#BREAKING: Ontario is not keeping Peel region in modified stage 2 for another week, as requested by the region's medical officer. It's moving to red "control" level, which allows businesses such as restaurants/gyms to reopen under strictly limited numbers. #onpoli
Ottawa/York are moving to the orange "restrict" level (as expected.)

Toronto still remains in modified stage 2 until at least Nov. 14 (no indoor dining, gyms or cinemas.) #onpoli
Another 10 regions will be placed in the yellow "protect" level (fewer restrictions): Brant, Hamilton, Durham, E. Ontario, Haldimand-Norfolk, Halton, Niagara, Waterloo, Simcoe-Muskoka, Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph #onpoli
20 more regions (including Windsor-Essex) are in the lowest category, green "prevent." #onpoli
"Please go out and support a great local restaurant in Ottawa," says Ottawa Mayor @JimWatsonOttawa at the presser.
Before taking Qs, Premier Ford brings up the Whole Foods' employee no poppies rule, calls it disgusting and disgraceful.
Ford says whoever made this decision at @WholeFoods isn't the sharpest knife in the drawer, "in fact they're a butter knife." Says he'll bring forward legislation to fight this.
#onpoli

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6 Nov
Ford says numbers in Peel and Brampton are "going through the roof."
"They're out of control right now," he says.
(And yet they are reopening in spite of objections from the local MOH.) "Folks in Brampton we've got to hunker down." Huh? #onpoli
Elliott says Ontario wants to get positivity rate down to 2.5%
Right now it is 11% in Brampton, almost 7% in Peel region.
#onpoli
Why no more money for Public Health units in yesterday's budget, Premier Ford is asked..he passes to Finance Minister @RodPhillips01, who speaks about previous $170M investments in health and municipalities. #onpoli
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8 Oct
Ontario's chief medical officer of health Dr. David Williams opens his daily briefing saying: "Alarm bells are ringing louder and louder." #onpoli
Says case #s are going up in ways "that are very concerning to us." #onpoli
Other regions outside 3 "hotspots" are going up: Halton, York, Durham and Simcoe.
Read 22 tweets
6 Oct
Watching @reggcohn interview Premier @fordnation on @RyersonU Democracy Forum. Premier talks about his “good pal” @cafreeland, says they talk almost every day.
He says he had to make “tough choices” in first year, but he likes the type of governing he’s doing now. “I’m not going back.” Says he was elected not just by PCs by members of other parties too.
“Even during the campaign, she was never mean,” @fordnation says of @Kathleen_Wynne, praising her as a genuinely nice person.
Read 9 tweets
6 Oct
Premier Ford is up extolling the "robust" testing system; Ontario has completed 4 million tests, which he says is more than the other provinces combined. #onpoli
"We have eliminated the long line ups," Ford says, adding that people who need an appointment will get one.
Says testing backlog has been cleared by 40% (by limiting tests for asymptomatic people, and pausing appointments for a day.) #onpoli
Oh my. Ford promises to visit PEI and Premier @dennyking and host a "Ford Fest" at some point.
Not sure he can get inside the bubble for a while...? #onpoli
Read 8 tweets
6 Oct
In Question Period, Premier Ford is accusing the NDP of trying to ruin the lives of small business owners who run restaurants. #onpoli
"Have you ever had to meet a payroll? Have you ever had employees?" Ford charges at NDP leader @AndreaHorwath. "The answer is no, you've been on the public dole for the last 20 years." #onpoli
Horwath asks why Premier hasn't put supports in place to help small business owners.
Read 11 tweets
22 Sep
"This is a massive massive plan. It's very robust," Ford says of the government's Fall plan. "If we laid it all out at once, the message isn't going to get out to the people." #onpoli
"We know people in Ontario are anxious about the rising numbers," Elliott says, adding that she wants residents to see the "full plan", day by day.
"I'm concerned, I really am," @fordnation tells @CityCynthia of uptick in cases in the province.
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