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Last night’s election result is a nightmare for most of us and I’m sure nobody is interested in dwelling on that, but there are a few specific things I wanted to talk about, both good and bad.
Turnout
As it stands, Elections Ontario has the turnout count pegged at 43%. The ridings with the highest turnout are Huron—Bruce with 54%, and then both Niagara West and Parry Sound—Muskoka with 53%. The ridings with the lowest turnout were Kiiwetinoong with 28% (only 92% of results are in), Humber River—Black Creek with 32%, and Windsor West with 33%.
It’s impossible to gauge how many voters were discouraged from voting by polls that consistently showed the PCs with a strong advantage. We also don’t know how many people didn’t vote due to Covid-19 infection or a lack of easy access to a nearby polling station. All parties were handed a major setback yesterday when a tech issue prevented them from downloading lists of which voters had already cast a ballot and which hadn’t yet, so their ability to work strategically yesterday was limited. Regardless, 43% is a pathetic turnout rate.
It’s worth noting that the Green Party campaigned relentlessly in Parry Sound—Muskoka because, with no Liberal candidate running, they had a good chance of winning that seat. A lot of effort was made to engage with voters and win their support, both from the Greens and the incumbent PCs. Niagara West is Sam Oosterhoff’s riding, where he can mobilize a large group of supporters from his church to canvass and help people vote. Running an energetic campaign is a candidate’s job, but for the rest of us, volunteering and helping to get people to a polling station really does help. Persuading friends and family to vote helps. We’re at a disadvantage in a first past the post electoral system, so there’s zero room for apathy.
Andrea Horwath and the NDP
After four elections as leader, Andrea Horwath read the room and stepped down after running a low-energy and uninspiring campaign. In Brampton, deputy party leader Sara Singh lost her seat, as did Gurratan Singh. The PCs secured several union endorsements over the traditionally more labour-friendly NDP. The Liberals will get more attention for their trainwreck of an election, but yesterday was awful for the NDP.
With Horwath quitting, the NDP’s other deputy leader, John Vanthof, may be interested in running for the party leadership. Joel Harden and Marit Stiles are other potential contenders.
Notable losers
New Blue MPP Belinda Karahalios and New Blue leader Jim Karahalios both lost badly in Cambridge and Kitchener—Conestoga respectively. Derek Sloan also lost by a huge margin. The former Toronto Police Chief Mark Saunders lost in Kathleen Wynne’s old riding.
The Liberals took the riding of Kingston and the Islands from the NDP, beating Mary Rita Holland, the former president of Ontario’s NDP. Sandeep Singh, who was controversially chosen as the NDP candidate in Brampton North over the incumbent, Kevin Yarde, also lost.
Steven Del Duca has stepped down after failing to secure party status for the Liberals or win in Vaughan—Woodbridge. After flipping from the PCs to the Liberals in 2020, MPP Amanda Simard lost her seat and two of the most well-known Liberal newbie candidates, nurse Tyler Watt and vaccination advocate Jill Promoli, also lost.
There’s not much for the PCs to be disappointed about, but their candidate in Haldimand—Norfolk lost to an independent. Former seven-term PC MPP Toby Barrett chose not to run in this election, but he endorsed his assistant Bobbi Ann Brady who was running as an independent.
Notable winners
After narrowly losing in 2018, Chandra Pasma unexpectedly flipped Ottawa West—Nepean to the NDP. With the NDP’s only other flip, Lise Vaugeois won in Thunder Bay—Superior North.
The biggest winners are obviously the PCs. It’s rare to win a comfortable majority and then increase that majority in the next election. Opposition to Doug Ford and the PCs over the last four years has been ineffective, and we need a hard reset in terms of organization. Signing petitions, marching to Queen’s Park, and literally begging Lisa MacLeod for help has made no material difference on PC policy. I hope that the NDP will fix their deep-seated problems and set the party on a better path, but mostly I hope that people who are upset today will feel motivated to help their neighbours who will be hit hardest by four more years of PC cuts and also to join a group organizing for material and achievable wins.
