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 • View source a 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 sources 2 Sources: All figures from published public records. View the methodology page for itemized list.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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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.

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.

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.

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

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

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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

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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?

Chat; is drinking coffee antisemitic?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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