Friday Round Table!
@kellyelliottmcm.bsky.social, Scott Collyer and Steve Cordes joined me to talk provincial campaign, Ford's surprise #ldnont visit, extra funding for ArkAid, how many councillors sit on boards and commissions and more!
Links here!
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By far, @ashleighweeden.bsky.social is one of the most brilliant people I know, and I always learn so much listening to her speak!
I know that when you can have an old, white, male elected official stand up and tell her that her “radical” ideas are what we need - she’s nailed it! #ROMA2025
“I can promise you that women working together — linked, informed, and educated — can bring peace and prosperity to this forsaken planet.” – Isabel Allende #AddWomenChangePolitics #ROMA2025 #onpoli #onmuni
go back into either Stratford or St Marys (whomever has room) and then after you get that done, go back to St. Marys ER to get the results/follow up. This is how I’ve spent my last 24 hours with my sick kid! 3/end
call Stratford Hospital on a phone in the lobby to register before you see an actual person. If you require imaging “after hours” when you go to ER, they either have to call-in the on-call tech from home, or they send you home and you have to wait for Stratford to call you to give you an appt to 2/
One thing I don’t think we talk enough is about the reduced services available at some of these small/rural hospitals, that I think some urban folks would be surprised. For example, after 8pm at St. Marys and show up at ER, all doors to the hospital are locked, you buzz in, and then you have to 1/
The magic of Christmas, brought to you by one tired Mama….
Looks like you had a blast!
I absolutely don’t disagree with that at all! Also, that we produce vehicles that can travel far faster than legally.
rural roads safer - deaths like Dante are preventable, but we unfortunately have to design our way out of common sense as people literally just can’t follow the rules of the road. (I also chatted about this during the start of Craig’s podcast yesterday!) 2/ #onmuni #onpoli #ldnont
Rural roads are inherently more dangerous than urban roads (as this was in a rural section of #ldnont). 55% of Ontario road fatalities are on rural roads - we can make them safer. The letter than AORS sent to #onpoli below supporting Good Roads advocacy on the investments needed to make our 1/
Thank you, as usual, for your kind words @caroldyck.bsky.social! We need to catch up sometime in the new year :)
If I go downtown #ldnont, it’s to podcast with @craigneedles.bsky.social and eat the most delicious birria tacos with my best friend Gerry at Grill 23!
Friday Round Table!
I was joined by @kellyelliottmcm.bsky.social and Mojdeh Cox to talk about the circus in Ottawa (Freeland/Trudeau/Singh/more) and the #ldnont council decision to dock Susan Stevenson 30 days pay.
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Mine actually has Muskoka in it, but frankly, it’s kinda the same theme!
If anyone wants to know who I inherited my sassy pants from, it was this firecracker.
The world is a little duller now - hodgesfuneralhome.ca/tribute/deta...
expansion *right* abutting the London/Thames Centre border… I can just hear the annexation talks happening already for more sprawl into #ontag land! 2/
London hasn’t been quiet on the expansion of industrial land along the 401. Heck, Stephen Turner wanted London to oppose Thames Centre’s OP update in ~2016 because we added industrial land along the 401 as competition. What concerns me about this expansion (well, a lot does, but!) is the 1/
Hey friend!
She’s positioned herself to run for leadership by putting everything on PMJT (and therefore Mark Carney, too). Politically, that letter was a fantastic strategy for herself. The LPC has no one else. Is it good overall though for a general election for the party? Nope.
Every Liberal MP should be calling on the Prime Minister to resign. No he doesn't get to spend Christmas thinking about his future. The surest way to elect a Conservative majority & lose all the progress we've made is for him to stay. And we need to focus on tariff threat from the US. It's over.
Donald Trump’s post about Chrystia Freeland is truly example 8759386 of why men are too emotional to be politicians. #uspoli #cdnpoli #addwomenchangepolitics
I missed you guys too! Sorry I missed it - hope to see you all soon!
I’m happy to support @thenarwhal.ca, and it’s journalists for the work they do - particularly uncovering the secrets of the #onpoli government! If you’re able, you should join me! #cdnfoi
What’s it like to be a woman in politics? Here’s a small snippet of what my DM’s and replies used to look like. There is not very many jobs you would have to put up with this vitriol and *not be able to do anything about it* because if you even shut off replies you are “not doing your job”. #onmuni
office because of what they have to deal with. The reality is though, when good people leave - what are we left with?
At that point, society has no one to blame but themselves.
We have to call out the toxicity and not settle for the status quo.
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I haven’t been quiet about the fact “life after politics” is treating me very well, and I am very happy in the role I landed in.
The toxicity that we are seeing in politics is at an all-time high and we are losing amazing people. I’ve actually apologized to women that I encouraged to run for 3/
being posted in an online Facebook group.
As much as when I was an elected official I had the same passion for informing the community and saying what had to be said, that passion burned me out and the social media abuse (that I never identified as abuse or harassment at the time) wore me out. 2/
🧵: Breaking my BlueSky virginity to talk about my good friend Kelsie van Belleghem, and what’s happening in Kenora. Yesterday she announced she’s taking a leave of absence as Councillor due to a recent targeted online hate campaign against her, which resulted in her parents’ home address 1/
