Do I think Poilievre cares about labour rights on the whole? Of course not. The man has never shown himself to be concerned about the rights of workers. But I do think it's a reaaaally bad sign when he has better messaging on labour rights than our supposed Liberal Prime Minister.

Pay airline workers for 'every minute they work': Poilievre

'This isn't a vacation for them…airlines should be paying their flight attendants from the time they show up to work to the time they leave,' Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre told reporters on Fri...

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Another accusation = confession. They want to punish the use of forced labour elsewhere (with tariffs), as they expand their use of it at home.

Chad Loder@chadloder.dev · 4d ago

The diarrhea lettuce company, Taylor Farms, uses slave labor contracted from the Arizona Dept. of Corrections. The backbreaking labor is often performed by imprisoned Mexican nationals who would be otherwise ineligble to work in the US. They are paid $1.50 an hour.

“Labour leaders are already rethinking their political relationship with the ‘elbows-up’ PM. An opening has been created for the federal NDP Leader Avi Lewis and perhaps even Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives to respect basic workers’ rights” www.theglobeandmail.com/business/com... #cdnpoli

Opinion: WestJet labour dispute is really a proxy battle between Carney and unions

Liberal government continues to set a tone restricting the right to strike in federally regulated sectors, something that’s emerging as foundational to the Prime Minister’s economic strategy

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Labour groups warn the federal government against using back-to-work powers as WestJet flight attendants prepare to strike.

Does the Carney government have a labour problem? Union leaders speak out as WestJet strike looms

Union leaders warn the government against using back-to-work powers as WestJet flight attendants poised to strike.

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Here is a gift link. I saw people trying to take this victory away from the people. We would still be in the same place, lecturered w boilerplate messages, w quid pro quo secret deals between Liberals & Ford, if people didn’t mobilize. www.thestar.com/gift-redeem?...

“At the time the bylaw was introduced, advocates argued many evictions were being done in bad faith — either because the work was never done or the renovations didn’t really require the tenant to move out” www.thestar.com/real-estate/... #TOpoli

Since Toronto’s renoviction bylaw took effect a year ago, calls about such evictions have ‘all but disappeared’

Since Toronto’s renoviction bylaw took effect one year ago, lawyers and advocates say calls about this type of bad-faith eviction have ‘all but disappeared.’

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Reminder that the opaque & unaccountable Metrolinx initially denied responsibility for this fuel spill, insisting that its systems were working perfectly www.barrietoday.com/local-news/m... #onpoli

Joey Coleman@joeycoleman.ca · 5d ago

"Metrolinx pleads guilty to dumping diesel fuel in Lake Simcoe" Perfectly normal for Metrolinx. Not a single one of the over 100 Metrolinx Vice-Presidents will lose any performance bonuses for this latest stupidity. www.ctvnews.ca/barrie/artic...

No professional accomplishment has ever made me happier than this. theonion.com/translator-o...

Translator Of Original ‘Minions’ Epic Poem Slams ‘Sexless, Bloodless’ Film Adaptation

PHILADELPHIA—In a 4,500-word essay published in Harper’s Magazine, Emily Wilson, known for her popular translation of the Minions epic poem, blasted the latest film Thursday as a “sexless, bloodless” ...

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It should be a bigger deal that Ford & Carney made a secret deal to prevent MPs & MPPs from representing their constituents in Toronto and rural eastern Ontario. Is everyone a “fringe group” to these governments? #onpoli #cdnpoli

John Bowker@johnbowker.bsky.social · last wk.

Carney and Ford reportedly shook hands on a secret deal in which the PM would approve the Billy Bishop airport expansion, and in exchange Ford would silence eastern Ontario PC MPPs who opposed the Alto high-speed rail project www.thestar.com/politics/pro... #onpoli #cdnpoli

Evidently Doug Ford was willing to dismiss rural Eastern Ontario as a “fringe group” as well #onpoli

John Bowker@johnbowker.bsky.social · last wk.

