Andrea Grebenc
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Former Halton District School Board Chair 2017-2021, Trustee 2014-22, Mother, IT Consultant, Entrepreneur. (she/her) (On-dray-ya Gruh-bence)
Burlington, ON
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Thank you to
#BurlON
for the opportunity to serve you.
Thank you to all the dedicated staff across the
@HaltonDSB
for all your hard work.
Thank you to my trustee colleagues for your open minds and fierce loyalty to
#OntEd
over the past 8 years.
Together, we slayed dragons.
Tonight we said our farewells 2 the outgoing
@HaltonDSB
Trustee colleagues, 3 of whom served with me since 2014. Thank you for your dedication and commitment to the students & staff
@TEhlHarrison
@AndreaGrebenc
@FreestyleSkiMom
and
@LeahSReynolds
my fellow Student Trustee mentor
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Public Health Ontario now recommends a return to temporary universal masking in their newly released document: (see page 2, last nugget) :
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A letter from the
@HaltonDSB
Board of Trustees was sent to the Minister of Education today.
#Onted
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"It's my life, so if I choose not to get a
#COVID
vaccination what is it to you?"
A lot, actually...
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#GetVaccinated
#GetVaccinatedNow
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I received notice as HDSB Chair from the MoE at 8:48pm that the
@HaltonDSB
will be continuing remote learning next week. This is 4 hours after reporters had screenshots of the same notice on Twitter. So disrespectful! This is not how you treat your education partners.
#Onted
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🔥 Unbelievable! Not one PC MPP has the guts to call out Doug Ford & Steve Clark for their outrageous actions! 💥 Backroom deals with developer bigwigs, shady biased processes, misuse of public assets, deleted emails, & personal phones for gov work. 😡
#TheyStandWithCorruption
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Shocked and disappointed with people say "it was hot when I went to school. Kids should suck it up". 1) It hit 36 degrees plus humidity on Wed=45 degrees. That's a record.
2) Why don't you want kids to have healthy safe, & productive learning spaces?
#onted
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This is a direct attack on the PROVINCIAL public school systems. School boards are funded based on enrollment. If enrollment drops, schools have less $ to support students. Do not fund private schools/homeschooling with my tax dollars! We have excellent public ed.
#onpoli
#onted
Conservative leader
@AndrewScheer
, who says he understands the struggle to pay bills, wants to give a $4000 tax credit to parents who put their child in a private school. This plan would cost Canadians about $1.7 billion/ year.
#CDNPoli
#elxn43
#ScheerFoolery
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@CBCNews
Choosing Florida as their destination says a lot.
I get affordability, but politics?! If Trudeau is not Trumpy enough, they are welcome to go.
I hope they have good private medical insurance .
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Learning recovery:
Netherlands $4,285/pupil
US $2,742
Britain $531 ($CDN).
Shockingly, Ontario’s learning recovery budget for 2021-22 is not even $11 per student.
#OntEd
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@CamGuthrie
Interesting that
@fordnation
deflected saying the housing crisis was a federal problem & then when the feds come up with a viable plan that is direct to municipalities, the premier shouts, "You are cutting me out?!? That money should pass through me (no strings attached)!"
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What is the purpose of publishing COVID case numbers for publicly funded schools & private childcare centres but not private schools? Private schools are embedded in our neighbourhoods. The community has the right to know.
#flyingundertheradar
#onted
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Minister
@Sflecce
says the difference between the 2019 provincial cell phone ban and this one is that this one will be "implemented by the province, not schools". What does that even mean? Someone please explain the operational difference to me.
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Trotting out the old "cellphones in the classrooms" trope to distract from the actual problem: underfunding the education ststem
#onted
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@Martin91821
@fordnation
@Sflecce
@HaltonDSB
Since we have followed public health recommendations since the beginning of the pandemic and this is a PH recommendation, I have provided notice to my colleagues that at our next Board meeting I will be bringing a motion to return to universal masking in our schools.
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Ontario's public education system ranks extremely high in the world. Do not use my tax dollars to fund independent schools. If you want to send your children to private school, you pay for it out of your pocket. Do not Americanize our system.
