Sabrina Nanji
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I cover Ontario politics & policy from the Queen’s Park Press Gallery. Founder and Journalist @theqpobserver . Got a story? sabrina @qpobserver .ca
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Ontario Proud's biggest donor was Mattamy Homes at $100,000. Merit Ontario, a construction contractor assoc, gave $50K. A handful of construction companies and real estate developers each donated $10,000
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BREAKING: She’s running! Bonnie Crombie launches Liberal leadership campaign website 👀
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Ontario Proud, an anti-Wynne conservative political advocacy group, spent over $447,400 on election advertising, and received more than $512,000 in contributions, about 90 per cent of which came from corporations
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Happening now: V-Day comes a day early in Ontario, with these 5 PSWs/nurses from the Rekai Centre nursing home first to roll up their sleeves for a shot 👇🏾 Vaccines were thawed and prepared by Toronto’s UHN this morning after landing in Hamilton last night
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Mini scoop: Portrait and bust of Ryerson have been removed from outside NDP Ldr Andrea Horwath's office - she asked the Speaker to move them so that Indigenous MPPs and staff don't have to walk by an architect of the residential school system
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BREAKING: Auditor General releases report on Ford govt's pandemic response. It shows Ontario was "slower and more reactive" than other provinces, COVID-19 command table became "overly cumbersome" and isn't led by public health expertise, and CMOH role was "diminished"
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I’m holed up at Elections Ontario parsing political and third party financial statements
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Of note: top PC donors who gave the max $1,222 include Ford family lawyer Gavin Tighe, who was just appointed to the Public Accountants Council, Peter Van Loan, now-retired MP and lobbyist, a bunch of real estate developers + investors, and the Yogen Fruz family
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Another high-profile candidate for 2022: NDP announces Harvey Bischof, former union prez of the Ontario Secondary School Teachers' Federation, will fly the orange banner in Brantford-Brant
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NDP benches are wearing pink and blue today in solidarity with the trans community after PCs passed a controversial policy resolution to debate gender identity theory being taught in schools
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PC MPP
@samoosterhoff
just did an anti-carbon-tax rendition of Monster Mash in the House
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NDP ethics critic Taras Natyshak wrote to Chief Electoral Officer Greg Essensa demanding a probe into the Vaughan Working Families ad campaign attacking teachers unions. Natyshak argues it constitutes 3rd party advertising in a byelection period + $ must be disclosed
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🚨🧵Some personal news! I've been laying low over the past couple months gearing up for my new
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venture: It's called Queen's Park Observer, and it's a newsletter that's all about the people, politics and policies at the Pink Palace
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NEW: NDP MPP Laura Mae Lindo wrote to the integrity commissioner today asking for an opinion on the degree-granting legislation and application process for Charles McVety’s Canada Christian College
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“He should have been on this” NDP leader Andrea Horwath has brought a school bus to Queen’s Park to illustrate distancing concerns and criticize funding laid out in Premier Doug Ford’s back to school plan
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NEW: the PCs newly tabled bill to protect certain orgs, incl long-term care homes, from getting sued over inadvertently spreading Covid would also eliminate the option for ranked ballots in municipal elections
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BREAKING: Michael Balagus is stepping down as chief of staff to outgoing NDP ldr Andrea Horwath. Balagus, who served as campaign manager, says in staff memo his last day is Sept 15 "to ensure as smooth a transition as possible" Adds it's been an "honour" to work w Horwath
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SCOOP: Ontario wants to cap psychotherapy at 24 hours before clawing back doctors' pay. The OMA says that will leave the neediest patients to suffer most
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The Charles McVety-run Canada Christian College appeared to know the Ford govt would bring legislation to give it degree-granting authority when it submitted a name change application to PEQAB in July
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NEW from me: I’m hearing some NDP caucus members are uncomfortable w Ldr Andrea Horwath’s stance against vaccine mandates for frontline workers. Behind the scenes, at least two MPPs are advocating to clarify/change the position
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TODAY: Where political parties stand in the 905; dissent among NDP ranks over vaccine mandates; the whole story on soon-to-be Liberal candidate Dr. Nathan Stall; a bunch of staff moves; the latest on schools + Ford joins the fairway dawn patrol
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Kathleen Wynne is wearing a scarf this morning. At last nights unveiling she said there’s a scarf in her official portrait because there were many discussions over how she should dress + it’s a reminder women can be premier no matter what they wear. And she loves scarves🧣
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Interesting nugget from the Liberals statement: OLP paid over $2.1M to Data Sciences - which is helmed by PM Trudeau’s childhood friend Tom Pitfield and is the keeper of the party’s voter-contact database Liberalist - for advertising and digital services
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Meet the Federation of Black Canadians
@fbcfcn
, a national coalition the likes of which hasn’t existed in this country for decades
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According to the filing Ontario Proud paid One Persuades about $15K twice, in February and April, for TV ads
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@sabrinananji
Hello Sabrina.
