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Twitter entity of OPSEU Local 242 — representing Professors, Counsellors and Librarians at Niagara College — @opseulocal242

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@OCUFA
OCUFA
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All of this is happening against a backdrop of chronic underfunding and program cuts. Ontario’s students and faculty deserve a government that values and invests in post-secondary education — not one that undermines it. Ontario can and must do better. #OntarioPSE #HigherEd
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@OCUFA
OCUFA
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In 2019, the government’s Student Choice Initiative forced many of these same student services to fight for survival by making fees “optional.” The courts struck it down for overstepping authority — but Bill 33 brings it back through new legislation.
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@OCUFA
OCUFA
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Student voices are essential. This legislation undermines the very systems that allow students to fund and shape the supports they rely on most. Campus life depends on their right to build inclusive, supportive communities — silencing those voices only deepens the harm.
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@OCUFA
OCUFA
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Under Bill 33, the Ontario government could strip students of that power, threatening vital campus services and democratic decision-making.
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@opseulocal242
OPSEU Local 242
3 days
RT @Libs4Canada: Consetoga College President Tibbits grilled by Federal MPs about his $603,000 salary amidst layoffs after Feds slash inter…
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@TDotResident
TDot Resident
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What jobs was this supposedly training people for???
@torontotodayca
TorontoToday
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Ford government seeking money back from defunct Skills Development Fund recipient with ties to Drake, which received more than $3 million before shuttering.
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@TDotResident
TDot Resident
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I don't know the amount, but they were on the Skills Development Fund approved projects:
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@TDotResident
TDot Resident
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#ONpoli Skills Development Fund... or Doug Ford Donor Slush Fund?
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@TorontoStar
Toronto Star
6 days
#StarExclusive: Outsource, automate and merge? Reports reveal what kind of Ontario college job losses and program cuts could be on the line.
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thestar.com
The province provided money for third-party efficiency and accountability assessments for 10 of 24 public colleges, surfacing amid a staff strike.
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@TDotResident
TDot Resident
8 days
hmmm - Career Colleges are not allowed to apply directly... but there are definitely some of these colleges promoting that they have SDF funding.
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@TDotResident
TDot Resident
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@CareerCollegeON
Career Colleges Ontario
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Today, Ontario is investing $115 million with its new Skills Development Fund to align workers with quality jobs and jumpstart the province's economic recovery.
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@TDotResident
TDot Resident
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How Doug Ford's government works: 1) Monte McNaughton starts Skills Development Fund 2) Wife gets millions from SDF 3) Monte quits and Piccini takes over SDF 4) Wife moves to Career Colleges Ontario 5) Piccini's wife becomes lobbyist for CCO 6) CCO members get millions from SDF
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@TDotResident
TDot Resident
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Oh - and Monte McNaughton's wife (tied to $2M in Skills Development Funds for Dentacloud) is now the Executive Director at Career Colleges Ontario... so, in summary: David Piccini's wife is the lobbyist for Monte McNaughton's wife in order to get funding from David Piccini!!!
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@opseulocal242
OPSEU Local 242
7 days
A great thread here. The connections between the Ford government and private colleges have already been well-established. This is all happening while public colleges are being starved of funding, and thousands upon thousands are being laid off. Privatization out in the open.
@TDotResident
TDot Resident
8 days
In addition to the man beside David Piccini getting $7.5M in SDF money, Piccini's wife (also pictured) is a lobbyist that represents Career Colleges Ontario - and several of the private trade schools that are members of Career Colleges Ontario received SDF money as well.
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@TDotResident
TDot Resident
8 days
Hello Ontario: help these amazing reporters expose every last bit of the Ford Government’s Skills Development Fund scandal
@jackhauen
Jack Hauen
8 days
If you have something the public should know about the Skills Development Fund, get in touch. Jack@thetrillium.ca Charlie@thetrillium.ca
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David Brown 🇨🇦💪
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The Trillium has absolutely CRUSHED this story. Independent media needs to be supported. Our legacy media and journalists are not meeting the moment.
@jackhauen
Jack Hauen
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If you have something the public should know about the Skills Development Fund, get in touch. Jack@thetrillium.ca Charlie@thetrillium.ca
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@opseulocal242
OPSEU Local 242
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@opseulocal242
OPSEU Local 242
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John Tibbits was grilled on everything from Conestoga College's budget surpluses to his $600,000 salary, students in "slumlord housing" and living off food banks, and the time he called another college president "a whore."  https://t.co/4mxbgxSvBa
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John Tibbits of Conestoga bats down questions on budget surpluses, housing conditions of students and his crude comments about another president.
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@opseulocal242
OPSEU Local 242
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The five best-paid college presidents in Ontario made an average of $492,000 last year...,” added Kesley. “College presidents have a mandate to protect the student experience, so what are they doing to help end this strike?” https://t.co/dExHNO5kpO
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opseu.org
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Toronto, ON – Earlier today, the Ontario full-time college support staff bargaining team, represented by OPSEU/SEFPO, re-engaged negotiations with the College Employer Council...
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