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@bowker_john

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Policy researcher, retired record & book peddler. Transit, housing, land use, energy, infrastructure & misc #onpoli wonkery. #ONDP . Tweets my own (he/him)

Toronto, ON
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@bowker_john
John Bowker
2 years
Ontario's Financial Accountability Officer says the Ford government failed to spend $5.5 billion in budgeted cash so far this year, including $670M unspent on public health, $554M unspent on schools, and $1.1B unspent on social supports like ODSP #onpoli
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John Bowker
5 years
Rossi successfully lobbied the Ford government to cancel a $1/hour minimum wage increase that would have kicked in today #onpoli
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John Bowker
2 years
The Ontario Society of Professional Engineers calls on all political parties to cancel the current plan to build Highway 413: “The current Highway 413 project is not the correct answer to Ontario’s gridlock and climate change concerns” #onpoli
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John Bowker
1 year
After Doug Ford claimed “thousands” of new homes could be built on the Ontario Science Centre site, the Toronto Region Conservation Authority pointed out that most of the site is floodplain, marsh & steep ravine: “it is not buildable” #onpoli #TOpoli
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John Bowker
9 months
Ontario’s Financial Accountability Officer has found that the Ford government failed to spend $7.2 billion of its budget last year, including $1.7 billion unspent on health as ERs are closing and surgery waitlists are growing #onpoli
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John Bowker
1 year
Interestingly, a Hamilton tree farmer received three purchase offers for his land *in a single day* just weeks before Minister Steve Clark announced that this land would be added into Hamilton’s urban boundary 🤔 #onpoli
@CanadaGray
Timothy Gray
1 year
We are going to hold @SteveClarkPC and @fordnation accountable for forcing sprawl on @cityofhamilton against their wishes and contrary to the law. #HamOnt #onpoli #HandsOffTheGreenbelt
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John Bowker
9 months
Call it corruption: "'Go ahead, come after me,' Stiles said on Tuesday when asked if she was concerned about legal liability. 'I would love to hear your arguments and see all the evidence that gets presented in the discovery process. Bring it on'" #onpoli
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John Bowker
5 years
Last month you spoke at a rally organized by the Islamophobic yellow vests, with white nationalist Faith Goldy. Your campaign manager co-founded hatemongering Rebel Media, where your MPs still appear. You have been validating hate & mobilizing bigots for votes. Resign #cdnpoli
@AndrewScheer
Andrew Scheer
5 years
Freedom has come under attack in New Zealand as peaceful worshippers are targeted in a despicable act of evil. All people must be able to practice their faith freely and without fear. 1/2
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John Bowker
2 years
Someone has curated John Tory’s austerity art installations #AusterityTO #TOpoli #voteTO
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John Bowker
1 year
"IT FELT DIRTY": a Global News investigation reveals that people connected to premier Doug Ford, including former staffers, sent flyers to developers seeking donations to raise money for his daughter's wedding last year #onpoli
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John Bowker
5 years
Doug Ford has put a lifetime cap of $140,000 on funding to treat a child with autism, but he will pay a failed PC candidate $140,000 every year for a job that previously paid $3,600 #onpoli
@bowker_john
John Bowker
5 years
Ford has appointed a failed PC candidate as EQAO chair, with a salary that is nearly 40 times what the previous chair made. “It’s not a full-time job, and I don’t know how you make it into a full-time job,” says former EQAO board member #onpoli
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John Bowker
1 year
"When you’re the Premier, you are held to a higher standard than the average father of the bride, especially when the guest list includes lobbyists & developers who have since received suspiciously favourable changes to the law," said @maritstiles #onpoli
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John Bowker
1 month
Is it normal to have this many vice-presidents? #onpoli
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@ColinDMello
Colin D'Mello | Global News
1 month
There are more than 3,000 Metrolinx employees on the sunshine list this year who pull in a total of $410,117,370 in salaries and 1,720,710 in benefits. In March 2023, Metrolinx reported a total headcount of 6,000 employees. About half the workforce earns six figures. #onpoli
