Steven Dow

NEW: CityNews has cut ties with Queen’s Park reporter Tina Yazdani, @policornerca has learned, while at least two of her stories about the Ford government have quietly vanished from the web without explanation. policorner.ca/p/scoop-the-fi…

Tina has been an incredible source of reporting on the Ford administration. If democracy dies in darkness, Tina has been a bright light. As for CityNews' decision? As said by Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman: "Big mistake. Huge."

@mattschroll @jayhaykid Still swept the jays

@jayhaykid C'mon... just let us go one day without reminding everyone that the team isn't great right now...

The White Sox just optioned their OPENING DAY STARTER to the minors less than 2 weeks into the season

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@bnicholsonsmith traded for Jesús but dfa’d Angel. conflicting messaging, Jays.

If you want your personal cell phone to be exempt from public disclosure… don’t conduct government business on it. The reason for these requests in the first place is the evidence that individuals in the premiers office and ministry were using personal emails and devices to discuss government business (specifically as it relates to the Greenbelt Scandal). Look, being a public figure is hard, and in many ways you lose privacy. But public service is also a privilege and comes with trade offs to privacy because transparency and accountability matter for the public. And if we accept the changes being made by the provincial government, a huge incentive to move sensitive conversations to private channels is the outcome. It just makes corruption an even easier than it has already become.

@peterrevie They’re uneducated on what each level of government can and can’t do. Ex. Anger towards Trudeau, means someone won’t vote OLP. Add that to the left infighting between parties and just general voter apathy and here we are … maybe next time?

How has he achieved three majority governments since 2018 with over 40% popular vote each time? Are Ontario voters masochistic?

@ivandemigoal Ron Tugnutt

Age yourself by naming an NHL goalie you grew up watching. I’ll start: Carey Price.

"We are the most transparent government ever, but since you won't stop finding evidence of our corruption and wrongdoing, we're building a brick wall. A totally transparent brick wall, with an equally transparent cement block wall behind it."

BREAKING: Ontario’s Information and Piracy Commissioner weighs in on premier Doug Ford changes to the FOI: “This amendment is about hiding government-related business to evade public accountability.” On Doug Ford’s use of a private cell phone for gov’t business: The Government of Ontario is currently seeking leave to appeal a court ruling that unanimously upheld my office's order to produce call logs from the Premier's personal cellphone that relate to government business. This is to ensure independent examination to determine whether they may be subject to access under the law. Based on evidence showing that the Premier routinely uses his personal phone to conduct government business, it is likely that they are. By changing the law retroactively, the government's message is plain: if oversight bodies get in the way, just change the rules. Full statement: #onpoli

Miss this guy everyday.

Ford is hiding how much they paid to cancel their contract with SpaceX. Taxpayers need to know how much of their money was spent on cancelling a contract for entirely political reasons. Ford is playing with our money like it's his.

I guess this means we need to close it and build a new one by the lake.

Here’s an example of the information the Ford government’s new FOI rules would have voided. #onpoli

Sued to hide mandate letters. Sued to hide cell phone records. Still using personal devices and emails without keeping records. Deleted emails. Used secret codewords when discussing the Greenbelt. One of the most transparent(ly corrupt) governments in the history of Ontario.

The public deserves to know how Doug Ford and his government are making decisions. Especially when those decisions consistently benefit the wealthy and well-connected.

@ColinDMello Would love an example of a conversation that you would have as a government official that shouldn’t be transparent. If it’s in the best interest of the province you shouldn’t be worried about saying it out loud!

Here's the government's rationale: "Ontario is currently one of only two jurisdictions in Canada (the other being Nova Scotia) without explicit protections for records belonging to cabinet ministers or their offices." "This weakens clarity of protections for cabinet decision-making and undermines the confidentiality and candidness of discussions between ministers and their offices."

BREAKING: The Ford government is changing Ontario's Freedom Of Information act system, effectively gutting a tool journalists use to obtain documents related to government decision-making: - The Premier, Ministers and their offices will all be excluded from the FOI system. - This applies to all existing requests - Only civil servants can be FOI'd - The government is extending the response timeline from 30 calendar days to 45 business days. #onpoli

NEW - “No government changes the FOI rules unless they’re looking to hide corruption” says opposition leader Marit Stiles.

It’s called Family Day for a reason @fordnation. It’s not “let’s go shopping day”. Retail workers have family too. Instead of just doing the easy stuff all the time, why don’t you just deliver families smaller class sizes, affordable post sec education, family docs, open ERs…