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One Piece Trivia: Cultural Curio
Strawhat Vice Captain Pirate Hunter Roronoa Zoro has developed a unique fighting technique known as Santoryu or Three Sword Style. In terms of character design, this allowed the animators to highlight his Complete Extraness despite his often serious and terse outward demeanor as well as his Utter Fucking Pansexuality.
- 100% True Facts from the anime edition of the One Piece: A Companion Piece book.
The footnote included in the illustrated collector edition of OPCP goes on to note "Those who disagree are free to fight the author of this collection of One Piece Trivia nuggets, keeping in mind she tri-weilds like a badass bitch" but I believe that only appears in the limited release copies.
[I'm sure this has been brought up before. I'm choosing to re-highlight it because of course I am.]
#100% true facts#one piece totally real trivia#he likes to have his mouth full#feel free to ignore that#feel free to ignore all of this#cultural curio#one piece#roronoa zoro#this is the wax cake i have choosen to die on
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Taking advantage of this short trip to get some pecans!! And ice cream of course Lol 🍦❤️💛 #PriestersPecans https://www.instagram.com/p/B1R-oPcp-Iq/?igshid=cgmxozaxvinq
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【悲報】高城亜樹、写真集を出す為のクラウドファンディングで目標350万に対し二日間で60万しか集まらず
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Distrito de Coimbra não tem nenhuma equipa de cuidados paliativos
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A cobertura universal de cuidados paliativos “está longe” de ser alcançada e revela “profundas assimetrias” no país, com seis distritos sem nenhuma equipa e outros com taxas superiores a 100%, segundo um relatório hoje divulgado.
“Mais uma vez se verificam assimetrias significativas com seis distritos (Aveiro, Braga, Castelo Branco, Coimbra, Leiria e Vila Real) sem nenhuma equipa e outros com taxas superiores a 100%”, nomeadamente Beja e o Açores, revela o “Relatório de Outono 2019”, do Observatório Português dos Cuidados Paliativos (OPCP), que analisou a cobertura da rede, reportando-se a dados vigentes em 31 de dezembro de 2018.
“No términus do primeiro plano estratégico nacional de cuidados paliativos [2017/2018], embora exista evolução no número de recursos desta tipologia de cuidados, continua-se com uma cobertura, estrutural e profissional, nacional e na generalidade dos distritos, muito abaixo do minimamente aceitável a que acrescem profundas assimetrias, a nível distrital”, salienta o estudo, a que a agência Lusa teve acesso.
O observatório alerta que esta assimetria “não garante uma abordagem especializada integrada e articulada entre as diferentes valências/equipas, por ausência de uma ou mais valências, sendo um sério obstáculo à acessibilidade a estes recursos como um direito humano e condição nuclear para uma cobertura universal de saúde”.
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SNOBELEN: Next Ontario PC leader must convince voters that we can do better
SNOBELEN: Next Ontario PC leader must convince voters that we can do better
Like other members of the Ontario PC Party, I need to make an important decision over the next few weeks.
A month from now OPCP members will select a new leader. Three months later Ontarians will elect a new government.
The general election will be more than a referendum on a decade of Liberal governments. The vote is already in on that front. Ontario is ready for change.
The leadership question…
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On Friday you can finde us at Frabrikanterne, in Vejle. You can make a bird house or a pillow at our event. Watch our video where Anders makes a bird house: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifqB-opCpEs
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York Centre MPP and lying enthusiast Roman Baber has been removed by Doug Ford from caucus and will not be permitted to run for the PCs in the next provincial election.
His removal comes only a couple hours after he posted his open letter calling for Ford to stop “imprisoning” Ontarians so we can “go back to normal life.”
