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The Ford Files @dougfordclownshow.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Last year the Ford government put $12M of public money into ads for its Ring of Fire plans, on social feeds, billboards and movie screens, FOI records obtained by The Trillium show. There's no highway to the region yet. Four ministries, $77M on ads in one year, and counting.

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The Ford Files @dougfordclownshow.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

The Ford government's own KPMG review found every $1 put into supportive housing returns $1.60 to $2, mostly in avoided hospital and ER visits. That was 2022. The ministry spent years 'analyzing' it (The Trillium). 36,000 people wait; under 1,000 a year get in (AMHO).

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The Ford Files @dougfordclownshow.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Highway 69's last 68 km were supposed to be four lanes by 2017, promised after a series of deadly crashes (CBC). Tuesday the Ford government announced construction on four of six sections by end of 2027, with no completion date and no price tag attached. Still two lanes.

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The Ford Files @dougfordclownshow.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

The Ford government has cut people on student visas and work permits off social assistance (CBC). What didn't change: Ontario Works still pays a single person $733 a month, the same as eight years ago. A legal clinic lawyer calls it 'impossible to get by' (PressProgress).

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The Ford Files @dougfordclownshow.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Back to school in Ontario. The Ford government is touting 35 new and expanded schools, 18,300 spaces. The FAO says the province needs 172,187 spaces by 2033-34, plus $6.5B in repairs to the schools kids already sit in (Globe and Mail). A tenth of the job, sold as all of it.

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The Ford Files @dougfordclownshow.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

50% US tariffs landed on $28B of Canadian goods Saturday. Ontario's NDP, Liberals and Greens asked Ford to bring MPPs back to pass emergency relief for tariff-hit workers, Global News reported. He said no. 'Gutter politics.' The House he sent home in June returns October 27.

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The Ford Files @dougfordclownshow.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

The Ford government is selling public land on Lake Muskoka for a resort, zoning order included, so Gravenhurst's planning rules won't apply. The project's lead paid $1,000 to the PCs to dine with Ford while working to get the land (The Trillium). He says that was personal.

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The Ford Files @dougfordclownshow.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Ontario hospitals had $2 billion on hand for day-to-day bills in 2020. Last year they ended at negative $280 million, and some are borrowing to cover payroll and supplies (OCHU/CUPE). The Ford government is raising hospital funding 3.3% this year. Costs are rising over 6%.

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The Ford Files @dougfordclownshow.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Call logs from Ford's personal phone, the week his government opened Greenbelt land to developers. The privacy commissioner ordered them released. Courts upheld it. The Ford government rewrote the FOI law, retroactively, and denied the request under its own rule (Global News).

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The Ford Files @dougfordclownshow.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

A 500-pound rebar cage fell 10 metres and missed Ontario Line workers by a metre. Contractors struck a live 115,000-volt line. Over two dozen serious incidents in six months of 2024-25, per leaked Metrolinx reports (The Trillium). The CEO says near-misses come with building big.

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The Ford Files @dougfordclownshow.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

"Look into my expenses and find out that I have zero expenses," Ford told reporters in July. Global News did. Disclosures show $11,709.85 billed to taxpayers to send Ford, his labour minister and two staffers to a 2025 LiUNA conference at a Disney resort in Orlando.

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The Ford Files @dougfordclownshow.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Bail in Ontario now comes with a price tag. As of Monday, the Ford government requires a cash deposit from anyone granted bail. The CCLA and Criminal Lawyers' Association are in court: those who can't pay are more likely to be left in jail, presumed innocent (CBC).

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The Ford Files @dougfordclownshow.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

First the Ford government cut the fees developers pay for roads and sewers. AMO put the hole at $5.1B. Now Ontario and Ottawa are spending $1B on towns that charge developers nothing, and Ford is urging deeper cuts (CBC). The roads still get built. You pay for them now.

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The Ford Files @dougfordclownshow.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

In December 2023, Ford's PC party sent someone to Jamaica to watch then-Liberal leader Bonnie Crombie on vacation, The Trillium reports. The party stands by it: opposition research. Nearly half its income that year was a taxpayer subsidy. Ford's response: "It's politics."

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The Ford Files @dougfordclownshow.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

The Ford government announced $7M for residential school survivors on Aug 5. It comes out of the burial search fund, cut from about $32M to $20M, The Trillium reported. At the Mohawk Institute, searchers have covered 2.75% of the grounds. Survivors' gatherings are off.

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The Ford Files @dougfordclownshow.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

The Court of Appeal ruled Friday the Ford government can rip out 19 km of bike lanes on Bloor, Yonge and University. Ford posted "Common sense wins." The ministry's own documents, released in that case, say removal may not ease congestion and could mean more collisions (CBC).

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The Ford Files @dougfordclownshow.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Under the Ford government's overhaul, an agency gets full funding for placing a disabled client only after that person works 20+ hours a week. Some providers were cut up to 67%, and at least six have closed programs that got disabled people hired (The Trillium).