Do you know if Ontario Proud hired Hamish Marshall's company, One Persuades, to do targeted advertising for them? If so does that mean OIP / Ballingall had access to the
#CPC
CIMS database??
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At a fireside chat at Communitech, Premier Doug Ford is pumping up e-learning with an anecdote about a parent who told him online courses could help free up his kid's afternoon so he can get a part time job
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There are only 10 backbenchers out of the 73-MPP PC caucus that didn't make it on to the executive council as minister, associate minister or parliamentary assistant
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BREAKING:
@KevinYardeMPP
has decided to sit as an Independent. It comes after he faced a rare nomination challenge and lost the chance to seek re-election under the NDP banner in Brampton North
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Green Ldr Mike Schreiner backs Belinda Karahalios. Side note: there are now 12 Independent MPPs — just enough for recognized party status
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Halton Public Health has received a complaint about a political event in Milton featuring Ontario Liberal nomination contestants and candidates with more than 10 people indoors, no physical distancing and only some mask wearing
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AG Bonnie Lysyk's report shows the health command table has ballooned to 500 people, and there is no detailed documentation of their discussions
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"two sources said Long Term Care Minister Rod Phillips played a key role in the change after undertaking a province-wide “surprise inspection” tour of nursing homes." What a scoop from Benzie, keeping us all on our toes
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BREAKING: Ontario will mandate vaccines for hospital and LTC workers and begin targeted
#COVID19
booster shots while keeping current pandemic restrictions indefinitely, the
@TorontoStar
has learned.
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I’ve also got my hands on political parties annual financial statements for 2019, which were due to Elections Ontario last week. PCs closed out the year w $1.8M deficit, Libs posted nearly $400K deficit and NDP had $2.5M surplus. Full story coming
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Govt sources tell me Ontario will allow overdose prevention sites, and rebrand them as consumption and treatment centres
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It's official: the New Blue Party of Ontario, headed up by Belinda and Jim Karahalios, has been registered as a political party with Elections Ontario
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Pretty cool: PC MPP Stan Cho, who is parliamentary assistant to the finance minister, just became the first PA to answer a Q in question period. Usually ministers answer but the PCs changed the standing orders last fall
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NEW: Senior government source tells me it’s 2 MPPs in the PC caucus who aren’t vaccinated
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Unvaccinated PC MPPs will be removed from caucus, Ford spokeswoman says
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NDP circulate screenshots showing Horwath's March 23 fundraiser was posted March 14, more than the seven-day notice legally required. "Clearly Doug Ford is trying to distract from his cash-for-access and allegedly illegal lobbying scandal" party secretary Lucy Watson says
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ICYMI the Ontario Liberal Party is facing calls to pull its chief legal counsel, Milton Chan, from an internal party investigation into allegations of discrimination and harassment — as more of Chan's anti-Black comments emerge (no paywall)
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The NDP's Opposition Day motion calling on Ford gov to denounce Charles McVety + scrap efforts to accredit his Canada Christian College just passed (Ayes 29; Nays 27). Hansard will have the MPP vote breakdown later on. Here's the text of the (non-binding) motion
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Former NDP MPP for Parkdale High Park
@CheriDiNovo
is here to protest Bill 31 and interjects during presser
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About 119,000 Ontarians with Covid weren't tested for it because they weren't allowed to under provincial guidelines. That could have reduced overall transmission
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Longtime personal support worker Anita gets a round of applause for being the first person in Ontario to get a jab
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Side note: the Liberals changed govt advertising rules so that the Auditor General can no longer veto partisan ads. PCs campaigned on restoring those powers
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: The gov't has launched ad campaign to promote their back to school plan but won't say cost to taxpayers.