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John Bowker
1 year
The Association of Municipalities of Ontario warns that while the Ford government’s Bill 23 may benefit private interests, it will cost municipal taxpayers up to $1 billion/year, won’t improve housing affordability, and will harm the environment #onpoli
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John Bowker
1 year
Powerful landowner & PC donor Silvio DeGasperis bought protected Greenbelt farmland cheap, and then spent two decades lobbying to get the protections removed. Doug Ford is about to make him much, much richer. This is about speculation, not housing #onpoli
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John Bowker
9 months
Toronto Star editorial: “That Amato & Clark still have jobs is incredulous. That the PC government is pushing ahead with this flawed Greenbelt development defies belief. The entire affair requires an immediate investigation by the OPP” #onpoli
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John Bowker
3 years
Court of Appeal issues scathing ruling rejecting the Ford government’s attempt to grant itself immunity from nearly all negligence lawsuits, a measure that was snuck into an omnibus bill in 2019 by then-AG Caroline Mulroney #onpoli
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John Bowker
9 months
The Globe & Mail calls the Ford government’s defence of its Greenbelt giveaway “one of the more disingenuous bits of political theatre in recent history. The PCs’ damage control is positively avant-garde in its contempt for voters’ intelligence” #onpoli
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John Bowker
7 months
The Ford government hasn’t published any of Ontario Place’s annual reports since it took office. An FOI from @Thetrilliumca revealed it was profitable last year & attracted nearly 3 million visitors: Today the NDP asked what else Ford is hiding 🧵 #onpoli
@ONPlace4All
Ontario Place for All ©
7 months
. @MaritStiles in QP asks why the government is hiding the attendance figures for Ontario Place? 2.9 million visited OP last year. In response, platitudes and lies like "We're protecting natural heritage", how by cutting 1,500 trees? #onpoli #topoli
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John Bowker
4 years
The TTC has a $26 billion capital repair backlog, but 44% of Toronto’s transportation capital budget is going towards rebuilding the underused Gardiner East #TOpoli
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John Bowker
1 year
Toronto Star editorial: “When developers on the receiving end of favourable government decisions are mixing it up with the premier at family gatherings, that makes it a matter of public concern” #onpoli
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John Bowker
6 months
Former health minister Christine Elliott is now a lobbyist for Clearpoint, a chain of private surgical clinics and a top beneficiary of the Ford government’s privatization of healthcare services #onpoli #ONhealth
@CBCNews
CBC News
6 months
Premier Doug Ford's government gives a for-profit clinic more funding to perform certain OHIP-covered surgeries than it gives Ontario's public hospitals to perform the same operations, CBC News has learned. .
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John Bowker
9 months
“Lysyk also found ‘several examples’ unrelated to the Greenbelt of political staffers appearing to give ‘preferential treatment’ to lobbyists, potentially violating their code of ethics” “‘I’ve called this corruption’ said NDP Leader @maritstiles #onpoli
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John Bowker
4 years
Ontario Financial Accountability Officer finds that the Ford government has failed to allocate billions in federal #covid19 funds, including $382 million intended for the Safe Return to School Fund #onpoli
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John Bowker
4 years
Re-reading this quote from epidemiologist @DFisman , from one year ago today #onpoli #covid19 #COVID19Ontario #TOpoli
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John Bowker
1 year
Helpful reminder that Doug Ford is spinning when he says he was “cleared” by the Integrity Commissioner. There was no investigation or inquiry. The IC simply provided an opinion based on whatever information he was given by the premier #onpoli
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John Bowker
3 months
Note: Highway 407 is the only provincial highway with tolls Fun fact: in 2021, the Ford government waived $1 billion in congestion penalties owed by the private 407 ETR operator for setting tolls too high #onpoli
@CP24
CP24
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JUST IN: Ontario banning tolls on provincial highways other than 407
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John Bowker
3 years
