Brandon Van Dam 🇨🇦

Ontario hospitals are short $3.2 billion. They're in deficit and borrowing from banks. The Ontario Hospital Association says it's dire. I see so many ER hallway patients and think about the billions wasted, and I get frustrated. By @a_longhurst policyalternatives.ca/news-research/…

Just a reminder. School boards across Ontario are making huge cuts to staff and programs right now. Not because they hate kids. Because Doug Ford has stripped away their funding over the past 8 years. Put the blame where it belongs. #OntEd

Doug Ford’s Conservatives voted against my Private Members’ Bill to ban harmful online gambling advertising. Bill 107 addressed a growing public health crisis in Ontario head on. It reflected a commitment to tackle the broader structure that makes it so easy to fall into problem gambling. This bill resonated across the province as I talked to countless people who were inundated with these predatory ads or whose lives were deeply impacted by online gambling. I will keep fighting! Join me at and thousands of Ontarians at leefairclough.ca/gambling. #onpoli

Breaking: Ontario Health will lay off several employees this week as it shifts to “a new operating model” that includes an employment cap, per an email obtained by @Thetrilliumca. For subscribers. #onpoli thetrillium.ca/insider-news/h…

Sad day for public education with the passing of Bill 101. Education workers and support staff, such as custodians, deserve respect and to be heard. Instead, this bill centralizes more power in the hands of the Education Minister while doing little to actually improve student success. Ontario students, parents, and education workers deserve better. #onpoli #onted @osstf @ETFOeducators @OECTAProv @AEFO_ON_CA

I am proud to announce that I am running to be the next Leader of the Ontario Liberal Party, because I didn’t get into politics to stand on the sidelines. I am ready to build an Ontario that works for everyone I’m a leader who will listen to the needs of our diverse communities and fight for every one of them, in all areas of the province. Join us: leefairclough.ca #onpoli #LeeforLeader #FightingforOntario

NEW: The Ford government tried to quietly close the public feedback period on its new education bill, changing the deadline to submit comments from May 13 to May 4 without notice. They reversed course after we asked why they were limiting public input: thetrillium.ca/insider-news/e…

Breaking News: The FDA has blocked publication of research that found widely used Covid-19 and shingles vaccines were safe. nyti.ms/49dtF24

@HoCStaffer This website has an image that shows only benches and no desks. #s4" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">canada.ca/en/public-serv…

When the House gets back to Centre Block, only frontbenchers will get a desk. Backbenchers will all be in a row, British-style.

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FOI motion lost. Ays 31 Nays 59 Every Conservative present voted against transparency and to shield Premier Doug Ford from accountability. #onpoli

NEW: For the first time since 2021, the Progressive Conservatives have fallen to second place in popular opinion polling. The Liberals, who have yet to elect a leader, are now at 38% while Doug Ford’s party has fallen to 36% according to a Liaison Strategies poll. This is part of a trend in polls. (338 graphic) #onpoli

Doug Ford regularly worked from home after ordering civil servants back to office globalnews.ca/news/11816493/…

This is a serious threat facing Ontario. Hospital cuts, 70% of hospitals in deficit, and more than $1 billion in underfunding. Many ERs are increasing hallway medicine. Rather than a $29 million jet we could hire 300 RNs for a year, not cut them. ctvnews.ca/toronto/politi…

"I'm outraged." Former conservative cabinet minister Lisa Raitt tells AM640 Premier Ford was "offside" in this comment about Liberal MPP Stephanie Smyth and "should apologize." #onpoli

Fun fact, when I used to sit beside Steph at the assignment desk, the Premier would call her often and he loved speaking to her and he'd go out of his way to do an interview with her.

Ontario’s Solicitor General and his office has clearly spent more time trying to get an extravagant vehicle instead of finding the prisoners they let go. #priorities globalnews.ca/news/11812936/…

Liberal MPP Stephanie Smyth, a former CP24 anchor, said Premier Ford owes her an apology for personally insulting her in the legislature today saying she was only there because the network didn’t want her. She says it’s beneath the office, “not to mention Trumpian.” #onpoli

Absolutely disgusting behaviour from @fordnation. @stephaniesmyth worked hard to earn the trust of her constituents and was also an incredible journalist. Apologize now.

Today we remember Her late Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, who was born one hundred years ago, #onthisday in 1926. As a royal church, Westminster Abbey had a special relationship with the Queen. Over the course of her life, she came here often for state occasions and national services, and some of the most important moments of her life took place here.