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I've been asked to speak to CBC
@metromorning
Monday at 6:10am about
@HaltonDSB
continuing to move towards 28:1 ratio as it begins budget, class and staff planning for next year.
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Life is worse in
#Ontario
under
@Fordnation
and I'm always on edge that we will be losing more as he chips away at privatizing education and healthcare. People get so distracted by little stuff (license fees, booze, etc) that they give away our futures.
#onpoli
Real question: If you live in Ontario and you’re not a donor or developer, how has the
@fordnation
government made your life better and/or easier?
I’m really asking.
#OnPoli
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I'm receiving calls from parents of students at schools with minimal/no air conditioning. We use the funds we receive from the Ministry to upgrade/install AC where we can. We have policies to help mitigate the moment, but the long-term is about funding. Call your MPP.
#OntEd
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Fact:
Confirmed by
@HaltonDSB
Senior Staff:
Directive to move to 28:1 and 4 mandatory online classes HAS NOT CHANGED from the Ministry. Option sheets are currently being collected by schools and planning for next year will move forward under these parameters.
#Onpoli
#Onted
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It demonstrates a ton of privilege to wait this long to make a decision that impacts millions of Ontarians - parents/guardians, school boards & education workers, employers who may need to find coverage - the list goes on and on.
#WhereIsTheLeadership
?
#Onpoli
#OntEd
Doug Ford says an announcement on schools is coming within a few days as opposition leaders criticized the Premier for leaving parents and kids in the dark.
"Ford is sitting on his hands, refusing to address Omicron."
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@ColinDMello
It's the Highway 407 debacle all over again!
Benefitting foreign business owners while fleecing Ontario taxpayers of their assests and opportunities.
My blood is boiling!
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There is a staffing crisis in
#onted
, & negative & disrespectful sentiments from the Minister are unhelpful. Ed workers deserve wage increases that reflect inflation or else they are actually pay cuts! I don't want my children being taught by educators that feel undervalued.
Ontario’s public high school teachers to hold strike vote as contract talks drag with Ford government
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We started at 1 pm and ended at 11:15 pm. Longest meeting I've ever Chaired. Glad I got to have a quick walk around the block over the 45 min dinner break.
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I care about you and I care about trying to stop this virus before it mutates into something worse.
I care about you and the world and people that surround you.
What do you care about?
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#GetVaccinated
#GetVaccinatedNow
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The Minister MUST improve communications to Boards. The public EXPECTS that boards have already been informed when important information appears in the media. Education partners have been asking for this since the beginning of the pandemic.
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Minister
@Sflecce
doesn't seem to know that the previous government already banned vaping in 2017 and HIS OWN GOVERNMENT banned cell phones in 2019.
Copy and paste policy
Attempting to distract from the actual problem: underfunding the
#onted
system!
Did you forget that cell phones were banned in 2019 & vaping in 2017
@Sflecce
? What a sneaky effort to distract the public from the massive cuts to public education
@fordnation
! The goal to privatize public education in
#Ontario
continues unabated. Dishonesty
@OntarioPCCaucus
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@ColinDMello
We don't need Planners when we have Doug!
Didn't finish high school, but he feels qualified to override trained professionals.
#WasteOfMoney
#ThePCWay
#BoondogglesGalore
#ResignDougFord
#onpoli
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was sent today to Minister Lecce requesting the withdrawal of the part-time 15-student cohort model for K-6 students. Trustees of the
@HaltonDSB
request adequate funding for a daily attendance in-person model, or a change in cohort restrictions.
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@fordnation
All this government cares about is alcohol, not education, not healthcare, not housing...alcohol.
#sad
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@ColinDMello
Does this mean developers have nothing to lose talking to the press about what actually went on with the Greenbelt?....if they are upset enough to attempt to sue, they should be upset enough to talk to the RCMP...
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@StarrRyder1
This is what spreading misinformation, conspiracy, perpetual rage-farming, and mistrust of the government gets you. This could get dangerous for our military and RCMP who are there to help!
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For those looking for "school choice" in Ontario, a warning from a parent living it. This is mid-thread. People need to understand the full implications of charter/voucher systems. They are NOT in your child's best interest.
