Seeing a lot of tweets about Ford's suppression of the provincial vote June 2 and the media's complicity.

#CLUSTERFORD rewind:

"The Toronto press pack, wondering why the 2022 campaign went missing, failed to note that Huckster Ford's face had been on screens continuously.../2
..for months, while no issue advertising was to be heard. Ford gagged teachers, HCWs, the disabled, LTC/Covid victims, small business, closing off a key platform available to special interests, and even had activist lawyer Caryma Sa'd aggressively handcuffed at a Trump-style../3
..re-election rally;

Ford's election law was starkly favourable to his PCs, hobbling labour and other third parties for a full year, including during the campaign, while personal allowable contribution limits were doubled to $3K;

Meanwhile, Ford burned through $9M in 35.../4
...days in heavy rotation in NHL/MLB primetime cable broadcasts, getting out an empty message, with funds raised via Bill 254;

As far back as April 2021, Ford's brazen election financing revamp (aka the "Protecting Ontario Elections Act"), had been recharacterized as the.../5
.."Squashing Ontario Democracy Act" by Unifor, the country's largest private sector union group;

Ford's amendments doubled the length of time spending limits were imposed on political advertising by third parties, from 6 to 12 mos leading up to an election. During that time.../6
...each interest group or individual's ad spend was limited;

An Ontario Sup Ct Justice found 4 sections of Ford's overreaching Bill 254 breached section 2 of the Charter based on freedom of expression;

In response to the Superior Court rebuke, as usual embracing .../7
...audacity over legality, Ford invoked the Charter's section 33 notwithstanding clause an unprecedented second time, and this time plays the wildcard, the first Ontario premier to do so in the Charter's 40-year history;

Dictator Doug reintroduced the offending sections of.../8
...the act, overriding the Sup Ct ruling, passing the amendments following a 63 to 47 latenight vote; the Cdn Civil Liberties Assn said the gag law would aid the Doofus's re-election bid by limiting political voices during a campaign."

The media watched, like Good Germans.
@reggcohn and @TheTorontoStar must never be permitted to live down this sycophantic front page -- 9 days preballot. All for rights to operate an online sports gaming site for $100,000/yr at Doug’s behest?

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May 31
The media has buried the lede again, as the impact of Ford's Bill 254 and its ham-fisted interference in election advertising and 3rd party involvement has been on display since the campaign began five weeks ago: Ford's face has been on screens continuously, along with the.../2
...huckster patter, but no issue advertising is to be heard;

Teachers, HCWs, the disabled, LTC/Covid victims, small business, etc., have been shut down, as Ford blunts (and handcuffs) critics as an election tactic. Nevertheless, an obtuse press pack wonders why the campaign.../3
...went flat;

April 2021, Ford's election financing revamp, aka the Protecting Ontario Elections Act, was characterized as the "Squashing Ontario Democracy Act" by Unifor, the country's largest private sector union;

Ford's election law is starkly favourable to his PCs; .../4
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April 2021, Ford's Bill 254 election financing revamp, aka the Protecting Ontario Elections Act, is characterized as the "Squashing Ontario Democracy Act" by Unifor, the country's largest private sector union;

Ford's election law is starkly favourable to his PCs, hobbling../2
...labour and other 3rd parties during campaigns, but personal allowable contribution limits are doubled to $3,000;

Ford's amendments double the time spending limits are imposed on political advertising by 3rd parties, from 6 to 12 months leading to an election. During.../3
.. that time, each interest group or individual's ad spend is now limited;

An ON Superior Court Justice found 4 sections of Bill 254 infringed s. 2. of the Charter based on freedom of expression;

In response to the Superior Court rebuke, as usual embracing audacity over.../4
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May 31
In a vindictive salvo against former Toronto city council colleagues, (no other city was targeted) Ford cuts wards from 47 to 25 in Aug 2018, four and a half months into the municipal election campaign ending in November; Ford also cancelled planned regional chair elections.../2
...in Peel and York, thwarting the ambitions of his political foes, Brampton mayor Patrick Brown and Liberal leader Steven Del Duca;

Toronto sued, and the courts hurriedly ruled Sept 10 that Ford’s gerrymandering of political districts was undemocratic. So Ford accused the.../3
...courts of being undemocratic for upholding the constitution, threatening to invoke the Charter's last resort notwithstanding clause;

Sept 18, 2018, days after learning of the Superior Court loss, Ford complained to reporters that a "democratically elected government" is.../4
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May 30
The media itself took control of 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 once-upon-a-time liberal standard bearer;

No doubt to the chagrin of Journalist.../2
...Cohn, the paper's new bosses 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; /3
Not to be outdone, Global's muckraking Colin 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 with two sides).../4
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Feb 8, 2022, Ford turns down City of Ottawa request for an emergency declaration over the trucker occupation, into its 11th day, as the negligent, likely complicit premier absconds from his duty of care to Ottawans, embracing instead the CPC strategy of ensnaring the PM in../2
...the uprising; the slow-playing Ford later acts on Feb 11 with little fanfare, hesitant to offend his shrill base of Covidiots;

As combined police forces arrest and remove the capital occupation following Trudeau's Feb 14, 2022 Emergencies Act passage, (police towed more.../3
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Ford promised to send 1,500 OPP to help../4
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Snowmobiling Ford goes incommunicado for 5 days while the domestic and US-funded Jethro convoy of anti-Trudeau, anti-mandate anarchists barrelled through his province beginning Jan 26, 2022, sideswiping Toronto before hightailing it to Ottawa, promptly turning 20 blocks of.../2
...the capital's downtown core and Parliament Hill into a dystopian truck-stop on Jan 29;

The Konvoy runs amok in Ottawa, bringing 24/7 diesel fumes, honking horns and images of children being used as shields against police actions. The QAnons arrogantly brandish a farcical.../3
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The Ford-bolstered squatters indulge in violence and vandalism, urinating on war memorials, dancing on the tomb of the.../4
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