Vicki Buder @vbuder

BREAKING: The Ford government’s school board takeovers resulted in a record 1,346 school board complaints to the ombudsman. This is the chaos @fordnation & @PaulCalandra have brought to our classrooms. Parents, teachers, community members, and students are fighting back!

Close to the stage Premier Ford, who was touting government investments, support for Scarborough and promised never to raise taxes, was consistently drowned out at Ford Fest. Ford immediately left. Staff highlighted safety for his quick exit. #onpoli

A province where ER rooms have wait times in excess of 24 hours, OSAP loans to college students been slashed and transferred to shady private career colleges, where teachers being laid off, schools being closed, where wait times for long term care homes is a decade long, our premier is building a Garage Mahal worth $198 Million for a private company (which was bankrupt) whose 99 year lease is secret. Welcome to the Canada's conservative model of governance.

Robert Benzie @robertbenzie

3 weeks ago

The Garage Mahal at Ontario Place will cost $198M. thestar.com/politics/provi…

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The World Lives Here. Canada is all together different. Truly unique. And so is our relationship to the beautiful game. This is our opening to the 2026 World Cup. Narrated by Kiefer Sutherland. #FIFAWorldCup

The Garage Mahal at Ontario Place will cost $198M. thestar.com/politics/provi…

$198 million could hire thousands of frontline education workers. Instead, students are dealing with larger classes, fewer supports, increased violence, and growing mental health needs. Ontario doesn’t have a funding problem. It has a priorities problem. #onpoli #osstf

TheTrillium.ca @Thetrilliumca

3 weeks ago

Province to spend $198M on Ontario Place parking garage thetrillium.ca/news/municipal…

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The Ford government's $750 classroom gift card gimmick was insulting and admits that our schools are underfunded. Asking teachers to buy classroom supplies is like asking nurses to shop for medical supplies before work because the hospital can't provide them. Now we learn that $300 of the promised $750 isn't even new funding - it's being taken from existing education dollars. That's not an investment in public education. It's a shell game. Ontario students and educators deserve properly funded classrooms, not government announcements that sound bigger than they really are. #onpoli #onted thestar.com/politics/provi…

Doug Ford's Minister of Education spent the entire session standing in front of cameras across Ontario and even in London UK to announce fake funding for our classrooms. Minister Calandra thought he could silence students and educators by performing accounting tricks on camera. Instead, he got caught with his pants down after documents revealed his $750 for classrooms were all smoke and mirrors.

Toronto Star @TorontoStar

3 weeks ago

Ontario promised $750/year for teachers to buy supplies. It turns out it's not all new money trib.al/9KqQfQ7

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Ontario promised $750/year for teachers to buy supplies. It turns out it's not all new money trib.al/9KqQfQ7

NEW: As 70% of Ontarians say it’s time for a change in government at Queen’s Park, Premier Doug Ford calls a five-month timeout. thestar.com/politics/provi…

New FOI data: majority of Ontario students are rejecting the Ford government’s e-learning mandate. 70% of the first graduating class opted out or were exempt. The province calls it a tool for digital literacy. Critics say it's a cost-cutting measure: thetrillium.ca/news/education…

Paul Calandra is laying off custodians and frontline education workers while handing out six-figure management jobs. These are the people who keep schools clean, safe, and functioning for students every day — and this government treated them like expendable line items. Twisted priorities from a government that keeps choosing bureaucracy over classrooms. #onpoli @tylerwatt

When it comes to the underfunding of our schools, this Minister of Education thinks he can throw his hands in the air and say “It’s not on me”. Give me a break. Time after time, parents, teachers and advocates have been sounding the alarm on overcrowded classrooms, crumbling schools, and the lack of support for students with special needs. Special education plans submitted to the Ministry show that our kids need funding, not another power trip from this Minister who won’t do his job.

Brutally honest condemnation of Calandra's Min of Ed "The minister has said repeatedly that financial mismanagement by trustees is behind the deficits at many Ontario school boards. To fix that, Calandra sidelined trustees, imposed supervisors at eight boards, and limited the future role of trustees. And yet, the AG’s report obliquely offers an alternative reason for school-board shortfalls. It says that 46 of the province’s 72 school boards spend more money on special ed than the province provides. The total in 2023–24 was $397.9 million. That’s about double the total of school board deficits. It’s reasonable, then, to conclude that the root cause of school-board deficits is provincial underfunding of special ed." nationalpost.com/opinion/randal… via @nationalpost

BREAKING: Doug Ford’s luxury jet cost taxpayers nearly $200,000 in additional fees. He told us there were no additional costs for returning it. He lied. While Ontarians can’t afford groceries or rent, Ford is living like a rockstar on your dime.

MEDIA RELEASE: “The government continues to talk about student achievement, but you cannot improve outcomes while cutting supports” said Martha Hradowy, President of OSSTF/FEEO. “Students succeed when they feel safe, supported, and connected at school. That requires real investment, not just rhetoric. Ontario students deserve more than spare change.” Once again, the Ford government’s core education funding falls short of what students and schools need and does not address the growing pressures facing students and their families, teachers, and education workers across the province. It's students who end up paying the biggest price for this government's chronic underfunding. Ontario deserves FAR better! Read our full response: osstf.on.ca/news/ontario-g…

The govt's Core Education Funding announcement is a thinly veiled attempt to hide cuts that will hurt #OntEd students.   #CatholicTeachers call on the govt to stop the cuts and work with teachers, parents, and communities to make real investments in our schools.

Minister Calandra doesn’t need to hear from supervisors about the funding formula or special education because “we have education workers in every single school and every single community that could tell you what’s wrong ... what’s happening on the ground is not being addressed. Student needs are not being addressed," said @ETFOpresident David Mastin. Ontario education minister reveals what school boards must do to end supervision #onted #onpoli thestar.com/news/gta/ontar… via @torontostar

NEW: Most classroom teachers are unable to adequately support students with special education needs, according to a new AG report. The report also raises concerns about rising EA absences, and students sent home when schools couldn't meet their needs. thetrillium.ca/news/education…