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BREAKING: Ontario has lost the 2025 provincial election

submitted 7 hours ago • 23 comments

no but fr this man has openly and blatantly implemented policy that will kill poor, disabled and vulnerable people and some of yall GTA cornballs said “run it back”

submitted 7 hours ago • 4 comments

Voting is underway in Ontario. The Local's got everything you need to know about the last seven years under incumbent leader Doug Ford. thelocal.to/7-years-of-d...

submitted 18 hours ago • 1 comment

Reminder that when the Freedom Convoy began, Doug Ford went AWOL snowmobiling in the Muskokas, did little to nothing to support the City of Ottawa as the second biggest city in the province descended into anarchy for 3 weeks, then later refused to testify at the emergencies act inquiry

submitted 21 hours ago • 57 comments

Doug Ford looking at today’s weather forecast. #OnPoli #FireFord

submitted 21 hours ago • 10 comments

You can't make rent in Ontario on $390 a month Yet this is the expectation for Ontario's welfare recipients, a poverty trap posing as a housing allowance Does any party in this election have a plan for real change? My latest with @breachmedia.ca breachmedia.ca/ontarios-ren...

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Funny how the things Doug Ford supports most in this province are drinking and driving, no?

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Anyone hurt in Toronto streets while riding a bike should sue Etobicoke businesses because they make safe infrastructure hard to come by in Toronto. Any lawyers want to try that out? www.thestar.com/news/gta/eto...

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“My vote doesn’t matter.” In 2022, 56.5% of Ontarians didn’t vote. Doug Ford won a majority because 18% of Ontarians voted PC. “I don’t know what the issues are.” Talk to people you trust to find out. “It doesn’t matter who wins.” It matters very much to someone you care about. #OnPoli

submitted 1 day ago • 32 comments

Toronto averages 18,900 Bike Share rides per day! Add in the many more people who ride their own bikes, and it's clear cycling is an important mode of transportation, deserving of safe and convenient infrastructure. When you go to the polls on Thursday - vote for someone who will build, not destroy.

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

America is for sale. But is it something people actually want to buy?

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Lying through their teeth. Insulting voters to their faces. The Ford government way.

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It’s really not.

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Toronto staff claimed 100pc of sidewalks were cleared at least once but anyone with two eyes could see that wasn't the case

submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments

In Canada, this is worth reading in light of Pierre Poilievre only taking English-languages questions the other day from The Rebel and a few other right-wing pretend media, whom he wants to fund if he is Prime Minister.

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

Ontario’s post-secondary institutions are in trouble. Without big changes, it will soon become financially untenable for its universities to educate tens of thousands of domestic students. thelocal.to/ontario-post...

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Toronto needs this, especially for streetcars

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I hope to Christ the rest of the world chokes off US tech.

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

Doug Ford, who is destroying Ontario's healthcare system, thinks you can't see past his bullshit about the causes of the province's emergency room crisis. Please, please vote for somebody else. www.davidmoscrop.com/p/when-it-co...

submitted 3 days ago • 16 comments

"(High Speed Rail) between #Ontario + #Quebec should become Canada’s next nation-building project, esp. at a time when we need to think more about east + west than north and south." Great read: @johnlorinc.bsky.social 's post on the Alto project in @spacing.bsky.social spacing.ca/toronto/2025...

submitted 3 days ago • 7 comments

By rights Doug Ford going ahead with Starlink should cost him the election. It’s like handing the guy who keeps threatening to rob your house the keys to your van.

submitted 3 days ago • 9 comments

Check your inbox: it’s City Hall Watcher #320! A FREE issue. @mbonsma.bsky.social looks at Complete Street projects and how they changed vehicle speed — for the better. Also: coyotes, Bathurst bike lanes, genetically engineered woolly mammoths, and more. toronto.cityhallwatcher.com/p/whatever-h...

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Our biggest enemy in this Ontario Election is voter apathy. Please talk to your friends/family about why their vote matters. I really don’t want to see the worst election turnout of all time this election! #topoli #onpoli

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"What has been happening in Serbia... is a historic development worth paying attention to, given that it comes against the backdrop of Europe-wide backsliding on democracy and a crisis of the political establishment." — #AJOpinion by Saša Savanović ⤵️

submitted 4 days ago • 6 comments

If you don’t have a GP - VOTE If you have kids in school - VOTE If you don’t care about booze in corner stores - VOTE And, if you don’t want a corrupt, greenbelt raping Premier - feckin’ VOTE!!!!