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The Ford Files @dougfordclownshow.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

The Ontario Line was pitched at $10.9 billion. Metrolinx now says at least $34 billion, more than triple, and still climbing, $29B in June, $34B this week (CBC). One subway line under the Ford government, no ceiling on the overruns, and taxpayers cover every jump.

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The Ford Files @dougfordclownshow.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

More than a million Ontario households need subsidized housing. The Ford government's programs reach about 300,000. In 2024-25, 729,355 households needed help and got none, the FAO found. It projects the number helped will drop by 2027-28 as need climbs.

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The Ford Files @dougfordclownshow.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

A coroner's inquest recommended a plan to close the 100-year-old Thunder Bay Jail. The Ford government says it stays open at least five years after its replacement opens. On July 1, weeks after First Nations leaders called for it to close, another person died inside (CBC).

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The Ford Files @dougfordclownshow.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

The Ford government spent a record $111.9M on advertising in 2024-25, more than any Ontario government ever (Auditor General). She found 38% wouldn't have cleared the old partisan-ad rules, and said the campaigns were meant to make the PCs look good, not to inform you.

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The Ford Files @dougfordclownshow.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Ontario spends less on a university student than any other province: $10,481, against a national average of $17,424 (OCUFA). The Ford government's 6% increase in February doesn't change that ranking. It lifted the tuition freeze too. Students make up the difference.

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The Ford Files @dougfordclownshow.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Ford's environment minister was in Brampton today calling wetlands vital infrastructure that protects homes from flooding. The province is putting $1.2M into restoring 10 hectares of wetland there. His government's Highway 413 would disrupt 220 wetlands (Environmental Defence).

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The Ford Files @dougfordclownshow.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

In 2019 the Ford government pegged the Ontario Place rebuild at up to $424M. The auditor general puts the public bill at $2.2B, including parking owed to Therme, the Austrian spa firm with a 95-year lease on the site. She found the process wasn't fair, transparent or accountable.

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The Ford Files @dougfordclownshow.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

21%. That's how many Ontario teachers told the auditor general they can meet the needs of the special education students in their class. The Ford government is sending Toronto's board $6.4M less for special ed this fall (The Trillium). The money follows headcount, not need.

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The Ford Files @dougfordclownshow.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Homes in St. Catharines flooded three times in two weeks, the mayor says. People are hauling gutted basements to the curb. They can't apply for provincial disaster relief until Ford's municipal affairs minister signs off. He was asked July 29. Still nothing Thursday (CBC).

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The Ford Files @dougfordclownshow.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

The Ford government broke ground this week on an $82M emergency department in Scarborough. That hospital is $36M in the hole and got nothing toward it. Hospitals in deficit must file cutback plans instead: 1,300 jobs gone in a year, CUPE says. Bigger ER, fewer people in it.

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The Ford Files @dougfordclownshow.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

On July 31 Ford marked a subway milestone at a government podium in Scarborough. The audience: staff and a few construction workers posed for photos. His government organized it and invited no reporters (The Trillium). Fifth one since mid-May. Nobody got to ask if it's on time.

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The Ford Files @dougfordclownshow.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Metrolinx, the LCBO and Legal Aid Ontario are among eight agencies the Ford government just told to find savings (CP). Legal aid has been here before: a 30% cut in 2019, and Ford telling people who couldn't get a lawyer to call his office. Same agency, same play.

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The Ford Files @dougfordclownshow.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Scarborough Southwest has had no MPP since February. Today is the last day the law lets Ford wait before calling the byelection, CBC reports. Six months, no voice at Queen's Park. Not that there was much to miss: the House sat 30 days this year and is off until Oct 27.

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The Ford Files @dougfordclownshow.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Walter Chikoski, 94, spent three and a half days on a stretcher in a Sault Ste. Marie ER hallway before a bed opened. 'He basically didn't want to live,' his son told SooToday. Ontario hospitals asked the Ford government for $2.8B to stabilize. The 2026 budget gave $1.1B (Globe).

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The Ford Files @dougfordclownshow.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

In 2022 the Ford government promised 1.5 million homes by 2031. That takes about 175,000 starts a year by its own math. The 2026 budget projects 64,800. Asked if the goal is still achievable, the finance minister said 'I'm not focused on the target' (CBC). Renters still are.

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The Ford Files @dougfordclownshow.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Four major education unions' talks are frozen before wages or class sizes even came up. The Ford government wants school staffing rules set from Queen's Park, not local boards. Unions say they offered to keep bargaining; the answer was no. Contracts end with summer (Trillium).

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The Ford Files @dougfordclownshow.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

The Ford government's 2026 budget put a record $965M into the Ontario Autism Program. Of about 88,000 kids registered, roughly 21,000 have funding for actual therapy. The other 67,000 are still waiting. More money than ever, and the line only got longer (CP24).

