Christine Sinclair is the world leader in international goals. 187. No man even comes close. Messi is just at 76. Ronaldo is at 109. She’s the greatest of all time and no one can come close. 22 years of dominance and she’s never faltered. She’s criminally underappreciated
#canwnt
The Red Cross wasn’t just going to vaccinate. They were going to contact trace and provided much needed support to hospitals. Doug Ford‘s decision will kill people. He has to go.
#BREAKING
:
@fordnation
office:
“While we appreciate the Prime Minister’s offer, unless it is matched with an increase in supply, we do not need the Red Cross at this time for the administration of vaccines in Ontario. We do not have a capacity issue, we have a supply issue.”
I’m just so sad for all the people in Ontario who have followed all the rules, went out early and got vaccinated, made personal sacrifices, done everything that’s been asked of them and are being let down by Doug Ford. Again. Open boosters now. Keep us safe, don’t punish us.
If you voted for Ford and are even thinking of complaining today you need to turn off your phone and go sit and think about what you did because all of us who knew Doug were warning Ontarians in 2018 not to vote for this man because he isn’t a leader, and can’t be depended on.
Even after a 12 hour night shift at the hospital last night, my wife still has the energy to shovel the driveway. God bless her and all our frontliners. Time to make her some breakfast. 🙏🏽
I don’t want to hear that abortion rights in Canada are safe when the premier of Ontario condones this rhetoric from his parliamentary assistant to education. Sam Oosterhoff is a threat to the rights of women everywhere, and so is Doug Ford
#onpoli
DID THIS VACCINATED MAN WHO IS ISOLATING IN HIS MOMS HOUSE FOR 2 WEEKS SAY HE’S ON THE FRONT LINES??? THE FRONT LINES????? IS DOUG FORD ON CRACK TOO?
#onpoli
Men: I am S C R E A M I N G from the rooftops that not all women are mothers and making motherhood the centre of your focus on IWD just emphasizes that you view women’s purpose in this earth as reproduction and nothing else
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I have to say, all of the people saying that Elliott should be premier is exactly why Ford gets away with half the stuff he does. She’s the minister of health and deputy premier. She’s complicit in all of this, and you all want to reward her? Give your heads a shake please.
I’ll never forgive the people who voted for Ford. So much pain and suffering could’ve been prevented if this province was politically literate. This oaf promised that he could lower hydro prices and give you college dive bar priced beer and people fell for it.
In other news I’m now both fully vaxxed and annoyed that I had to listen to months of “Trudeau vaccine failure we won’t be vaccinated until 2030” and “one dose summer” because here I am vaxxed on the first day of summer. Thanks to Anita Anand and not Michelle Rempel or Don Davies
A 13 year old girl is dead and Conservatives are showing no remorse but when they had to pay a little bit more on their electricity bills the PCs were calling to have Kathleen Wynne sent to jail and were distributing signs that alluded to killing her. They value money over lives.
Being responsible and spending Christmas alone bc my extended family feels that it’s okay to gather when none of them are boosted yet and one child only has a single dose. None of them have been self-isolating in preparation either. To the responsible people alone — I see you🤍
My local grocery store has full shelves. But my local hospital has an empty urgent care centre, my local schools have empty classes, and my local LTC has skeleton shifts all due to employees getting COVID. That worries me a lot more. Yet Conservatives don’t seem to care?
#cdpoli
Also hard to deny it’s anything but racism that’s behind the media demanding a comment from Singh on his brother-in-law’s donation to the convoy but ignoring Ford’s daughters and sister’s years of association with anti-vax and far-right movements. Legit decades in Kathy’s case.
So.. big news day huh? Lots of people have reached out with kind words both publicly and privately and I’m very flattered. I wasn’t expecting or looking for attention, so it’s a bit overwhelming. But I need to clear some other things up. So here’s an
#onpoli
thread:
Jake Stewart just said “think of Chrétien, Harper, Mulroney… they would’ve reached out to those dissenting voices and broken bread.”
