A new @policyalternatives.ca analysis provides a breakdown of actual class sizes for grades 4 to 8 across Ontario - all boards and all schools. Nearly 1,100 classes have more than 30 students! Ontario students need class-size caps, not an EQAO review www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

“It’s actually insane. I don’t know, I can’t find other adjectives. It’s nuts. It really makes no sense at all,” said Fadi Masoud, director of the Centre for Landscape Research at the University of Toronto www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... #onpoli

As a percentage of all the private consultants embedded within Metrolinx, is 400 a little or a lot? Metrolinx, of course, will not say globalnews.ca/news/1171849... #onpoli

Happening now: Students arriving at Queen’s Park for a “Hands Off Our Education” protest against OSAP changes and tuition fee increases. #OnPoli

"Doug Ford should focus on this project rather than fantasies of a tunnel under Highway 401. Upgrading the Trans-Canada Highway in northern Ontario has clear safety, economic & security benefits that will be good for northern communities & the country" www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/edit... #onpoli

“Northern highways are lifelines. They are the connection between people and their health care, people and their jobs, people and their families — and right now, unfortunately, they are simply not safe,” said NDP leader @maritstilesndp.bsky.social www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... #onpoli

The Ontario NDP launched a nine-day northern tour Tuesday to highlight dangerous conditions on Highways 11 and 17, demanding government action following fatal crashes and lengthy highway closures.

“Highways 17 and 11 are the two main routes across northern Ontario, most of which is served by two-lane highways … there were 363 road closures on Highway 11 in 2024 and 886 closures on Highway 17 in 2023” #onpoli

📈📊: Ontario appears to have pulled back on sharing data. That's an idea we put to the premier's office, which told us: "To imply the government has reduced or removed process measures is factually incorrect and misleading to your readers.” Here are the examples #OnPoli

It's newspaper official people. Reminder: Finch is throwing a party on Saturday to celebrate. www.thestar.com/business/the...

NEW: Who's counting anyway? A series of tracking measures that were once regularly updated and relatively easy to access are disappearing in Ontario. Government denies it's deliberate, critics say it makes it harder to hold to account. #OnPoli globalnews.ca/news/1171077...

"This province seems to be run by weasels," said NDP transportation critic @jennkfrench.bsky.social after emails obtained by the NDP revealed that the Ford govt secretly reduced Canadian content requirements for Ontario Line vehicles, then lied about it www.thetrillium.ca/news/municip... #onpoli

New: The Ford government secretly reduced Canadian content requirements for two of its biggest transit projects, and when confronted, said no policies had changed. #onpoli www.thetrillium.ca/news/municip...

“The area's Progressive Conservative MPP declined to comment. ‘I've got nothing to say on that,’ Essex MPP Anthony Leardi told a CBC reporter, adding ‘Another time,’ before closing the door” #onpoli #onlab

“Never vote Conservative again”: Former Diageo workers say they feel betrayed after Doug Ford’s much-publicized Crown Royal stunt ends in plant closure and a $23 million settlement, less than 5% of which will benefit the affected communities www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... #onpoli #onlab

Locked out Windsor workers say Titan Tool & Die is using scab labour www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... #onpoli #onlab

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It is beyond shocking that $100m can be spent on *pre-construction* for two simple rail stations. It should also be shocking that Tory a) ran on a laughably unserious back-of-envelope "plan" b) gave city money to the province to build stuff they were going to build anyway

Latest from the Torment Nexus www.newscientist.com/article/2516...

NEW: The Ford government has stopped producing reports on the number of children dying associated with its child welfare network. Previous years showed deaths that average one every three days. #OnPoli globalnews.ca/news/1169038...

CIBC: “The best way to describe the current state of the housing market is to say that prices are still too high to buy and not high enough to build … the economics of homebuilding is simply broken” economics.cibccm.com/cds?id=fa94c... #onpoli

A former hospital exec & the former CEO of one of Ontario’s biggest P3 contractors are set to be sentenced today for the massive $300 million St. Mike’s hospital fraud. The defence has argued their conduct was normal for the industry www.thestar.com/news/gta/300... #onpoli

Mobilinx has completed only 45% of the track work for the Hazel McCallion LRT, which was supposed to be finished by fall 2024. A year ago the P3 consortium’s credit rating was downgraded (again) to BBB-, the lowest before junk status #p3fail globalnews.ca/news/1166970... #onpoli

Ontario still has the highest tuition fees, despite a multi-year freeze, which the Ford PCs ended last week open.substack.com/pub/tparkin/...

“In three known cases, palliative patients died without pain medications and one patient died without nutrition because supplies were delayed” #onpoli

“Demkiw’s challenge is not just to find and prosecute officers who committed actual crimes. He needs to go hunting for anyone who looked the other way.” The question I have after yesterday’s stunning news: How deep does the rot go in the Toronto Police? www.thestar.com/opinion/star...

