Call it Air Ford One.
The Ontario government has purchased a used $28.9 million private jet for the use of Premier Doug Ford, the Star has learned.
A senior official, speaking confidentially in order to discuss the matter, confirmed that the province this week took possession of a 2016 Bombardier Challenger 650 executive jet.
Make Ford take public transit so he can see first hand the shithole Ontario has become.
Everyone knows what they’re going to get under an NDP provincial government: new social spending, funding for identity-based causes, diversity mandates, etc. But this appears to be equally the case in Ontario, a province that did not vote for such things and has been led by the Progressive Conservatives for years. The reason probably has something to do with the bureaucrats running the show.
What do you expect from a government that kept Sir John A in a box for two years?
Premier Doug Ford thinks young people need to work harder.
“It drives me nuts when I see young, healthy people and they’ll call me saying, ‘I can’t find a job,’” Ford said earlier this week during a speech to the Toronto Region Board of Trade. “I assure you, if you look hard enough, it … may be in fast food or something else, but you’ll find a job.”
But Ford’s “old man yells at cloud” take on Gen Z’s economic plight couldn’t be more detached from reality. What Canadian youth really need isn’t better work ethic. It’s political leaders willing to work harder for them — or, at the very least, not against them.
If you’re a backer of either the Liberals or the Conservatives, you can read the Ontario results in the federal election in both optimistic and pessimistic ways.
For Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Liberals, the pessimistic view is that a poorer-than-expected showing in Ontario is precisely what kept him from forming a majority government.
The Liberals lost a string of ridings in the Greater Toronto Area that they had held for the past three straight elections, and Liberal incumbents also went down to defeat in places with notable working class populations such as Hamilton, Windsor and Sudbury.
Niwaas Long-Term Care, a not-for-profit organization, describes itself as “the first Sikh-Punjabi long-term care home in Ontario”. Its aim is to build a facility in Brampton that provides Sikh and Punjabi elders “with the medical care and support they need, in an environment that is familiar – with our food, our language, our culture and heritage”.
Cripes. What A Ho. h/t Patti Jo
New Ontario Liberal leader Bonnie Crombie is supposed to be the saviour of her party, the candidate endorsed by what’s left of the party establishment, the political all-star with name recognition and electability. Her campaign was so sure that she’d blow away her three bright, but little known, opponents that they predicted a first ballot victory.
In the end, the expected tidal wave of support was little more than a ripple. It took three ballots before Crombie was able to eke out a narrow win Saturday over MP Nate Erskine-Smith, taking 53.4 per cent of the vote.
Ontario’s two top doctors were caught discussing their announcements on a hot mic just prior to hosting a press conference on December 14.
“I don’t know why I bring all these papers, I never look at them” Ontario Associate Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr. Barbara Yaffe says, referring to the stack of notes she brought along with her. “I just say whatever they write down for me,” Yaffe says with a chuckle.
“That’s funny. Yeah same,” replies Ontario’s top doctor and Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr. David Williams.
