Doug Ford in his own words

15 Replies to “Doug Ford in his own words”

1. Yup, Double-cross Doug.

   He didn’t cancel all the wind farm contracts like he said he would.

   He INCREASED the corn-sourced ethanol content in gasoline

   He booted out the only true conservative in his caucus, Randy Hiller.

2. Letter that appeared in the Toronto Star from a grade 8 student. Maybe there is a light at the end of the tunnel.
   https://www.pressreader.com

   Go Doug Go.

   Schools obsessed with teaching climate change

   Toronto Star11 May 2019

   Our schools have become obsessed with climate change. It’s now being taught at the expense of other subjects. Students know the problem is real, but we’re so disgusted by the constant browbeating that we’ve stopped caring.
   I’m an eighth grader in the Toronto District School Board. In my school, discussing climate change has taken priority over actual science.

   We don’t learn chemistry, biology or physics anymore. Science class has been almost entirely replaced with lectures on sustainability and global warming. In English, we write about habitat loss. In geography, we talk about pollution. We hardly learn anything else anymore.

   Climate change has been drilled into our heads since we learned to speak. As a result, we’ve come to resent it and can no longer bring ourselves to care. Some of my classmates have even gone so far as to start denying that there’s a problem.

   We’re the generation that will have to overcome climate change, but right now we’re so tired of it that we don’t have the heart.

   No problem has ever been solved by shouting about it. We know climate change exists.
   Let us learn the real underlying science and, maybe, someday, we can do something about it.

   Jacob Sethi-Reiner, Etobicoke

   1. interesting.
      the first know case of climate change fatigue.
      hopefully it will spread like fcukin measles now.

   2. Oh, oh. Signs his real name. He’s in trouble.
      Where the heck are the teachers? Surely this is a betrayal of their mission to nurture kids and educate them for the future.

3. Climate Change. In Florida there only allowed to teach it is a theory some scientist have .

4. I want to see articles on the science that is being done with our carbon taxes. The solutions being worked on that will make the climate cooler, wetter, etc.. Oh.. wait a minute….

5. I have 2 comments – first, the Carbon tax will never be eliminated – governments constantly NEED new sources of money and second – I do hope that beer and wine will be sold in corner/convenience stores. My sister and I were in Chile in December, beer and wine is sold in corner stores, in the Super Mercados and Chile does not seem to have a problem with public drunkenness. I remember the days when you had to scurry furtively into either the LCBO (Ontario ) or the Alberta Liquor store, stand at a counter and fill out a form for either beer, wine (and only Lonesome Cougar or Red Devil were available) or hard liquor. You had to pay upfront before receiving your bottle in a brown paper bag. You were made to feel like a criminal ( and this was in the late 70’s).

   1. In many U.S. states beer and wine is sold in grocery stores; has been for decades.

   2. In Europe, beer, wine and hard liquor is sold in grocery stores. Put it in your grocery cart alongside the meat, vegetables and canned goods.

   3. Canada is utterly weird (and alone?) in how it conducts liquor sales, regardless of the province. Every other country I’ve been to manages not to require special stores or licenses to sell liquor, though there are such stores around. Boggles the mind.

      1. You people are still so naive. All you have to do is follow the money. Private enterprise is direct competition to Liberal donors, hence government control.
         https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/stephen-bronfman-to-lead-trudeaus-fundraising-campaign/article13999238/

   4. Like buying weed today. It’s back to the future.

   5. I just spent a week in SW Ontario. Had the pleasure of going to the imaginatively named Beer Store.

      People lined up 10 deep with 1 till running. You get to the till and you have to tell some sour unionista what it is you want. I didn’t know what I wanted as there is nothing on display. I was told to get out of the line and look up their selection on a screen. Once I decided I could get back in the line – at the rear as I had to give up my spot.

      Not wanting to wait any further I ordered a common product and was told they dont handle it. I tried another – same result. Desperate I settled on Canadian. You then pay and the clerk disappeared into the back through a door and the box of beer came rolling out on a conveyor.

      It’s a retail system right outa the 19th century. Liquor purchase isn’t much better. Very few outlets and banks offer better hours. Ontarians should be demanding better.

6. Well he must be doing something right, because there are a host of new Ford is Hitler stories in Trudeau’s Toronto Star every day. He also cancelled mandatory whiny indian studies in schools.

7. I gave him the benefit of the doubt as he was Rob Ford’s brother and nobody could poke a stick at the pseudo intelligentsia and do as a great Jamaican accent like Rob did…I hope my trust was not misplaced…