James H McLaren @JamesHMcLaren@qoto.org

Doug Ford's #Ontario ⬇️​

"Imagine buying a property for $15 million because it is zoned agricultural, then calling up your friend Premier Ford and asking for special permission to change the zoning, and then selling it for $62 million."

#greenbelt #AuditorGeneralReport #corruption #DougFord #onpoli #cdnpoli @jen_keesmaat

Easily applicable to the #CPC in #Canada as well. Also the #UCP in #Alberta.

I am so grateful that there was no social media when I was in high school.

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Why do thousands of deep-sea octopuses congregate two miles below the surface, at the base of an underwater mountain off California? Researchers now think they know the secret behind this real-life octopus garden, the largest known gathering of deep-sea octopuses on Earth....

https://www.npr.org/2023/08/23/1195028955/heres-why-6-000-octopuses-like-to-be-under-the-sea-at-an-octopus-garden

#science #octopuses #ocean #marinebiology #conservation #nature #beatles

"To #Therme and Premier #DougFord: it's not about a pretty spa design. It's about a 95 year lease to a private-for-profit company and the destruction of our parkland & trees with no open, transparent process!"

"Corruption is what it's about."

RCMP - add #OntarioPlace to your list.

#onpoli #topoli #toronto #ontario #conservatives #greenbelt via @cheridinovo

currently trapped inside due to the 907th severe weather alert of the year, so I decided to draw a comic about it

All aboard! 🚂🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃

THIS ⬇️​

"If Ford did know, he should resign.
If Ford didn’t know, he should resign."

"He’s lying. But even if he wasn’t, he runs this province. Not noticing the biggest political scandal in Canada’s history, happening on his watch, is reason enough for him to resign. Total incompetence."

#onpoli #ontario #greenbelt #DougFord #cdnpoli #conservatives #canada via @merry123459

Grim reminder: #DougFord allowed hundreds & hundreds of Covid-infected seniors to die in filth in #LTC, then passed a law so his govt couldn't be sued.

Doug Ford was at the cottage yucking it up snowmobiling and passed the buck during the illegal convoy that occupied #Ottawa.

Doug Ford was running his #conservative govt on burner phones as he brazenly held back funds from our healthcare in a pandemic

ALL of this is as shady & despicable as his #greenbelt swindle."

via @anneofkingston

About to eat a large bowl of carrot orange and beetroot soup my wife made. She doesn’t like it, so I’m on the hook to finish it up.

I’m posting this as a reminder to myself not to panic when I’m at the toilet tomorrow. 🩸🚽

Bike path
#cycling #nature #photography

"Premier #DougFord calls the #Ontario government "a corporation" because that's how he views "his government" - an opportunity for big business to make big bucks - especially if he can make $$$ for his pals while fleecing the public of prime farm land, quality education, and public healthcare."

#bill60 #bill98 #bill23 #onpoli #corruption #malfeasance via @voici_mme_b

The slide from twitter to X is turning out to be a heckuva sociological experiment on the willingness of a democratic society to adapt to fascist norms

OK, back to posting nature pics….

Quick reminder that we are not actually in a "Cost of Living Crisis".

It's a Extreme Inequality and Record Untaxed Profits Crisis.

While we struggle for the basics, banks, energy companies, supermarkets and the oligarchs are posting record breaking profits.

It would be pretty straight forward to even it out. If they wanted to.

Photo time...

This one is taken from St. Finan's Bay, Kerry, Ireland. Looking out to sea with Skellig Michael in the distance.
I loved the patterns in the water on the beach and the evening sun catching the clouds...

1/13s at f18 for those who like that stuff.

#photo #photography

A developer close to Doug Ford bought this farmland and got special permission to build ‘desperately needed homes.’ Then he sold a chunk for what appears to be a huge profit https://www.thestar.com/news/investigations/a-developer-close-to-doug-ford-bought-this-farmland-and-got-special-permission-to-build/article_ae3b97cc-a49c-5ed1-9a2b-fc2664080e43.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=user-share

Oh myyy, this is too good not to share!

My kid wrote this 65-word story off the top of her head when she was nine, and it remains one of the greatest things in the universe.