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May 24 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
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
...in Press Progress says Doug figured out how to give Merit $3M in taxpayer cash, collaborating with the group to establish a future "centre" of unknown location where trades workers will take training virtually – making virtual prevail over fact and reality being one of .../3
... Doug's best talents;

Given his track record, provincial auditors should ensure the funds are subject to clawback in the event (likely) that the project fails to materialize, i.e., the $400M Ontario Carbon Trust, touted by Ford in '18 as a significant source of emissions...
..reductions through the development of clean tech, never materialized and was likely never intended to be a viable operation.

#VoteFordOutJune2
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May 26
Apr 15, 2022, Ford the Urban Planner arrogantly barges into the jurisdiction of local authorities north of Toronto and announces the construction of a concrete ribbon of 67 high-rise towers along the North Yonge subway extension. Ford's Enhanced Minister's Zoning Order .../2
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Campaigning Ford's bribes/funding announcements carry a time bomb: he contributes some money, but then.../3
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Dishonest Doug fails to cut hydro rates by promised 12%, as the "For the People" .../4
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May 26
The media itself took the pro-Ford bullhorn, T-minus 9, when the Toronto Star's Ontario politics columnist, Martin Regg Cohn, worked up a fawning account of the New Doug Ford for the country’s formerly liberal standard bearer. No doubt to the journalist's chagrin, the paper's../2
..new bosses proceeded to put the puff piece on the front page with a 4-column picture and a headline proclaiming Ford's "Evolution" -- even as Ford disdains Official Toronto, has brutalized the City at every opportunity and is likely an evolution denier, to boot
Not to be .../3
...outdone, Global's Colin "The Muckraker" D'Mello, exposing himself to ridicule for not getting out much, puts the finger on Del Duca for putting on the Ritz, eating on the job to the tune of $50K over 6 years at the Keg restaurant chain ($47 filet w/two sides);

Meanwhile.../4
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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;

Brother of Sam Oosterhoff (and his campaign manager), Aaron Oosterhoff, is alleged to be an organizer named in the class action lawsuit stemming from the Jethro Convoy of Jan/Feb 2022 in Ottawa;

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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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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