Has he met any of those men? Like.. any of them? If we sent Chrétien out to deal with the hot tub men they’d have been gone weeks ago.
#cdnpoli
Just a reminder: if you and your family are breaking the pandemic rules and recommendations you can just ✨not post about it✨ instead of making the rest of us feel like shit because we’re not travelling to see our loved ones or are having big holiday parties
Doug Ford passing a law that permits construction noise in Toronto from 6am to 10pm seven days a week as covid legislation is my villain origin story
#onpoli
PSA to Marieke Walsh: if people are promoting that they have “pure blood” and are affiliated with far-right movements they’re not vaccine hesitant. They’re espousing white nationalist rhetoric.
#cdnpoli
I know everyone has a lot on their mind right now but every single person in Ontario should take a hard look at Texas right now because that is exactly what Sam Oosterhoff wants here. He said himself he won’t rest until women’s rights are repealed. Doug Ford condones that
#onpoli
.
@fordnation
I have a working blackberry curve 9360 available for purchase, pls dm for details. Asking $125 OBO. Keyboard makes the clickity clack sound you like.
If you’re mad about Doug Ford, there’s an election in 5 months. Get out there and go knock doors. Get on the phones. Get involved with your local riding association. Have a say in who your candidate will be. I’ll be doing it every day, like always. Democracy is hard work.
#onpoli
Donna Skelly just said that every single teacher in Ontario has been provided with N95s and every school in Ontario has HEPA air purifiers. She can lie all she wants, education staff have been telling us the truth. They need the PPE Lecce promised in spring 2020
#onpoli
#onted
@greenbling333
@donnaimamTX
@BernieSanders
Black women led the organizing movement in GA. It’s such a slap in the face to say that a white man who isn’t even a Georgian singlehandedly flipped the senate.
@DianeMariePosts
I think that considering then unimportant when there are 5.1 million Indigenous voters vs New Hampshire’s 1.1 million speaks volumes about the US. Check out these maps of tribes in Arizona and districts that went blue. It’s no coincidence.
Sorry but if you’re in the press gallery and you’re comparing a protest full of people displaying Nazi symbols to a BLM march give your head a shake. I can’t believe people are asking the PM why he won’t meet to a group that has self-identified white supremacists in it.
#cdnpoli
First, Ford’s deputy chief of staff and others are claiming that it’s sexist to reveal that Ivana Yelich (Ford’s director of media relations) is dating Brian Lilley (Toronto Sun columnist). Feminism is not hiding a conflict of interest, or letting women get away with it.
A tip from your local federalism nerd: the War Measures Act no longer exists. It was replaced by the Emergencies Act, which means a declaration of an emergency by the Cabinet must be reviewed by Parliament and any temporary laws made under the act are subject to the Charter.
I really wish we were living in Pierre Trudeau’s dream bilingual Canada because this debate is so good and if more anglos didn’t give up on French the minute they finished grade 9 they could be watching what may very well be the best debate of the election.
#elxn44
Enough is enough. Ivana is dating Brian Lilley. Why the hell do we continue to pretend that she’s able to perform her duties as director of media relations to the level of professionalism that Ontarians deserve? She has a clear conflict of interest.
#onpoli
JUST IN: Premier Ford's office on why he took a clearly partisan question from an apparent former Conservative candidate at today's newser while COVID-19 cases surge.
I don’t think I can fully explain how angry I am that Doug Ford is just okay letting factory workers die. It’s like he’s he thinks working is a choice for them. My mom started working in a factory at 13 to help her family pay bills. No one works in a factory as a hobby
#onpoli
If I see one more person blame CERB for a business struggling when CERB ended in December I’ll SCREAM. Why doesn’t the media correct them when they say this in interviews jfc. Maybe pay your staff a living wage and people will want to work there.
