Husband, father, grandpa, doctor, historian. โค๏ธ the outdoors. Supporter of protected places. Fan of Canadian music & art. Political observer.
Just north of the 401...
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Ed Doadt โ๏ธ๐จ๐ฆ๐ถ retweeted
Pay attention Ontario. This is exactly what @fordnation and @SylviaJonesMPP want for Ontario. They want decisions about your healthcare to be made by paper pushers in the offices of insurance companies not by you and your physician.
Sabrina is 31 years old and has a rare cancer. She needs a special, proven treatment thatโs not available in our province - and she's been rejected for it.
Today we learned the Ontario governmentโs own doctors recommended that she be funded to get it, only to be overruled by the Ministry of Health.
Hereโs the kicker:
For weeks, @SylviaJonesMPP has claimed the rejections were made by doctors, not politicians. Now we know that's not true.
Fix it, Sylvia.
Ed Doadt โ๏ธ๐จ๐ฆ๐ถ retweeted
Hey Ontario youโre being gaslit. @fordnation and the @OntarioPCParty think that if they spend enough of your money on bullshit commercials telling you how good they are doing you wonโt notice how bad they are doing. Ford is the one keeping more of what is yours.
Ed Doadt โ๏ธ๐จ๐ฆ๐ถ retweeted
Ford is pulling of the biggest con job in history. He has been imposing his personal agenda on our economy for 8 years. He blames everything that goes wrong on "tariffs" while spending a fortune on ads to cover up his grift of our tax dollars. Carney is finding long term.....
Let me fix this: Ontario deficit grows to $16.9 billion as Doug Ford Gov't drags on. Ford keeps using tariff's as a cover up for his bad fiscal planning. How long have we known about a trade war? What did Ford change because of it? The answer: nothing.
ctvnews.ca/toronto/politics/โฆ
Ed Doadt โ๏ธ๐จ๐ฆ๐ถ retweeted
So the Ford "Conservatives" have been total spend thrifts. So much so, that the third highest expense is now interest on our debt!
Let's be clear - this isn't because of teachers, or nurses.
This is because of Ford's poor choices ie. billions in bribe cheques! #onpoli #onted
Ed Doadt โ๏ธ๐จ๐ฆ๐ถ retweeted
Remember when Ontario kicked Kathleen Wynne to the curb because Doug Ford said she had huge deficits?
Ontario's Fall Economic Statement drops one week from today.
The Finance Minister says deficits will be deeper, but there are red lines the Ford government won't cross to get back in the black.
ctvnews.ca/toronto/politics/โฆ
Ed Doadt โ๏ธ๐จ๐ฆ๐ถ retweeted
Are you a Nova Scotian or have a link to Nova Scotia? Please take 2 minutes to support these new protected areas. Click on link to survey. Answer Question #1 by saying you support ALL of these sites and you want MORE protected. It would be most helpful. Thank you.
There's a protected area consultation happening in Nova Scotia right now. Please take a moment to support the creation of these new nature reserves and wilderness areas. Thank you.
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Ed Doadt โ๏ธ๐จ๐ฆ๐ถ retweeted
My letter in today's London Free Press
Spend it on staff
Regarding the article New Ontario team to help LHSC cut ER wait times (Oct. 14)
Any attention to the disgraceful state of Ontarioโs emergency room wait times is, of course, welcome.
However, permit me to introduce of a brief moment of cynicism:
It was 2018 when Premier Doug Ford promised to end hallway medicine within a year.
In 2020, he stated โweโre doing everything we can to end hallway medicine.โ
In 2024, he again emphasized he would โstep upโ to end the abhorrent practice of trying to care for people in hospital ยญhallways, going one step further by stating he would commit ยญsufficient funds to bring emergency wait times down to one hour.
Further, resolving the problem means applying the scientific principles to patient flow that have been studied and ยญestablished during the past 30 years.
Forty-one million dollars to reinvent the wheel would go a long way to keep the nurses his government seems so intent on firing, a concept clearly at odds with the goal of reducing wait times.
Alan Drummond, Perth
Ed Doadt โ๏ธ๐จ๐ฆ๐ถ retweeted
A hospital in London, Ont., is cutting more than 100 registered nurse positions in its mental health programs, the latest in a growing list of hospitals across the province making similar moves in the face of deficits.
chch.com/chch-news/ontario-hโฆ
Ed Doadt โ๏ธ๐จ๐ฆ๐ถ retweeted
Ed Doadt โ๏ธ๐จ๐ฆ๐ถ retweeted
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He cost the @CPC_HQ $100 MILLION, putting them in the hole.
He then charged Canadian taxpayers ~$2 MILLION to get his job back after he was fired.
@PierrePoilievre is the most expensive turkey in Canadian history!
๐ฆ#HappyThanksgiving๐
Ed Doadt โ๏ธ๐จ๐ฆ๐ถ retweeted
Ford took a 4 month summer break in 2025, followed by a 3 month winter break in 2025/2026. Then sat for only 29 days in 2026. Now heโs nearing the end of a 5 month summer break facing scandal upon scandal. How long will he last before he goes on winter break?
Ed Doadt โ๏ธ๐จ๐ฆ๐ถ retweeted
everything that Anne Carson has written is risky & original in some (unpredictable) way. truly an unclassifiable imagination-- poet, translator, essayist, philosopher, observer of the vicissitudes of life; we'd met just once decades ago at Princeton where Anne Carson was an instructor in the Classics Dept. & I was--hypothetically--just a "visitor" for one year in Creative Writing.
not predictable that Anne would move on, & on, & on to numerous universities & I would remain at Princeton; now hoping that she is in Canada & not caught up in toxic US politics so antithetical to the humanism & freedom of the imagination required for the soul to breathe.
Canadian poet and essayist Anne Carson wins Nobel Prize in literature
apnews.com/article/nobel-priโฆ
ALT Canadian Poet Anne Carson
Ed Doadt โ๏ธ๐จ๐ฆ๐ถ retweeted
The worst health minister in all of my forty eight years as a physician
Ed Doadt โ๏ธ๐จ๐ฆ๐ถ retweeted
You can't reasonably say that vaccines have not helped to eradicate disease.
You'd have to be blind to make such an idiotic statement...
Ed Doadt โ๏ธ๐จ๐ฆ๐ถ retweeted
Land purchase for protection in 2007 by NS gov.
Included in parks and protected areas plan in 2013.
Still not legally protected though.
A simple Order-in-Council and it's done.
Ed Doadt โ๏ธ๐จ๐ฆ๐ถ retweeted
This.
Canada just did the most sensible thing any American ally has done this decade. It looked at the man Americans put on the ballot three times, worked out that he is not a phase but the country, and started swimming. On Wednesday it reached the far shore of the Atlantic and found Ursula von der Leyen waiting with a towel and an offer no country outside Europe has ever been made. Trump called it a hostile act, which is what people say when the lifeboat leaves without them. New piece on what Canada actually gets, and why it is worth a great deal more than the headline. This ๐:
gandalv.substack.com/p/what-โฆ
Ed Doadt โ๏ธ๐จ๐ฆ๐ถ retweeted
Last week a reporter asked Ford why he hasnโt recalled the Legislature after being ON BREAK FOR 5 MONTHS. Doug said he gets more done when he doesnโt have to go to Queenโs Park. What he meant was he can avoid being accountable & transparent for 5 months๐คจ
