Hamilton-area PC candidate Neil Lumsden spilled the beans and admits the decision to skip a local all-candidates’ meeting was made by Boss Ford's operatives in the PC party, and not him. “We get direction on a day-to-day basis on.../2
"...what we’re going to do,” said former CFL'er Lumsden, running in Hamilton East-Stoney Creek. “I was told that on the (May) 25th, we’re not participating at this point, so that’s the way it is.”
Ford's MPPs failed to appear for debates on a frequent basis in the 2022.../3
...campaign, and observers saw the same no-show policy in 2018; 3 of the 4 candidates in Sudbury took part in an online debate May 11/22, but the Ford candidate was absent;
In a CityNews spot check of 34 local debates across the province, 22 PCs did not participate while 10.../4
...Green Party candidates failed to show.
In stealth campaign mode for weeks, kept under wraps by his handlers, the Phantom Ford went underground after the May 10 North Bay debate, in line with a premier saddled with a questionable record and a well-recognized inability to.../5
...speak extemporaneously.
Ford skipped all 3 pre-election debates in April while Leaders Del Duca, Horwath and Schreiner were displaying the attendance that the truant premier, Master of the Teleprompter but unable to speak off-the-cuff under fire, has rarely if ever.../6
...attained;
A Vaughan company 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; /7
Police were investigating vandalism involving 16 election signs in the district of incumbent Liberal MPP Mitzi Hunter. Nazi, fascist and blackface were the epithets of choice; /8
Lisa MacLeod supporters in Nepean allegedly vandalized and straight-up stole the signs of a registered non-profit/third party group advocating for the rights of autistic children and youth. Loud MacLeod and DoFo evidently believe 50K (on the autism waitlist) is OK. /9
Ford, reaching back to his 2018 playbook, is accused of using paid actors to create the illusion of strong support at 2022 debate venues; par for the course, in the 2018 incidents, Ford blamed the local candidate for the tacky move.
Doug Ford's Strong Mayors/Weak Councillors legislation displays the Muskoka Malefactor, his Municipal Affairs and Housing Minister Steve Clark and his comms apparatchick Ivana Yelich at their conniving, anti-democratic best, going Trojan Horse on the country's capital, Ottawa../2
..and its largest city, Toronto.
Presumably any half-acre plot in downtown Toronto or Ottawa can now accommodate a 50-storey condo of glass and steel (no matter its current zoning or, horrors, its zoning at time of acquisition), because Ford & Friends say obstructionist.../3
..pinko councillors might not go along with community disruption both during and after construction.
July 19, 2022, donning his "Doug Knows Best" mantle, Ford was musing a mere 47 days after the provincial election (where the subject was never raised) that he would bestow.../4
TorStar's Regg Cohn works up a thousand words on Doug's Greenbelt severance shocker without a single mention of the racketeer's bloodsucker class of elites -- as usual, a long list of donors to Ford and his PCs -- who stand to benefit from the environmental encroachment. /2
The belligerent Ford is bulldozing the 68.2-km, $7.5B to $10B Hwy 413/Bradford Bypass through the Greenbelt, contrary to expert advice and public opinion. Frank Graves' EKOS firm showed 74% of 905'ers oppose Hwy 413 in a Dec 2021 poll; updated May 2022, 48% of Ontarians ../3
...oppose the project, while only 23% support it. The Ontario Society of Professional Engineers condemned the project in a blog post, May 31, 2022;
The Bradford Bypass will bisect the Holland Marsh and cross 28 Lake Simcoe waterways, yet is exempt from environmental review; /4
Hand it, begrudgingly, to the ego-tripping Muskoka Misanthrope: the Doug Dynasty wields power over 15 million Ontarians with unprecedented efficiency.
Indulging in an ideological experiment favouring a bizarre cross-section of society…
■Covidiots
■Licensed car owners; /2
■Food and drug retailers
■Builders and tradesmen
■Employers enrolled in the WSIB
■Police officers and firefighters
■Private medical/schools/daycares
■Brewers
■Christians
■Gamblers…
…King Doug defiantly scorns the many millions refusing to recognize his Ford Nation../3
...tagline, yet his initiatives prevail.
Touching the third rail of the Charter, the infamous s. 33 notwithstanding clause (NWS), Ford changed Toronto's ward map in the middle of the 2018 municipal elections, gagged third-party involvement in the June 2022 provincial../4
A #ClusterFord Compilation of the Convoy-friendly Perjurer of Queen's Park:
Dean French, Doug Ford's original chief of staff forced to resign on charges of political cronyism and patronage after only one year on the job, emerges as Ford's behind-the-scenes messenger on.../2
..behalf of the Mad Max/Duck Dynasty convoy in meetings with federal government and City of Ottawa officials held to end the nightmare;
French hypes the over-aggressive squatters as "big-rig, blue-collar, big-hearted Canadians, men and women of conviction." But most see his.../3
..presence as proof that the premier was hands on during the occupation.
Nevertheless, French makes the laughable contention on Feb 17 (post EA) that he attended on behalf of 80-year-old long-retired former Con premier Brian Peckford.../4
Not even the threshold of 14,000 C19 Ontario deaths surpassed on Sept 1, 2022 could stir the media, interest the denizens of Ford Nation or distract its perverse, bullheaded leader who, channelling his inner Trump, remains completely unwavering in his drive to turn the .../2
..lucrative segments of the health sector into a profit centre for the corporate community;
Abruptly dismantling the free-thinking 30-member Ontario Science Advisory Table amid a 14 C19 deaths/day crisis, Ford continues to relentlessly leverage, through his Health and LTC.../3
...ministers, a callous disregard for the dislocation of sick seniors, a distrust of public education through his education minister and a fear of science through his Chief Medical Officer of Health Kieran Moore;
Emerging Aug 31, 2022 to declare the end of the 5-day Covid.../4
Dean French, forced to resign as Ford's chief of staff for cronyism and patronage in June 2019, becomes his former boss's emissary on behalf of the Mad Max/Duck Dynasty convoy in meetings with federal government and City of Ottawa officials;
..affirms the premier of Canada's largest province has backchannel ties to an outlaw convoy whose members advocate mass citizens’ arrests and a government overthrow, believe Trudeau is the illegitimate son of the late Fidel Castro of Cuba and that a ridiculous QAnon Queen of../3
...Canada, Romana Didulo, will imminently declare martial law across the land. But Ford wouldn't coordinate with the federal Liberals to settle the occupation;
Ford is unconscionably (and stupidly) absent from 3 tripartite meetings beginning Day 11 of the Mad Max occupation../4