This was an FOI request from advocay group Safe Parkside - exactly the kind of information Ford wants to hide.

Ford government’s own research warned against calling speed cameras ‘cash grabs’ — years before they were finally banned An MTO research report in 2022 warned that public acceptance of speed cameras is tied to the need for transparency and education.

Three years before speed cameras were banned in Ontario, the Ford government’s own researchers found them to be an effective safety measure, but one that risked being viewed as a “cash grab.”

Fast forward to 2025, and Premier Doug Ford himself evoked that same narrative.

Half of AI health answers are wrong even though they sound convincing – new study AI chatbots can sound authoritative on health, but new research shows they often mislead, especially when users must interpret and apply the answers themselves.

AI chatbots can sound authoritative on health, but new research shows they often mislead, especially when users must interpret and apply the answers themselves.

Linking attendance to grades when you willfully make them sick and don’t do ANYTHING to make life easier for them is fucking cruel. Read that on the radio. Turned the radio off to avoid this shit last night and here it is waiting for me on infoam. No attendance convos until the air is clean.

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“Homelessness is a social phenomenon and the number of homeless people depends on social conditions – not on the characteristics of individuals.…

We know exactly how to make homelessness decrease again. It is a matter of choice: do we want to do it?”

The right thing AND saves money. #HousingFirst

All the better to help them accept lower wages in their future non-union service jobs, my pretty.

The Koch brothers hate public transit. But they can’t always stop projects in their tracks. The Koch-funded Americans for Prosperity has been fighting public transit across the country for years. Here's where they've succeeded and failed.

“The infamous Koch brothers have bankrolled climate deniers, propped up polluting industries, and even tried to turn the black community pro-fossil fuel. But, as a recent New York Times story shows, the billionaire conservatives have been steadily exerting pressure against public transit as well.”

This needs to be taken seriously. Along with underfunding, Doug Ford is destroying the university system. And yes, this latest move is 100% in line with what we've seen happening by state-level MAGA-hats in the US.

Doug Ford is eroding institutional autonomy in everything from the admissions process to dealing with free speech on campuses to whether student governments can charge for certain student-run services and clubs. Just watch: curriculum will be next, the end of the university as we know it.

Tracking Ford’s interest in jets at the island airport
2018: No mention
2019: No mention
2020: No mention
2021: No mention
2022: No mention
2023: No mention
2024: No mention
2025: No mention
2026: Buys a jet and calls for jets at island airport
Coincidence? We think not! #onpoli

Many on the right say “feminism makes women hate men”.

I don’t think women hate men.
I think a lot of women fear men.
And men ask “why”?

A “rape academy” website teaching men how to sexually assault women, containing graphic video of actual rape, received 62 million views.

That’s why.

Ontario government buys $28.9M private jet for Doug Ford's use | CBC News The provincial government has purchased a pre-owned private jet for $28.9 million to be used by Ontario Premier Doug Ford.

Ontario can't keep emergency departments open, can't adequately fund home care, can't stop breaking the CHA with privatized primary care, but hey...

...at least the Premier can visit our struggling communities while comfortablely seated in "the widest cabin in its class" of Bombardier private jet.

Reminder that per capita, Ontario spends less on public schools, universities, and healthcare than most other provinces. But our Premier does have his own jet now.

Still think failing to take common sense action on climate change isn’t that big a deal? Losing chocolate is probably the 14365th most serious consequence of our failure to act.

What you need to know about the “Putting Student Achievement First Act” (#OntEd):

Ontario’s new education law makes big structural changes… but not the changes parents and educators have actually been asking for.

Apply road tax to cars according to the weight of the vehicle. Tell me why that’s a bad idea?
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CTV news article saying 130 Waterloo region teachers being laid off

"Under our government, I’m going to reinforce this, not one single person will lose their job." (Live debate - May 27, 2018) "I say it every night and Um going to say it again and again. No one, no one will lose their job," (Windsor - May 31, 2018) "Don't listen to the scare tactics. No one will lose their job, absolutely no one." (Nepean - June 2, 2018) "I want to assure our public sector workers, to our nurses, to our teachers and to our doctors, that no one, and I repeat no one, will lose their job,® (Burlington - June 6, 2018) DOUG FORD FOR THE PEOPLE

130 teachers laid off in Waterloo region today.

