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Diana Chan McNally @dianachanmcnally.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

I need your help! I'm travelling to Ottawa on June 10 to tell our Parkdale—High Park MP, Karim Bardeesy, that his constituents say "NO!" to the airport expansion! Can you sign my petition? I'll be bringing printed copies to Parliament Hill! www.dianachanmcnally.ca/billybishop

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Terra Loire @terraloire.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Thank you so much for sharing. The bonus of building a stronger province at every level, from the big city municipal to the small-town library board, is that it makes us stronger against not only Ford – but any future tyrants.

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Joan Faux @joantelferfaux.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

An excellent article to share when someone blames Ontario voters for electing and re-electing Doug Ford PC majority governments. #onpoli

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Ricochet Media @ricochetmedia.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Doug Ford's grip on power owes as much to electoral distortions and rule changes as it does to a political system increasingly shaped by wealth. The answer isn't resignation — it's rebuilding political power from the ground up. New from @terraloire.bsky.social: ricochet.media/politics/the...

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The carnival trick that keeps Doug Ford in power

Ford’s Conservatives keep winning majorities with the backing of only a small fraction of Ontario’s voters, in a political system increasingly shaped by wealth. The answer isn't resignation — it's reb...

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Diana Chan McNally @dianachanmcnally.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

I’m running for City Council in Parkdale—High Park. I’m running because our neighbours deserve a councillor who has walked alongside them, fought for them, and knows how to turn community demands into real wins at City Hall. Join me at www.dianachanmcnally.ca.

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Diana Chan McNally for Parkdale—High Park

YouTube video by Diana Chan McNally

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Civic Tech Toronto @civictechto.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

👉 Tue Apr 28 → 7pm • in-person & online Terra Gillespie (@terraloire.bsky.social) on how data gets dressed up to deceive — and how to spot the difference between honest numbers and misleading ones. ✚ discussions & breakouts! guild.host/events/civic...

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Terra Loire @terraloire.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Fiscal Conservative and Austerity Uncle Doug Ford bought a private jet for $28m. …Instead of over a thousand new nursing initiatives or nearly a thousand PSW incentives funded. …Instead of over a thousand shelter beds and over 4K rent geared to income subsidies. #onpoli

THIS MONEY COULD INSTEAD FUND ONE OF THE FOLLOWING ($28M):
New Nursing Positions (2-Year
Commitments)
per nurse
1,120
1,120
total incentives funded
560
$25,000 each
active nurses/year (over 2yrs)
Ontario needs 33,200 additional nurses by 2032 (govt FOl). Each $25,000 incentive funds a 2-year hospital/LTC/home-care commitment.
Source: Ontario Health - Community
Commitment Program • View source
Personal Support Workers
Fully Supported per PSW
933
$30,000 each
933
total incentives funded
311
active PSWs/year (over 3 yrs)
Ontario needs 50,853 more PSWs by 2032 (govt FOl). Each $30,000 package covers training stipend + recruitment + rural relocation incentives.
Source: Ontario Health / WCT Resource Centre •
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Shelter Beds (per year)
per shelter bed/year
1,120
$25,000 each
Annual cost to operate one shelter bed. A rent-geared-to-income subsidy costs only $6,300/year — four times more efficient.
Source: Financial Accountability Office • View source
Rent-Geared-to-Income
Subsidies
per annual RGI subsidy
4,444
More affordable than shelter beds at $25,000/year. RGI subsidies keep people housed and out of crisis care.
$6,300 each
Source: Financial Accountability Office • View
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Sources: All figures from published public records. View the methodology page for itemized list.

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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

The world is stupid, but I just watched a squirrel break into a car in the parking lot below me, steal a package of crackers, and escape to a nearby tree. So at least somebody is winning.

Photograph of a car with a squirrel inside of it, perched on the steering wheel. The car is the color of champaign at a beige convention, and the squirrel is the color of squirrels. The squirrel is holding a package of crackers in it's mouth. They are the kind like you get at a restaurant, where you get two crackers wrapped in plastic.

The driver's side window is slightly cracked. This is how the squirrel got in, and how it got out. It threw the crackers out first, and then climbed out after them. Everything in this operation suggested that this was not the squirrel's first rodeo.

A closeup of the squirrel sitting on the steering wheel. The squirrel deserves a name, so we'll call her Anjeloma, and she's what you might call a winner. She is still squirrel colored. The crackers are white, and labeled "Zest." As if Anjeloma needed more zest. Squirrel, please.