@StevenDelDuca
calls campaign "propaganda" & "vanity ads" adding "This is money that could be funding teachers, special ed professionals & caretakers."
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And it's official.
@samoosterhoff
has beat out
@tonyquirk
for the second time and secured the nomination in niagara west
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With Ontario’s record high of 700 Covid cases today, the Ontario Hospital Association is calling on Ford gov to “immediately intensify” restrictions in hot spots Toronto, GTA and Ottawa, says return to Stage 2 is needed now to keep schools open + prevent further spread
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Another record smashed 📈 my scoop on the spiked Ford wedding story that led reporters to quit has cracked the top spot
@theqpobserver
. Thanks for reading + supporting independent journalism! Get it first w the most-read newsletter at Queen’s Park:
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Govt also coughed up $1.6M on an external consultant to create a new governance structure for emergency response
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It isn’t Thursday but
#throwback
to when I was a page because my dad dug this up over the weekend 🤓
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Statement from Premier Doug Ford on this "historic" day, encourages everyone to "be patient" as vaccines roll out and warns people "must remain on our guard" and follow public health advice to curb virus spread
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Why Canada’s political pipeline leaves little room for anyone but white men via
@torontostar
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NEW: Ontario’s first vaccines will be administered later today, a day earlier than planned. 5 health care workers will be first in line for the shot at Toronto’s UHN
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@GGcurran5159
Subscribe to Queen’s Park Today for the full story in your inbox. I had to stop tweeting so I could write. Thanks for tuning in!
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Today’s proceedings are underway. Green Party ldr Mike Schreiner has already said he won’t give PCs unanimous consent to pass Bill 31. There’s not enough time for an order-in-council to bring MPPs back Sunday but it could happen 12:01am Monday
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BREAKING: Premier Doug Ford officially orders a shutdown of non essential biz, effective for at least 14 days starting midnight tomorrow
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BREAKING: Municipal Affairs Minister Steve Clark just tabled a rent freeze bill, incl $10k-$100k fines for people who break gathering limit rules and extending the moratorium on commercial evictions
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This snapping turtle exceeded the legal limit for political donations 🐢
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NEW:
@emmarosesandri
sifted through Elections Ontario disclosures to show all the PC donor-linked biz Premier Ford has stopped by on his summer tour (no paywall)
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.
@brucemcintosh
, the PC staffer and autism advocate who quit in protest of yesterday’s autism funding changes, has shared his resignation letter
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NEW from me &
@QueensParkToday
: Price tag for Ontario PCs mandatory anti-carbon-tax gas-pump stickers hits $30K, internal documents show 🔓
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date night: candlelight pizza dinner, Niagara wine, and an Agenda episode about a special legislative committee examining pension asset accounting and hydro debt borrowing
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This requires cabinet sign off because it’s a change to the order with list of what’s allowed
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Brantford-Brant was a pretty tight race in 2018, with current PC MPP Will Bouma beating out the NDP runner-up by just over 600 votes
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Official Opposition Leader
@AndreaHorwath
is calling for an emergency select committee to look into Ron Taverner’s appt. Horwath calls on Taverner not to take up the OPP commissioner role Monday
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🤓🙏🏾🎉
Congrats to
@sabrinananji
for her appointment to the QP press Gallery exec! (And to new prez
@ColinDMello
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The NDP has dropped a second stack of leaked govt briefing docs they claim show the Tories plans to send critical health services to the private sector
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BREAKING: Sources tell me Bracebridge Mayor Graydon Smith, president of
@AMOPolicy
, will carry the PC banner in Parry Sound-Muskoka on June 2. Longtime MPP Norm Miller announced he won't seek reelection yesterday
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.
