Beverley Smith
@BevSmithWrites
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Renowned sports journalist, formerly of @GlobeandMail. Specialties: Olympic sport, figure skating, horse racing, Best-selling author. Music is now my life.
Ontario, Canada
Joined January 2014
Turns out 7 million No Kings participants was indeed wrong. It was actually 3 times that. No wonder the right are freaking out.
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The GFS model shows more than 30cm of snow falling on Ottawa next week. This seems unlikely (other models show rain). But it's the first RISK of significant snowfall of this winter.
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🚨 MAN WATCHES A 1965 FRIDGE COMMERCIAL - AND REALIZES WE’VE BEEN SCAMMED BY “SMART” TECH He breaks down a 1965 refrigerator that somehow had more innovation than anything built today. Pull-out shelves that roll to you, a “picture-window hydrator” that tilts out for veggies,
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Two and a half years ago we wrote an article about how Team Ford used voter suppression legislation, passed using the notwithstanding clause, to win in 2022. Most people have no idea Team Ford used the NWC to rig elections for itself. #CdnMediaColludes barely mentioned it.
BREAKING: Premier Doug Ford is changing Ontario's elections rules: - No more fixed election dates with a 5-year maximum - The premier will decide on the date of the election - Increasing the annual contribution amount to $5,000 / per person - Making the per-vote subsidy
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“This premier just wants to extend his stay in power as long as possible and make as much money off it as he can. I have no doubt that's his intention,” said @MaritStiles as the Ford government scraps fixed election dates in Ontario & raises party donation limits to $5,000.
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U.S. ambassador to Canada goes on expletive-laced tirade at Ontario’s trade representative, witnesses say
cbc.ca
The U.S. ambassador to Canada delivered an expletive-laced tirade at Ontario's trade representative at an event in Ottawa on Monday, multiple witnesses tell CBC News
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Latest on Doug Ford’s Skills Development Slush Fund FGF Brands and Ontario Shipyards both got millions in “training” grants—then executives sent a surge of donations to Ford’s PCs. That’s not job creation. That’s a circular economy of corruption. #ONpoli
NEW: Executives and owners of a number of organizations that received SDF money from the Ford gov’t quickly donated money right back to the PC Party. Critics are calling it a “circular economy” and a “scheme.” https://t.co/egJwBKKHap
#onpoli
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Everything this government does is undermining our democracy — they've just never been this outrageously bald-faced about their utter disdain for the democratic process and all of Ontario. This can't stand. It is an affront to every Ontarian.
BREAKING: Premier Doug Ford is changing Ontario's elections rules: - No more fixed election dates with a 5-year maximum - The premier will decide on the date of the election - Increasing the annual contribution amount to $5,000 / per person - Making the per-vote subsidy
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Ford's gravy train is a circular economy. Donate to the Conservatives, receive taxpayer money. ▶️FGF brands Donated $34k Received $1.25 million Tax Dollars ROI 3,806% ▶️Ontario shipyards Donated $18k Received $26 million Tax Dollars ROI 75,000% #ONpoli #GravyTrain
NEW: Executives and owners of a number of organizations that received SDF money from the Ford gov’t quickly donated money right back to the PC Party. Critics are calling it a “circular economy” and a “scheme.” https://t.co/egJwBKKHap
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This is basically a repeat of the sponsorship scandal.
NEW: Executives and owners of a number of organizations that received SDF money from the Ford gov’t quickly donated money right back to the PC Party. Critics are calling it a “circular economy” and a “scheme.” https://t.co/egJwBKKHap
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Doug Ford's government may have backtracked on ending indefinite leases, but Bill 60 will still make it faster and easier to evict tenants, advocates say. "There's a lot of garbage in this bill," says @chipadovani. https://t.co/eiR13dkCBo
thegrindmag.ca
After a wave of furious backlash, the Ontario government backtracked on the most controversial part of its proposed Bill 60. But the housing bill will still make it faster and easier for landlords to…
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“I wanna be Premier forever,” said Doug Ford while campaigning last February during an unnecessary & costly election. Listen to this. I guess he’s not kidding ⬇️
“I wanna be Premier forever.” Said Doug Ford in reply to Trillium reporter, Charlie Pinkerton’s question this morning at a campaign stop in Windsor. Listen👇 😱 #VoteFordOut
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NEW: Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s government is proposing to limit debate and avoid public input on three pieces of legislation, including one that would end the province’s speed camera program. #OnPoli
https://t.co/hvDRwexECr
globalnews.ca
Government House Leader Steve Clark is proposing to fast track a red tape reduction bill that includes banning speed cameras, a labour bill and an emergency management bill.
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Rachel Maddow sounds the alarm on Donald Trump’s latest move to track the phones of all Americans: “This turns your own phone into a spy against you. This is a surviellance capability I have been laying awake at night thinking about for the past couple of years”
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Today, while continually scrolling on his cell phone in Question Period and ignoring an alleged corrupt $2.5B SkillsSlushFund, Ford continued to defend his $75M tax payer U.S. ad campaign that collapsed Canada and U.S. trade talks. Ford left Question Period at the halfway point.
Ford's alleged corrupt #SlushFund regime as Paccini doles out $742M for 'low' to 'medium' applicants for training as 670 'high ranked' applicants are turned down while Ford underfunds colleges cutting 10,000 college staff and 600 programs adding to 800,000 unemployed Ontarians.
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NEW: A company formed as a partnership between developers, including some involved in the Greenbelt scandal, recently received just under $1.6 million from the Ford government’s Skills Development Fund.
thetrillium.ca
Base31 Partners received funds to train workers, in partnership with Loyalist College, at the company's Prince Edward County development site
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While Doug Ford focuses attention on controversial ads, and distractions like pouring Crown Royal along with other gimmicks, he’s quietly dismantling rules meant to keep our elections free, fair & with limits on influence peddling. He’s put his own interests before our democracy.
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Apparently Journalism received an injection into a joint one day before the cut-off for the 14 day withdrawal rule. He is on the Vet’s list through Friday 10/31.
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