Doug Ford said nobody would lose their jobs.

Make it make sense. #OntEd

Seems like yesterday when Doug Ford's conservatives were cancelling renewable contracts. If it's prudent today, it was visionary years ago. Do not let them brag about this, it's a failure of their own making -- Conservatives' short-sightedness has huge costs for Ontario!
#onpoli #cdnpoli

“You’re not supposed to use your phone while driving.”

“Got it. Let’s install large tablet touchscreens in almost every single new car.”

What a missed opportunity. Frederick/Benton street is a great spot for bike lanes.

I have read a statement
that “a whole civilization
will die tonight,
never to be brought back again,”
and as I read that statement
and as I reread that statement
I cannot shake the feeling
that the civilization
from which that statement comes
is one that is already dead.

This will take more power away from voters in any case. We have almost no say in the police budget as it is - it will only get worse.

Government won’t say how much it is spending on its ‘Protect Ontario’ commercials | Globalnews.ca Questions from Global News to the premier's office asking for a full list of different campaigns and how much they are budgeted for have gone unanswered.

Ontario government protects Ontario government by not saying what Ontario government is spending to tell taxpayers how the Ontario government is protecting them.

Iris Gorfinkel: I’m a doctor. Here are five overlooked ways the Ontario government is making our ERs more crowded, not less Until basic needs like housing and nursing shortages are addressed, hallway medicine in Ontario will only get worse.

"I’m a doctor. Here are five overlooked ways the Ontario government is making our ERs more crowded, not less" by @drgorfinkel.bsky.social

1.Failing to provide affordable housing
2.Shutting down all supervised consumption sites
3.Underfunding nursing
4.Expanding for‑profit medicine

It's the NDP vs the NDP YouTube video by National Observer

Avi Lewis is the new federal NDP leader — but his election is drawing fire from, well, the NDP.

@davidmoscrop.com joins @maxfawcett.bsky.social to sort out the internecine fight that's kicking off Lewis' tenure.

Technicians wear high quality masks (N95 / KN95) when preparing astronauts before take off

Surely, if astronauts need protection from COVID (and other airborne viruses), immunocompromised people need it too

Immunocompromised lives matter just as much as astronauts’ lives

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This image shows gauges with the Mar 28 - Apr 10, 2026 COVID Forecast scores for Canada, the provinces, and territories. From left to right: Canada: HIGH - 6.7 Alberta: HIGH - 6.3 British Columbia: MODERATE - 4.0 Manitoba: HIGH - 6.2 New Brunswick: HIGH - 6.6 Newfoundland & Labrador: MODERATE - 4.7 North: HIGH - 6.2 Nova Scotia: HIGH - 6.6 Ontario: HIGH - 6.9 Prince Edward Island: VERY HIGH - 10.9 Quebec: HIGH - 8.2 Saskatchewan: HIGH - 7.3 A text box reads: 'The COVID Forecast is calculated from 3 equally weighted categories: 1) Current infections and spread; 2) Healthcare system impact; 3) Mortality. Within each category there is one sub-category for trends over the most recent week (Trends) and one sub-category for current parameter values relative to a specified baseline (Current values). Trends and current values are weighted equally when determining the final score for a category. All Forecast input data and sources are available here (https://datastudio.google.com/embed/u/0/reporting/42b886cf-d661-488e-b7d8-5c5836b55ab6/page/p_2yqs028mwc). Past Forecast scores are available in the table below. Forecast scores are grouped into 4 ranges: MODERATE (1 to <5, white), HIGH (6 to <10, yellow), VERY HIGH (10 to <15, orange), SEVERE (>15 red).'

Canadian COVID Forecast: Mar 28 - Apr 10, 2026

SEVERE: none
VERY HIGH: PEI
HIGH: CAN, AB, MB, NB, North, NS, ON, QC, SK
MODERATE: BC, NL

About 1 in 84 people in Canada are CURRENTLY infected.

AI data centres can warm surrounding areas by up to 9.1°C Hundreds of millions of people live close enough to data centres used to power AI to feel warmer average temperatures in their local area

Hundreds of millions of people live close enough to data centres used to power AI to feel warmer average temperatures in their local area

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Here's one way to speak to Bluesky developers who are pretty determined not to listen