Disappointment & anger as Brampton council learns that the ‘world class’ hospital Doug Ford promised in March will not be a full-service hospital after all, will have 250 beds not 850, and requires a $125M local funding share #onpoli #ONhealth #brampoli
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John Bowker
1 year
Reminder that Doug Ford’s attacks on the Greenbelt have always been about delivering profits to powerful land speculators who are friends and donors of Doug Ford and the PC Party #onpoli
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John Bowker
9 months
Toronto Star editorial board: “Fire Municipal Affairs and Housing Minister Steve Clark, halt the development of Greenbelt lands and call in the cops” #onpoli
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John Bowker
9 months
Fun fact: the premier’s spokesperson, defending the government from charges of cronyism, is housing minister Steve Clark’s daughter #onpoli
@DrKateTO
Kate
9 months
What did I just read in today's @globeandmail ? Slightly worrisome given this government's tendency to say the quiet part out loud! #InsideScoop #HandsOffTheGreenbelt #onpoli
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John Bowker
1 year
“On Sept 15, a company controlled by developer Michael Rice bought the property for $80M. The agent promoted it as a ‘prime land-banking opportunity’ … a person with the name Michael Rice donated more than $10.5K to the PC Party since 2018” 🤔 #onpoli
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John Bowker
1 year
Private interests, 99-year leases, secret backroom deals, no transparency, no accountability — Therme’s Ontario Place deal looks a lot like the privatization of Highway 407, says the former public servant who oversaw that highway’s construction #onpoli
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John Bowker
4 years
During the pandemic, the Ford govt has quietly issued several Minister’s Zoning Orders on behalf of well-connected developers & PC donors, paving over farmland & destroying wetlands without public notice or consultation. Scoop by @jeffreybgray #onpoli
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John Bowker
9 months
“The relationship between the government & developers who benefited from having lands removed from the Greenbelt needs to be explored by an investigating agency with criminal investigative powers in its quiver,” writes @CanadaGray of @envirodefence #onpoli
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John Bowker
2 years
Strategic voting: because of its reliance on astonishingly inaccurate riding-by-riding projection models (curiously, mostly skewed towards Liberals), “strategic voting” may have helped elect MORE conservative MPPs, including Doug Ford’s nephew #onpoli #OntarioVotes
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John Bowker
6 months
“A tally by the Ontario NDP finds that just four guests at a Ford family wedding reception benefited from as many MZOs as previous Liberal governments issued in total over the course of their 15 years in power” #onpoli
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Mike Crawley
6 months
In the wake of the Greenbelt scandal, there’s new scrutiny of how the Ford government has handed out 100+ fast-track zoning orders (MZOs) for properties around Ontario. I’ll discuss just after 7am on ⁦ @metromorning ⁩ 👇to read full story 👇 #onpoli
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John Bowker
1 year
“The company actually sits at the heart of a complicated network of subsidiaries” — the Ford government won't, or can't, reveal who is financing Therme, which risked bankruptcy just 3 years ago, but was given a 95-year lease for Ontario Place 🤔 #onpoli
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John Bowker
2 months
Ford government staffers working on the Greenbelt removals in 2022 edited emails to remove references to “Greenbelt” and replace them with the code word “G*”, FOI documents reveal “What this looks like is intent to conceal,” said @MaritStiles #onpoli
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John Bowker
1 year
The Ford government is giving itself the power to appoint the regional chairs of Peel, York and Niagara councils. These appointees will be accountable to Doug Ford and whatever PC donor has his ear, and not local voters. Unbelievable #onpoli
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John Bowker
8 months
Last year the Auditor General reported that politics, not evidence, was driving highway planning in Ontario. Perhaps this is why the Ford government does not want the public to know the estimated costs of major projects like Highway 413 #onpoli
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John Bowker
10 months
As Doug Ford’s Attorney General, Caroline Mulroney normalized the use of the Notwithstanding Clause to suspend Charter rights, blocked victims of government negligence from suing, imposed deep cuts to Legal Aid, and broke the Landlord & Tenant Board #onpoli
