Min of Ed outraged by charity using portable for free that’s also providing free programming at the school - storing computers, football equipment & BBQ items. Blames trustee. Is this Minister releasing his expense reports? New FOI restrictions enable him to hide those documents. #onpoli #onted

Canada: also a barely functioning democracy. There are apparently no checks on this type of open corruption.

Is there one example where privatizing a public asset has turned out to be beneficial for Canadians as a whole? Between Petro-Canada, Air Canada, Highway 407, Hydro One, all I see are regrets.

This is not justice. You never have to listen to an Ontario Progressive Conservative talk about law & order again. Put this back in their face. Every minister, every back bencher. They all voted for secret govt.

Hopefully this previous project we helped coordinate doesn't cause any confusion. #HamOnt

“Risk rank 1”: Metrolinx, which has covered up near-misses & deteriorating equipment while publicly claiming high safety & maintenance performance, has been using non-compliant crash recording devices that have failed at least twice since 2023 www.thetrillium.ca/news/municip... #onpoli

NEW: Doug Ford is headlining an “exclusive members only” event at a private club in downtown Toronto. The sparsely advertised event comes as the Ontario premier appears to pull back his public appearances amid falling poll numbers. #OnPoli globalnews.ca/news/1182331...

This 'remote for me but not for thee' information was revealed with a Global News FOI. Media attention to these embarrassing (or worse) moves is why Ford abused his power to exempt himself, his cabinet and their staff from FOI requests, last Thursday.

The controversial weed killer Roundup is now being deployed in private and public forests at record rates. We go inside the secret plan that helped make it possible.

Thank You For Smoking is now a reality show

Remember this when they tell you we can’t afford social housing, good health care or transit, UBI, clean water for Indigenous people, support for arts & culture, etc

This is correct. Best available estimates suggest that the destruction of USAID, in which musk played a central role, will kill over 14 million people by 2030, 1/3 of them children aged < 5 years www.thelancet.com/article/S014...

“Members of the public have a right to know what the government is doing with our tax dollars.” buff.ly/xbsmxNR #HamOnt #OnPoli

Canada’s focus on oil and gas to drive its national energy strategy leaves the country vulnerable to eroding global demand for fossil fuels in the wake of the US-Iran war, while slowing its own transition to renewables, a new report from Ember says. www.nationalobserver.com/2026/04/22/n...

"Environment #HamOnt laments Ontario changes that will limit publicly-available government information" www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Ford was already trying to circumvent FOI laws by doing government business on his personal cell (he gives out the number freely! 647 612 3673) instead of his official #. The courts saw this and authorized his personal call logs be released. That's what he's hiding from globalnews.ca/news/1159745...

In January, the courts mandated that Doug Ford had to release his phone records as part of an investigation into his crooked dealings with developers. Instead, with no public consultation or debate, in the blink of an eye on a Thursday morning, he changed the laws so he didn't have to comply.

ICYMI: We @thenarwhal.ca spent a month investigating what Doug Ford's conservation authority consolidation means for drinking water protections. 12 sources & a leaked doc reveal the system built to prevent another Walkerton crisis is in flux. Experts are worried thenarwhal.ca/ontario-sour... #onpoli

This law is as authoritarian and undemocratic as anything Trump has ever pushed. Members of the Conservative party and ONLY the Conservative party are now 100% shielded from any Freedom Of Information requests from the public or reporters. And it's retroactive, too. Some real Innocent Guy shit.

Doug Ford didn’t have time to stop and talk about the FOI changes that were rushed through today. Although the premier said he’d be back, his office said he actually has photos planned and back to back meetings. He’s also taking time to appear on US media today. #OnPoli

An easy way to fix this would be to not give out your personal cell number like it's candy when you're the premier of the largest province in the country.

In broad terms you could juxtapose the economic output of fossil fuels with health costs: Crude oil exports were $138 billion in 2024, health impacts from air pollution, $146 billion in 2018. But in other ways it’s tough to quantify: there’s a ripple effect of consequences that go unaccounted for.

When Canadians talk about affordability, the discussion often revolves around the cost of fuel. While we pay for gasoline and diesel with our credit cards, in study after study, scientists have shown we also pay with our health. We should talk about it more. thenarwhal.ca/climate-chan...

Mark Carney came into power with a promise that he was going to build homes at levels not seen in decades, and so far what we've gotten is his government refusing to hold some of our largest cities accountable for deliberately breaking agreements they signed on regulatory reform.

The stretch of Wasaga Beach used by piping plovers is no longer protected under Ontario law. Environmental groups have asked the feds to issue an emergency order for the endangered bird's protection, before it migrates back to the beach. Now they're going to court. thenarwhal.ca/wasaga-beach...

