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Guy who doesn’t even respond to the mothers of his children: reply to my email or you’re fired

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PODCAST: Why Ontario Schools Are in Crisis Under Doug Ford Ontario School Board Council of Unions President Joe Tigani explains what's wrong with Ontario's education system pressprogress.ca/why-ontario-...

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The snap Ontario election issue is now up at thegrindmag.ca and it goes out in print in the TTC this weekend! Read how Premier Doug Ford’s PC government has affected people over the last seven years.

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Dahlia Kurtz, who is absolutely a genocide monger, has pressed charges against Yves Engler for identifying Kurts as being a genocide denier. Wild. Incredible attack on free speech. yvesengler.com/2025/02/18/i...

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Fairly big news. Reading between the lines here, he is basically saying he will preserve existing subsidies that he previously indicated could be slashed or eliminated (He suggested they were influencing coverage despite no evidence. The subsidies already go to orgs across the political spectrum.)

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Reminder: the Ontario government provides the lowest per student funding in Canada. After decades of slashing provincial funding and austerity, the province will gladly see it gut important programs.

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Zionism is so violently antisemitic it inevitably attacks Jews

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Senator Mark Warner spills the beans about "the real story" of how the TikTok ban went down. Turns out, its passage had more to do with the Gaza war than China. www.kenklippenstein.com/p/tiktok-ban...

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Oh, nothing. Just a recently appointed Trump Administration Cabinet member proposing to put millions of people in concentration camps for taking prescribed medications

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listen, joe rogan is a terrible comedian and his podcast is brain poison, but you have to give him credit for inventing a new kind of dumb guy who thinks he's really smart because he listens to joe rogan

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This reads like the opening paragraph of a novel so bleakly dystopian you'd put it down after five pages

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Doug Ford’s Government Has Been Disastrous For Workers An interview with the editors of a new book, Against the People: How Ford Nation Is Dismantling Ontario. www.readthemaple.com/doug-fords-g...

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They can’t even keep it in their robes

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Tesla paid $0 in federal income tax last year. 2022: $0 2021: $0 2020: $0 2019: $0 2018: $0 Tesla reported $6.7 billion in profit in those years.

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I have some good takes if you can make it though my semi-sick nasally and rushed speech, haha. #onpoli #cdnpoli #dougford #ford

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the first good post i think i've ever seen from a democratic committee account

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My latest. As journalists and writers, we have a duty to use language that is accurate and describes our current reality. I’m no longer going to talk about DEI/Anti-DEI. Let’s be clear. We are facing racial purges and re-segregation. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

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Saturday | 10:05 PT Ryan Kelpin, contributing author to Against the People: How Ford Nation is Dismantling Ontario, on Doug Ford’s radical restructuring of municipal governments. @fernpub.bsky.social @ryankelpin.bsky.social @johncke.bsky.social @aylanx.ca @furthertogether.bsky.social #canPoli

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As Ontario faces a snap election, our latest podcast episode takes stock of six years of austerity under Doug Ford. Desmond Cole talks to guest Bryan Evans about his forthcoming book, Against the People, which documents the damage done. breachmedia.ca/ontario-doug...

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The convergence of all Ontario parties into neoliberal austerity has driven this province into the ground. This is an issue that goes back 35 years and has been caused by Rae, Harris, Eves, McGuinty, Wynne, AND Ford. #onpoli #ontario #cdnpoli #austerity #politicaleconomy #dougford

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SPECIAL ISSUE ANNOUNCEMENT Doug Ford called a snap election, so we're publishing an issue about his seven-year reign, out free in print in two weeks. We need $5,000 to make it happen. Chip in by: - E-transfer info[at]thegrindmag[dot]ca - Credit card: buy.stripe.com/6oE02D00TgZ4...

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A lateral move to producing primary propaganda rather than secondary. #cdnpoli #canpoli

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The NYT asked me to write an op-ed on Musk and the Treasury and then took a pass. I hope it will still get read.

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John Ibbitson has joined the Fraser Institute lmao

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Sure, Trump blinked on tariffs. But Starlink is still part of a global communications infrastructure controlled by an unelected fascist currently undermining the American administrative state and who wants far-right parties to take power everywhere. Not something Ontario should be entangled in.

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Nice week last week. Interview with Redeye podcast (out soon); well received article on Poilievre and Milton Friedman on Jacobin (go read); physical arrival of Against the People: How Doug Ford is Dismantling Ontario (go buy). jacobin.com/2025/02/poil... fernwoodpublishing.ca/book/against...

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Man, this Canadian identity shit would hit realer if it were 1987 and free trade hadn't run roughshod over us all for 3 decades.

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Factions of the imperial ruling classes are squabbling, and as I explained in this interview, I don't have a horse in this race. If you think Trump, Trudeau, or any of these charlatans cares about you, then I'd like to offer you some of my finest snake oil

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Check out my piece breaking down Pierre Poilievre's radical austerity politics and explicitly linking them to his professed intellectual hero, Milton Friedman. jacobin.com/2025/02/poil... #canpoli #canadianpolitics #poilievre #jacobin #cdnpoli

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Who is Stantec, the engineering company hired by Ford to rip out Toronto's bike lanes? They are a publicly traded company that has made money across North America touting green engineering & support for safe infrastructure 1/3

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Always nice to chat with the lovely folks at Redeye! Second time they've had me on and look forward to future chances to chat!

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“58% of past Ontario PC voters agree Ford’s early election call is self-serving, as do 59% of past voters for the federal Conservatives”

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America is this close to basically having Alex Jones in charge of its federal health policy portfolio. What a shitty country.

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Love the Trump is fascist virtue signalling by the Dems as they wholly participate in his violent racism.

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lmao

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Copies of this timely gem of a book started arriving today! Big recommend to everybody interested in Ford (or anti democratic city politics and austerity, which my chapter covers). fernwoodpublishing.ca/book/against...

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@youcaughtscott.com Want someone to come on to talk Doug Ford and the upcoming election? Have a chapter in the new Fernwood book "Against the People: how Ford nation is dismantling Ontario" and write about Doug for Canadian Dimension, The Grind, and my scholarly work.

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Finally gave in and joined.

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