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Hamilton, Ontario
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Elisabeth retweeted
Is this a democracy?
750,000 Torontonians voted for School Board Trustees.
🚨Now Ford’s Education Minister is stripping those elected representatives of their ability to do the job—
❌ Prohibitions on attending school events and board or committee meetings
❌ Communicating with constituents or engaging with principals and school staff in their official capacity
❌ Issuing newsletters or updates
❌ Accessing board resources
#onpoli #onted
thetrillium.ca/news/educatio…
Elisabeth retweeted
It shouldn’t surprise us but still…freezing ECE wages hurts a female dominated field, hurts women who require childcare to work or attend school…undermines the labour force potential for all. Punching down on low wage workers…with 700,000 unemployed in Ontario #onpoli
Ontario will freeze early childhood educator wages for 2027, ministry memo says thestar.com/politics/provinc…
Elisabeth retweeted
So much for the "most transparent Premier", "buck stops with me".
Doug Ford is a fraud! Trump-lite. He just lies. Wake up Ontario!
Ontario won't make career college OSAP audit public, minister says cp24.com/politics/queens-par…
Elisabeth retweeted
How do you talk about affordable childcare, expanding spaces and getting parents back to work, and then freeze the wages of the people caring for our children? The hypocrisy is exhausting. You cannot claim to value childcare while systematically undervaluing the workforce holding the entire system together #onpoli
Ontario will freeze early childhood educator wages for 2027, ministry memo says thestar.com/politics/provinc…
Elisabeth retweeted
The Minister of Education has 3 Parliamentary Assistants to help him do his job. Teachers with classes of 30 and nonverbal students with Autism who run off school property get no Educational Assistants and are expected to keep everyone safe AND to teach. Let’s start there. #OntEd
Every major Ontario teachers’ union has a strike vote scheduled for this November. #canlab
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Elisabeth retweeted
After a 5 MONTH BREAK, Doug returns to Queen’s Park with the lowest Premier approval rating in Canada. We’ve had it with Ford ripping us off: ⤵️
OSAP scandal
$30M luxury jet
Greenbelt probe
Contracts to 🇺🇸 companies
School chaos/starving health
And much more
Elisabeth retweeted
Parents: as you watch this, remember that minus the gun, your child is likely in class with a student who behaved like this or close to it. Ask your child questions about what goes on his class each day. Be gentle about it but you need to know who is in class with your child.
Elisabeth retweeted
I want you to really think about this🤔
65 BILLION DOLLARS MISSING IN HEALTHCARE!!
Think of this while you wait in an emergency dept for days on end. For the more horrific stories of loved one driving from one community to the next, looking for emergency care #DougFordIsCorrupt
Elisabeth retweeted
"Record education funding".
The Minister continues to repeat this claim, which fails to account for inflation.
I'm spending record amounts on gas and groceries.
Am I getting more gas? More groceries?
$6B+ missing from public education since @fordnation took office. #onted
Elisabeth retweeted
Doug Ford has underfunded public education by roughly 6 billion dollars since taking office in 2018.
Old buildings, crowded classrooms, not enough supports, staff, or supplies. No surprise that parents are now seeking alternatives to a (deliberately) under pressure system.
Ontario public school enrolment is declining as parents look for alternatives. Read why families are leaving and how boards face financial strain. thestar.com/news/gta/a-toron…
Elisabeth retweeted
So @PaulCalandra is giving Ontario schools only $64/child for the entire year, hasn’t made the Staples School Supplies portal available yet, and still doesn’t have a plan to help thousands and thousands of non-elementary homeroom teachers get supplies?
Failing grade.
#onted
Some Ontario students are back in class, but teachers can’t order classroom supplies yet.
The Ford government’s new online Staples portal, where teachers can spend $750, won’t be live until Tuesday.
And there appears to be some confusion about what materials schools will still provide, and what teachers will have to purchase themselves. New from me: thetrillium.ca/insider-news/…
Elisabeth retweeted
Setting aside the Staples issue and all the flaws in the plan, I don't understand why this wasn't organized in time for teachers to have supplies *before* school starts.
This announcement was made on March 11th. Why set schools up to start without the supplies they need? #onted
Some Ontario students are back in class, but teachers can’t order classroom supplies yet.
The Ford government’s new online Staples portal, where teachers can spend $750, won’t be live until Tuesday.
And there appears to be some confusion about what materials schools will still provide, and what teachers will have to purchase themselves. New from me: thetrillium.ca/insider-news/…
Elisabeth retweeted
To be clear: there is no actual physical “Staples gift card” so teachers can’t just go to the store and get the cheaper price using a gift card. Teachers are required to order through the #OntEd Ministry of Education Portal. What a waste of taxpayer money.
Elisabeth retweeted
Our taxpayer dollars are being spent at an American company (in the middle of a trade war) that offers better deals to folks walking in off the street than to teachers ordering through the Ontario Ministry of Education portal. Make it make sense!!! #OntEd
ALT Ministry discounted price showing item more costly than store price
ALT Ministry discounted price showing item more costly than store price
ALT Ministry discounted price showing item more costly than store price
ALT Ministry discounted price showing item more costly than store price
Elisabeth retweeted
Premier @fordnation is funnelling $60,000,000 to Staples, a US company, slashing school budgets, and denying funds to thousands of Ontario teachers.
This #FoneFordFriday, ask the Premier
to fund our schools and support our teachers and education workers!
#onted #CutsHurtKids
ALT Fone Ford Friday script
Elisabeth retweeted
Ford converted OSAP grants to loans for Ontario students because the program was “unsustainable”.
Turns out private career colleges diverted almost $1billion into their pockets last year—more than public colleges and universities combined.
Ford is punishing all Ontario students with crushing debt levels because of a scam run by private career colleges.
#onted
#onpoli
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