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Tom Parkin

@TomPark1n

a bluntly social democratic point of view

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Torontonians hoping to buy a house, you are in bidding wars with a $1B fund

Doug Ford does nothing because you’re not his priority

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Ford’s priority is his insider friends’ priorities not Ontarians

The result: housing starts down, ER overcrowding, hallway medicine, waitlists, no doctors, scandal, corruption, reversals

True, Ont Liberals left problems. But Ford said he’d fix them. He made them worse

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Alcohol access 24/7, not so much - wait in ERs for hours if you're lucky enough to have one in your community, wait for surgeries = months

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Housing constructors’ association tells Ford he has “no coherent plan” for housing and by turning housing into a “political football” will further increase prices thestar.com/politics/provi…

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On housing and healthcare, BC is way out front. So rare in Canada today to have a scandal-free government focused on governing and fixing problems. No wonder they’re so popular.

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This was tried in the cell phone market. Consolidation continued and we’re paying more than ever

Wanna see Gaelen’s head explode?

Instead of giving gobs of cash to a foreign-owned company to join his club, build a co-op grocery store chain owned by the people who shop at it

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NDP’s Don Davies commits to keep bargaining past the deadline as Liberal minister dismisses Trudeau’s written commitment for pharmacare bill before year end an “arbitrary” date

Liberals already in technical breech of agreement with NDP cbc.ca/news/politics/…

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Premier Ford in:

-2018: “Ending hallway medicine is a top priority'

-2019: “I can assure the people of Ontario over the next year we won’t have anyone in the hallways'

-2020: “We’re doing everything we can to clean up hallway health care'

-2022: “Getting it done.”

Premier Ford in: -2018: “Ending hallway medicine is a top priority' -2019: “I can assure the people of Ontario over the next year we won’t have anyone in the hallways' -2020: “We’re doing everything we can to clean up hallway health care' -2022: “Getting it done.”
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Opinion: What if ‘Axe the Tax’ leaves most Canadians worse off?

Academic studies show most people receive a rebate larger than the carbon tax they pay; only higher income earners would benefit from Poilievre’s tax plan theglobeandmail.com/business/comme…

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