@JacquesGallant
Jacques Gallant
10 months
@TorontoStar Mulroney, now transportation minister, has a New York law licence, but wasn't called to the bar in Ontario even during her tenure as AG. The Law Society says it's in the process of adding her to its registry of lawyers after she was called last week
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John Bowker
2 years
Doug Ford’s attacks on education workers may seem unrelated to his gifts to pro-sprawl developers, but these issues have intersected before, like that time a group of PC-friendly developers ran an an illegal astroturf campaign against teachers #onpoli
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John Bowker
7 months
Why is Minister Surma refusing to answer when asked if Therme's Ontario Place bid required a publicly-funded parking garage? Because if it did, then under the terms of the government's Call For Development, it should have been rejected #onpoli
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Bhutila Karpoche
7 months
Cancel the Ontario Place deal. Sign the petition:
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John Bowker
9 months
“Reversing the decision to open up the Greenbelt to development is the only way the Government can regain the trust of farmers and all Ontarians,” says the National Farmer’s Union - Ontario #onpoli
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John Bowker
9 months
Toronto Star editorial: “Ford appears to be creating a regime of arbitrary personal favour, in which conduct doesn’t matter, norms, policies and standards do not matter, the judgment of institutions does not matter. Only loyalty to the leader does” #onpoli
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John Bowker
9 months
The same month the Ford govt announced its Greenbelt removals, the Ontario NDP tabled a motion with detailed proposals to build housing without destroying farmland or the Greenbelt. The PCs used their majority to quash the motion without a debate #onpoli
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@MaritStiles
Marit Stiles
9 months
Ontario's in a housing crisis. Let's get to work building the homes we need... at prices people can actually afford... in neighbourhoods people actually want to live in. We don't need to bulldoze our Greenbelt & farmlands for that... and Ontarians know it. #onpoli
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John Bowker
2 months
These four-storey apartments in Forest Hill are illegal in Doug Ford’s Ontario #onpoli #TOpoli
@g_meslin
Four-Storey Tower
1 year
I don’t need more pictures of Lonsdale apartments. I don’t need more pictures of Lonsdale apartments. I don’t need more pictures of Lonsdale apartments. I don’t need more pictures of Lonsdale apartments. I don’t nee……damn it!
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John Bowker
1 year
Durham’s CAO warns there is no infrastructure in the areas proposed for removal from the Greenbelt (eg: Duffins Rouge Agricultural Preserve). This contradicts the Ford government’s claim it chose these areas for their easy access to infrastructure #onpoli
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John Bowker
5 years
A government that just gave high-income earners a $275 million tax cut really should stop telling desperate families that Ontario can’t afford to provide adequate treatment for kids with autism #onpoli #AutismDoesntEndAtFord
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John Bowker
14 days
“Abundantly clear there was a relationship”: texts show that Doug Ford’s former principal secretary visited a Greenbelt developer’s mansion multiple times, contradicting his sworn testimony to the Integrity Commissioner. Scoop by @CharliePinkerto #onpoli
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John Bowker
9 months
Secret backroom deals with favoured insiders, no accountability or transparency: the Ford government’s 95-year Therme deal for Ontario Place has the same bad smell as its corrupt Greenbelt giveaway #onpoli
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John Bowker
1 month
A partisan ad campaign by the Ford government is costing taxpayers about $8 million, CBC reports. “Governments shouldn't be spending taxpayer dollars trying to puff themselves up,” said NDP leader @MaritStiles #onpoli
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John Bowker
2 months
FOI documents obtained by the Ontario NDP reveal Ford government’s secret “Phase 2” plan for Ontario Place that includes paving over Lake Ontario #onpoli
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John Bowker
9 months
Pickering mayor Kevin Ashe received campaign donations from several developers who benefitted from the Greenbelt removals (but not many donations from actual Pickering residents, it seems 🤔) #onpoli
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Ahmar Khan
9 months
Mayor supports, council does not.
