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May 24 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
A pro-Ford company in Vaughan with "a record of donations" to Ontario PCs claims to be investigating after video surfaces of a man driving a company van methodically taking down Liberal lawn signs in Lecce's Brampton district;

Police are investigating vandalism involving .../2
...election signs in the district of incumbent Liberal MPP Mitzi Hunter. Nazi, fascist and blackface were the epithets of choice;

Lisa MacLeod supporters in Nepean are allegedly vandalizing and straight-up stealing the signs of a registered non-profit/3rd party group.../3
..advocating for the rights of autistic children and youth. Loud MacLeod and DoFo evidently believe 50K (on the autism waitlist) is OK;

Ford, reaching back to his 2018 playbook, is accused of using paid actors to create the illusion of strong support at 2022 debate venues; .../4
..par for the course, in the 2018 incidents, Ford blamed the local candidate for the tacky move.

#VoteFordOutJune2
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May 26
Ford prevailed over Elliott in the March 2018 PC leadership contest after a questionable ballot count and a delay in announcing the final results; the future MoH said there were "serious irregularities" with the voting process that she insisted would be investigated:

Ford.../2
...is named PC leader after a seven and a half-hour delay following the close of voting. Rumours swirled about an election that was too close to call between Ford and Elliott. Ford purportedly made a latenight deal with Evangelical extremist Tanya Granic Allen to seal the.../3
...support of the Christofascist fringe element of the party;

Ford concludes speeches with "God Bless Ontario" in a province where 23% of the population claims no religious affiliation;

Cut $1.5M in funding to the Lazaridis Institute, $750,000 from bioindustrial innovation../4
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May 26
Toronto lawyer Caryma Sa'd, renowned for thoroughly documenting anti-vaccination protests and challenging whacked-out conspiracy theorist Chris Sky (real surname, Saccoccia), is denied entry to Ford Nation's "public" event May 4; at a Del Duca event days later, the Liberal.../2
...leader shakes Ms Sa'd's hand;

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ON Liberals released an audio recording May 16../3
..2022 that appears to implicate Ford and Etobicoke Centre PC candidate Kinga Surma in the banned practice of paying for new PC memberships in 2016;

In a typically ham-handed move from the crew boss of Ford Nation, Con operatives have resurrected their in-house, faux-news.../4
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May 26
Terrible column confirming the Toronto media lacks the conviction, toughness, integrity, and investigatory skills to deal with the Racketeer of Queen’s Park. This piece repeats the Big Lie that Doug handled the pandemic well, then offers up only a.../2

thestar.com/opinion/star-c…
...wishy-washy "actually pretty bad" when characterizing the doofus's regime. Its itemization of Ford's colossal failures only proves the gutless media couldn't stand up to the flabby dolt -- they think he's a street fighter. Hopefully concerned voters will show more
../3
.. resolve than the likes of Hepburn, Cohn, (Mulligan), Rubin, (D'Mello, Dhanraj, Paikin) et al., next week, as the province confronts the reality of a Trump-lite regime leveraging influence and ignorance to run roughshod over Ontario.../4
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May 26
In a vindictive salvo against former Toronto city council colleagues, Ford cuts wards from 47 to 25 in the middle of the 2018 municipal election campaign; Ford also cancelled planned regional chair elections in Peel and York, thwarting the ambitions of his political foes.../2
...Brampton mayor Patrick Brown and Liberal leader Steven Del Duca;

Ford threatened to invoke the Charter's notwithstanding clause in the face of a City of Toronto lawsuit contesting his arbitrary wards revamp, but nonetheless prevailed following a narrow 5-4 Supreme Court.../3
...decision in October 2021. The SCC found he had the right to make the intervention; in a dissenting opinion Justice Rosalie Abella said the cynical wards revamp was unconstitutional.
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May 26
Dec 30, 2021, focusing on the size of the available labour pool at the expense of public health and in service to narrow economic interests, Ford cuts the Covid isolation period from 10 days to 5, to keep essential, public-facing employees working;

Dominated by Ford and.../2
...driven by business, ever-smiling Chief Medical Officer of Health Kieran Moore terminates immunization requirements for hospitals and universities, Feb 17, 2022;

CMOH Moore fails to inform the public of his target infection rates, offers no assessment of under-vaccinated .../3
...children nor long Covid concerns, instead opting to present as an arbitrary, autocratic decision-maker/political appointee;

Jan 20, 2022, as Covid test positivity ranges from 20% to a shocking 35%, Ford declares "positive news" -- a return to 50% capacity for bars and.../4
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May 26
The communications chief for Ford's Solicitor General, the minister responsible for police services, contributed financially to the Ottawa occupation convoy;

Ford's Instagramming pseudo-socialite daughter, Krista Haynes, 30, and suspended police officer husband, outspoken.../2
...anti-vaccine activists with apparent influence on the premier, are photographed unfurling a "F**k Trudeau" banner during the trucker convoy's Toronto segment; another Ford daughter touts her "natural immunity" while denying the utility of vaccines;

Questioned about the .../3
...option of imposing yet another lockdown in the face of the incoming Deltacron variant, Ford points to hospital bed inventory (unstaffed) but makes no mention of prevention measures;

PCR testing is restricted to high-risk individuals effective Dec 31/21, rendering daily../4
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