Halifax and Hamilton: a Bluenoser in southern Ontario. Retired health sciences librarian (Dalhousie and McMaster). No DMs, please.
Hamilton, ON
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Tom Flemming retweeted
Because the court findings come with written reasons which enable public scrutiny, right.
Not because the lawyers or the judiciary are inherently more trustworthy.
We are all human and equal before the law, right?
When questions arise over the findings of a judicial process & those of police investigating police, I trust the court findings, not the OPP.
thestar.com/news/gta/toronto…
Tom Flemming retweeted
Absolutely!
When questions arise over the findings of a judicial process & those of police investigating police, I trust the court findings, not the OPP.
thestar.com/news/gta/toronto…
Tom Flemming retweeted
Every mature adult in Canada knows that Don Cherry is NOT a good example to any of our Canadian youth. I don't care how old he is or what he did when he was a young hockey player. The persona he created was ignorant, racist, illiterate and abusive. The OOC is reserved for better
Tom Flemming retweeted
If you want your personal cell phone to be exempt from public disclosure… don’t conduct government business on it.
The reason for these requests in the first place is the evidence that individuals in the premiers office and ministry were using personal emails and devices to discuss government business (specifically as it relates to the Greenbelt Scandal).
Look, being a public figure is hard, and in many ways you lose privacy. But public service is also a privilege and comes with trade offs to privacy because transparency and accountability matter for the public.
And if we accept the changes being made by the provincial government, a huge incentive to move sensitive conversations to private channels is the outcome. It just makes corruption an even easier than it has already become.
This is the admission.
Premier Doug Ford - who was compelled by an Ontario court to turn over his cell phone records says "personal cellphones" should be exempt from public disclosure.
globalnews.ca/news/11733205/…
Tom Flemming retweeted
NDP Leader Marit Stiles says Premier Doug Ford is trying to distract from the FOI issue by talking about booze at festivals and bear spray.
"He's fighting pretty damn hard to hide those cell phone records and the people of Ontario have a right to know."
#onpoli
Tom Flemming retweeted
FLOOD THE ZONE: Critics in Ontario say a flurry of government announcements on justice, alcohol and roads is designed to distract from sweeping changes the Ford government is planning to apply to FOI laws.
globalnews.ca/news/11735233/…
#onpoli
Tom Flemming retweeted
#Opinion from @DrGorfinkel: I’m a doctor. Here are five overlooked ways the Ontario government is making our ERs more crowded, not less. trib.al/4GfQEdM
Tom Flemming retweeted
Good to see media calling it for what it truly is!
Ford’s team thinks we are all dumb enough to buy this tactic again & again but we are #SmarterThanFord!
Call your MPP & tell them you aren’t buying this BS!
@OFLabour
FLOOD THE ZONE: Critics in Ontario say a flurry of government announcements on justice, alcohol and roads is designed to distract from sweeping changes the Ford government is planning to apply to FOI laws.
globalnews.ca/news/11735233/…
#onpoli
Tom Flemming retweeted
5 ONTARIO LAWS FUEL HALLWAY MEDICINE
👨⚖️Bill 6 -Punished homelessness
👨⚖️Bill 223 -Defunded supervised consumption sites
👨⚖️Bill 124 -Capped nurse pay
👨⚖️Bill 60 -Expanded for-profit clinics
👨⚖️Bill 7 -Neglected alternate care needs
@TorontoStar @raghu_venugopal @NightShiftMD
Tom Flemming retweeted
They want us to look at this today so we're not looking at:
- FOI legislation changes
- school board takeover disasters
- OSAP
- jobs numbers
- Science Centre
- Convention Centre Island
- Therme spa
- ongoing Greenbelt RCMP investigation
- SDF
- etc.
Mess everywhere. #onpoli
NEW - The Ford government will soon allow Ontarians to bring their own alcoholic beverages to designated outdoor public events, 680 NewsRadio has exclusively learned. The BYOB move is one the government believes will save people money & boost tourism. toronto.citynews.ca/2026/03/…
Tom Flemming retweeted
I’m counsel on this case and we have made it abundantly clear that the personal information of constituents etc are private and will not be disclosed. Yet the Premier keeps raising this bogus point to keep all of his govt calls secret. What is he trying to hide?
Doug Ford says his cell phone records must remain hidden to protect privacy #onpoli theglobeandmail.com/politics…
Tom Flemming retweeted
Reporters of @ColinDMello’s calibre do not say things like this without knowing they can back it up.
Doug Ford is hiding something that Ontarians deserve to know.
Contrary to what the Premier says - this is NOT about constituency calls.
This is about who has influence over Premier Doug Ford and whether his cell phone is used for unregistered lobbying.
#onpoli
Tom Flemming retweeted
FOI request by Global news found Education Minister Lecce, like Ford, avoided his gov phone and only used his gov phone for only one minute while working on a #notwithstandingclause against 55,000 striking Cupe support workers that were fined $200 million a day.
Tom Flemming retweeted
This is the admission.
Premier Doug Ford - who was compelled by an Ontario court to turn over his cell phone records says "personal cellphones" should be exempt from public disclosure.
globalnews.ca/news/11733205/…
NEW: Premier Doug Ford says his FOI changes are about "personal cellphones."
"When it comes to conversation within cabinet and on personal cell phones that should not be FOIable," Ford says.
#onpoli
Tom Flemming retweeted
The reason Ford is protecting his personal cell phone records is that the depth of the corruption we already know is just the tip of the iceberg.
We probably don’t know even a fraction of it.
New from me at TVO: the government's formal justification for gutting FOI law is nonsense and the only upside to all this is that legislative power can be a shield for this government and a sword for the next. tvo.org/article/analysis-the…
Tom Flemming retweeted
This is major news.
Doug Ford promised “faster, more frequent” GO trains. Now leaked documents say that plan is “unlikely to materialize” after his government scrapped the deal to deliver it — and won’t tell Ontarians why or how much cancelling it cost.
Worse, we’re now paying for trains and upgrades Metrolinx doesn’t even need — contracts signed at the government’s request for a plan that’s been abandoned.
That’s exactly why MPP @AndreaHazelll called for a value-for-money audit last year: to find out how much this mismanagement is costing taxpayers.
These failures have real consequences: more time waiting, less room on trains, fewer departure options — and ultimately less time with your family.
At this point, @fordnation might not be able to get a toy train set up and running.
We must demand accountability.
#onpoli
Shorter, more frequent GO train plan ‘unlikely to materialize’: leaked document thetrillium.ca:443/news/muni…
Tom Flemming retweeted
Remember when Ford said he wouldn’t touch the Greenbelt - then got caught on tape? Is this a man you can trust?
Without FOIs and journalism, we’d never know the extent of the corruption behind Ford’s Greenbelt scandal.
Now he’s rewriting the rules to hide what happens behind closed doors.
Ontarians deserve transparency - not a government that covers its tracks. #onpoli