You can't see much of the car, but you can see smudges of grunge at the edges of the windshield, where the wipers have cast aside the debris of previous rains and pollen-falls.

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Terra Loire @terraloire.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Check out itsonford.ca, share it, and use it as your go-to tool when you’re talking to friends, coworkers, and neighbours about what’s really driving this budget and what it’s costing our communities.

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It's On Ford

A public accountability tool exploring Ford's mismanagement of Ontario tax dollars.

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Terra Loire @terraloire.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

As you watch today’s budget spin, ask: if there’s “no money,” why is there always money for private profits and insider deals — but not for nurses, PSWs, education workers, and the public services that keep Ontario running?

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Terra Loire @terraloire.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

When the Finance Minister boasts about “competitiveness” and “productivity,” remember: those are political choices too. They’re choosing tax breaks and subsidies for the well-connected over strong, publicly delivered services we all rely on.

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Terra Loire @terraloire.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Every dollar this government shovels to private clinics, losing lawsuits, and vanity projects is a dollar not going to keep ERs open, fix crumbling campuses, or expand mental health supports in our communities.

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Terra Loire @terraloire.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

It’s a community-built dashboard that tracks the real cost of Ford’s insider deals, privatization schemes, and corporate giveaways — and what that money could have done for public services instead. It even has a calculator to see exactly what we're missing out on: www.itsonford.ca/calculator

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Calculator | Fund Our Public Services — It's On Ford

Explore how Ford's overspending affects public services in Ontario. Use our calculator to see what funds could support nurses, OSAP, shelters, and more.

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Terra Loire @terraloire.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Today’s Ontario budget isn’t just numbers on a page — it’s a snapshot of Doug Ford’s choices. While they talk about “fiscal responsibility,” our hospitals, schools, and public services are stretched to the breaking point. That’s why itsonford.ca exists. #ONpoli

itsonford.ca

It's On Ford

A public accountability tool exploring Ford's mismanagement of Ontario tax dollars.

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Terra Loire @terraloire.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Things to keep in mind when the #ONpoli budget drops this week: Avoidable costs to rush privatization of alcohol sales ($1.4B) could have been used to maintain OSAP grants ($1B). The money spent on losing legal battles ($4.8M) could have funded 193 new shelter beds instead. www.itsonford.ca

itsonford.ca

It's On Ford

A public accountability tool exploring Ford's mismanagement of Ontario tax dollars.

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Terra Loire @terraloire.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Instead of debunking these points I want to suggest the following exercise: sometime over the next week try to file an FOI to collect information the government has about YOU. Report back how easy it was to navigate and how quick the process was.

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Terra Loire @terraloire.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

The Ontario PCs are dressing this up as privacy and strength (?) and will rely on how little general knowledge exists about FOI processes in an attempt to convince folks this is fine.

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Terra Loire @terraloire.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

It applies retroactively to in progress FOIs, extends timelines for government response, and effectively undoes decades of advocacy work that ensures a modicum of transparency in our government.

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Terra Loire @terraloire.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

ICYMI: yesterday the Ford government announced their intent to change the Freedom of Information Act to deny the public access to documents held by the offices of the premier and his ministers, including by their parliamentary assistants and staff. #ONpoli www.thetrillium.ca/news/politic...

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Ford government’s plan to restrict public access to politicians’ documents would ‘gut public trust,’ commissioner warns

The proposed legislation comes amid battles for access to documents on the Greenbelt and Skills Development Fund scandals and the premier’s personal cellphone records

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Terra Loire @terraloire.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

I made this list in light of Ford’s convention centre statements, who knew it would come in handy with fresh context? Doug should invest in SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition instead of making his fantasies all of our problem. #onpoli www.terraloire.com/notes/60-thi...

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Terra Loire @terraloire.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

People seem to have book stores and food covered…are you interested in some of my favourite trees? Small ponds (the ducks are out!)? Thrift store to mosey through?

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Terra Loire @terraloire.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Chat; is drinking coffee antisemitic?

