Shelley Carroll
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Toronto’s Budget Chief & City Councillor for #DonValleyNorth . Mayor’s Economic Development & Culture Champion. Building a Toronto for our kids’ future.
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I just heard a conservative strategist say, “Let’s face it, affordable childcare only helps 3% of the population.” Tell that to every Cdn grandparent who constantly picks up resto tabs, holiday costs, kids clothing costs, groceries, all cuz their kids pay $1600/mo for daycare.
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Are you serious, right now, Caroline Mulroney? You just created thousands of latch-key kids with another tragic Friday Afternoon Cut announcement. Should their moms have to quit their jobs, I guess you will direct them to the SallyAnn for a Christmas Box.
#onpoli
#FordCuts
"There are still too many folks out there who can't afford to buy presents for their children this holiday season. That's why the work of charitable groups like the
@salvationarmy
and so many others, in communities across Ontario, is so important." -
@FordNation
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I know this is obscure, but if you read The Outsiders in junior high school, You just couldn’t believe how well they nailed the casting when the movie finally arrived. Let’s just say every FFCoppola movie nails it’s casting.
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I’m confused. This same
@erinotoole
that says
@JustinTrudeau
is endangering our health by calling an election, forced a confidence vote in an attempt to force an October 2020 Election as the second wave ramped up with no vaccine.
#cdnpoli
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Every parent who has ever relied on an education worker (ie all of us) knows that a $200 cheque can’t change your life but a properly compensated and productive education worker can change your child’s life forever.
#onpoli
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What is this man talking about. The last year I chaired the City of Toronto Budget, there were 5,415 Toronto employees on the Sunshine list. After 4 years of Doug Ford sitting on the Budget Committee, that number more than doubled to 11,282.
#onpoli
#TOpoli
#VoteLiberal
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I had a little cry this morning. There are 12 pages of Death/Memorial notices in the
@TorontoStar
this morning. It shouldn’t be this way. We must overhaul Long Term Care delivery, both public & private.
#LongTermCare
#COVID19Ontario
@StevenDelDuca
@AndreaHorwath
@fordnation
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I heard a great thing about
#childcare
plans today. “If you were trying to build a great healthcare system, would you build great hospitals or would you give a bunch of cash to the sick people?” Think about, then look at the platforms.
#cdnpoli
#Elxn44
#TOpoli
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Dear
@LisaThompsonMPP
, our public service in Toronto are not politicians. Under their code of conduct, they can’t tweet you back that you are wrong & their numbers are FACTS. Your tweet was tantamount to calling our City Manager a liar.
#Apologize
#ChildCareCuts
#onpoli
#TOpoli
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I’ve just seen a pedestrian hit by a car at Victoria Park & Finch. I’ve pulled onto Ernest Ave to park my car & stop shaking. It’s dark, raining & cars are speeding past me on this local road. Drivers! It’s up to us! We’ve got to change this!
#DonValleyNorth
#VisionZero
#Toronto
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Just to be clear: renters pay property taxes, too. And at a higher rate, I might add.
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Hey, if the Province is going to keep on incentivizing alcohol consumption (now it’s Happy Hours) maybe we should use our City of Toronto Act power to tax alcohol sales to fund the TTC operating budget.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s first budget has fewer cuts than expected, raises spending overall and won’t balance the books for five years
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And you can try, Pierre, to disguise your big ‘freedom’ finish in your speech that was clearly for the Convoys by saying it’s a quote from Deifenbaker, but we saw what you did there.
#Conservatives
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Could we pause all of the politicians for a moment and have Ulli Watkiss, Canada’s largest City’s clerk who presides over Municipal Election services tell us if this is even possible this long after opening the call for candidates on a legally adopted set of boundaries.
#TOpoli
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Kudos to
@brianstelter
for covering the Branson flight in a questioning way. Billionaire space travel in an age of extreme inequality on the ground. “We’re seeing a Gilded Age but it is not being scrutinized and covered in media as a Gilded Age.”
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I am a Councillor in a Santuary City. My Mayor and my colleagues reaffirmed our policy in the face of Trump's ban. You are ridiculous.
One law for all is a Canadian value. "Sanctuary cities" will be ineligible for transit funding if I am PM.