#elxn44
While Ontarians were lining up in droves to secure rapid tests, Ford was lining up for gas to drive to Muskoka. When he gets caught he returns to get his booster even though Etobicoke has a shortage of appointments and he was eligible 7 weeks ago. What abysmal leadership.
#onpoli
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What the Ford government has done to education is disgusting. Lecce and Oosterhoff are the two least qualified people to be responsible for this file. Lecce and Ford condoning Oosterhoff’s anti-women, anti-Semitic affiliations says everything about them
Thank you
@AnitaOakville
for thinking that my mom’s life was worth $8.18. If Don Davies had it his way we’d still be haggling for a cheaper price and my high risk parent would be unvaccinated.
#cdnpoli
Documents disclosed today reveal Canada paid vastly more for AZ vaccine than other countries. Per dose: European Union: $2.67; UK: $3.75; US: $5.00; South Africa: $6.47; Canada: $8.18. No wonder Trudeau govt. wants to hide the contracts.
I don’t want anyone to lose sight of what’s important though. Doug Ford is destroying Ontario. He’s passing bills to maximize his authority and minimize checks and balances. Through his abuse of MZOs to benefit his donors he’s destroying our environment and heritage buildings
THREAD: The Ford government handed down six ministerial zoning orders (MZOs) last night. I did some quick analysis today, and I found half override environmental concerns.
All three benefit the same developer: Flato. Their founder is a Ford donor
#onpoli
Doug Ford and his team abused the process at the press conference in Brampton yesterday. They took blatantly partisan questions from a former PC candidate (who’s pro conversion therapy) while journos like
@LaurenPelley
were never called on
Meanwhile, I spent an hour and a half on the phone, trying to ask the Premier for his response to findings from Ontario's
#COVID19
science table which suggest the variants circulating in this province pose a much higher risk of serious illness and death.
I didn't get called on.
The $1 billion cuts to education next year, firing teachers, cuts to OSAP, attacking student unions, cancelling university funding, the cuts to autism funding... it just goes on and on. Please stay informed about this. I can’t emphasize enough how dangerous Ford is to education.
Doug Ford having the audacity to demand $23 billion from the federal government when his government spent $30 million on his fucking anti carbon tax law suit and stickers for gas stations makes my blood boil. He opposed federal taxes but now he wants $23B?
Cody Welton’s attacks on
@goldsbie
and others are appalling. 2 hours before they were tweeting about how much they respect journalists (false, I remember their attacks on
@bruce_arthur
and others). His behaviour is unacceptable and needs to be addressed.
Let this be a lesson to everyone: I fear no one, especially no man. No one is going to intimate me, especially when it comes to doing what is right. Scare tactics and bullying roll right off my back. Women in politics deal with it all the time. No staffer or politician scares me.
If you led a campaign to “take back Canada” and voted against a motion to condemn Islamophobia maybe you shouldn’t be given to opportunity to speak at this vigil idk
So can someone from the Ford government explain to me why Black and racialized people were removed from phase 2 of the vaccine rollout within the last hour? Here’s a screenshot from the archived site
#onpoli
Archive:
Current:
The fact that people have been pointing out for weeks the similarities between O’Toole’s slogan and 14 words and he hasn’t addressed it combined with his history of using inflammatory language and then refusing to explain what it means (see: take back Canada) is a red flag, sorry
Doug Ford does not care about Ontarians. He cares about himself, and his supporters. That’s why he rewards staffers, friends, and prominent Conservatives with appointments but not Ontarians with paid sick days. He ran a campaign on lies and not disclosing a platform.
What made me finally call out Ivana for hiding her long term relationship with Brian is the condescending, gaslighting email she sent to a WOC journo yesterday. Ford took softball questions from a former PC candidate and no one disclosed the relationship (see a theme?)
JUST IN: Premier Ford's office on why he took a clearly partisan question from an apparent former Conservative candidate at today's newser while COVID-19 cases surge.