Ford never bought a plane. They leased a plane. But #CdnMediaColludes is helpfully lying, as per usual. This plane thing is manufactured to distract from Doug's bags of burner phones and the end of FOIs. It was meant to capture rage and attention and give him an opportunity to stand down.

"Amidst today’s oil price shocks, the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives @policyalternatives.ca estimates that Canadian oil and gas companies are on track to triple their profits because of the war." #cdnecon #cdnpoli www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/anal...

I thought Carney was a builder of infrastructure? With $2.4 billion, we could quickly get to incredible levels of intercity bus service. Medical appointments, family visits, vacations, etc could all be done without a car. Instead, the people who can afford a car will save ~$5 per tank.

This could be a major change for Hamilton City Council, if Integrity Commissioner David Boghosian applies the same standard. Haldimand Council members now prohibited from being wined-and-dined by developers. haldimandpress.com/lawrence-shi...

NEW: The Ford government is moving to take direct control at the top of some local governments in Ontario, offering its appointees enhanced powers and shrinking the size of two councils. #Onpoli globalnews.ca/news/1175717...

They’ll do anything except actually fund deeply affordable home construction.

Last summer #HamOnt had 30 days at or over +30C, and local media never even mention it. We’re literally cooked.

Hey, come on now, let's be fair, because who among us didn't get a 31% raise last year?

The Chair of Quebec government's climate science advisory panel is pulling no punches on proposed Marinvest LNG facility: "a prehistoric vision of the economy", a "catastrophe" from an economic, environmental & social point of view (my translation below): www.ledevoir.com/actualites/e...

Here's one small trick to save a nation: Invest in the welfare state. Countries exist to serve their people. Canada should remember that. www.davidmoscrop.com/p/one-small-...

This is a very important and disturbing story. So it seems the Carney gvt will allow new AI data centers to generate their own electricity by burning gas. If this is the future, our climate goals are f-cked.

Alberta electricity company Capital Power has successfully lobbied the Mark Carney government to drop clean-energy regulations, clearing the path forward for the development of their gas-powered AI data centre. Journalist Taylor C. Noakes explores: https://ow.ly/XM7b50Yzsyb

When transit and mobility advocates talk about "car culture", a good example is how commonplace it is for elected politicians to argue for diminishing City revenue by changing laws and by-laws to enable anti-social or dangerous behavior by people in private vehicles.

Carney has slashed 40,000 public service jobs. For context, the oil & gas sector employed 54,600 people in 2025 He's a real job killer. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Imagine what it would be like to have a Premier who cared as much about all of Ontario as Ford does about the 0.06% of the province's landmass that is part of the City of Toronto? #onpoli

Ontario Premier Doug Ford says he is prepared to declare Toronto’s Billy Bishop Airport the first special economic zone with the aim to take over city-owned land.

I got threats when I suggested a couple weeks ago that it appeared Doug Ford might be pivoting from “special economic zones” being for red tape reduction to them being for overriding local resistance. Turns out Billy Bishop Airport, not the Ring of Fire, will be the first such zone.

I've interviewed more than a dozen hydrologists and climatologists across the West the past 10 days. A sense of panic is starting to set in. Wildfires and water shortages will start mounting this summer. Adverse impacts are expected from not only this heat wave, but the historically warm winter.

I’ve been moaning about this re Toronto for years but it really is a sad Canadian condition. 1967 era was an aberration.

Sadly, @thespec1846.bsky.social didn't compare the cost of widening 5 km of suburban road to the cost of 3 shiny new suburban rec centres, in their article about Eastwood arena closing? #HamOnt has a $300M rec shortfall and a pothole budget of $106M this year alone! www.thespec.com/news/hamilto...

if Nancy Pelosi and Fox News hadn't bravely slapped down AOC and the Sunrise kids in 2019 we'd have sky-high gas prices now but also be saddled with high-speed rail, universal childcare, and high-paying union construction jobs

Good morning! This is BAD, folks. Ford not only wants to hide his cell phone logs, he also wants to hide private emails about the Greenbelt. Remember that scandal? This is egregious. We need to push back against this LOUDLY. Pls call this feedback line & say, "NO!". Ford ☎️: 416 325 1941

If you've wondered whether the techno-optimist contingent of the climate coalition ever really cared about climate change, you might consider that, nearly to a one, they've pivoted from decarbonization to working on providing power to "hyperscalers" (which is to say, to AI companies). 🙄

Potentially sixty years to electrify some GO lines. What are we even doing here. www.torontotoday.ca/local/transp...