#cpcldr
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So in order to make up for the $3 billion loss of revenue from carbon pricing cancellation, they’ll cancel expansion of higher learning in Ontario. The Climate will continue to worsen but fewer people will be learned enough to connect the dots. 🤦🏻♀️
#onpoli
#TOpoli
Breaking: three major university campus expansions are being cancelled by the Ford government.
#ONpoli
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How does a veteran politician who has run about 10 campaigns still not know that you can’t campaign on school property when kids are around. How is that even possible?
#onpoli
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While I’m in committee, my baby granddaughter just graduated grade 8 and is headed for high school. I feel about 109 years old.
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Struggling to understand. A) Toronto is not re-opening. Province just took us from Phase 3 back to ‘modified’ Phase 2. B)I was not informed at my last commission mtg that TTC no longer had a goal of social distancing when I asked if laid off workers could be returned.
#TTC
@biaginger
@JayeRobinson
Hi Victoria. As the city re-opens, social distancing will no longer be possible on our vehicles. As such, if you feel that a vehicle you are on is overcrowded, I would suggest getting off and boarding the next one. Apologies for the inconvenience. ^FR🧭
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Happy to have friends and my team with me as I register to run for re-election in the new Ward 31!
#TOpoli
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If the Premier has that kind of money to spend, why doesn’t he just buy back the 407, lower its rates and maximize its drivership? Surely it would be easier than threatening green belt lands and fighting environmental lawsuits forever??
This new $10-billion 400-series freeway will upend 55 km of prime farmland & conservation land across the Toronto region. This superhighway is intended to unleash another generation of sprawl. Its proponents are land speculators. Our GreenBelt is at risk.
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I’m facepalming as conservatives like Doug Ford and Erin O’Toole suddenly rage that manufacturing & jobs have been pushed to China & all over the globe when ‘our people here at home need these opportunities’. What were these outsourcing super fans thinking for the past 20 years?
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So
@CityCynthia
asked me to join her panel for coverage of Premier Ford’s cabinet unveiling & swearing in tomorrow. Now looking at the TV guide & wondering what the heck I’ve gotten myself into!
#TOpoli
#onpoli
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As I resign my Council seat to devote full time to my provincial campaign in
#DonValleyNorth
, I thank the Toronto Public Service, the
@Ward33Team
, the 3 Mayors & so many Councillors that I served alongside & most of all, Ward 33 constituents for the honour of serving!
#TOpoli
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By now it should be clear this was never a simple case of revenge. This is reminiscent of the famous Snobelen Strategy: You’ve got to create a crisis, make it look broken, then you can extract whatever you want from it. In this case, it’s Toronto.
#TOpoli
#Bill5
#NotWithStanding
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It is now ten years since a councillor that voted to stop
#TransitCity
dead, now informs us that if you delay transit improvements thirty years, the cost actually escalates. Imagine that.
#TTC
#TOpoli
#TOcouncil
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In the face of a $1.8 billion shortfall, we have found over $600 million in savings and proposed a balanced budget that protects frontline services while investing in transit, housing, and community safety.
#BudgetTO
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Your constituents will never forget that you gave the finger to our judiciary and trampled people’s rights. The City IS building housing, transit, infrastructure RIGHT NOW while your government does nothing but distract and pose with grins on your faces.
#Bill31
#TOpoli
#onpoli
The
#ForThePeople
Government is working overnight on second Reading debate of the Efficient Local Government Act, Bill 31. By passing this bill, it would help Toronto City Council work more efficiently so we can build more housing, public transit and infrastructure.
#onpoli
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For months I’ve been Covid swabbed weekly to have essential caregiver status in my Dad’s LTC. I’ve seen this line rise, fall, rise and fall again. This is the best Friday night yet. Keep the faith. We’re getting there.
@JohnTory
#GetVaccinated
#COVID19Ontario
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Do Not Spend One Thin Dime of My Provincial Income Tax on Your War On Environmentalism. : Ford plans taxpayer-funded TV ad blitz opposing Trudeau’s ‘carbon tax’ via
@torontostar
#onpoli
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Next up for the morning: Listening Tour in Brian Village. Here’s an idea: upgrade Pleasantview Park, but save the classic 60s North York rocket ship and give it a new coat of paint! What do you think?