Thank you to my local
@ShopprsDrugMart
for the first dose of my Covid vaccine today! I encourage all eligible Canadians to get vaccinated so that we can beat this pandemic.
Ford used an announcement about a new hospital wing (not a new hospital FYI) to shamelessly campaign while answering hyper partisan questions that absolved him of any blame for the covid response. Any journo who pointed it out was attacked by Doug’s team
No one had a meltdown Cody.
It’s a question of whether the Premier’s Office respects the work journalists do.
As a reminder, please note the letter Premier Ford wrote to the media one year ago.
What pisses me off about the “open schools at all costs” crowd is that none of them are acknowledging the risks. Kids can die. Especially since Ford and Lecce haven’t been proactive in making classrooms as safe. When I was 11 a boy I knew died from H1N1. The risks are very real.
Next year at the ballot box please remember the harm that Doug Ford has caused to Ontario, and don’t fall for his right wing populism and lies about hydro, the gravy train, and the feds. Doug will always blame everyone but himself.
So I assume Erin is going to investigate why 4 members of Kyle Seeback’s team were amongst the group of hostile protesters? Any respectable party wouldn’t tolerate an incumbent MP associating himself with anti-vaxxers who assault the PM, media, and police
#elxn44
Canada is a country where people can express their political views, but we must do so peacefully and orderly. No one deserves to be subjected to harassment and obscenities.
I will say I’m disappointed in is the number of journalists in the press gallery who knew about this for years and never reported on it. This is how people lose faith in the media. I’m most disappointed in
@ColinDMello
as president of the QP press gallery. He has a lot to explain
He’s a threat to Ontario. Hiding the relationship between Ivana Yelich and Brian Lilley once again prove that Ford is an incompetent leader. His bias towards Lilley is clear
(He also just wasted tens of millions on a frivolous lawsuit because HE got rid of cap and trade btw)
Doug Ford just told Brian Lilley that Doug and his wife Karla think Lilley’s articles are the only ones worthy of reading. So ridiculous. No wonder his daughter spews unscientific garbage on ‘natural immunity’ over masks/vaccines.
This is who is leading Ontario.
@DFisman
Biden has authorized that dentists, vets, EMTs, midwives, optometrists, paramedics, PAs, respiratory techs, podiatrists, and med and nursing students can vaccinate people. It’s all hands on deck there.
And full disclosure: I‘m a Liberal. I’ve also been openly critical of Liberals in both levels of government, strategists and people who have positions within the parties. I’ve called out ministers on issues the media has ignored. No one is beyond reproach in my eyes.
House construction should be paused. Did these idiots not see the modelling? Mattamy Homes is NOT an essential service, no matter how many hundreds of thousands they donate to the Conservatives.
#onpoli
Also support your local journalists. Support independent journos. We need them, badly. American owned conglomerates like Postmedia can’t be trusted anymore. Brian and Ivana proved that.
And if I may, Kathleen Wynne was right. Ontario needs care, not cuts.
The Ontario media has a lot to answer to. I know of one journalist in a relationship with a lobbyist, but a member of the press gallery dating the press secretary is just unacceptable, and every journalist who ignored the story should feel really embarrassed right now.
Sorry I should be clearer. Not only is she the world leader, she’s the world record holder. She’s broken her own record 3 times so far. No one will truly appreciate the magnitude of her greatness until she’s gone.
The Sun and PO have doxxed, slandered, and attacked people who are much more established and influential than me. The number of professionals who reached out to me because they were concerned for me was really telling. Lots of them were victims of Lilley, and Ford pre-QP.
Fun fact: the federal government can’t legislate paid sick leave. Labour laws are within provincial jurisdiction. Over 90% of workers in Ontario are governed by provincial labour laws. Maybe read the Constitution instead of Brian’s columns in the Sun every once in awhile.
I'm sure as a national reporter, you've asked the federal government why they didn't make improvements to ensure workers received immediate access to the program or why other provinces haven't introduced their own paid sick days to combat the third wave.