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Terra Loire @terraloire.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

$200 million community resiliency fund for nonprofits in regions impacted by U.S. tariffs

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Terra Loire @terraloire.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

$2.2M–$5.3M/year over 5 years to expand social day programming for dementia

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Terra Loire @terraloire.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

$500 million annually over five years to harmonize community health care worker wages

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Terra Loire @terraloire.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

8.8% Level of Care funding increase plus permanent inflation indexing for long-term care

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Terra Loire @terraloire.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

$200 million annually to maintain regional access at small, northern, rural, and French-language colleges

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Terra Loire @terraloire.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

$200 million to expand college seats in trades, technology, health care, and advanced manufacturing

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Terra Loire @terraloire.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

$6 million over three years to support medical laboratory preceptors and address rural lab shortages

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Terra Loire @terraloire.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

5.6% funding increase for 2026-27 to maintain four hours of direct care in long-term care homes

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Terra Loire @terraloire.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

$52M/year operating + $193M capital to build 1,000 new mental health and addictions supportive housing units

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Terra Loire @terraloire.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

$300 million to close the mental health and addictions workforce wage gap within 3 years

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Terra Loire @terraloire.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

$52 million in year one (2.5% annual increase) for the community mental health, substance use, and addictions sector

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Terra Loire @terraloire.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

$550,000/year to sustain the HSJCC Network's coordination operations

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Terra Loire @terraloire.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

A long and growing list of things Doug Ford should fund instead of his billion dollar convention centre vanity project #ONpoli 📋🗳️👇

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Terra Loire @terraloire.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Tory’s affair and misconduct is not even in my top 100 reasons why I judge him harshly. 🥹

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Epic Fury’s frontman asked to leave Warped Tour after inappropriate behavior

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Terra Loire @terraloire.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

It’s a better sample than the poll-as-public-relations story today. I like to imagine it was just his immediate family used as a sample size - and the result was still split. 😏

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Terra Loire @terraloire.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

I want to see the internal private polling he had done before he came to this personal conclusion. Instead we get him and his friend Steve using the media to erect a mythology of an incredibly mediocre man.

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Terra Loire @terraloire.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

“Oh I don’t want to put my family through an election”…. subtly shifting blame to opponents…You already put them through hell my dude, without any outside help.

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Terra Loire @terraloire.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

And it completely ignores the fact that all criticisms from progressive organizations have been about his record. It it is a far cry from his feigned humility when he left office.

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Terra Loire @terraloire.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Just as he decided to spin his own narrative then, downplaying expert submissions, coalitions, and dissenting voices, he is doing so now. He gets to create a high road that the only reason he isn’t running is because opponents would ‘drag his personal life’, which is so noble of him.

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Terra Loire @terraloire.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

“The inclusion of nonprofit organizations in the lobbyist registry process was considered fully by staff when the registry was set in place, and Council made the proper decision to exempt nonprofit organizations from these requirements.” www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis...

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Terra Loire @terraloire.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Refocusing that his ‘intention’ was about unions was politically convenient and ignored the many nonprofits that submitted opposition to the motion. And ignored that the nonprofit question had already been discussed years prior and he had reintroduced the notion. www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis...

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Terra Loire @terraloire.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

His theatrics in city council stopped short of calling us hysterical and engaged in some pretty blatant gaslighting. Repeatedly claiming ‘no one had a problem with it before’ when concerns were raised as early as 2014 by nonprofit coalitions: canadacommons.ca/artifacts/32...

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Concerns Regarding Proposed Changes to Toronto's Lobbyist Registrar Requirements | Canada Commons

This is a document published by Canadian Environmental Law Association in June 2014 about Civil Society, Freedom of Expression, Lobbying, and Municipal Government. It was written by John Campey, Maura...

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Terra Loire @terraloire.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Another vital piece of context, this was weeks after Black Lives Matter Toronto had been created a tent-city protest outside of the Toronto Police HQ. Tory refused to meet with them despite looming pressure to do so. This bylaw would have created a ‘process’ that shielded him from future situations.

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Terra Loire @terraloire.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

When the item was debated Mr. Tory accused councillors of being behind the ‘outrage’, and that people were ‘whipped into a frenzy’ and we just didn’t understand, and he pretended no one had a problem with it before (not true) and attempted to repaint the ‘intent’ was aimed at unions (sure jan).

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Terra Loire @terraloire.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

We called as many organizations as we could to urge them to put out a statement and get in touch with their local councillors. We wrote emails to our own councillors, asking them not to let it pass. And we struck a nerve.

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Terra Loire @terraloire.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

We wrote a rapid response op-ed about how many barriers people already face at city hall, that grassroots groups and nonprofits should not carry the same burden as lobbyists like Uber and Google. We organized on our free time, eating cold leftover pizza.

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