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We're a society.
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I defy anyone to read this list, life descriptors and all, and still go out partying in a park without distancing. Go ahead. Enlarge it and really start reading.
#SocialDistanceSaveLives
#BackOffInThePark
#trinitybellwoodspark
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City Council has voted in favour of banning gas-powered leaf blowers across Toronto. Thanks to the many community groups who helped push for this. Here's what will happen next: 🧵1/4
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Yes,
@brianstelter
! For Trump equating COVID Deaths with Traffic fatalities is ridiculous. If Traffic fatalities were doubling & serious injuries tripling daily, we would be acting on it. For the sake of all other nations, please continue Pandemic Response.
#COVID
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Things to remember when we are paying our garbage bin fees: Canada’s top paid CEO in 2020 was GFL CEO, Patrick Dovigi. He earned $37,310,000 last year. Toronto contracts out garbage pick up west of Yonge St and Patrick’s employees empty those bins.
#TOpoli
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“On the night Ford was elected he promised to govern for all the people...Right now, those statements seem about as worthless as Toronto’s 47-ward maps for the upcoming election.” :Ford’s troublesome view of what listening means via
@torontostar
#TOpoli
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Dear John, Never make a governance change that wouldn’t serve the community in any scenario. Like say, what if the Strong Mayor turned out to have a Crack Problem and dubious friends. Their damage, your fault, Forever.
#TOpoli
Scoop:
#Toronto
Mayor
@JohnTory
eager to take up
@fordnation
offer of ‘strong mayor’ powers, says would make decision-making more effective.
@gordperks
says stronger mayor, weaker council is terrible idea.
#topoli
#onpoli
via
@torontostar
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I just saw an awkward, post-meeting press conference with our Mayor
@JohnTory
and our Premier, who continues to use the twitter handle
@fordnation
, 🤦🏻♀️. Wow. What stone-faced expressions and subdued tones. Get a body language expert in here, STAT.
#TOpoli
#onpoli
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Torontonians must guard Ontario Place against outdated, cookie-cutter ideas via
@torontostar
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Today’s reminder:
TTC workers are essential and have worked tirelessly throughout the pandemic to transport other frontline workers who cannot afford to stay home.
When will our TTC workers be vaccinated?
@TTCHelps
@TTCStuart
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Want to stop Ford?
Only Shelley can stop Ford.
Thanks
@TOAdamVaughan
for the strong words to support!
On Thursday, vote Shelley Carroll and keep
#DonValleyNorth
from going Ford.
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Oh
@Janet_Davis
, in your inimitable style you finished your last day at work sending a heartfelt thank you to Toronto’s Public Service. But out of our 15 years working together, this is the moment I’ll never forget: Yo,
@Drake
, congratulate a sister on her retirement!
#TOpoli
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Most loving, frustrating, hilarious, annoying, brilliant, dogged, delightful, scary mama bear ever. Thanks for everything
@PamMcConnell28
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People started lining up all around
#FairviewMall
at 4:15 this morning to get one
#RapidAntigenTests
kit each. Same yesterday and it will be the same tomorrow. Honestly,
@fordnation
, why don’t you just mail one to every Ontario household and be done with it?
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So maybe take down that pinned tweet about your 'immigrant screening' idea for a day or 2 now that you're concerned about victims of hate?
Heartbreaking news out of Quebec City tonight. My thoughts and prayers are with the victims.
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My team surprised me with the most wonderful tiramisu cake from Tastee Patisserie on Don Mills as an early birthday present! Lucky me 🎂
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Headed over to the Long Term Care home before work today with a little homemade sweetness for my Dad. Jack Baskerville, or Captain Kangaroo as he was known to friends and colleagues, turned 94 today.
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He may be younger than me, but
@JoshMatlow
is the granddaddy of evidence-based transit planning. Cheers to my favourite paddle buddy!
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Having worked together for 12 years on housing and protecting city services, I strongly believe that
@anabailaoTO
is the leader Toronto needs now.