@brownbarrie
flanked by entire caucus says they have a right to ask questions about Sudbury byelxn
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BREAKING: Gov House Leader Paul Calandra just moved a motion to adjourn the house early tonight — two days before schedule. MPPs won’t sit in the legislature again until February 16, 2021
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if ya don’t know, now ya know. If you work at Queen’s Park, you can now read me
@QueensParkToday
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NEW: NDP Ethics critic Taras Natyshak has written to Liberal Leader Steven Del Duca urging him to immediately order an “independent and completely transparent investigation” into allegations of voter fraud in the Malton nomination contest
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NDP MPP
@TarasNatyshak
asks about rebranding licence plates, quips the new slogan might be “Ontario: clap or else”
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ICYMI I'm the Toronto Star's new democracy reporter. Get in touch: sabrinananji
@thestar
.ca or 416-869-4186
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Catch up on my interview with Crombie in which she talks about her vision for the province, what the party needs to do to be competitive in 2026 and her knack for getting under Doug Ford’s skin
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Huge thank you to the inimitable
@meyer_lucas
for sharing his impression of Dr. David Williams and Dr. Steini Brown for today's newsletter 😂
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MPP engagement alert 💍🚨 PC MPP Natalia Kusendova is engaged to Mina Bashta, a pharmacist. Kusendova also hails from health care (she’s been working as a nurse during the pandemic) and was spotted rocking some engagement bling on her ring finger in QP today. Congrats!
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My personal favourite suggestion came from the youngest person in the room who isn’t eligible to vote yet: that students should be able to vote for their school trustees
Now
@sabrinananji
asks "how can we make voting fun? Give out drink tickets or stickers?" That's more like it.
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EXCLUSIVE: I got my hands on the full candidate nomination application package submitted by the Ontario Liberal Leader's chief of staff's spouse. Sources in the party say it reveals he got an inside track to run in the next election 🔓
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Liberal MPP
@mflalonde
(former community safety minister) is up. The perception out there is of collusion, she says. Calls for Taverner not to take his post, or the solicitor general to step in
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BREAKING: Sources tell me Long-Term Care Minister Rod Phillips will announce mandatory vaccinations for LTC workers at 1pm today in the QP media studio
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NEW: Operation Black Vote Canada says its "deeply concerned" about allegations OLP discouraged would-be BIPOC candidates from seeking the nomination in Toronto Centre. They're calling on Ontario's political parties to examine their internal processes
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@sabrinananji
Our response to this troubling news. We call for all political parties to do an internal audit.
@OntLiberal
@OntarioNDP
@OntarioGreens
@OntarioPCParty
#RepresentationMatters
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Earlier this fall GM signed up to lobby the Ontario government about labour law changes and scrapping cap and trade, among other things
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Teeing up the big night (virtually) with this savvy crew. Looking forward to being in studio with the
@PnPCBC
team for E-Day 🤓
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#elxn43
Joining
@VassyKapelos
on
@PnPCBC
at 5:15 pm with
@sabrinananji
. (In studio for the first time in more than two pandemic—addling years.)
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This 77 yr old woman tells MPPs who remain in the chamber “I hate the destruction of democracy” before she’s escorted out by security
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Employers to pay 3 hours' wages if they cancel workers shift w less than 48h notice. Wynne says she heard the problem persisted for years
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NEW: Ontario Liberals investigating alleged voter fraud in Malton nomination contest. One of the campaigns allegedly gamed the party's new online voting system by impersonating 250 voters + creating fake emails to fraudulently cast ballots
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Today Facebook will start letting people know if their data may have been caught up in the Cambridge Analytica scandal. If you’re one of 600,000+ Canadians seeing that message on your FB news feed, I’d like to hear from you: sabrinananji
@thestar
.ca or 416-869-4186
@TorontoStar
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baby watch: PC Sam Oosterhoff, youngest MPP ever elected to Queen’s Park, and wife Keri are expecting 👶
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