#Onted
#onpoli
We couldn't afford school choice, and so her education will suffer because her neighborhood public school is massively underfunded to pay for school choice, so that people who can afford it, get a break. My kid is being sacrificed so the rich can get a 6k coupon.
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Since the
@HaltonDSB
has followed public health recommendations since the beginning of the pandemic & this is a PH recommendation, I have provided notice to my colleagues that at our next Board meeting I will be bringing a motion to return to universal masking in our schools.
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Horrendous mismanagement of provincial tax dollars when money is diverted from life-saving care to building half billion dollar garages for a private spa company at
#OntarioPlace
.
#VotersAreWatching
#onpoli
Don’t know what other people are doing this weekend. I picked up another extra shift so there is at least one open rural ER in the region today.
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@TorontoStar
This is a headline that will anger and frustrate people into not wanting to engage in democracy.
Ms Chow's 37% is an incredible feat in a field of over 100 (with over a dozen well-known names, high profile endorsers, and deep pockets)
Fed/prov elections have FAR fewer candidates
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Premier tries to gaslight the people of Ontario about the lack of Indigenous history curriculum that his government willfully cancelled less than a month after being elected.
#onted
NEW: After touring a mass vaccination site in Orillia, Premier Ford tells me it’s “absolutely essential” that teaching what happened in residential schools be part of learning in Ontario schools and that he’ll work with the education minister to make it happen
#onpoli
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I'm willing my to wait for my vaccine.
I work from home.
Younger than 50.
Don't live in a hotspot.
Am healthy as are the people I live with.
I leave the the house only for essentials.
Believe me, I want it, but I can wait for more at-risk people to get it first.
#justgeterdone
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@CamGuthrie
Huh - its like
@fordnation
has no idea how complex it is to build housing/communities, and yet throws a haphazard unworkable plan at municipalities and spends all his time deflecting and blaming (and overriding planning professionals to suit donors)
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ON Gov should send 3 rapid tests to EVERY person in Ontario to be used for the holidays. People are going to get together - guaranteed. A little
#SwabBeforeYouGo
could save lives and our healthcare system.
#ONpoli
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This government is STARVING the education system- withholding funding & resources for our students! If we want a strong education system to meet the innovative needs of our future, education MUST be funded appropriately!
Your PC MPP is complicit in its destruction!
#onted
#burlon
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@coopSpeak
@fordnation
You didn't take heed when hospitals said there was a pediatric ICU crisis.
You didn't bat an eye when the Red Cross which comes to aid in DISASTERS was called into CHEO.
Now a toddler has died ON THE FLOOR OF AN ONTARIO HOSPITAL - no beds - no stretchers!
#InquiryNow
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I have decided to seek the Liberal nomination for the Burlington riding. Please follow my campaign account
@GrebencAndrea
&
learn more at
#BurlOn
#onpoli
#onted
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Halton's consultation: 6,853 responses; the gov: 6,500 responses. If Halton's response is reflective of the Ministry response, there was an overwhelming majority against raising class sz avg & mandatory elearning.
#onpoli
Results:
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@MikeCousineau5
I certainly hope that the employees working at the kiosks are subject to a full criminal records, fingerprint and credit check. Identity theft and selling info is a huge risk in that setting.
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The Trustees of the
@HaltonDSB
have sent a letter to the Minister with concerns about the Ministry of Education announcements.
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@ColinDMello
Of course... Spend $600M
#TaxpayerDollars
on parking for private businesses on a prime public land giveaway deal for 100 years, while our foodbanks are struggling to keep up, schools are crumbing, hospitals are understaffed with closed EDs, etc.
#GarbageGovernance
#ResignDougFord
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@Jdavis_Halton
The
@Fordnation
government enacted a bill to kick very ill patients from hospital beds because of the lack of resources BUT CAN AFFORD A $600 MILLION DOLLAR PARKING GARAGE FOR A PRIVATE SPA.
His priorities do not include ordinary
#Ontarians
!
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@fordnation
@SteveClarkPC
You've lost the confidence of the people. There is NO TRUST that you are governing with integrity. You serve the people of
#ontario
not
#elite
developer buddies!
#ResignDougFord
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It is not just a slap in the face to Education partners to be informed LAST, but it reduces planning time for staff & can reduce confidence in the public education system because answers & information can't be provided when it is already expected to be there by the public.