Landlord & Tenant Board ordered a mom & her two kids evicted after her husband, the sole name on the lease, was removed from home by the police. Landlord had told her to pay twice the rent or move out. A court has overturned this cruel & legally flawed order www.thestar.com/news/gta/wom... #onpoli

Toronto Star editorial on Metrolinx: “What McGuinty & his team built—and what Ford & his government have kept in place—is an agency that allows full provincial control with zero political responsibility. It’s a recipe for unaccountable, inefficient operations” www.thestar.com/opinion/edit... #onpoli

The Ford government has stopped reporting on hallway health care. “I think that's complete and utter malpractice in terms of public accountability and transparency,” said ER doctor Raghu Venugopal www.thetrillium.ca/news/health/... #onpoli #ONhealth

"Officers are accused of trafficking, leaking addresses to hitmen, and leaking police officer addresses, the sources said. The investigation also uncovered a conspiracy to kill a unit commander at the Toronto South Detention Centre, the sources said." Holy Christ. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

“The precedent for this decision is clear: we will not leave seniors without a home, Manitoba health-care workers without jobs, or allow publicly funded personal care home beds to disappear at a time when demand for long-term care is high across the province” www.ctvnews.ca/winnipeg/art... #mbpoli

“Residential home construction is moving at a brisk pace across Canada by historical standards but the results are uneven, with Ontario emerging as the clear laggard, according to a TD Economics report” ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/canada-... #onpoli

My @thestar.com column: The Eglinton Crosstown is finally opening this Sunday, but please, spare us the celebration. We don’t want a party — we want an apology, an explanation, and a reason to believe a bungled project like this won’t ever happen again. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Ontario’s transparency watchdog says she is beginning to use “firmer enforcement powers” in an effort to get ahead of the Ford government’s consistent use of personal devices for government business — a trend that’s being called “worrying” globalnews.ca/news/1164208... #onpoli

It's time the government got serious about building affordable homes. I was at the Village Soho in London. It’s the first project of its kind in Canada. Multiple non-profit developers came together to build affordable housing that actually works for people.

BREAKING: Fortress Real Developments co-founders sentenced to five years in prison, to pay $12.2-million each www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...

Under a “sweetheart deal,” Ontario taxpayers will owe Therme millions of dollars in annual penalties if the Ford government does not build a parking garage at Ontario Place before the spa opens. This deal was given ONLY to Therme, and not LiveNation www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/arti... #onpoli

Off the rails: The inside story of how the Eglinton Crosstown LRT went from transit dream to cautionary tale

Reflections on twenty years of blogging. stevemunro.ca/2026/01/31/t...

Disgusting take and policy. I met a refugee in downtown Toronto with trench foot — a WWI disease — that he contracted while living unsheltered in the rain. Refugees are not why the system is failing; they're the people we have failed and are now scapegoating. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

Ontario has the lowest per-capita hospital spending in the country. Expanding private care will worsen access. By @alonghurst.bsky.social @policyalternatives.ca #onpoli www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

Housing is a provincial responsibility! If the political will was there, we could end chronic homelessness. We know the solutions needed, we just need a government that will step up and implement them. #onpoli #housing #homelessness

New: The OPP's anti-rackets branch is investigating Jake's House, another group given millions by the Ford government, including through the Skills Development Fund. #onpoli www.thetrillium.ca/news/the-tri...

Most Finch West LRT delays are due to equipment failures Metrolinx & its P3 contractor are responsible for: “There are a lot of issues there and some of them seem more fundamental than just, ‘Oh we haven’t quite got a few of the kinks worked out yet’” www.thestar.com/news/gta/tor... #onpoli #TOpoli

"Ford’s cash transfer did not improve access to cataract surgery for Ontarians overall — only the richest Ontarians got improved access to cataract care” thelocal.to/cataract-sur... #onpoli #ONhealth

TTC has published the delay data for 6 Finch for December 2025. Overwhelmingly the problems lie with equipment and infrastructure failures, not with TTC operations. stevemunro.ca/2026/01/21/6...

NEW: The stats for 2025 are in - and Ontario had the worst housing construction rate in the country. The province saw just 62,561 housing starts last year. Its target was 150,000 for this year and next year that will rise to 175,000. #OnPoli globalnews.ca/news/1162248...

I think some Toronto YIMBYs who find Chow insufficiently to their liking have been talking themselves into fanfiction where Bradford is the viable alternative and I really need folks to understand it's gonna be Chow v. Unrepentant Suburban NIMBYism, that's the ballot.

“I’m never going to buy pre-construction again”: she bought a two-bedroom townhouse, but got a one bedroom plus den. Ontario’s pre-construction condo buyers still lack protection, discouraging investment as housing starts collapse www.thestar.com/real-estate/... #onpoli

If fighting for Ontario auto workers wasn't important enough for Doug Ford to go to Beijing, what was? Scott Moe flew to China for Saskatchewan canola. Doug Ford stayed home while Mark Carney negotiated our auto sector's future – with no one at the table negotiating for Ontario workers.