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The Ford Files @dougfordclownshow.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Toronto's Eglinton Crosstown was pegged at $4.6B and promised for 2020. It opened at over $13B after 15 years of torn-up storefronts along Eglinton. Opposition and city councillors want a public inquiry into what happened. Ford says he won't 'waste time' on one (CBC).

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The Ford Files @dougfordclownshow.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Ontario public servants filed 62 whistleblower reports alleging wrongdoing in government last year, up from 32 two years ago (Integrity Commissioner, out yesterday). Same government that in April exempted the premier's and ministers' offices from freedom of information law.

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The Ford Files @dougfordclownshow.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

The Ford government opened Ontario to private online betting in 2022. Gambling-help calls from men 15 to 24 are up 317% since the province got into gambling in 2015 (CMAJ). ConnexOntario, which runs the helpline, handled 155,391 calls last year on $4.2M. Its funding went up 4%.

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The Ford Files @dougfordclownshow.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Ontario has more data centres than any province and no published rules for them. Energy Minister Stephen Lecce says any new one must prove community benefit and cover its own power bill, not yours. Nothing on paper (The Trillium). Mississauga votes tomorrow on a one-year freeze.

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The Ford Files @dougfordclownshow.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

$733 a month. That's Ontario Works for a single adult, unchanged since Ford took office in 2018. This July his government gave ODSP an inflation bump and OW nothing. Eighth straight year frozen. The Income Security Advocacy Centre says prices are up 23% since, so the cheque buys nearly $140 less.

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The Ford Files @dougfordclownshow.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Ford bought a $28.9M jet in April and sold it back 12 days later when the backlash hit. His own documents show taxpayers still paid nearly $200,000 for nothing. Same play as the Greenbelt: take 7,400 protected acres, get caught by the Auditor General, hand it back. Reversals aren't refunds.

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The Ford Files @dougfordclownshow.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Nine weeks on strike. 4,000 workers in shelters, autism services and mental health supports want wages back from Ford's unconstitutional Bill 124. Their provincially funded agencies say they can't pay. OPSEU just filed labour board complaints calling the government the ghost at the table.

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The Ford Files @dougfordclownshow.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

In 2018, a Landlord and Tenant Board hearing took three to seven weeks. The board's 2024-25 annual report says three to seven months (Tribunal Watch Ontario). The Ombudsman traced the collapse to appointments drying up after Ford won. Tenants wait it out in unsafe housing. How long did yours take?

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The Ford Files @dougfordclownshow.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Ottawa ran a two-month consultation on jets at Billy Bishop. More than 87,000 people responded, and on Friday the federal government said no, citing parks, noise and housing. The Ford government says it'll push ahead anyway (The Trillium). Ford already took the city's 20% share of the airport land.

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The Ford Files @dougfordclownshow.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Ford called Highway 69 "treacherous" and promised in the 2025 campaign to finish four-laning it "as quickly as possible." The last 68 km are still two lanes. No timeline, and the province denied an FOI request asking for one (Sudbury.com). A 28-year-old died on that two-lane stretch June 5.

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The Ford Files @dougfordclownshow.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Wildfires destroyed two First Nations in northwestern Ontario this month. Their chiefs say the Ford government's natural resources ministry kept telling them they weren't in danger until the fire reached their communities. Families fled with no warning. They want a public inquiry (The Trillium).

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The Ford Files @dougfordclownshow.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Ontario parents were promised $10-a-day child care. The average is about $19, and of the 86,000 new spaces the Ford government agreed to create by this December, its own count says about 54,000 exist (Canadian Press). Five months left, 32,000 spaces short.

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The Ford Files @dougfordclownshow.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

The Ford government gave a Toronto non-profit $3.3M from its Skills Development Fund to train marginalized youth for jobs. Now it's suing to get the money back. The ex-director says he gave it all to community groups. The Trillium contacted all 49 he named. None said they got SDF money.

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The Ford Files @dougfordclownshow.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

A minister's zoning order rewrites land rules and overrides the municipality. The Ford government used it 114 times in five years, 17 times more than the previous two decades, the Auditor General found. Rezoned farmland jumped 46% in value. Not one order was assessed for whether it was even needed.

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The Ford Files @dougfordclownshow.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

$18.2B. That's what Ontario taxpayers have spent since 2022-23 covering part of everyone's hydro bill, per the Ford government's own fall economic statement, reported by CBC. Rates still went up 29% last November. You pay for that twice, once on the bill and once in taxes.

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The Ford Files @dougfordclownshow.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Ontario policy says transit vehicles bought with public money must be 25% Canadian-made. The Ford government cut the Ontario Line to 10%, then told the Opposition nothing had changed, per emails The Trillium reported. The $9B contract builds the cars in Maryland. Thunder Bay lost the work.

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