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Scarborough residents are now shouting to Coyncillor McKelvie and Mayor Tory: “Tax us and build the LRTs we want. Bring back the $50 per car, bring back a transit levy and Tax Free Municipal Bonds.
#nothappycampers
out here at
#TransitFantasyCamp
#onpoli
#TOpoli
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I’ve heard from countless
#TTC
riders concerned about crowding and safety on our system. With back to school and return to work around the corner, it’s time to do more.
That’s why I will be moving to restore full service at the next TTC Board Meeting to ensure a safer ride.
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Daily reminder, another day passed without a vaccine solution for TTC workers.
How about this? Some are already eligible by age & may already have their shot. Let’s make ALL transit workers eligible with their employee badge and a health card. Any pharmacy, right now.
#TTC
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Yeah, cuz who wants an Order of Canada expert Board Chair, a vaunted University President and the leader of one of the top Pension Funds in the country representing your government on the Waterfront? 🤦🏼♀️
#o
polo
#TOpoli
#Ford
gov't fires three Waterfront
#Toronto
board members after
#Google
deal. Story from
#RSJalum
@dmrider
via
@TorontoStar
@RyeJournAlumni
#Onpoli
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Urgent!! If the packaging says flushable, IGNORE! : Stop flushing wipes down the toilet: city official
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‘This really makes no sense’: Doug Ford’s provincial government moves to scrap ranked ballots for municipalities including Toronto via
@torontostar
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Thank you to the residents of
#DonValleyNorth
for trusting me to continue as your Councillor for another term. Nothing gives me more pleasure than being your representative at City Hall and delivering results for all of you.
Looking forward to continuing to work hard together 💖
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I am honoured to serve as Toronto's Budget Chief and Economic Development & Culture Champion. This is a pivotal moment for our city, and I look forward to working with
@MayorOliviaChow
and Council to build a budget that delivers for Torontonians.
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Are you now rewriting your transit plan again
@fordnation
!?! Your deal with Toronto builds a Scarborough extension to Sheppard but your Staff tell us the Sheppard Extension from Don Mills Stn is 2041 at the earliest and currently UNFUNDED. This is not a game!
@JohnTory
#TOpoli
It’s happening! The single largest investment in new subway builds and extensions in Canadian history.
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Why in heavens name would the Province make the Conservaton authorities ineligible to defend ravines in Municipal Planning decisions at LPAT? Defending ravines and source water lands from development is kind of WHY THEY EXIST under legislation.
@fordnation
@vincentkempp
Proposed amendments to the Conservation Authorities Act would significantly reduce our role in permitting, planning, and enforcement. Please read TRCA’s preliminary response to the proposed Conservation Authorities Act and Planning Act amendments:
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K, you’ll remember we said in 2007, the right to collect a 1 cent muni sales tax was the efficient answer as in other world class muni economic regions. Now we’re headed for a uniquely long downturn & we’ll need a tool where only those with spending power left are impacted.
Covid 19 is acting as an accelerant for existing trends everywhere. No surprise that it’s revealing Toronto’s mounting dysfunction. It’s been a long time coming. You can’t have a region of 6+ million people with infrastructure built for 2.
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@warrenyuill1
@fiendishbanjo
@anthonyfurey
We are a funny bunch in Toronto. When potentially live hydro wires are entangled in storm debris, & they warn us not to go near it, we don’t conspiracy theorize that it’s all a ploy to earn overtime. We make tea and hot chocolate for the Hydro Safety workers when they arrive.
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Only very seldom, is it okay for politicians to retweet a msge with a swear word in it. Today's the day
@NekoCase
Quit asking Adele about her "body issues" for fucks sake. Her SKILLS. SKILLS.
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Today, an Eglinton Crosstown LRT passed by me at Victoria Park on a test drive. I whooped and then cried because it has meant so much in my City Hall time. My sister, on my speaker phone, understood completely.
@MetrolinxSpox
@Kathleen_Wynne
@ChefWendyB
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In the
@TorontoStar
this weekend I challenge the mayor to ride the Dufferin Sufferin’ bus for a week. Or any TTC board member who can change policy.
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Damn,
@mattgallowaycbc
You made me went and played ‘Fish Head’ from The Vinyl Cafe. Now I’m sitting here crying and thinking how much easier this Lockdown would have been if Stuart McLean told me a new story every week.