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【欅坂46】ひらがな候補の14番ちゃんは辞退なのかー仕方がないとはいえ
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Twenty-five years ago this month, then Ontario premier Mike Harris slashed social assistance rates by 21.6 per cent.
In response to criticism of the cuts, Harris’s minister in charge of social services, David Tsubouchi, put forward a shopping list — later dubbed the “welfare diet” — to prove that welfare recipients could survive on the new lower rates by adhering to a $90-a-month grocery budget.
Tsubouchi’s list, which included nine servings of pasta but no sauce, and did not include butter, salt or other pantry staples, was widely ridiculed.
“It is totally out of touch with reality and is consistent with the stupidity and the ignorance of this minister,” Liberal MPP Dominic Agostino said in the legislature at the time.
A quarter-century later, social assistance rates still haven’t recovered and continue to lag behind inflation. Meanwhile, the cost of food, particularly good food, has risen sharply.
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Environmental groups are taking the Ontario government to court over its unlawful use of a Ministerial Zoning Order (MZO) to force through development on the provincially significant Duffins Creek wetlands complex.
Ecojustice, on behalf of Environmental Defence and Ontario Nature, filed the legal application to maintain protections on this special area, which the Ministry of Housing and Municipal Affairs has approved as the future site of a warehouse facility.
Provincially Significant Coastal Wetlands, such as the Lower Duffins Creek complex, are of huge importance to local communities, helping to mitigate flooding, store carbon, filter water and provide habitat to wildlife.
MZOs are meant to be an extraordinary measure. In the past, they were rarely used and were reserved for exceptional circumstances. But in this year alone, the Ontario government has issued over 30 MZOs to fast-track development.
The legal challenge seeks to have the MZO quashed and declared unlawful for failing to comply with provincial law and policy. The 2020 Provincial Policy Statement under the Planning Act clearly does not permit development on provincially significant wetlands. Yet, the Minister ignored this prohibition and issued the MZO, thereby allowing development to take place in an otherwise protected wetland.
The proposed development at Lower Duffins Creek faces considerable opposition from several groups, and thousands of citizens. The Williams Treaties First Nations were not consulted and have voiced concerns. The Toronto and Region Conservation Authority has also rejected development in protected wetlands.
In spite of this, the Ontario government continues to push MZOs through and has even proposed amendments to the Conservation Authorities Act to strip conservation authorities of their powers.
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The Ford government has been allowing Ontario foster homes to be inspected over the phone, increase in size and require less documentation, like health records, for more than a month.
The amendments to the Child, Youth and Family Services Act went into effect May 8 and will remain in place while the province is in a state of emergency due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
But APTN News recently obtained documents related to amendments and had them reviewed by David Miller, a long-time child protection lawyer in Toronto.
“Every change involved in these amendments serves to make foster homes and group homes less safe for our most vulnerable children and youth,” said Miller, adding these homes will be “busier, more chaotic … and with reduced government oversight.”
That’s particularly the case with in-home inspections and/or annual reviews, which can be now done by video or the telephone. Annual reviews, which make sure a child’s care is being met, can also be delayed for three months.
There are now fewer requirements for foster parents and group home staff, as well.
They can hire staff and recruit foster parents with less stringent requirements, such as no health assessments.
There’s also concern over police background checks. On March 25 the province asked all service providers “to refrain from requesting new police record checks unless deemed essential to meet immediate need,” according to a government “fact sheet” on the amendments.
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Premier Doug Ford has ejected Cambridge MPP Belinda Karahalios from the Progressive Conservative caucus for voting against controversial legislation expanding the government’s emergency authority.
“Belinda Karahalios will no longer be sitting as a member of the Progressive Conservative caucus,” Ford said in a terse statement Tuesday night less than an hour after Karahalios broke ranks.
Karahalios voted against legislation that she warned was “unnecessary overreach on our parliamentary democracy.”
This is the wife of Jim Karahalios, who was kicked out of the federal Conservative Party’s leadership race twice and is trying to be reinstated.
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