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"I've been in front of the press 7 times out of 8 days," Ford lied on May 12. "I think that's a pretty good percentage." It was the 9th day of the campaign, and media covering Ford were given notice of news conferences on just 6 of those days, reported CBC
Feb 25, 2022.../2
Ontario pulls the plug on its weekly Covid briefing by CMOH Moore, part of Ford's "live with the virus" approach; Moore got the message and stayed in absentia for an entire month;

"What did Doug Ford know?", asks the Liberals' Del Duca, about a Ford MPP accepting $30,000.../3
...in "gifts" from a former lover, purportedly in exchange for the favourable location of a Mississauga transit line. "It raises a lot of troubling questions,” said the Liberal Leader, Apr 18, 2022;

Liberals report a flood of donations in unusual amounts – $120, $240.../4
..$360, $540. Online questionnaires confirm they are donated licence plate sticker fee refunds.

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May 17
Hospitalizations spiking and death rates stubbornly holding firm and even rising, his support tracking in reverse and the public engaged in a tug of war over his reckless masking edicts, Ford, with typical chutzpah, not only stakes his government's survival on a do-nothing../2
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At an Apr 7, 2022 presser, MoH Elliott brazenly affirmed the province was expecting a spike in infections as the province opened up, but stressed.../3
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May 17
Feb 21, 2022, Ford amends a provincial statute clearing the way for him to cynically delay the spring budget reading by an entire month, turning a routine Mar 31 financial blueprint into an Apr 28 election campaign springboard, a blatant abuse of his power over the purse .../2
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The upshot is the budget was unveiled a mere 33 days before the June 2, 2022 election, maxing out Ford's ability to buy votes and target new spending based on contemporaneous polling;

The shameless Ford himself passed the Fiscal Sustainability...
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May 17
In a 2016 interview, Ford defended Donald Trump’s β€œgrab her by the pussy” comments and claimed women care more about taxes than they do about sexual assault;

Seeking to gain the support of social conservatives during the 2018 PC leadership campaign, Ford promised to bring /2...
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Ford said he would welcome MPPs tabling the legislation, even though such a statute would likely be unconstitutional with the enshrinement of section 7.../3
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May 16
Ford loyalist Cameron Montgomery, a failed PC candidate in 2018, is appointed chair of the Education Quality and Accountability Office. The previous chair was paid $225 per diem for the job, but Montgomery will take home $140,000;

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May 16
The leaders of the Liberals and NDP call for the police and Elections Ontario to investigate the Hwy 407 data theft, while then Leader DoFo resorted to his usual deflection technique: "This goes back to Patrick Brown," slithered Ford. "You want to get answers on this? Patrick...
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Ford was named PC ldr after a 7.5 hour delay after voting ended, as rumours swirled about an election that was too close to call ...
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May 16
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