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

“I spent hours with him and walked with him thru Auschwitz. I stood with him, looking at the nauseating heaps of hair, luggage, & shoes flooded with violet light meant to preserve it. Is Musk an antisemite? People, actually, it’s worse—he doesn’t care whatsoever…He was unmoved by the experience.”

submitted 5 days ago • 31 comments

The Nazi salute should’ve been reason enough, but now the US is going to cut Ukraine’s access to Starlink if it won’t hand over critical minerals. What happens when the US wants northern Ontario’s resources? If Doug Ford really wants to “Protect Ontario,” he needs to #CancelStarlink now. #OnPoli

submitted 5 days ago • 21 comments

“If you had to guess the leading cause of death for children and young people around the world, what would you say? Malaria perhaps? Pneumonia? Suicide? They’re all high up there, but no, it’s road accidents.”

submitted 6 days ago • 12 comments

"There is no such thing as not voting: you either vote by voting, or you vote by staying home and tacitly doubling the value of some diehard's vote." -David Foster Wallace, novelist, essayist, and short story writer (21 Feb 1962-2008) via A Word A Day

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

At this point the controversy should be about the incredible cowardice of the media in not calling a Nazi a Nazi.

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In the last Ontario election, more than 6 million eligible voters did not vote. That’s 6 million voices missing from the conversation about our province’s future. Advanced polling happens today and tomorrow. Please make sure your voice is heard. www.elections.on.ca/en/voting-in...

submitted 7 days ago • 12 comments

Doug Ford Claims There Are ‘More Cranes’ Building Homes Than Ever Before. Actually, The Number of New Home Builds Has Decreased Under Ford. There were 74,326 housing starts in Ontario in 2024 –that’s 25,000 fewer than the peak in 2021. pressprogress.ca/doug-ford-cl...

submitted 7 days ago • 34 comments

You don’t want to get into Doug’s bad books because then he may have no choice but give you millions of dollars to teach you a lesson.

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🧵 Our special election issue, “7 Years of Doug Ford,” is now live. From health care to education, online gambling to the Greenbelt, this is the best collection of stories about how the lives of Torontonians have changed during Ford’s time as premier. thelocal.to/7-years-of-d...

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My latest

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John Reiti had a series of stories about Toronto deals/things during the Tory era that are cannon in how they will haunt us for a while.

submitted 8 days ago • 4 comments

Jews for Jama in #HamOnt invite you to join our Shabbat with Sarah this Friday night, Feb 21, 7 pm, at 185 King Street West. Free and open to the public. @sarahjama.bsky.social

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I'm asking the question at @uoftcities.bsky.social "Could Congestion Pricing Unlock a Better Toronto?" Maybe the follow up needs to be why are we so afraid of proactively making our city more liveable? h/t @sesquiotic.bsky.social @ndhapple.bsky.social schoolofcities.utoronto.ca/could-conges...

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Environment more crucial than genes in risk of early death, study suggests

submitted 9 days ago • 11 comments

I’m visiting Morocco, which has opened and is expanding its own high-speed rail and it is transformative. Canada, pls don’t mess this up. 🙏🏼

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Beyond the fact that Police Associations and Police Unions should remain apolitical, one has to consider the optics of actively endorsing someone who is under criminal investigation.

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“Toronto’s emergency room doctors and cycling advocates agree: the real danger to children isn’t riding on an e-bike – it’s being anywhere near the growing number of SUVs on our roads.” And, I imagine, one could add the growing number of massive, oversized pickups on our roads.

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We interrupt this tariff-focused election campaign to bring you a look at Ford's record on housing #Onpoli www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

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Ford government’s chronic underfunding of education is creating compounding issues for staff and students “Students are basically being left behind and we see an education system that is frankly in crisis.” pressprogress.ca/ford-governm...

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U.S. lawmakers in Munich reportedly handed Volodymyr Zelensky a "piece of paper" today that would have granted Americans the mining rights to half of Ukraine's "future mineral reserves." Zelensky refused to sign.

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