“Premier Doug Ford says an Ontario judge who accused three Toronto cops of lying under oath owes them an apology after a report from the OPP cleared the officers of any wrongdoing.”

This from the guy who’s made how many apologies and u-turns because of multiple faux pas he’s committed?

https://www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/article/maybe-the-judge-should-apologize-ontario-premier-doug-ford-weighs-in-on-opp-probe-that-cleared-toronto-cops-of-lying-at-trial/

Meanwhile a former director of the Special Investigations Unit (SIU) questions how the OPP cleared those officers.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/opp-report-questions-reconstruction-expert-9.7133471

#DougFord #NeverVoteConservative

“‘Congratulations for shooting this guy; should have shot him a couple more times, as far as I’m concerned,’ Ford added.

He said ‘ruthless’ criminals who break into homes, willing to hurt family members, ‘need to rot in jail for the rest of their lives,‘ and bemoaned the fact the justice system sometimes shows them leniency.”

Doug is all for vigilante justice it seems. While he’s concerned about autoworker jobs he’s apparently less concerned about police and legal profession jobs.

#DougFord #onpoli #NeverVoteConservative

https://www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/local/york/article/congratulations-for-shooting-this-guy-premier-lauds-vaughan-resident-who-shot-intruder/

Iris Gorfinkel: I’m a doctor. Here are five overlooked ways the Ontario government is making our ERs more crowded, not less

https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/im-a-doctor-here-are-five-overlooked-ways-the-ontario-government-is-making-our-ers-more-crowded-not-less/article_bb216a1f-8f25-444b-98a7-5dd6cadf0573.html

> Until basic needs like housing and nursing shortages are addressed, hallway medicine in Ontario will only get worse.

#ONPoli #healthcare #neverVoteConservative

the reason for all this BS is the hard right conservative government of Alberta. they must be rubbing their corrupt hands with glee

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/inside-the-classroom-mistrust-9.7103297

#AbPoli #PublicEducation #NeverVoteConservative

Doug Ford explains why safe injection sites in Ontario are being shut down:

"I don't believe in sticking these injection sites in the middle of the community, down the street from a school, needles are all over the place.”

Doug Ford is a moron. We used to live in the Byward Market in Ottawa near the Shepherds of Good Hope. Before the safe injection site opened there, while on my way to work in the morning I frequently saw volunteer syringe collectors walking around in search of “needles all over the place.” I often wondered when I’d leave our building if there’d be someone dead from an overdose.

After the safe injection site opened the syringe collectors went away, or at least they were around less often.

“The province said it will initiate a 90-day wind-down period to give those using the sites time to transition to the government's abstinence-based model — homelessness and addiction recovery treatment, or HART, hubs.”

Good luck with that.

#DougFord #NeverVoteConservative

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-ending-supervised-drug-consumption-funding-9.7130534

“Ontario Premier Doug Ford said Monday his government is exploring the idea of live-streaming bail hearings to the public.

‘We know we need to do more to fix the broken bail system and protect our province,’ Ford said at a news conference Monday.”

https://www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/politics/queens-park/article/doug-ford-says-he-wants-to-livestream-bail-hearings-as-he-announces-new-jail/

Law and order Conservatives, like Doug Ford love to spread fear by talking about a “broken bail system” based on the occasional story of someone out on bail committing a crime.

Last year there were 104,386 bail hearings in Ontario of which 59,329 resulted in a release or detention order.

https://www.ontariocourts.ca/ocj/files/stats/bail/2025/2025-Bail-Region.xlsx

Does he expect to livestream 100K+ bail hearings each year and get a different result?

#DougFord #NeverVoteConservative

Pierre Poilievre has announced his plan to rescue the Canadian auto manufacturing industry.

Basically it means mirroring the US emissions regulations (or lack thereof), match the US tariffs on China, for every Canadian car produced let a car from the US and Mexico by the same manufacturer in duty free, and remove the GST on Canadian built cars.

His plan doesn’t address one big issue:

“U.S. President Donald Trump and his administration have levied tariffs on the auto industry, saying they want to force vehicle manufacturers to move their production to the United States.”

#PierrePoilievre #NeverVoteConservative

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-poilievre-auto-sector-tariff-us-market/

https://archive.ph/B7afM

Observations are supported by Pew Research findings in the USA that #Conservatives are more concerned with having a labour pool of sheeple that they can manipulate than an educated society that can think ...

#FordRegressiveConservatives are cut from the same cloth.

Article Excerpt:
"... Republicans are more likely than Democrats to say students not getting the skills they need to succeed in the workplace is a major reason why the higher education system is headed in the wrong direction (73% vs. 56%)."

https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2019/08/19/the-growing-partisan-divide-in-views-of-higher-education-2/

#highereducation #NeverVoteConservative #osapcuts #onpoli