Hours after @fordnation called a premature election under the guise of seeking a mandate he already has, I have been visited by a PC candidate.

Good person, good reputation, but I told him this: Ford lied, Ontarians know it, and he's made all of us more vulnerable to Trump.
1/9 To fight tariffs, we must unite, placing political allegiances aside.

Ford had a majority government and the backing of @BonnieCrombie and @MaritStiles in fighting against Trump. We were united -- until Ford called an election.

Ford did so at the worst possible time.
2/9

Made Italian ragù -- a sauces for pasta that has at its core meat. There are hundreds of types, of which Bolognese is but one.

Its quality depend upon the quality of ingredients and proper techniques. Skip those and the results are insipid. Use them and results are divine.

1/15 Ditch generic, lean ground beef. It's lack of fat creates sauce that taste nothing of meat and dried-out beef.

Use ground chuck w/ 25% fat. Chuck is from working muscles w/great flavor. That and high fat content produces tender, melting beef and deep, flavorful sauce.

2/15

Bad actors who disseminate disinformation are a growing threat to democracy.

But is CBC on the vanguard combatting that threat, as it’s CEO Catherine Tait argues?

Unlike Tate, I worked as an investigative journalist for the public network. My thoughts… thestar.com/opinion/contri… There are some great journalists at CBC. There are also some excellent journalists who left, including one who hired me at @cbcfifth who left to help lead a media start-up focused on investigative journalism.

2/6

newsinteractives.cbc.ca/longform/priva…

🏀 Groves can NOT play the 5 against teams that have a 5 that can score in the paint. Has to be Minor or Buchanan.
🏀 Rodhe is our top facilitator not named Reece and there is no close 3rd.
🏀 Gertrude is not our savior nor a PG, which he did NOT play in high school. He's a 2
1/5 🏀 Forbes schooled TB on inbounds plays in this game.
🏀 High hedges work only with sufficiently athletic bigs and a high level of execution by everyone else. We lack both and better opponents exploit this every game.
🏀 Dunn is completely lost on offence.
2/5

While many Ontarians most vulnerable to #COVID19 can't book local appointments for the newest vaccine, Quebec will make the XBB vaccine to everyone next Tuesday, Oct. 10th.
Access in Canada's two largest provinces depend upon which side of the Ottawa River you reside.
Why?
1/7 It's not clear as @SylviaJonesMPP has been silent. On Sept. 14, her ministry issued a release saying shipments of Moderna were expected before the end of that month.

Since then @fordnation has issued 80 releases -- but not one about #COVID19 vaccines.

Why?
2/7

While Ontario and Quebec forests burned this spring and summer, causing dangerous levels of smoke in Canada and the USA, @fordnation kept a lid on a climate change report completed in January that warned of the growing risks of such fires and a cacophony of other dangers.
1/12

By end of the century, Southwest, Central and Eastern Ontario, which now average nine days year in which temps soar above 30°C, are projected to have 60 such extreme heat days a year if our climate warms as much the most dire forecast model used by climate scientists.

2/12

As Ontario healthcare death-spirals, including ER's that are overwhelmed and understaffed, @fordnation @SylviaJonesMPP commit to political rhetoric that will cost taxpayers millions without a dime of improvement.
1/14
news.ontario.ca/en/release/100… Our healthcare is dysfunctional at every level. Ontarians don't get timely access to primary and community care, the number of staffed hospital beds is woeful, and there is inadequate home and long-term care...
2/14

Six days before Ontarians go to the polls, one of the province's largest cities, London, has emergency departments that have become dumping grounds for much that ails health care, with patients waiting up to a dozen hours to be seen by a doctor.
1/19 Unable to get timely access to primary care, home care for the elderly or community support for mental illness, Londoners are overwhelming the capacity of the two ERs of @LHSCCanada whose waiting rooms look more like Grand Centra Station than hospitals.
2/19

While @fordnation gets photo-ops to announce plans to expand hospitals, my 83-year-old father-in-law is languishing for a second night in an Ontario ER because we lack the staff and funding to care for patients whose frailties are too many to list in a single tweet.
1/10 My father-in-law suffers from heart and kidney failure, anemia so severe he needs transfusions more often than my car needs gas, a major stroke that last summer stole the use of his left side, and a second, possible stroke this week that requires an MRI to diagnose.
2/10

Dr. Kieran Moore just told Ontarians everyone is getting the care they need so it's time to loosen controls of #COVID19
Has Moore spoken to patients whose cardiac surgeries have been postponed? Whose cancer treatments have been delayed?
Is Moore just the lapdog of @fordnation ? Moore just said Ontario hospitals have no vacancies for medical and surgical patients -- beds are at 100% capacity -- but there is room for #COVID19 patients.
Shameful spin. People with cancer, heart failure and critical illness will die and suffer needlessly.

