Billionaires and CEOs are living the life—and amassing a greater and greater share of the economic pie
Inequality is widening
Yet, the Ontario govt signals no tax increases even for the billionaires—while the little people must endure health care cuts and austerity
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Cobourg is the Bermuda Triangle for Via trains, where a mysterious force causes mechanical issues.
Converts really need to have Catholic grandmothers assigned to them, to properly develop their sense of guilt and humility, with a regular chorus of "Have you no shame?".
This is gold.
I’m floored when cities fall all over themselves trying to attract Amazon. They’re a heinous employer, and a toxic presence with the way they lobby against public transit. (They don’t want their employees hours tied to bus schedules.)
I’m in Ontario where our premier seems to believe that cars are his electorate.
So Doug Ford has money for a private European spa on prime waterfront land and to replace a Science Centre that didn't need replacing, but is bleeding a dental program for poor children dry?
And I'm so grateful that @mustafahirji.bsky.social continues to be a truth-teller.
#OnPoli #OnHealth
During my mat leave, around 12 years ago, I recall a fellow mother saying that her younger sister and BIL had started to wear watches to look more mature at work. I wear a watch, by the way, and was shooketh.
You’d need to have residency. I recall visiting a fellow Canadian there and he’d received a voter card in the mail, likely telling him where the polling station was.
Don’t forget Marky Mark’s little performance this week as a point of comparison.
There's a couple million pages of Epstein files the Democrats can read into the record. Go for it.
During my first 20 years, I never drained an aquifer, although I did I have to be reminded to turn off the light when I left the room.
Classic.
Big Dumb Doug Ford banned speed cameras, promising better solutions.
None have appeared.
Speedsters will get away with it just like they did pre-cameras.
More pedestrians will die.
🤷🏼🙄🤷🏼
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notorious radical left communist rag says tax the rich
"iS tHeRe a tEcHnoLoGY tHe leFt Is eXcItEd aBoUt" yeah, renewable energy, mRNA vaccines. Lots of cool stuff like that! Probably not the one whose main promise was cutting payrolls
Screenshot of an OMA email in my inbox, Jan 18, 2024: At this stage in our discussions with the ministry, it’s clear the Year 3 compensation adjustment will be less than the 2.1 to 3.6 per cent range that had been anticipated during 2021-2024 PSA negotiations, primarily because of the unanticipated and unprecedented growth in Ontario’s population. Specifically, the population growth in 2023 is 3.1 per cent, which equals to around half a million new Ontarians. This is the highest growth in any single year since 1972, and more than double the average population growth of 1.3 per cent over the last 50 years. This growth simply could not have been anticipated at the time the parties were negotiating the PSA.
Screenshot of a Global News article, Feb 17, 2026: Later, during a fireside chat, the minister put it more clearly: “Our health-care spending is unsustainable. We just have to deal with reality that we can’t keep spending, particularly when our population is flattening.” The comments come at a time when hospitals warned the government they are facing a billion-dollar structural deficit and are now preparing for “difficult decisions” unless the Ford government increases health-care funding in its upcoming budget.
Ontario govt, 2024: unprecedented population growth means we're forced to cut health care funding
Ontario govt, 2026: unprecedented population "flattening" means we're forced to cut health care funding
So many excuses for starving public health care. Who cares if they make sense or are consistent?
Thing is, even if basket-weaving courses were the problem (they are not), it still makes zero sense to make it way more expensive for poor students to take them, but leave net prices basically intact for wealthier students to do so.
Zero sense, that is, until you remember Ford hates poor people.
Heads up if you have a disability...
@aircanada.bsky.social is charging my wife and I hundreds of dollars extra because she uses a wheelchair and they won’t provide an accessible airport transfer (which we paid for in the package) that she can use unless we pay more.
What a condescending POS.
He clearly has no understanding of Ontario universities or their students.
Complete Piece if Shit.
Love to have a premier who attended college for two months before dropping out to fulfill his nepo baby destiny, telling today’s university students what classes to take www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
#Ontario school board takeovers a distraction from chronic underfunding: teacher and student reps
Ontario's education minister has taken over 7 school boards since March, citing financial mismanagement
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Her stories about hanging out with Amy Carter as a child are wonderful.
(next to a photo of comedian Ron Funches) “You said we had no money for teachers, but they can pay fucking ICE agents six figures?"
as always, the proper stance when trump and the goons sue is “fuck you, make me”
Rather than reading up on the curling scandal, I'm going to wait for a briefing from my curling-mad MIL. This moment was made for her.
Yes, the rabbits keep testing the fortifications we built around the young trees. They're hungry.
We have Blazing Star plants that normally feed the juncos throughout the winter, but they were so ravenous that the stalks were picked clean by November.
"Moderna's CEO announced the company will no longer invest in new Phase 3 vaccine trials for infectious diseases: 'You cannot make a return on investment if you don't have access to the U.S. market. Vaccines for Epstein-Barr virus, herpes, and shingles have been shelved.” 9:12 AM Feb 12, 2026 604.8K Views
In terms of what cures are being lost:
- Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis
- herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis
- shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease
Regulations are what keeps ordinary Americans healthy and, often, alive.
It took spoiled meat and rodent droppings out of our food. It took harmful lead out of our gasoline and paint. It took poison out of our water.
Deregulation only achieves one goal: making rich corporations richer.
The 19th: House passes elections overhaul bill that could make it harder for married women to vote
Are you one of nearly 70 million American women who changed their names when they got married? 🙋♀️
Republicans in Congress want to make it harder for you to vote.
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