Eric Lawton2d ago

ANALYSIS | Ontario's legislature is set for its shortest sitting in decades. What will that mean for the Ford government? | CBC News

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-legislature-sitting-day-number-9.7238790?cmp=rss

> Premier Doug Ford’s government is on pace to sit for the fewest days of any Ontario government over the past five decades in a year when voters aren’t headed to the polls.

Who needs #democracy when #DougFord already rules "for the people¹"?

#NeverVoteConservative
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1. Developers and other funders.

ANALYSIS | Ontario's legislature is set for its shortest sitting in decades. What will that mean for the Ford government? | CBC News

Premier Doug Ford’s government is on pace to sit for the fewest days of any Ontario government over the past five decades in a year when voters aren’t headed to the polls. And experts warn the decision to shorten the calendar at Queen’s Park comes with its strategic benefits — and pitfalls — for the Tories as the legislature settles into a 21-week break.

CBC
Eric Lawton5d ago

As a Ford government staffer, he helped get through permits for a controversial gold mine. Now he works for the company as a lobbyist

https://www.thestar.com/news/investigations/as-a-ford-government-staffer-he-helped-get-through-permits-for-a-controversial-gold-mine-now-he-works-for-the-company-as-a-lobbyist/article_96bdda6d-8be3-4b75-bfe3-a86d6371452f.html

> Internal documents raise questions on whether Kevin Rombout's move violated ethics law, an allegation that the province and the mining company deny.

#NeverVoteConservative #corruption

As a Ford government staffer, he helped get through permits for a controversial gold mine. Now he works for the company as a lobbyist

Internal documents raise questions on whether Kevin Rombout's move violated ethics law, an allegation that the province and the mining company deny.

Toronto Star
Show threadEric LawtonJun 13

Meanwhile, in Ontario Canada, the government is cutting programs to help those with problems like addiction or lack of housing and increasing police budgets.

"Common sense" is ideology and denial of evidence.

https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/she-was-pregnant-homeless-and-addicted-how-moss-park-helped-save-her-life--and-whats-next-as-torontos-consumption-sites-shutter/article_526a88bf-715d-4721-b9fd-86c43fb91496.html

#NeverVoteConservative

How Moss Park supervised consumption site helped save this woman's life — and what’s next as Toronto’s sites shutter

Today, Moss Park closes its supervised consumption site for good, alongside Fred Victor. It will be challenging for an area under strain.

Toronto Star
LM LittleJun 13

Bill C-30: Privatizing airports and letting oil companies profit off the Iran war https://www.policyalternatives.ca/news-research/bill-c-30-privatizing-airports-and-letting-oil-companies-profit-off-the-iran-war/

#cdnpoli #NeverTrustLiberals #NeverVoteConservative #Capitalism #BigOil

Bill C-30: Privatizing airports and letting oil companies profit off the Iran war | CCPA

Remarks by  David Macdonald to Canada's Senate Finance Committee on the implementation of the spring economic statement

CCPA
Dave Sanderson 🇨🇦🍁Jun 5

“Unfortunately for Canadians, ignoring sober data is one of Poilievre’s greatest strengths.”

Ignoring facts is a Conservative trait.

#PierrePoiLIEvre #NeverVoteConservative

https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/2026/06/03/poilievre-might-want-to-tone-down-glee-over-slumping-economy

Opinion: Poilievre might want to tone down glee over slumping economy

The constant rush to assign political blame to every problem is not just bad for public debate, it’s ultimately bad for the Conservative party.

Winnipeg Free Press
Dave Sanderson 🇨🇦🍁Jun 2

RE: https://flipboard.com/@ctvnews/montreal-krl74nssz/-/a-ihbiBFgCRlW8x3UBoqhzsQ%3Aa%3A2823982346-%2F0

#PierrePoiLIEvre #NeverVoteConservative

The Masked School Library TechJun 2
So it looks like Dougie is taking an extended break and is shutting the Ontario legislature early - ie today. The day before OSBCU is set to request the start of bargaining.
They've spent just 29 days in the legislature this session and have rammed through countless shit bills without giving adequate time for public input, proper committee hearings and all the rest that should go into passing bills.
But that's what you get with first past the post and majority governments.
#ONtario #OnPoli #NeverVoteConservative
Eric LawtonJun 1

Toronto tenants go on rent strike as landlord says social housing status exempts them from rent control

https://www.thestar.com/real-estate/toronto-tenants-go-on-rent-strike-as-landlord-says-social-housing-status-exempts-them-from-rent-control/article_4e6b4fa4-e556-4fb5-aabf-65a68c660fcd.html

> Tenants at a Toronto non-profit housing complex are on rent strike after an 8 per cent increase exposed exemptions that leave some social housing residents outside Ontario’s standard rent control protections.

Surely people in social housing should have *more* protection than regular tenants, not less.

Doug Ford is the landlord's Premier

#ALAB
#NeverVoteConservative

Toronto tenants go on rent strike as landlord says social housing status exempts them from rent control

Tenants at a Toronto non-profit housing complex are on rent strike after an 8 per cent increase exposed exemptions that leave some social housing residents outside Ontario’s standard rent control protections.

Toronto Star
Hurricane M May 30
Well, the #Snowbirds are going to be grounded after this year, & Thug Ford & his corrupt Cons are taking over #BillyBishop airport so jets can land & take off there.
So, all of you NIMBYs that bitch about how noisy the #airshow is annually will have to put your vote where mouth is & take out this godawful provincial #Conservative government.
#NeverVoteConservative #PCPO #Toronto #Onpoli #ytz
Eric LawtonMay 29

Richard Warnica: Who’s behind the massive lobbying campaign to expand the island airport? What I discovered should worry us all

https://www.thestar.com/opinion/star-columnists/whos-behind-the-massive-lobbying-campaign-to-expand-the-island-airport-what-i-discovered-should-worry-us-all/article_178fa134-e253-416a-855b-2feb66621c4f.html

> One key player? A large American bank.

“All of the executives at the airport serve at the direct pleasure of JP Morgan,” Tyson Slocum, a researcher at Public Citizen, an American advocacy group, told me. “If JP Morgan wants a new CEO in there, JP Morgan can unilaterally make those changes.”

#NeverVoteConservative
#FordCorruption
#ONPoli

Richard Warnica: Who’s behind the massive lobbying campaign to expand the island airport? What I discovered should worry us all

One key player? A large American bank.

Toronto Star