Is there a German word for “the last 2 years of what we’re supposed to be the best years of my life have been lost to the pandemic and my entire generation has suffered personally and professionally from it and will continue to suffer from the fallout for years and no one cares”?
To be clear no Liberal, NDP, Green, or nonpartisan anti-Ford person made me tweet about Ivana Yelich and Brian Lilley. Everyone who reached out to me was worried about my safety. Lots of public servants and private citizens were too afraid to speak out due to fear of retribution
Everyone is entitled to their own opinion but the fact that we’re almost two years into the pandemic and members of the press are still pushing the “the two parties are very similar” narrative when one party has a horse paste eating caucus is really getting on my nerves.
@DavidHamer_1951
Before I block you, I’ll tell you why. This is really an idiotic comments. there is no grand media conspiracy. The two parties in Canada are very similar and most journalists I know just want to reflect accurately what is happening, add context, and share our ❤️ of
#cdnpoli
The situation in Ontario is dire.
It didn’t have to be this way.
For months we have called for national leadership to get vaccines where we need them.
Time to stop talking about jurisdiction.
Time to act like this is a catastrophe.
I just can’t get over how easily the media continues to let Cheryl Gallant off the hook. She’s a bigoted far-right conspiracy theorist and they just let her get away with it. Same with O’Toole and how the majority of his caucus are social conservatives. Never any pushback
#elxn44
As the president of the QP press gallery it’s
@ColinDMello
‘s job to uphold the QPPG constitution and ensure his members are not violating it by abandoning the journalistic principles and practices that is conditional to their membership. Colin ignored his member’s COI.
The party that threw a fit over their member being called out for violating the dress code shared a naked photo of an MP in another party without their consent? Checks out. Violates the House rules and also definitely a law or two but🤷🏻♀️ Shame on the journalists partaking in it.
In conclusion, Katie Telford is more capable, more intelligent, and more accomplished than the entire Shadow Cabinet and they should learn that it’s never a good idea to go after someone whose level they’re never be on.
37 years ago today, Ontario's 17th premier John Robarts was lost to suicide.
@tvo
producer
@carastern
puts a maple leaf by his headstone to remember this great Canadian.
#onpoli
#Ontario
What I feel guilty about is that woman named Tori Rodney has been using the article that resulted from my tweet to spread lies about
@robertbenzie
and his wife Rhonda McMichael. Tori has purposely cropped the article to make it look like Rhonda worked for Wynne. She never did.
When all of this is done I hope that we have a serious discussion about how PM Trudeau and the federal government stepped in and took responsibility for issues that should have been handled by the provincial govt. Doug Ford has been absolved of responsibility and it’s not right.
Personally I don’t support my taxes going towards destroying farm lands and the diverse ecosystems that inhabit them. Especially when Doug Ford is saying we don’t have enough money to give nurses and teachers proper raises.
#onpoli
#ontag
@melissagrelo
Once again when Doug Ford realizes that he can’t win with CEO votes alone he goes brings back the
@Kathleen_Wynne
policy he canceled in the first place and tries to claim it as his own. Minimum wage voters have lost $6200 from him cancelling $15/hr in 2018.
#onpoli
I’m not sure why Tori feels the need to spread Lilley’s lies about Robert and Rhonda but I feel absolutely awful about it. Others followed suit after her tweet. I was up for hours last night full of guilt because I feel responsible. To be clear, Rhonda NEVER worked for Wynne.
This is really bothering me because Tori knows her statement is false and is choosing not to correct it as to attack liberals. Robert Benzie’s wife is a civil servant who NEVER worked for Wynne. Tori purposely cropped that fact out her her screenshot. Just as bad as Brian
#onpoli
I’ve tweeted at Tori multiple times to correct her statement but she’s ignored me. Rhonda is a civil servant. No affiliation with Wynne or OLP. Tori is sinking to Brian’s level by slandering a civil servant to push her narrative about the Star being biased against the NDP