John Smithson

And the @TheTorontoSun which famously calls Carney a dictator, ignores what @fordnation is doing in Ontario. This is why we need to stop foreign ownership of our news media. #ontpoli

Eight of Ontario’s largest regional governments — including Niagara — will have their leaders appointed by the province instead of elected. This reduces local accountability & moves decision-making further from the people it affects. This is not democracy. This is a power grab.

We’ve known this from the start that this was his plan. Wake up, sheeple.

Y'all know how truly fucked this is, right? Don't get me wrong efficiency is great and I'm all for government saving money, until you remove accountability. An appointed regional chair doesn’t answer to voters. They answer to the person who appointed them. That’s not local elected governance anymore, but top-down management with zero accountability. #onpoli #canpoli @fordnation

Ontario is permanently out of compliance with Canada Health Act. Feds are as personally invested in private medicine as their provincial counterparts are. It's like the housing crisis. They are landlords and own REITs - they aren't going to "fix" it because it profits them.

As of yesterday, Ontario is out of compliance with the Canada Health Act because Doug Ford's government missed the federal deadline to fund nurse practitioners. Now Ontarians are being forced to pay out of pocket for primary care. 2.5 million people don't have a family doctor, and this Minister has no plan to fix it.

2 years at Conestoga College in Broadcasting gets you $211,000+ salary at a Hospital in Toronto IF your dad happens to be Doug Ford. Let’s all ask to be adopted

Life is harder after 8 yrs of Ford’s Conservative gov’t, & this budget won’t fix that. Nothing to help families with the high cost of living. No middle-income tax cut. Nothing for the 200k young people who can’t find a job. This budget just pretends to protect ONT. #onpoli

If Trump (illegally) takes the U.S. out of NATO, NATO should offer full membership to Ukraine five minutes later.

Ending hallway health care and longer wait times is simple: hire the staff to do it. To keep up with the rest of the country, we would need to hire 48,000 more hospital staff. Instead, this government is laying off healthcare workers with 1,000 jobs are being eliminated in hospitals in North Bay, Hamilton, London, Ottawa, Niagara and the GTA. Is this a record they’re proud of?

Play Hide and Seek with @fordnation and @pbethlenfalvy! While Ontarians need help at home, Doug Ford is in Texas trying to get Donald Trump to notice him. Post-budget, the Minister of Finance hasn’t even been to Question Period. Clearly, they can’t defend this budget. #onpoli

@iamufohunter Ego.

Need a honest opinion, What's stopping humans to just live in peace together ?

Yet our education minister is concerned about graduation ceremonies.

NATO’s 31 members will ‘have to reexamine’ whether they can still afford to have the USA as a partner. Let’s be honest about what is happening. The United States, under Trump, is actively supporting Russia. Blocking weapons to Ukraine. Pushing for a peace deal that rewards Moscow. Calling Putin a partner. Washington’s National Security Strategy no longer even identifies Russia as a threat. Russia is the only reason NATO exists. It has always been the only reason. And Washington is now on Russia’s side. So the question is not whether NATO can survive without America. The question is whether NATO can survive with it. And America has already started leaving. Rubio skipped the NATO foreign ministers meeting in December. Hegseth skipped the defense ministers meeting in February. Two top-level meetings in a row. It is rare for a US administration to miss even one.  They are not forgetting to show up. They are choosing not to. NATO noticed. NATO kept meeting. NATO kept working. Macron said it anyway. “No intimidation or threat will influence us, neither in Ukraine, nor in Greenland, nor anywhere else in the world.”  Sweden’s Prime Minister was blunter. “We will not allow ourselves to be blackmailed.” Good. Because NATO does not need permission. Thirty-one nations. Nearly a billion people. The world’s largest collective economy. NATO militaries hardened by four years of watching Russia bleed itself dry on NATO’s eastern doorstep. And here is what Today it is not the Russia of 2022. That Russia is gone. Ukraine shot it to pieces. Up to two million men lost. Elite units wiped out entirely. Equipment inventories so depleted that Russian forces are pulling tanks from Soviet-era storage and patching them together with parts that belong in museums. The most combat-capable military in NATO’s history is now facing the most degraded Russian army since the Second World War. NATO knows the enemy. It has watched it die in real time. America’s own Secretary of State called NATO allies “cowards” and the alliance a “paper tiger.”  This from a country that just spent a month bombing Iran and achieved nothing. A country with a $39 trillion debt, a democracy rated below Mexico by international observers, and a president whose first instinct after re-election was to call Vladimir Putin. Now look west from Washington. The Pacific. China. No NATO. No thirty-one allies who have trained together for 75 years, shared intelligence, and stood on the same walls. Just two oceans and a government that just told its only friends to go to hell. America without NATO is not a superpower. It is a large, indebted nation with no friends, two oceans, and China on the other side of one of them. NATO without Trump’s America is not weaker. It is stronger. Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

Doug often criticized Wynne for “outrageous salaries.” The new Sunshine List shows salaries in his office grew by 11% with a family member well paid at a local hospital too. This is now the most expensive cabinet in Ont. history. Tell us about outrage, Doug.

From American Pulse. “Carney has been Canada’s Prime Minister for one year. In that year, he has rearmed his country, rebuilt its alliances, secured its Arctic, reoriented its trade away from the United States, and stood on the world stage at Davos to say — without euphemism, without apology — that the old order is over and America is no longer its anchor” open.substack.com/pub/americanpu…

@BeachLoverOnt @TDotResident Kara Ford started the job just over a year ago making $134,000. The Chairman of Ontario Place is also on the Board of Runnymeade. Kara got a $100,000 in raises in less than a year because the Chair of Ontario Place is a Ford friend. That is how Ford spends OUR money.

Schools spend hours trying to “reach” the kid who openly doesn’t care, while the kid who tries every day quietly gets ignored. We’re exhausting ourselves chasing resistance instead of investing in effort.

Kara Ford with her 2-year broadcast television diploma from Conestoga College that she completed in 2018 now earns $211K, annual wages that surpass what most 30-y-o physicians in Ontario make. How many lives has she saved at Runnymede Hospital?

Doug Ford says OSAP is "unsustainable," but he has billions to spend on a luxury spa, a fantasy island, and vanity projects no one asked for.   As a mom to two young adults, I know what this generation is up against. Students across Ontario are being forced to choose between their future and a lifetime of debt — because Doug Ford chose a spa over their education.   Today, I'm forcing a debate and a vote to reverse these cuts and eliminate all interest on student loans.   Before Conservative MPPs vote, go to SaveOSAP.ca and email them. Tell them to do the right thing and vote YES.