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John Bowker
7 months
The internal document says the publicly-funded Therme parking garage is needed "to meet landlord lease obligations." This conflicts with conditions in the Call For Development, which told bidders the government would NOT fund additional facilities #onpoli
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@JohnLorinc
John Lorinc
7 months
#topoli #onpoli Today on Spacing: LORINC: Ford's P3 plan for a mega-garage beneath the new Science Centre.
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John Bowker
6 months
How Ontario cooked its own books: “Ontarians have a $5.6B deficit because Ford govt wanted a deficit. Ontario’s Fall Economic Statement added $2.5B to a contingency fund, bringing it to $5.4B, and also kept a $1B reserve The cupboard isn’t bare” #onpoli
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John Bowker
9 months
Preferential treatment: the Ford government says it will massively expand the Mayfield West MZO in Caledon, evidently at the request of PC donor Nick Cortellucci’s Brookvalley Project Management. The MZO expansion was not requested by the town #onpoli
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John Bowker
9 months
Doug Ford told minister Clark to develop processes for “swaps” & “contractions” of Greenbelt land, breaking his promise not to touch “anywhere” in the Greenbelt. It is impossible he & Clark were not closely involved in what would certainly be a controversial policy change #onpoli
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Lorenda Reddekopp
9 months
You know who was able to see an Ontario government minister's mandate letter? The Auditor General. From her report on the Greenbelt, ICYMI:
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John Bowker
3 months
The Ford government won’t hire nurses or keep emergency rooms open, but it will spend millions of public dollars on partisan ads. "This ad is basically giving themselves a pat on their back,” said NDP affordability critic @BhutilaKarpoche #onpoli
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John Bowker
1 year
The Ford government has been quietly breaking the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario. The tribunal once issued 100 decisions a year, but now issues just 16. Nearly 9,000 cases wait to be heard #onpoli #ONlaw
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John Bowker
1 year
The Ford government just tabled a bill that would repeal the Duffins Rouge Agricultural Preserve Act, allowing Doug Ford to remove 4,500 acres of prime farmland from the Greenbelt — and making the powerful PC donor who owns 1,500 acres in the Preserve much, much richer #onpoli
@NoSprawlDurham
Stop Sprawl Durham
1 year
Anyone else having a deja vu? Here's a flashback from the LONG HISTORY of fighting for the Duffins Rouge Agricultural Preserve. #SaveDRAP #SaveTheGreenbelt The action today? Call Premier Ford, Call Minister Bethlenfalvy, Call Pickering Mayor-Elect Ashe, call your councillors!!
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John Bowker
1 year
A well-connected developer bought Greenbelt land right before the Ford govt opened it up for development. Turns out, the developer had already been discussing a development proposal with Southlake & King Twp officials. Great scoop by @jillsmahoney #onpoli
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John Bowker
1 year
Follow the money: "A search of the land registry shows several long-time PC party donors have interests in a number of sites the ministry favoured in its amendments, and others are owned by land developers who lobbied the government extensively" #onpoli
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John Bowker
1 year
The MZO benefits Lakeview Community Partners, which include TACC, owned by the powerful DeGasperis family, the biggest winner from recent Greenbelt removals. Lakeview's lobbyist, Nico Fidani-Diker, was at Doug Ford's daughter's wedding reception #onpoli
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John Bowker
5 months