Dr. Kiernan Moore displays a shocking ignorance of science and even elementary school math as he threatens the medical officer of health for @NRPublicHealth Dr. Mustafa Hirgi for doing to much to protect students, teachers and the community against Omicron #COVIDisAirbornePH
1/4 While Hirgi will use carbon dioxide detectors in classrooms w/out HEPA filters to find out which lack necessary ventilation, Moore writes he is unaware of any correlation between CO2 and the transmission of #COVID19
My homework assignment for Moore:
2/4

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14…

Are Londoners making trash assumptions about reduced #COVID19 in wastewater? Has Omicron really peaked? Some reasons to be cautious about declaring victory prematurely…
1/X Wastewater is a good measure of overall prevalence of #COVID19 at the moment, but like any metric, must be used thoughtfully. Levels dropped the first week after winter holidays because schools were remote and there were fewer social gatherings.
2/X

The wild fire that is the Omicron, already forcing Ontario hospitals to cancel critical surgeries and diagnostic tests, will be doused with lighter fluid as @fordnation rushes to repeat its mistake of Feb 2021 by reopening school too early, if media sources are correct.
1/7 Schools amplified #COVID19 last year, @COVIDSciOntario found, after pediatric experts pushed the province to ignored the perils of reopening without safeguards. Those same experts pushed again to reopen prematurely, and it will aid a variant that’s 12-fold more transmissible.
2/7

What should by a thrilling start to a new school year is instead a terror for many students and staff at @mcgillu whose administration had forced them to chose between risking death or serious illness or jeopardizing their education or livelihood.
1/4

https://twitter.com/emilyrose_black/status/1433203807039770626

@mcgillu McGill has refused a vaccine mandate, even in its own residences, isn't requiring distancing or masking by profs in poorly ventilated classrooms and had threatened discipline against faculty who want to go remote to protect immunocompromised family living under the same roof.
2/4

This is a dodge by @celliottability who knows better as the health minister and a lawyer.
She's had six month to replace the medical officer of health for Haldimand-Norfolk during a pandemic and the Health Protection and Promotion Act REQUIRES her to do so EXPEDITIOUSLY.
1/X

https://twitter.com/EdTubb/status/1433915848650022913

@celliottability It was exactly six months ago today -- March 5 -- that Dr. Shanker Nesathurai, then medical officer of health at @HNHealthUnit announced he would resign effective May 21.
So why is it that half a year later Elliott has not filled that position?
2/X

thespec.com/news/hamilton-…

While @TorontoStar published a story Friday in which @OntLiberal questioned why @HNHealthUnit named as acting medical officer of health someone who opposes #COVID19 lockdowns, my review of his writings raises another concerning question:
Has he misrepresented evidence?
1/X @TorontoStar @OntLiberal @HNHealthUnit Consider this opinion piece written by @strauss_matt in October for for UK magazine @spectator whose right-wing leanings are as clear as the political affiliations of its past editors, including @BorisJohnson
2/X
spectatorworld.com/topic/medic-ca…

A pandemic is not a time for moral grandstanding and PR spin but we've gotten a double dose of each when faced in Canada with the choice of vaccinating with AstraZeneca to prevent #COVID19 1/16 Public Health and public figures pushed AstraZeneca at a time when vaccines were scarce and variants and cases were surging, telling Canadians it was their duty to take AZ first if that was the 1st vaccine available. 2/16

Real-world American study of 91,134 people finds one dose of Pfizer/Moderna protects MUCH LESS against death/hospitalization then two doses in 3 or 4 week intervals.
The finding should raise questions about Canada delaying doses 16 weeks.

1/X

medrxiv.org/content/10.110… Some health officials, including @Healthmac defend the delay pointing to a less robust study that counted as one-shot immunized those who had a dose but who were hospitalized or died before the two weeks that shot needs to build an immune response but now the verdict is in...
2/X

1/2 Public Health and private vigilance in Ontario is our 1st line of defence against #coronavirus If it falls short, we face a crisis. Epidemiologists estimate between 40 and 70% of adults will eventually get coronavirus. Even at the low end, that's 4 million people infected. 2/2/a If we borrow data from China, 20% of those infected needed hospitalizations. That works out to 800,000 hospitalizations in Ontario. Even if we cut that in half, that's 400,000 needing spaces in hospitals already so full, patients are treated in hallways ...

1/4 #SuperTuesday -
(1) @JoeBiden is frontrunner, having swept the South, even edging @BernieSanders in Latino-heavy Texas, beating @BernieSanders twice in his New England backyard, winning in the prairies in Oklahoma and GOP-dominant Alaska and keeping close behind in California (2) If this dynamic continues, Biden will win the nomination by a comfortable margin; the only places I seeing him getting beat by Sanders is the Sunbelt, where Bernie has won Nevada, Colorado and Utah, and perhaps the Pacific Northwest. Everyplace else is Biden land.