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May 25 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
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
..wintertime lineups, Ford opened a pipeline for friends and allies;

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
...kit distribution, two companies received more than a third of all tests sent to industry, Toyota (109K) and Linamar (102K), key players in the auto trade. Linamar's CEO is a former member of Ontario's vaccine task force;

Mirroring the Hunger Games rush for vaccines in .../4
..Dec 2021, Ontario left it to individuals to access the swabs in 2020. "This is a lack of coordination that results from a retreat from responsibility," said a Western University professor.

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May 26
Under cover of the health crisis, Ford, quietly and steadily reducing the quality of justice at all levels, slashes the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario’s panel of arbitrators in half in 2020, (from 22 to 11), to create logjams in its process, even as claims exploded to .../2
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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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Meanwhile.../4
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