#StayHome
#staysafe
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From the nurses: "It is clear that this government is targeting public-sector workers who are female for wage suppression. It has exempted those in male-dominated professions, such as firefighters and police, from the effect of the bill."
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Many thanks to my colleagues.
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Check
@mattgallowaycbc
feed. He's asked "Where are you watching
#TheHip
? Answering the question: Why Public Broadcasting?
@JustinTrudeau
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I have consistently advocated for
#TTC
to do more for rider and worker safety, including increased service & vaccine priority for frontline workers. I cannot support this move from ATU’s current leadership.
ATU members, now is your time to speak up.
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My sincerest congratulations to
@OliviaChow
on being elected as Toronto’s new mayor, and the first woman to lead amalgamated Toronto! 🧵1/5
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Don’t anybody tell him about Baby Point today. It will damn near kill him.
#TOnames
.
I was today years old when I found out Runnymede subway station is officially pronounced “Runameed”
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I’m not buying the valuation of $3.9 billion including real estate & air rights over TO subway stns.
#Bill31
is distracting us all from THIS!: Taking over TTC subway would be ‘quite straightforward,’ says Metrolinx CEO via
@torontostar
#TOpoli
#onpoli
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Living with a pandemic is hard to do when you are also living with Autism. But today was a good day. My daughter Martha got to go for dim sum on her birthday, her favourite treat, and it felt like they opened just for us.
@CBCHereandNow
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Another day has passed and still no announcement of a transit worker vaccination clinic. Time to tweet my daily reminder......
Today’s reminder:
TTC workers are essential and have worked tirelessly throughout the pandemic to transport other frontline workers who cannot afford to stay home.
When will our TTC workers be vaccinated?
@TTCHelps
@TTCStuart
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I will not support ANY motion to combine, reduce, eliminate, disempower or diddle with ANY Toronto Accountability Office.
#TOpoli
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As we pray for Ukraine, add on a prayer of safety for the brave Russians speaking out against Putin’s War.
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Has this guy never travelled to York U? Even if he drove, how did he miss the giant subway station open less than 2 years? Hells Bells, even Line 4 Sheppard Subway is still less than two decades old. So what decades is he talking about?
#DonValleyNorth
#TOpoli
#onpoli
#TTC
Transportation Minister Jeff Yurek is now on Metro Morning. Responding to the first question, he repeats the false claim that Toronto hasn't built subways in decades.
The city's last subway expansion project opened in late 2017.
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Last night, a resident told me they have no hope of living in the neighbourhood they grew up in. I've heard my grandkids say the same thing. As Councillor, it's my job to find solutions so families can grow and age in place. Garden Suites are part of the solution
#TOpoli
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@GraphicMatt
I just want to remind people that all 4 of my budget years were balanced as of the launch in December, didn’t have MLTT and provincial upload $s but still built up a property tax reserve of $364million, to buffer us through the Global Financial Crisis. But I’m not bitter. 😏😏😏
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Hey
@TSN1050Radio
, due to scheduling beyond our control, I listened to that
@Raptors
historic 4th quarter in the car with my 2 grandsons. Last 3 minutes we parked & listened. I’ll never forget it. Thanks for the great commentary & my new best memory!
#WeTheNorth
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So proud to join colleagues
@kristynwongtam
and
@cynthiaToronto
at NP Square right now for the United Against Anti-Asian Racism rally
#StopAsianHate
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On my way up the DVP, which was quite slow, I got cut off by a couple of those super-noisy, souped up motorcycles, darting and weaving dangerously between cars. So happy to get to DVP and Eglinton and find a police officer had pulled them over and was issuing a ticket.
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Currently, Doug is sitting in a home in Sarnia, promising everything but no costed platform. He takes shots at the costing of the Liberal platform, shots at the errors in the NDP platform but he still has no costed platform.
#eightmoresleepstogo
#onelxn
#onpoli
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Hate has no place in our city or in our schools. Our kids need to feel safe expressing themselves in the classroom and the hallway. I stand firmly with the students, parents, and educators countering today's protests. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
#NoSpaceForHate
#TransRightsAreHumanRights
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