Carney and Ford reportedly shook hands on a secret deal in which the PM would approve the Billy Bishop airport expansion, and in exchange Ford would silence eastern Ontario PC MPPs who opposed the Alto high-speed rail project www.thestar.com/politics/pro... #onpoli #cdnpoli

Carney and Ford reportedly shook hands on a secret deal in which the PM would approve the Billy Bishop airport expansion, and in exchange Ford would silence eastern Ontario PC MPPs who opposed the Alto high-speed rail project www.thestar.com/politics/pro... #onpoli #cdnpoli

‘Disappointed’ Doug Ford spoke privately with Mark Carney after decision blocking Billy Bishop expansion

Carney cancelled the island airport scheme before it could cause his Liberals any political turbulence, including potentially in the Aug. 31 Beaches—East York byelection that the prime minister called...

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A mysterious “black particulate fallout” has periodically covered Hamilton communities with soot. Ontario NDP leader @maritstilesndp.bsky.social says the Ford government knows what is in the soot and demanded it share this information with the public www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... #onpoli #hamont

Ontario NDP leader says Premier Doug Ford 'has the answers' to what's in soot blanketing Hamilton communities | CBC News

After Hamilton neighbourhoods were blanketed by an unknown black substance in early July, Ontario's official opposition is calling on the government to share what it knows about the recurring issue.

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re: "fringe group" — the vast majority of GTA residents do not, and likely never will, fly out of Billy Bishop, this was always special pleading from a narrow interest group, they just happen to be extremely wealthy

Toronto Star@thestar.com · last wk.

Blasting the federal government for listening to “a small fringe group in Toronto,” provincial Transportation Minister Prabmeet Sarkaria insists the Billy Bishop expansion is not dead.

NEW: Ontario Premier Doug Ford billed taxpayers for a flight to Orlando last summer to attend the conference of a private-sector union that has repeatedly endorsed the Progressive Conservative Party and received millions in government funding. #onpoli globalnews.ca/news/1199582...

Premier Ford charged taxpayers for Florida trip to attend union conference at Disney | Globalnews.ca

The province's travel, meal and hospitality expense disclosure list shows four individuals expensed commercial flights and hotels totalling $11,709 for the trip in mid-July 2025.

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Chris Scott was in relationship with staffer when arrested for spousal abuse: sources

Chris Scott was in relationship with staffer when arrested for spousal abuse: sources

Sources say Sault MPP’s wife found staffer in his hotel room at Indiana legislative conference

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I was a Queen's Park media hack for a Tory govt. I was apparently thought to be a good one by colleagues and media both. So I can't help but see it as unfair to fire this woman b/c she was only doing what a generation of Tory flaks have been encouraged to do: aka opposite of actual media relations.

TorontoToday@torontotoday.ca · last wk.

EXCLUSIVE: First Nations Chief says government MPP is lying about meeting with him. Kevin Holland, an associate minister in the Ford government, told a reporter he met with the Gull Bay Chief. Wilfred King says it never happened. @jonthompson.bsky.social reports. ricochet.media/indigenous/f...

First Nations Chief says government MPP is lying about meeting with him

PC representative Kevin Holland told a reporter he met with the Gull Bay Chief. Wilfred King says it never happened.

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The minister should go next #onpoli

TheTrillium.ca@thetrillium.bsky.social · last wk.

Ford government spokesperson out after minister pulled from radio interview

“A big part of getting out of this slow tailspin is clarifying & limiting the mandate of the Toronto Port Authority. The federal agency should leave the question of expansion to people who are actually elected and accountable,” writes @graphicmatt.com www.thestar.com/opinion/cont... #onpoli #cdnpoli

Matt Elliott: A Billy Bishop expansion has been grounded — yet again. Time to end the dogfight over the island airport once and for all

There’s time now for a real consultation about what the public wants Toronto’s waterfront to be.

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I partnered with the Ont Coalition for Better Child Care and the Assoc of Early Childhood Educators on a new study on the economic benefits being harvested by Ont from the new $10-a-day national child care program: childcareontario.org/stanford-rep.... More jobs, more GDP, more govt rev. /2

New Report: $10aDay Child Care Plan Boosts Ontario GDP by $13.6 Billion, Generating Over $2 Billion in Provincial Revenue for the Ford Government - OCBCC

TORONTO (July 27, 2026) — A new report released today reveals that the expansion of affordable child care services in Ontario has delivered a substantial

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Unifor and Titan Tool & Die have reached an agreement, bringing a nearly year-long lockout to an end. www.unifor.org/news/all-new...

