Paul Mason

“From the Depths” Canadian-American artist William Balfour Ker, 1906.

Toronto wants to keep its waterfront, not have it handed over to U.S business. MPs need to help us because it is their decision, not @Fordnation. torontostarreplica.pressreader.com/article/281741…

You all know @fordnation isn’t going to stand up to scrutiny. Watch he will close down the legislature and leave it closed for months.

@NateForOntario This is provincial NDP seat DolyBegum vacated as she crossed not only the floor, but also from a worker’s party to a neoliberal party representing the billionaire class. These voting irregularities are another example of how our FPTP system is captured by the billionaire class.

. @DolyBegum this is the Party you chose… white bullies that support regimes like Israel. #Shame

When records were about to come out, Doug Ford changed the law to bury them. When court cases started heating up, he changed the law to nullify them. Is this Queen's Park or the Kremlin? Why does this Premier think he's above the law?

Pockets🐶 attended Question Period at Queen's Park today. She also met with ONDP leader @MaritStiles and MPP Lise Vaugeois to advocate for Legislation for Service Animals. Please comment or email your experiences with Service Animals. #onpoli

BREAKING: The Ford government has just dropped the $28.9 million "gravy plane" documents showing the province did in fact incur overage costs including: - Acquisition support - Management services - Outside legal documents. #onpoli

More from @LiseVaugeois giving it to the Minister of Red Tap Asking will workers who lost 5% as of January 1, 1998 will they get anything back!

Here @LiseVaugeois give it to the Minister for SCREWING injured workers!

Bill 105 puts people with permanent, life-altering injuries under lifelong surveillance—always one review away from losing the support they depend on to live. Instead of clawing back benefits, we should be building a system rooted in fairness, dignity, and stability. #onpoli

Very little makes me feel more unsafe than police officers.

Edit: Premier won't say how much Metrolinx is paying the chairman of the board of the LCBO

Meanwhile, both Carney and Ford attack the right to strike, as have the Ontario Liberals

Tina Yazdani reported Sylvia Jones allocating “unprecedented” public heathcare dollars to private surgical clinics as Ontarians are paying 3× more for knee arthroscopy surgery at Don Mills for-profit surgical unit $4,037 vs $1,273 public hospital.

I am in the final few weeks of finishing my next book on the decline of democracy in Canada. The decay in our democracy, especially decay that is the fault of the Liberal Party and their tactics, was always going to lead us to this. Important watch.

NEW: Doug Ford won’t say how much Metrolinx is paying his friend’s company. “I don’t get involved in private sector business, so maybe you can ask them,” he said. The settlement is for public funds. From @CharliePinkerto. #onpoli thetrillium.ca/news/governmen…

“I don’t get involved in private sector business” says the man spending billions on a private spa and airport scheme.

It’s time to build affordable homes, a national network of public grocery stores, electric buses and an east-west clean energy grid. Not massive corporate AI data centres unleashed without any democratic debate. There's also no real data sovereignty in an AI ecosystem dominated by U.S. tech giants. Telus may be Canadian-owned, but it has already transferred 14 petabytes of Canadian data onto Google Cloud as part of its AI strategy. This is a technology that will bring sweeping changes at a scale and speed never seen before. Canadians deserve real oversight and a robust regulatory framework before we rush ahead. That’s why we’re calling for an immediate pause on the construction of any new AI data centres until strong federal guardrails are in place. We can’t sit back and let Big Tech billionaires decide our future for us. cbc.ca/news/canada/br…

Let the Liberals fight among themselves. What SSW residents want is a representative with deep roots in the community who'll fight against the Ford agenda every step of the way. That's @FatimaShabanNDP votefatima.ca

Got my hands on a copy of Nate Erskine-Smith’s notice of appeal in the Scarborough Southwest byelection. Have at it #onpoli