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Ford is shameless. To see the harmful impacts of shameless government we need only look South. Yet we know his shamelessness has been causing harm here for years & in Toronto his brother’s shamelessness before that. Shamelessness is ok in some arenas but is the modern scurge when it comes to greed.

Ground-level photograph of a mushroom with a white stem and flat cap covered with dark leaves like it's trying to hide on the forest floor.

Either a shy mushroom or a sly master of using forest materials for camouflage

#Mushroom #Fungi #FungiFriday #Nature #Photography

Two years ago, the RCMP launched a criminal investigation into Doug Ford’s Greenbelt Grab.

Two years later, it’s déjà vu — Labour Minister David Piccini admits he personally picked which of his friends got millions from the Skills Development Fund.

Make sure anyone you know who's a fan of Dougie sees these...and the previous ones...and the next ones...

#NeverVoteConservative #onpoli #FightFord #FordIsCorrupt #SaveOntario #FordFailedOntario #OntarioSky

In celebration of World Octopus Day, we wanted to revisit one of our favorite cephalopod sightings, the glass octopus — Vitreledonella richardi filmed during a month-long #PhoenixIslandsCoral expedition in 2021.

The speed cameras & alcohol on/off shelves are a tactic Premier Ford is using to distract from the fact his government is handing out hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars to insiders and friends through the “Skills Development” Fund. #onpoli

Dogshit police work means a serial rapist walks.

Where is the justice for the countless survivors of this monster?

Clients of lobby firms connected to premier, his nephew given tens of millions in training funds Groups represented by a lobbying firm owned by the premier’s campaign manager got more than $100 million in grant money, a Trillium analysis has found

Lobbyists tied to Doug Ford & his nephew helped clients secure $100M from a fund meant to train workers and build Ontario - a fund the Auditor General slammed as unfair & unaccountable.

This is a $2.5B slush fund for friends, donors & operatives. #onpoli

www.thetrillium.ca/news/politic...

Millions from Ontario training funding went to dentists’ brokerage with ties to then-labour minister’s wife Dentacloud received more than $2 million through the Ford government’s Skills Development Fund

This just keeps getting worse. The Ford government gave $2 million to a dental brokerage run by a PC donor connected to the minister’s family.

Doug Ford’s Skills Development Fund keeps looking more like a friends-and-family plan.💰 #onpoli

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Clients of lobby firms connected to premier, his nephew given tens of millions in training funds Groups represented by a lobbying firm owned by the premier’s campaign manager got more than $100 million in grant money, a Trillium analysis has found

You don't say...

Clients of a single firm — Rubicon Strategy —received more than $100 million from the Skills Development Fund (SDF).

www.thetrillium.ca/news/politic...

Dougie's gravy train.

Clients of lobby firms connected to premier, his nephew given tens of millions in training funds Groups represented by a lobbying firm owned by the premier’s campaign manager got more than $100 million in grant money, a Trillium analysis has found

NEW: Clients of lobby firms connected to the premier and his nephew were given tens of millions from the Skills Development Fund.

Clients of Rubicon — a lobbying firm owned by the premier’s campaign manager — got more than $100M, records show.

www.thetrillium.ca/news/politic...

Ford government vehicle recorded at stunt driving speeds on Ontario highways | Globalnews.ca At least one cabinet-assigned vehicle was recorded driving more than 50 km/h over the speed limit multiple times in the past three years, according to documents.

Speeds up to 162 km/h and this person still works for the Ford government?

"New data obtained by Global News using freedom of information laws reveal that at least one cabinet-assigned vehicle was recorded driving more than 50 km/h over the speed limit 12 times in the past three years."

#OnPoli

amazing work

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Vehicles registered to Ford cabinet ministers caught by speed cameras more than 20 times | Globalnews.ca Documents obtained by Global News reveal that, over three years, vehicles registered to Ford’s cabinet minister received more than $3,300 in fines for speeding.

As the provincial government looks at banning automated speed cameras, a new report shows that vehicles belonging to cabinet ministers have been regularly caught by automated speed cameras, in some cases going 30kph over the speed limit.

springdale apples, painted by amanda almira newton, 1912

springdale apples, painted by amanda almira newton, 1912

Monday, Oct 6, 2025 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Victoria Village Public School Join me at my in-person Victoria Village Town Hall meeting. There will be a short presentation regarding the proposed bike lanes on Sloane Avenue, and then the meeting will be open to discuss any issues on your mind.

Anyone in Jon Burnside's Ward. There's a meeting about a bike lane. At the last town hall of his I went to, the nimby's were out in force, ranting against bike lanes and sidewalks. So, any help from decent people is appreciated.

BREAKING: Ontario’s Auditor General says Ford’s Skills Development Fund process was “not fair, transparent or accountable.”

Add it to the pile.

Greenbelt: “Not transparent, objective or fully informed.”

Ontario Place: “Not fair, transparent or accountable.”

european Mantis enjoys a free ride on a sunny fall day

A european Mantis enjoys a free ride on a sunny fall day in Tommy Thompson Park, #Toronto, #Ontario #insects #nature #mantis #Canada

A red zigzag symbol in the sky is inspired by Anishinaabe pictographs and represents the path to reconciliation expressed by a turtle who symbolizes truth. Two people embody Orange Shirt Day and look up at the sky. The moon and stars represent both survivors of the residential school system and the Sixties Scoop who passed down their stories, teachings and cultural knowledge in spite of hardships, as well as those who did not survive.

The Road to Reconciliation Begins With Truth

by @mishiikenhkwe.bsky.social

A colored illustration of a variety of different shaped bristle worms, all in close proximity or overlapping each other. Their mostly orange, yellow and red segmented bodies contrast highly against a greenish background.

Another post for #SciArtSeptember day 29: Plate 96 from Kunstformen der Natur (1904) by Ernst Haeckel depicting a variety of marine annelid worm species. It is labeled Chaetopoda, an obsolete taxonomical term. A favorite, it looks even more striking in person.
Coin for scale.

I listened to Toronto's (TO) infrastructure/environ committee hearing yesterday. I learned:

1. 95% of cameras are in SCHOOL zones, 5% in community SAFETY zones
2. # cameras doubled last yr (now 150) but tickets did NOT ie a deterrent, not a cash grab
3. TO is already using OTHER measures Ford touts

The post office must be defended - CCPA When Stephen Harper’s government announced the end of door-to-door mail delivery in favour of community “super-boxes” in 2014, then Canada Post CEO Deepak Chopra was asked about the difficulty this wo...

www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc... ‘For rural and remote communities that remain rural, post offices often represent the sole outpost of the federal government, providing vital goods and services that cannot be accessed elsewhere’ @policyalternatives.ca @cupwsttp.bsky.social

Education minister faces questions over $1.7K in Queen’s Park restaurant bills | Globalnews.ca Ontario's education minister is facing scrutiny of his expenses, after his office declined to release details of the money he has spent on restaurant meals.

As I said in an earlier thread about our taxpayer expense loving Minister of Education Paul Calandra, maybe pack a lunch sometimes Paul!
Education minister faces questions over $1.7K in Queen’s Park restaurant bills globalnews.ca/news/1145119... #topoli #onpoli #onted

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Yes, thank you. Everyone who lives in our society, even those on farms in less populated areas, must be aware of the importance of public health. I used to live in that area of BC.