At an industry luncheon, Calandra told developers he is sorry the Ford government’s corruption made the beneficiaries of the corruption look bad. A guest said “What the hell was he doing? It makes it look like the government & the development industry are in bed together” #onpoli
@robertbenzie
Robert Benzie
5 months
NEW: Premier Doug Ford’s new housing minister has apologized to developers for the government's "mistakes" in the Greenbelt scandal that is now under RCMP investigation. #onpoli
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John Bowker
5 years
First Doug Ford turned OSAP grants into loans for students, then turned a $445 million loan into a grant for Chrysler #onpoli
@CBCToronto
CBC Toronto
5 years
Ontario government writes off $445M loan to Chrysler
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John Bowker
5 years
Ford has cut $25 million from after-school programs for needy kids, just three weeks after he gave away $34.5 million to a client of the Ford family business that is cutting 300 jobs #onpoli
@TorontoStar
Toronto Star
5 years
#StarExclusive : The Ford government has cut funding for programs that provide after-school jobs for needy teens, classroom tutors, “student success” supports for racialized youth and a project focusing on Indigenous issues, the Star has learned. #ONpoli
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John Bowker
1 year
The City of Ajax has long opposed this plan to pave over the Carruthers Creek headwaters, which would increase flood risks downstream and threaten 4,000 acres of prime farmland. The powerful landowner seeking this MZO is a big PC donor. Background: #onpoli
@NoSprawlDurham
Stop Sprawl Durham
1 year
Letter from Mayor Ashe to Minister Clark: 'Request for a Minister’s Zoning Order for Lands in Northeast Pickering-Community of Veraine' is here: #SaveCarruthersHeadwaters #ClimateAction #Flooding #PrimeFarmland #Wetlands #OnPoli #GrowTheGreenbelt #MunPoli
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John Bowker
2 years
“Those emergency powers were, by law, only to be used when nothing else would do. So many of those other legal powers were in Mr. Ford’s jurisdiction. The inquiry will have to hear Ontario’s explanation for why they weren’t enough” #onpoli
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John Bowker
7 months
Preferential treatment: the Ford government rewrote Hamilton’s official plan using the *exact words* provided by a developer who had bought tickets to Doug Ford’s daughter’s stag & doe. The developer also got land removed from the Greenbelt #onpoli #hamont
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John Bowker
7 months
The Ford government planned for at least two ADDITIONAL Greenbelt removals, quietly amending York’s official plan to enable development on protected farmland. The Ford government’s changes to municipal OPs were as shady as the Greenbelt removals #onpoli
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John Bowker
3 months
“Tapeworm economy”: a useful term via @ArmineYalnizyan describing the harmful infiltration of private interests into public systems — “like introducing a parasite that slowly robs the body of nutrients and destroys its organs” #onpoli
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John Bowker
3 months
“The tapeworm economy has arrived in Ontario”: Why is Ontario embracing private health care? The Scandinavian experience shows it hurts both the quality and choice of care, writes @ArmineYalnizyan #onpoli #ONhealth
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John Bowker
1 year
“Unprecedented”: FOI documents reveal that the Ford government’s rewrites of Toronto’s midtown plan in 2019 were provided by political staffers, not the ministry’s professional planners 🤔 #onpoli #TOpoli
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John Bowker
3 months
Accessible? Nearly half of surveyed science teachers in Ontario said a relocated Ontario Science Centre would be LESS accessible, according to the Auditor General #onpoli
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@MacLeodLisa
Lisa MacLeod
3 months
The Flemingdon Science Centre? It’s an asset for the WHOLE province of ONTARIO. It should be modern, accessible and available to all Ontarians.
