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May 18 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
May 1, 2022, families peacefully protesting outside of Lisa MacLeod's campaign office over her mishandling of the autism file triggered a call to 911 from the ex-cabinet minister. As the voters shouted "50K is not OK," in reference to the bloated autism treatment waitlist.../2
.. the blowsy, bullying MacLeod, a proud member of the convoy-friendly Cons, went live on Facebook screaming that she herself must not be bullied or threatened;

Ford encouraged Ontarians to travel for March Break 2020; later that same day, government shuttered schools for .../3
...two weeks;

After scapegoating him for almost 18 months, Ford announces in a Sunday press release that the ineffectual, often muddled chief medical officer of health, Dr. David Williams, would be fired/not rehired. The June 26, 2021 decision followed challenges from HCWs.../4
..whp questioned the doctor's public health advice during successive waves of the pandemic;

Ford slashed the number of paramedic service providers from 59 to 10 in 2019.

#CLUSTERFORD #OntarioVotes

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May 20
A Hamilton-area PC candidate spills the beans and admits the decision to skip a local all-candidates’ meeting was made by Boss Ford's operatives in the PC party, and not him. “We get direction on a day-to-day basis on what we’re going to do,” said former CFL'er Neil Lumsden../2
.."running" in Hamilton East-Stoney Creek. “I was told that on the (May) 25th, we’re not participating at this point, so that’s the way it is.”

Ford's MPPs failed to appear for debates on a frequent basis in the 2018 campaign, and observers see the same no-show policy in '22../3
Threw of the 4 candidates in Sudbury took part in an online debate May 11, but the Ford candidate was absent;

In a City News spot check of 34 local debates happening across the province, 22 PCs did not participate, while 10 Green Party candidates failed to show. /4
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May 20
Despite overwhelmed and underpaid nurses and HCWs, Ford won't revoke his Bill 124's 1% cap on public sector wage hikes passed in 2019, pre-pandemic;

Ford’s omnibus Bill 106, the Pandemic and Emergency Preparedness Act, will undermine nurses’ and healthcare professionals'.../2
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A Feb 3/22 meeting with the nurses over pay rates ends in deadlock; 8 days later, Ford makes a lowball offer of $763M, ultimately accepted by his "indispensable" practitioners (Doug’s empty../3
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May 20
Ford's former director of pandemic response (Oct 2020 to Feb 2022), Emily Beduz, was a career lobbyist for the private healthcare sector and is tied to Shoppers Drug Mart and other companies seeking Covid contracts. As of October 2020, Beduz was also a producer for the.../2
...defunct right-wing news channel Sun TV and currently serves as a lobbyist at Santis Health, a large Canadian healthcare policy consultant;

Feb 1, 2022, no new LTC measures are announced as 56% of Ontario’s 626 LTC facilities are in outbreak, 2,300-plus LTC staff are sick../3
..and off work -- 240-plus residents died in January 2022, as Ford's promised "Iron Ring" turns to rust;

Of 10 provinces and 3 territories, Ontario ranks 9th in Covid deaths per capita;

Contact tracing at retail level abandoned Jan 27, 2022;

New C19 cases hit then record.../4
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May 20
"Being Canadian, I believe in government." -- Mike Myers, on Late Show w/Stephen Colbert, Thurs.

He also gave a plug for public healthcare.

#VoteFordOutJune2? Yes:

"Ford expands use of Independent Health Facilities (IHFs), non-hospital sites performing surgical operations. /2
Pointing out that 97% of current IHFs are for-profit entities, the Ontario Health Coalition described Ford's privatization push a "bombshell" during a pandemic. It predicted IHFs would take only profitable patients, leaving difficult procedures to the public system. /3
Capitalizing on disruption to public healthcare, Ford/Elliott accelerate privatization by contracting out Covid testing to Switch Health, on whose board sits Harperite Rona Ambrose;

Scarce PCR tests retail from $160 to $350 as Ford seeks to expand private sector... /4
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May 18
Jan 11, 2022, Education minister Lecce emerges from a month-long hibernation to announce to anxious parents of school-age children that, (a) a mere 2 surgical or cloth masks and 2 rapid antigen tests (RATs) to be supplied, per child; (b) 3,000 HEPA filter units added to.../2
... purported existing 70,000, or roughly one new unit for every 4 schools; (c) limited supply of N95 masks for teachers; (d) families to be notified by local public health units only when school absences hit 30%. Item (d) is retracted within hours
Cloth masks supplied to.../3
...students are ill-fitting and oversized, thin ply, cheaply made; teachers' N95s go out of stock Jan 27, 2022, a mere 16 days after Lecce's school opening presser touting the PPE delivery, even as stats show Ottawa has paid for 80% of spending on Covid measures;

CMOH Moore../4
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May 18
"No comment” was expected and the Yes-Man didn't disappoint, as King Doug of Ford Nation and the residents of Ottawa and Toronto faced the spectre of thousands of motorcycles and trucks belching fumes on Parliament Hill and at 14 different gathering points in Toronto on.../2
..April 29/30, 2022;

It was feared the so-called “Rolling Thunder” motorcycle convoy of veterans (who have never served) would attack Ottawa in a copycat demonstration of the 26-day horror show (1/29-2/23) that illegally camped out on 20 downtown blocks. But the confused.../3
...conductor of the Yes Express, DoFo, chose to lie low anyway;

Rolling Thunder organizers had threatened to be even louder than the honking of the initial occupation, but residents of the 2 cities were adamant that a second takeover be headed off by police forces amid.../4
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