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May 23 • 3 tweets • 1 min read
TV Ontario’s Steve Paikin hosts a virtual Covid summit, Jan 10, 2022. Liberals, NDP and Greens appear, while the Cons skip out like Ford in a late-afternoon Question Period;

Added Paikin on the election trail: “Ford is doing only one event per day, reading his announcements.../2
..off a teleprompter, and taking only 10 minutes of questions from reporters. It’s a peek-a-boo campaign designed to provide as few opportunities to stumble as possible."

Par for Ford, the wimp has gone into deeper cover since Paikin spoke;

Ford is the 1st premier to duck.../3
...a sit-down interview with the provincial public broadcaster since TVO was established 51 years ago; 8 consecutive premiers had upheld the tradition.

The cowardly grifter again turned down Paikin, the broadcaster said, in a May 12 update.

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Ford’s office withheld the Premier’s itinerary from the media until a freedom of information request for data on his first 3 months in office showed Ford had had numerous undisclosed meetings with Galen Weston Jr. of Loblaw Companies Ltd. over minimum wages and with retired../2
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Ford Nation Brampton candidate Simmer Sandhu quits during the 2018 campaign after the alleged theft of 60,000 Hwy 407 ETR customers’ personal data ends up in the hands of one (or more) Tory candidates to aid in campaigning and fundraising. Police lay charges in July 2020; /2
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May 25
King RAT distributed almost 175,000 kits to private schools (there are only 408 in the entire province) exceeding the total that went to paramedics (69K), shelters (31K), daycare centres (36K) and jails (15K), combined;

While the immunocompromised scrambled for tests in ../2
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Only 20% of the 20.7M taxpayer-paid kits were supplied to Covid hotspots, even as Ford touted them as "game-changers" when he launched the RAT program in the fall of 2020;

In the first 10 months of the ../3
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Mirroring the Hunger Games rush for vaccines in .../4
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May 24
Ford had an option to mitigate the environmental impact of blasting the controversial 4- to 6-lane, multi-billion dollar Hwy 413 through the Greenbelt, but instead stunned environmental groups by choosing a route across the headwaters of the Humber River and through the.../2
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The belligerent Ford plans to bulldoze the 68.2-km, $7.5B to $10B Hwy 413/Bradford Bypass through the Greenbelt, contrary to expert advice and public opinion;

Frank Graves' EKOS firm showed.../3
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The Toronto Star reported April 18, 2022 that a less ecologically destructive alignment was rejected because it would have cut a 170-metre.../4
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As recently as February 2022, Merit Ontario, Ontario’s largest lobby group for anti-union construction employers, directly lobbied Ford’s office in a bid to undermine unions representing skilled trades workers and make it harder for workers in Ontario to unionize;

The report../2
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