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John Bowker
7 months
The Ford government recently appointed a developer & PC donor to a committee to protect species at risk, despite allegations he had unlawfully misappropriated millions of dollars from construction projects for personal use #onpoli
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John Bowker
5 years
Thread (warning: wonkish) — A recent report by the Financial Accountability Officer raises serious questions about the transparency of the Ford government’s current spending plans #onpoli
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John Bowker
5 years
“Mulroney may be remembered as one of the most unambitious and subservient Attorneys General in Ontario’s history,” writes @mspratt #onpoli
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John Bowker
3 years
Guillotine watch: Loblaws raises ‘hero pay’ for ... its shareholders. No pandemic pay for front-line workers. Weston family net worth is up by $1.6 billion since March 💰🐖 #covid19
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John Bowker
6 months
“The province’s acting auditor general is running two fresh investigations about Ontario Place and the Ontario Science Centre. Which is excellent news for the public, because Mr. Ford’s plans for those two sites – two beloved public places – stink,” writes @alexbozikovic #onpoli
@globeandmail
The Globe and Mail
6 months
For Doug Ford, an audit of Ontario Place could be trouble
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John Bowker
7 months
This for-profit business, owned by a donor to Lecce’s reelection campaign, is being sued after driving away most staff at a daycare it acquired, where Lecce’s federally-funded grants are being used to top up worker pay the new owner cut to minimum wage
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@Sflecce
Stephen Lecce
7 months
We made history by opening 🇨🇦's largest child care center! After cutting fees by 50%, I was proud to cut the ribbon at Lullaboo supporting 360 kids with @sandhuamarjot1 & @SherefSabawyPC . A big win for moms who no longer have to choose between working & raising their kids. 👏🏼👏🏼
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John Bowker
5 months
“This deal needs more scrutiny, not less. Ford should stop ripping up environmental and heritage laws, and prepare a proper environmental assessment for the Ontario Place redevelopment,” said NDP leader @MaritStiles #onpoli
@ColinDMello
Colin D'Mello | Global News
5 months
NEW: The Ford government has tabled legislation that would give itself significant new powers to fast-track the redevelopment of Ontario Place and exclude it from environmental laws, including the power to issue MZOs on the site. #Onpoli
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John Bowker
8 months
Ryan Amato is also engaged to the chief of staff of infrastructure minister Kinga Surma, who oversees the Ontario Place redevelopment, the relocation of the Ontario Science Centre & the government's multibillion-dollar P3 procurement program #onpoli
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John Bowker
8 months
Curiously-timed Greenbelt purchase by developers whose lobbyist attended Doug Ford’s daughter’s wedding: “These dealings are beyond suspicious, and nobody is believing that the timing of when these lands were purchased is just a coincidence,” said NDP MPP @shaw_sandy #onpoli
@TheSpec
Hamilton Spectator
9 months
High-profile builders purchased an Ancaster Greenbelt property just weeks before Ontario announced plans to strip development protections from the area, @teviahmoro and @mattatthespec report #HamOnt #OnPoli
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John Bowker
6 months
“Last week, Stiles made Tory MPPs visibly uncomfortable during the legislature’s question period when she taunted them by recounting that Ontario PC Fund chair Tony Miele sold $150 tickets to the bachelor party for the fiancé of Ford’s daughter” #onpoli
@robertbenzie
Robert Benzie
6 months
BREAKING: RCMP investigators probing Premier Doug Ford’s $8.28-billion Greenbelt land swap scandal will begin interviewing people this week, sources told the @TorontoStar . #onpoli
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John Bowker
5 months
On Ontario Place, Ford is ‘getting it done’ at the cost of democratic norms: “Ford govt is cursed with the overconfidence of the mediocre. It’s certain of itself in the way only the least capable & most shortsighted tend to be,” says @David_Moscrop #onpoli
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John Bowker
5 years
Trudeau is blaming the NDP for Doug Ford? During the 2018 election, the Liberals made the cynical decision to attack the NDP instead of Ford in order to help themselves. They spent the last days of their campaign saying “Stop the NDP,” sounding just like Ford #cdnpoli #onpoli
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John Bowker
5 years
If Doug Ford wanted to signal a shift away from the mindless cruelty shown so far by his government, he shouldn’t have appointed to cabinet the PC MPP who compared cancer patients needing life-saving drugs to spoiled children demanding ice cream #onpoli
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John Bowker
11 months
The Ford government is shutting down rural hospitals while proposing new hospitals on farmland owned by well-connected developers #onpoli #ONhealth
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John Bowker
2 months
Shoppers bills Ontario taxpayers $75 for each medication review. Unnecessary reviews divert public money from the healthcare system to Loblaw shareholders. Recently the president of Shoppers claimed “we don't have targets” Seems he lied #onpoli #ONhealth
@CBCNews
CBC News
2 months
More than a dozen current and former Shoppers Drug Mart associate owners and pharmacists tell CBC News the chain sets targets for medication reviews, and corporate management pressures owners to meet them. .
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