Moira Welsh
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Toronto Star journalist covering politics at the Queen’s Park bureau. Author. Mom of sardonic boys.
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Joined April 2012
From the Star’s Queen’s Park columnist @reggcohn : Doug Ford is powerless in the face of a sputtering economy https://t.co/lTGVWtViSG via @torontostar
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The premier knew last February what we know now — that Ontario’s economy is tanking.
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From @reggcohn : Doug Ford kills speed cameras and menaces democracy https://t.co/baXp6VVHD0 via @torontostar
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Everyone has an opinion on photo radar — it’s a talker. So why not let people talk it out in public committee hearings that are a standard part of our
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Doug Ford's Skills Development Fund 'needs a forensic audit,' MPPs say https://t.co/r2OOirvsgr via @torontostar #onpoli
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Ford says the $2.5 billion fund has led to 100,000 "life changing" jobs for trainees but as the Star revealed this week, Labour Minister David Piccini does not track whether
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NEW: The @TorontoStar’s @MoiraWelsh on how the government doesn’t know what kind of jobs Skills Development Fund program users are getting — because the data isn’t tracked. #onpoli
https://t.co/Yo5aqsSxLa
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No one in charge of the $2.5 billion program knows whether the employment numbers are for full-time, part-time or temporary work.
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My latest: Doug Ford's $2.5B Skills Development Fund doesn’t track employment type so no one can say if workers get full time employment — or temp jobs https://t.co/jDuxbvyA5e via @torontostar #onpoli
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No one in charge of the $2.5 billion program knows whether the employment numbers are for full-time, part-time or temporary work.
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The @TorontoStar’s @reggcohn on the presidential temper tantrum over a president being quoted accurately in Ontario’s TV ad. #onpoli
https://t.co/2RCd3agsjq
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There’s nothing’s wrong with reminding Americans of the anti-protectionist passions of Ronald Reagan but did Ford’s high stakes play provoke the president at the worst possible time?
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Once, green was going places. Now it's gone wrong. A former Green Party riding campaign manager looks back with dark laughter. An excerpt from the book “Greener Than Thou: Surviving the Toxic Sludge of Canadian Ecopolitics” https://t.co/IrDj1xDkyu via @torontostar #canpoli
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When opportunity knocked, the Greens reacted like the door was broken, writes Mark Leiren-Young, now asking questions about the party's real purpose.
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The latest on Doug and the bros from @robertbenzie and @robferguson1 Accusations of cronyism have long dogged Premier Ford https://t.co/V2Ha1tg4fY via @torontostar
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Ford and his government have been accused of favouritism numerous times since he was elected in 2018.
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Labour Minister David Piccini hands out more money from controversial Skills Development Fund https://t.co/4GyOLMNK3t via @torontostar #onpoli
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He held a roundtable discussion at an International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers hall Wednesday in North York to announce $8.6 million is going to the union and five other organizations
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MPP’s are back at Queen’s Park and Doug Ford's Tories launch the fall session with sweeping omnibus bill to slash red tape. By @robertbenzie and @Jambull26
https://t.co/i8SJDXiX6l via @torontostar #onpoli
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But some contend that haste can make waste — indeed the opposition parties maintain that poring over the fine print in PC legislation is critical.
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First day back in Question Period and it was all about the controversial Skills Development Fund. From @robferguson1 and me: Ontario's labour minister defends training cash given to preferred applicants https://t.co/ruZHnM6WAH via @torontostar #onpoli
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Under fire and unrepentant, Labour Minister David Piccini says he will keep handing out cash from Premier Doug Ford's controversial Skills Development Fund to preferred groups regardless of how low
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MPPs return to a changed political and economic landscape at Queen's Park https://t.co/IGpZt4xAwk via @torontostar
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The ground has shifted since the legislature rose June 5, with U.S. President Donald Trump's tariffs battering the Ontario economy but apparently not impacting the Progressive Conservative premier's...
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Scoop on the Skills Development Fund from @robferguson1 and me : Government secrecy clouds $237 million in funding to groups that endorsed Doug Ford https://t.co/iLlmaqAvhh via @torontostar #onpoli
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Seventeen trade unions and industry groups that endorsed Premier Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservatives in the February election received $237 million from the government’s controversial Skills...
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The Star’s @robertbenzie with the latest on the RCMP ‘investigation’ into Ontario’s Greenbelt scandal: Two years later, top Tories who lost jobs in Greenbelt scandal still haven't been interviewed. https://t.co/3kRkSHbQev via @torontostar #onpoli
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Royal Canadian Mounted Police officials were tight-lipped when contacted about the second anniversary of launching their criminal inquiry.
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Members of his own party worry Doug Ford isn't conservative enough. His supporters say, so what? https://t.co/C5dNekhHee via @torontostar l#onpoli
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Some Tories say the three-term premier is drifting too far to the mushy middle of the political spectrum.
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Ford government caps new hires for provincial agencies, boards and commissions https://t.co/PIPedWmVOQ via @torontostar #onpoli
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Any new plans to add staff to provincially-funded organizations like Ontario Health must now first be approved by the government, said Treasury Board President Caroline Mulroney.
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Ontario launches pilot project to support dementia patients in long-term care https://t.co/3L4GZ0uyI1 via @torontostar #onpoli
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Long-Term Care Minister Natalia Kusendova-Bashta has announced a pilot project that will award 15 homes — with roughly 1,800 residents — $9 million in funding for individual-first philosophies and...
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NEW: @abacusdataca Ontario tracking poll in the @TorontoStar: @OntarioPCParty 52% @OntLiberal 24% @OntarioNDP 12% @OntarioGreens 6% #onpoli
https://t.co/jLMCXhODj0
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As rival political parties struggle with leadership challenges, Premier Doug Ford's Progressive Conservatives are riding high in the latest Abacus Data poll.
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NDP's Marit Stiles is promising sweeping change within her party to “defeat Doug Ford.” Polling, and past voting, says that’s not going to be easy: https://t.co/k5bUaaLxCX via @torontostar
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The lower-than-expected 68 per cent endorsement of her leadership by party faithful has "crystallized" her focus on changes that, Stiles said.
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