Premier Doug Ford's Ontario

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But keep good notes, have your strategy ready to go, and build your allies and war chest of cash. We are about one year plus a month away from the mandatory June 2, 2022 election date. The Liberals need a plan to both completely destroy the NDP and take away some PC seats. If the Libs only manage to split the non-PC vote between themselves and the NDP, the winner of this is Ford. Of course there is the chance that the PCs throw Ford out before June 2022.

Except that such logic assumes there's limits to the "subtractability" of the PC vote; or even that said vote is a monolith unaffected by subtractability. You have to remember that the 2018 PC vote was in many respects "conditional"; plus, if the PCs sink to somewhere t/w the 30% range, it's actually immaterial beyond a matter of specific seats whether the Libs "completely destroy" the NDP or not (or vice versa, for that matter).

For the PCs, it might be a death by a thousand cuts--and the weird nature of the Ford coalition (or the 2018 vote shake-out at large) might mean the cuts could be inflicted by Libs *and* NDP *and* Green *and* some yet-unspecified Hillierista dissident faction. It's not just a matter of letting the PC's 40% share be and piling on top of it...

 

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Doug Ford’s top staffers knew Rod Phillips would be away ahead of St. Barts vacation, e-mails show

E-mails obtained by The Globe and Mail show that, on two occasions, Rod Phillips’s former chief of staff informed the Premier’s office that his boss would be away for weeks at a time

www.theglobeandmail.com

The travelgate scandal is back! Now we know that senior PC staffers knew Rod would be at St. Barts!

 

[tiffer24]

Doug Ford's 11:00am presser has been delayed til noon because the tent in his mom's backyard blew over in the wind. LOL

 

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Doug Ford's 11:00am presser has been delayed til noon because the tent in his mom's backyard blew over in the wind. LOL

Perhaps they are re-arranging the chairs, as in the Titanic, and organising a military band to play Abide with Me?

 

[Richard White]

Doug Ford's 11:00am presser has been delayed til noon because the tent in his mom's backyard blew over in the wind. LOL

Why do they not just do them inside like in the dining room or the kitchen?

 

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Why do they not just do them inside like in the dining room or the kitchen?

Because congregating outside is safe )or much safer); Unless, of course, if you are on a golf course!

 

[Richard White]

Because congregating outside is safe )or much safer); Unless, of course, if you are on a golf course!

True but if it is just the Premier on a video call. He should be fine to do it in his living room.

 

[AlvinofDiaspar]

Doug Ford's 11:00am presser has been delayed til noon because the tent in his mom's backyard blew over in the wind. LOL

Metaphor of the province's COVID response, I suppose.

AoD

 

[PinkLucy]

True but if it is just the Premier on a video call. He should be fine to do it in his living room.

He can't do it alone. Seriously. He needs tech support.

 

[W. K. Lis]

He can't do it alone. Seriously. He needs tech support.

"Where's the 'ANY' key?"

From link.

 

[zang]

So Doug Ford talks on about how this virus is mutating, changing, getting smarter(?!)... Then goes on about mutations crossing the border.

As though it can only mutate where brown people live. If you keep letting it spread without restriction, it can mutate here too you bloviating pustule.

 

[AlvinofDiaspar]

So Doug Ford talks on about how this virus is mutating, changing, getting smarter(?!)... Then goes on about mutations crossing the border.

As though it can only mutate where brown people live. If you keep letting it spread without restriction, it can mutate here too you bloviating pustule.

Does the call for border closure apply to provincial ministers traveling to vacation hotspots with their bosses' approval? Curious minds want to know.

AoD

 

[zang]

Of course n— What's that?! Bomb threat at Queen's Park?

 

[W. K. Lis]

Of course n— What's that?! Bomb threat at Queen's Park?

They're screening "Run This Town" at Queen's Park?

 

[Northern Light]

Ontario’s new Greenbelt Council chair voted against Greenbelt creation

Norm Sterling ⁠— who oversaw cuts to the environment ministry’s budget that were later found to have contributed to what happened to the Walkerton E. coli outbreak ⁠— was a Progressive Conservative environment minister under the Mike Harris government.

www.nationalobserver.com

Need to vote this POS out. Vote strategically NDP/Liberal/Green depending on who is more likely in your riding next election.

*nods*

Also, I'm not sure it was a good idea to collectively resign from the council. Even if it was in protest, better to be forced out than to allow this scum to appoint whomever he wants.

Important to note here, the Greenbelt Council has no actual authority to do anything.

Its an advisory body to the Minister.

Crombie et al; did a reasonable thing which was to draw attention to bad policy and decisions by government and get some public discourse going on that.

The Minister was never bound by Crombie et. al; and wont' be by Sterling either.

From: https://www.ontario.ca/page/greenbelt-council