews.ca
An Ontario court says it is reasonable to conclude Premier Doug Ford uses his personal cellphone to communicate and that he should make those records public.
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The Ford government has been in power for seven and a half years. How is Ontario doing? The numbers tell the story. #ONpoli
On the Friday before Christmas, Ford's Minister of Education announces he will be closing and selling schools in boards where the real estate is most valuable—Toronto, Ottawa, & Dufferin-Peel. www.thestar.com/politics/cal...
Supervised boards could close schools, Ontario education minister says, but rural schools safe
Boards under supervision have been asked to look at underused sites and report back, Ontario education minister says in a year-end interview.
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On December 1st, Ford began cutting the sewage pipes to allow for raw sewage to discharge along Toronto’s lakeshore and beaches. It’s a shocking abuse of power. Families deserve clean, safe beaches—not sewage dumps to support a $2.2 billion taxpayer-funded megaspa at #OntarioPlace. #ONpoli
Ford just fired the TDSB director. He’s consolidating power over our children’s schools — not to improve them, but to privatize them. #OntEd
Doug Ford is giving us the 102 day disappearing act—shutting down Queen’s Park until March 23 while Ontarians face a cost-of-living and jobs crisis A government that won’t show up for work sure can’t fix the mess it made. Ontarians deserve better than this. #onpoli www.thestar.com/politics/pro...
Ford government extends Ontario legislature’s Christmas break until late March
Premier Doug Ford's government is giving the Ontario legislature an unusually long Christmas break, extending it until March 23.
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OPP investigating Skills Development Fund recipient, Conservatives' Intimate Partner Violence Report written by AI, Ontario legislature won't return until March, establishing a Commissioner for Democratic Rights. Let's recap another week in Ontario politics. #ONpoli
Ford's strategy to privatize healthcare: ▶️Shutter operating rooms and cut hospital funding to the lowest level in Canada to create massive waitlists. www.thestar.com/politics/pro...
Ford government to allow some private clinics to do hip and knee replacements
The Ford government has approved licences for two clinics in the Toronto area, one in Ottawa and another in Windsor.
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In 2025, Ford spent a record $112 million taxpayer dollars on ads promoting himself. For $30 million, he could have fixed the Ontario Science Centre's roof and kept it open for our children. #onpoli
Ford's solution to low test scores—hire consultants at $1500 a day. OR He could restore the $1500 per student per year that he cut from already underfunded schools. #ONpoli #OntEd globalnews.ca/news/1155754...
Low EQAO test results trigger system-wide review of Ontario curriculum | Globalnews.ca
While the results represent a slight improvement from the previous school year, the government said the test scores are 'not enough' progress.
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