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May 24 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
In response to public outcry, Ford offloads free RAT distribution to the LCBO, but only to some, not all, stores;

RAT giveaway and booster distribution is chaotic, creating long lineups and growing public unease;

Ford won't impose province-wide vaccine mandate on HCWs .../2
...in deference to anti-vax base and fearing loss of staff;

Ford says no to mandatory vaccines in "all industries" July 2021, again prioritizing constitutional rights of his minority base of anti-vaxxers;

Cut $500M from education budget immediately upon election, then.../3
.. converted OSAP grants into loans, increasing already onerous student debt levels;

Ford/Lecce hiked up class sizes from 22 to 28 and imposed the online Zoom disaster on teachers and students in Mar 2019, a full 12 months before Covid struck, amid accusations Ford.../4
...wanted to cut the number of teachers in the province;

New nurses stretched thin, while veteran nurses leave profession en masse in response to Ford's antagonistic approach to remuneration.

#FordfailedOntario
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May 26
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The behind-the-scenes intrigue.../2
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May 26
April 2019, Ford pauses all capital funding for a proposed high-speed train corridor connecting Toronto and Windsor, a move opposition critics said would derail the project. "We’re dealing with financial difficulty within this province,” said the transportation minister of.../2
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Nevertheless, the no-class premier, projecting like only a Conservative can.../4
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May 26
Ford skipped all 3 pre-election debates in April while Leaders Del Duca, Horwath and Schreiner were displaying the kind of perfect attendance that the truant premier, Master of the Teleprompter but unable to speak off-the-cuff under fire, has rarely if ever attained;

CBC.../2
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TV Ontario’s Steve Paikin hosts a virtual Covid summit, Jan 10, 2022. Liberals.../3
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Added Paikin on the election trail: “Ford is doing only one event per day, reading his announcements off a teleprompter, and taking only 10 minutes of questions from reporters.../4
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May 26
Ford unveiled iGaming, a single-game pro sports betting platform, Apr 4, 2022;

Lottery advertising is immediately torqued to increase gambling revenues, social impact disregarded;

With the business and sporting press compliantly on mute, Ford-style private sector tie-ins.../2
..,for business abound. Public consultation on the massive transformation in the profile of sports betting? ZERO.

Ford grift is expected to generate $1B in annual gross revenues on $10B in wagers. The ON Lottery and Gaming Commission’s share in the betting handle (if any)... /2
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TV mainstay The Score, (est in Toronto in 1997, recently../3
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May 25
Mar 2022, CTV's W5 reports Ford brings a mob-boss mentality to healthcare funding in a bombshell investigation, alleging the premier made a Peel Region hospital expansion contingent on the muzzling of Dr Brooks Fallis, who dared to be critical of DoFo's Covid policies. The .../2
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Ford's firing of Ontario’s chief scientist immediately upon taking office in 2018 "begs the question of whether or not Mr. Ford will run a government that .../3
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A March 31, 2022 update from the nurses' association described Ford's “retention” payment, as "nowhere near what Premier Ford originally informed ONA last .../4
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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's minimum wage freeze decision followed.../3
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In Oct 2018, Ford dutifully passed Bill 47, the Making Ontario Open for Business Act, which contained multiple... /4
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