Titan Tool & Die lockout ends with agreement

WINDSOR—Unifor and Titan Tool & Die have reached an agreement, bringing a nearly year-long lockout to an end.“While the end of operations is not the outcome we hoped for, our members will now receive ...

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NDP MPPs launch ‘Four Lanes, Zero Excuses’ campaign to finish Hwy. 69

NDP MPPs launch ‘Four Lanes, Zero Excuses’ campaign to finish Hwy. 69

Billboards, lawn signs, buttons, vehicle window stickers, a website and petition will round out the MPPs ongoing advocacy to urge the province to four-lane the final 68 kms of Highway 69

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MARK CARNEY, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN! ottawacitizen.com/public-servi...

Carney government cut nearly half the jobs at nerve centre for managing wildfires: union

The Carney government cut about 50 positions from the federal nerve centre responsible for managing forest fires, the union says.

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In which @jm-mcgrath.bsky.social asks how long Doug Ford’s trained seals will keep clapping after being repeatedly humiliated by decisions made at the top www.tvo.org/article/anal... #onpoli

ANALYSIS: Who’s really to blame for MPP spending? | TVO Today

In some cases, MPPs expensing hotels were just following orders. Maybe they’ll think twice next time.

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Collins Chief Helen Paavola says they were told “not to worry” about the fire that soon destroyed their community. A CN employee warned them to evacuate less than an hour before the community burned down, with no support from the Ford government www.nwonewswatch.com/local-journa... #onpoli

Collins chief says they were told 'not to worry' about fire

Read the full story and comment on NWOnewswatch.com

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The inefficient, sprawl-oriented growth mandated by the Ford government is driving up infrastructure costs that developers don’t want to pay. Their lobbyists want you to believe this is a hard problem requiring privatization, subsidies or both www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art... #onpoli

To build more homes, Ontario needs more power. But its electricity grid can’t keep up

The province’s strained grid is already thwarting its ambitious plans to build 1.5 million homes. Who will pay for a massive expansion?

theglobeandmail.com

Global got another internal email that contradicts the premier, showing that his government explicitly encouraged his Toronto-area MPPs to book publicly-funded hotel rooms. The email says “this information should be kept in the strictest of confidences” globalnews.ca/news/1198665... #onpoli

Progressive Conservative caucus divided over Ontario hotel spending scandal | Globalnews.ca

Global News first reported hundreds of thousands of dollars in expenses billed by Willowdale MPP Stan Cho to taxpayers and donors over the course of three years.

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NEW: The Ontario NDP and several First Nations are calling for a public inquiry into the Ford government’s handling of the wild land fires #OnPoli globalnews.ca/news/1198676...

NDP calls for public inquiry into Ford government’s wildfire preparedness, response | Globalnews.ca

First Nations leaders have said the Ontario government left communities to fend for themselves without timely support for evacuations.

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MPP Charmaine Williams charged her riding association thousands of dollars for hotel stays before paying at least some of that amount back, according to a Progressive Conservative Party spokesperson. Via @jackhauen and @TinaYazdani #OnPoli www.thetrillium.ca/news/politic...

Ford government minister reimbursed riding association for hotel stays before expense scandal erupted

Charmaine Williams paid back donor and taxpayer-funded riding association ‘many months ago’: PC Party

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In 2021, First Nations in northern Ontario gave Doug Ford an 82-page wildfire emergency plan. Five years later, two First Nations have burned to the ground, hundreds evacuated — and the province still can't answer "how many beds do you have?" thenarwhal.ca/ontario-igno... #onpoli

First Nations gave Doug Ford a wildfire plan. Ontario ignored it | The Narwhal

Indigenous leaders and the auditor general gave Ontario several emergency management recommendations over the years. Little progress was made

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