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A number of
@HaltonDSB
high school students work in essential retail (grocery, pharmacy, fast food) Thank you for helping to keep the country fed and supplied.
#heros
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@RichardCityNews
3 offers in one day in October for a parcel of protected land...
just prior to the provincial announcement that released the land for urban expansion
...something stinks
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@OntarioPCParty
I may not have a doctor, or may have to wait for hours at a local ER, if its open AT ALL. My children may also have insufficient learning resources in the classroom. BUT THIS GOV's priority is paper bag availability at the LCBO. Bizarre!
#April1WasLASTWeek
!
#onpoli
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Should Minister
@Sflecce
or
@RegionofHalton
release direction/orders for reinstating temporary universal masking in schools prior to the Board meeting, I would applaud this action and withdraw my motion.
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CBC
@metromorning
interview about the realities of 24.85:1 ratio and moving towards 28:1 secondary ratio at the
@HaltonDSB
#onted
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#HDSB
is one of 72 school boards/authorities across
#Ontario
that are publicly funded. If all of the boards are in a similar state, Minister
@Sflecce
is intentionally & purposefully underfunding
#OntEd
...one of the best education systems in the world!
#PushingToPrivatize
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Parents require rapid testing kits-not just businesses. I am receiving complaints about growing testing wait times. Many days waiting-which means many days students away from school and many days parents unable to work. Problem was highlighted last year-Now repeating!
#OntEd
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@fordnation
It sure does:
Dead seniors in LTC
Crumbling schools
Angry women-dominated unions
Closed ERs
Cut rent control
Backroom deals with rich developers
Broken renewable energy contracts
Broken Autism program
Etc, etc, etc
#youAreTerrible
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#Ontario
#ResignDougFord
#selfOwn
#onpoli
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Don't blame the boards for upcoming
#onted
cuts. This is completely the fault of the
@fordnation
gov. Call your MPP and tell them public education is our future and must be funded and resourced appropriately!
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@ColinDMello
Why does this
#Ontario
government have such a soft spot for drinkers: corner store beer, happy hours started, downgraded drunk driving charges...
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@ColinDMello
I think every single PC MPP should be choking on the word "integrity" as it tries pass their lips.
Not one has shown ANY integrity with regard to the Greenbelt, MZO's and now Ontario Place. No trust that the 413 will be scandal free either.
#SHAME
#onpoli
#ResignDougFord
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$225 million for what? We can already get access to beer and wine at LCBOs, Beer Stores and most grocery stores...I pity the poor late night corner store employee having to deal with drunks kicked out of bars looking for booze to keep partying.
BREAKING: The Ford government is spending $225 million to speed up the implementation of beer and wine in corner stores.
After Sept 5, all convenience stores province-wide will be able to sell beer and wine.
After Oct 31, all grocery stores will be able to opt-in.
#ONpoli
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@ColinDMello
This is what you get when there is no platform and people vote blindly or not at all.
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@robertbenzie
@JacquesGallant
@TorontoStar
You were NOT elected to put your partisan donors and friends into plum positions. You were elected to govern on behalf and for the best interests of all
#Ontarians
#ItsAllAboutTheBackRoom
with
@fordnation
#onpoli
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I have also requested a special board meeting to discuss the motion, however, a majority of trustees must agree to grant it. Otherwise, our next Regular Board Meeting is on April 20.
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I care about you and I also care for the children under 12 who are ineligible for the vaccine and those people who have medically valid reasons for not being able to get the vaccine who are put at risk.
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The silence of private school stats conveys a false impression that publicly funded schools get the virus and private schools don't; The impression that public systems are riddled with disease & private schools are above it.
#onted
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@ColinDMello
Records need to be compelled.
This is a provincial security issue as well as a corruption and racketeering issue.
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Thank you to all my supporters and volunteers. What an incredible campaign and learning experience! Congratulations to
@GaryCarrHalton
on his re-election to Regional Chair.
20k+ votes my first time out...no worries. You haven't heard the last of me! :)
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Why do this??
Coronor's Inquests slow/stop work on construction sites.
