Ontario students need smaller classes, not another EQAO review - CCPA Instead of chasing explanations for low test scores the government should reduce and cap class sizes in Ontario

Ontario students need smaller classes, not another EQAO review. By @ricardotranjan.bsky.social @ccpa-on.bsky.social #onted www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

I left Trump’s America last year to teach in Canada. I didn’t expect this from Canadians During my short time here, I have encountered a shocking level of naïveté about what is happening in the United States.

"Canada is a free democracy, one that embraces diversity and tolerance. For that very reason, America is not your friend," writes Jason Stanley.

"It is time we started living in the real world." #Opinion

It causes me physical pain when I see non-Canadian spelling in official contexts. Center instead of centre, honor instead of honour. In/on 🇨🇦 newspapers, websites, products, and more. I know it’s a trifling thing to most, but to me, these quirks of Can. (& UK) Eng. matter. They say who we are NOT.

This. 100 per cent.

This story is a SUPERB way to describe the need for political parties to limit membership and prevent entryism, on both the left and right (but right is the bigger problem at the moment). So many parties in so many countries have fallen out of political normalcy by serving that guy

Canadian Doctors for Medicare’s Position Statement on Private Equity Investment in Canadian Health Care Seeking to strengthen and improve Canada's universal publicly-funded health care system. Evidence-based, values driven.

We are sounding the alarm on the growing influence of private equity investment in Canada's health care system.

Read our position statement below:

www.canadiandoctorsformedicare.ca/canadian_doc...

never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by malicious stupidity.

JFC this timeline is exhausting.

Reposting without comment.

The people that think the politicians treating journalists with contempt and threats are working for them vs the people that understand journalism is a proxy for public accountability.

Reporter: “Your foreign affairs minister yesterday called all of this a ‘psychodrama.’ How would you characterize it?”

Trudeau: “Thursday.”

Life, it is a mystery.

Your Vote Matters

“My vote doesn’t matter.”
In 2022, 56.5% of Ontarians didn’t vote. Doug Ford won a majority because 18% of Ontarians voted PC.

“I don’t know what the issues are.”
Talk to people you trust to find out.

“It doesn’t matter who wins.”
It matters very much to someone you care about.

#OnPoli

Listen, I know this is a trifling matter, given all that’s going on in the world, but “fulsome” doesn’t mean what you think it means. Trust me. Look it up.

@charlieangus104.bsky.social being epic, as usual. This is the energy we all need to channel right now.

Matt Elliott: Doug Ford has money for $200 cheques and a 401 tunnel — where are the funds to address homelessness? A report puts the number of people who experienced homelessness in Ontario in 2024 at 81,515.

I desperately wish people were paying more attention to the reality of Doug Ford’s Ontario and less to his sideshow distraction tactics and “likable” persona. Kudos to @graphicmatt.com for calling out Ford on just one issue we should all be so, so angry about. www.thestar.com/news/doug-fo...

Opinion: The democratic world will have to get along without America. It may even have to defend itself from it The U.S. is now on the side of the dictatorships

I’m not a huge fan of Andrew Coyne, generally, but he’s bang on in this piece.
www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

Apart from being despicable... This is an utterly insane way to behave at a moment when we're fighting the U.S.

Ford government’s chronic underfunding of education is creating compounding issues for staff and students “Students are basically being left behind and we see an education system that is frankly in crisis.”

Ford government’s chronic underfunding of education is creating compounding issues for staff and students

“Students are basically being left behind and we see an education system that is frankly in crisis.”
pressprogress.ca/ford-governm...

This, 100 per cent. I don’t care if you vote Lib or NDP. Vote for the left (or centre-ish) candidate in your riding with the best chance of beating the Cons. Just fucking VOTE.

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Yes! Been waiting for this.

Death threats, Jordan Peterson and me: My journey into the world of Pitchfork Politics Some on the far right are using the language of violence to intimidate people. Here’s what we should do, says NDP MP Charlie Angus.

Pierre Poilievre is leaning heavily into rage and disinformation.
His interview with Jordan Peterson speaks volumes about where he will take the politics of our nation.
I was once targeted by Jordan Peterson and the death threats I faced went off the charts.
www.thestar.com/opinion/deat...

This is terrifying. IDGAF what you think of Trudeau —if your action or inaction in the next federal election helps PP become PM, you deserve a real good slap upside the head. This isn’t about one man’s bloated ego; it’s about our COUNTRY, ffs.

Of all the things that might cause me to panic, especially right now, this isn’t even remotely on the list.

It's a shame that the people who are good at winning elections and the people who are good at governing don't overlap more.

Conservative Party: Just The Facts: Canadian Families Will Pay $800 More For Food In 2025 December 5, 2024 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Ottawa, ON – After nine years, the NDP-Liberal carbon tax has caused the price of groceries to skyrocket. This was confirmed today by Canada’s Food Price Report for 2025. This revealed that an average Canadian family of four will have to spend $800 more on food in the coming year. Overall, the cost of food will increase by 3 to 5 percent in 2025, causing families to spend $16,833 in total on food throughout the year. The cost of meat and vegetables will increase even more, with the price of meat rising by 4 to 6 percent, and the price of vegetables rising by 4 to 5 percent. Canadians are already struggling, and things only look set to get even worse. A few weeks ago, Food Banks Canada reported that there were 2,059,636 visits to a food bank in March 2024 – an increase of 90 percent from 2019. In Ontario alone, Feed Ontario reported that in the last two years, the number of people accessing food banks had increased by 73 percent. There are now more than a million Ontarians visiting food banks, more people than are living in New Brunswick. The rise in the cost of food has come as a direct result of Justin Trudeau’s carbon tax. Trudeau just doesn’t understand that if you tax the farmer who grows the food, and the trucker who ships the food, you end up taxing the family who buys the food. But instead of giving Canadians relief, the NDP-Liberal government is planning on hiking the carbon tax again next year, as part of their plan to quadruple the carbon tax to 61 cents per litre by 2030. Already, the NDP-Liberal carbon tax has resulted in food prices increasing 36 percent faster in Canada than it has in the United States. Canadians deserve better. Only Common Sense Conservatives will bring home lower prices for Canadians at grocery stores by axing Trudeau’s inflationary carbon tax.

Once again, successive studies have proven the carbon levy is not raising food prices.
Meat prices are rising because drought has meant culling beef herds, and avian flu has meant culls of poultry farms.
Vegetables are affected by droughts in places like California.
The problem is climate change.

Ford government’s Ontario Place redevelopment was ‘not fair, transparent or accountable,’ auditor general finds in scathing report Ford's decision to close supervised drug consumption sites near schools and daycares was made "without proper planning," the AG said.

No one will find the AG’s report surprising if they’ve been paying attention. But damn if having the rampant stupidity and greed all spelled out doesn’t drive home how corrupt, incompetent, and self-serving this government is. www.thestar.com/politics/pro...

Bahahahahaha