Charlie Pinkerton
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Charlie Pinkerton
@CharliePinkerto
Journalist with @thetrilliumca. “One of the best names of any reporter that I can think of,” according to a media critic. Get in touch: [email protected].
- On Monday, Ontario’s CMOH Dr. Kieran Moore “strongly recommended” Ontarians wear masks indoors. Last night, 3 days later, he was partying maskless at Toronto Life’s celebration for its 50 most influential Torontonians of 2022, videos show.
00:00 - This press conference by CPC Leader Erin O’Toole is troubling. Using the limited questions they’re allowed, reporters have asked O’Toole repeatedly about his past praise of Jason Kenney’s handling of COVID-19. He’s answering with dodge after dodge and reporters mics are cut.
- Premier Doug Ford reads from a teleprompter during his press conferences, but I wasn't aware till today that he's also fed pre-written answers to journalists' questions via teleprompter, as my colleague @empelletierLD points out.Le journaliste @CharliePinkerto demande au premier ministre Doug Ford d’expliquer son refus de témoigner devant la Commission sur l’état d’urgence. Sa réponse est écrite en bas de la photo, à droite. #onpoli
- NEW: Progressive Conservative MPPs used their majority at Queen's Park to vote down an NDP bill that would make it illegal for MPPs to accept gifts that would create the appearance of a conflict of interest. (🔒 — for @Thetrilliumca insiders)
- Here’s my attempt last Wednesday to question Premier Doug Ford about the stag and doe as he left Queen’s Park. Ford said nothing in response.
00:00BREAKING: Premier Doug Ford tells Ontario’s Integrity Commissioner that developers who he counts as “personal friends” attended a fundraiser stag and doe party for his daughter and son-in-law in August. globalnews.ca/news/9457569/o… #onpoli - Premier Doug Ford wouldn’t speak to me during my several stakeouts of his office last week. Today I’ve got just the trick to get him to open his mouth.There’s an unusual amount of buzz at Queen’s Park today.
- NEW: A top aide to Premier Doug Ford and a PC MPP went on a Las Vegas trip in 2020 with developer Shakir Rehmatullah, whose companies have benefited from multiple Ford government decisions including the Greenbelt land swap, sources tell @Thetrilliumca.
- Here at Bingemans in Kitchener there’s about 50 or so protesters at the entrance to where PC Leader Doug Ford’s rally is taking place. The demonstration was organized by the Ontario Nurses Association.
00:00 - NEW: Millions from the Ford government’s Skills Development Fund is benefiting the owner of a new Toronto “adult entertainment club,” where strippers give lap dances & scantily clad aerialists perform while suspended from above by their teeth or hair.
- Ontario developers who benefitted from Ford government decisions on Greenbelt and MZOs dined with the premier at his daughter’s wedding by moi & @njaved
- NEW: Dr. Kieran Moore says he hopes the Health Ministry ends all COVID-19 vaccination policies — including its requirement that hospitals have policies for their employees — by March 1, to align with the end of proof-of-vaccination requirements in places like bars and gyms.
- It’s been a tense few days in #OnPoli since developers’ involvement in Premier Doug Ford’s daughter’s stag and doe, on Aug. 11, was reported. Now feels as appropriate a time as any to remind people of what transpired hours later on Aug. 12.
- BREAKING (Pt. 2): NDP Leader Marit Stiles has asked the integrity commissioner to investigate if Infrastructure Minister Kinga Surma broke MPP ethics law through the province's Ontario Place deal with Therme.
BREAKING: Late yesterday, NDP Leader Marit Stiles filed a request for Ontario's integrity commissioner to investigate whether Infrastructure Minister Kinga Surma violated MPPs' ethics law &/or parliamentary convention. More details will be coming soon, I'm told.