In
@fordnation
's eyes, the safety of workers ( including now teenagers) is not worth the time/money lost to developer friends.
Preventable deaths will happen without this regulation!
#shameful
#onpoli
Ontario Attorney General Doug Downey says the province intends to do away with mandatory coroner’s inquests for workers who died on constructions sites.
Click on the photo below to read more.
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@CityCynthia
There has been no directive sent to school boards to adjust staffing to a new objective of moving form 22:1 to 25:1. School boards are moving forward with the staffing objective of moving from 22:1 to 28:1 in absence of new directive. Some will be staffing over 25:1 for Sep.
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@robertbenzie
@ONgov
@LCBO
@TorontoStar
I feel for recovering alcoholics and those who have been adversely affected by it as they will have to go to an LCBO to get public health tools.
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I care about you and I also care about the hospital spaces and ICU spots that you may end up using that could be used for car crash victims, heart attacks, strokes, other diseases, etc.
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@ColinDMello
Sorry, if my child is struggling to breathe, I'm not going to the family doc, I'm going to the ER. Pediatric ICUs aren't overflowing because of ear infections, pink-eye & UTIs. There are life-threatening resp viruses circulating in the community & hospitals are under-resourced!
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A nurse in a London hospital said that they have had Toronto patients in their ICU.
Halton is at 98% ICU capacity-that is 1-2 beds for the region.
Southwestern: 100%
York: 122%!
I don't think the public sees the crisis right in front of us.
#ontpoli
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#MiltonOn
, it's your day to tell the Doug Ford what you think about his broken promises (Quarries,
#Greenbelt
), his underfunding of
#OntEd
, HC (waitimes closing ERs), LTC,
#Spagate
, & his default move to trample rights with the Notwithstanding clause. Vote
@GalenNHarris
!
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@ColinDMello
Fudging their own housing definition because they are miserably failing at meeting their OWN targets.
#GaslightIsAlwaysOn
with
@fordnation
#garbageGovernance
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Still not answering the question about what is being done over the next 2 weeks in schools...
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I care about you and I care about the essential life-saving, life-extending and pain-limiting surgeries that are put on hold through restrictions to deal with COVID hospitalizations and to mitigate the risk of it spreading.
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I expect the same response from
#OntEd
boards.
Be ready.
Moments ago, Alberta School Boards voted overwhelmingly to oppose a voucher system for Alberta students. This sends a strong & clear message to Pmr
@ABDanielleSmith
that we will not stand for the undermining of public education. It is an attack on students.
#abed
#abpoli
#ableg
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Changes to Ontario's world-class education system should be based on solid, robust evidence. The Ministry is purposely/willfully ignoring the opportunity to study this before implementation.
Why?
#Onted
#onpoli
Education groups are concerned about the Ontario government’s move to look into making online learning a permanent option for students even after the pandemic is over, saying there are many unanswered questions as to how the plan will be implemented.
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My kids (12, 15 and 17) are
#doublevaxxed
and looking forward to in-person learning (and hopefully teams/clubs) in September. How about yours?
#OntEd
#HDSB
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If your child (g 1-12) comes home and says someone in their class wasn't wearing a mask, please don't call your Trustee/Principal/Teacher about it. The child probably has a formal exemption. It is in the staff's best interest to have all students that can wear masks to wear masks
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I care about you and I care about the health care workers who are pushed beyond their limits and fearing for the safety of their loved ones.
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By you not getting a vaccination, you are much much more likely to be symptomatic when you get COVID which makes you a bigger spreader through coughing, etc., and you are vastly more likely to need to be hospitalized if you get sick.
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I have no idea what the education-related announcement is today. The teleconference with the School Board Chairs has been moved to after the teleconference to 4:00 pm as opposed to the usual 2pm slot. I will find out along with the rest of ON.
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FACT:
The OFFICIAL communication from the Ministry of Education about the 17th did not happen until WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON!
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I care about you and I also care about the people you interact with whose immune system may not have responded adequately enough to the vaccine (Immuno-suppressed and/or elderly).
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@ColinDMello
When Ford changed Ontario's slogan from "YOURS to discover!" to "Open for Business", what he really meant was "FIRESALE!!!"
Enraging!
#onpoli
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