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At our TMU Democracy Forum, @MayorOliviaChow tells me how she handles Doug Ford, plus other political lessons. Watch her reprise her old role as a visiting professor — and role model for students @TorontoMet. Today's column...
Martin Regg Cohn
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Martin Regg Cohn
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Toronto Star political columnist. Recovering foreign correspondent. Reliving past pix here: bit.ly/38csl3f
- It's not just her dance moves. @AOC also runs circles around flat-footed Republicans on tax policy, according to @paulkrugman and other top economists: nytimes.com/2019/01/05/opi…
- Funny that Doug Ford's new gas pump stickers forgot to tell you his Ontario govt takes 8% sales tax + 14.7% fuel tax. On a $50 fillup @$1.20/litre, that's $1.83 to Ottawa (rebated in your tax return) vs $7.35 going to Ford in fuel tax + $4.59 PST = $11.94! Sticker shock?
- It’s not just the misleading. It’s the lack of leading from Doug Ford. By ducking a public inquiry, while pretending otherwise, the premier is guilty of breach of faith. And breach of contract with the voters of Ontario. My latest: bit.ly/3gCave2
- Hmm, odd that both Doug Ford and Andrea Horwath had to keep referring to notes in opening statements, unlike Steven Del Duca who did without.
- Just in time for Canada Day, Canadians have reclaimed their national flag. The Maple Leaf is misappropriated no more. No longer is our flag hijacked by a political fringe, converging in convoys. On Canada Day, our flag is finally liberated. Today's column
- We've all heard of John Tory’s extramarital affair, but the dirty details of Doug Ford getting into bed with rich developers? The premier insists his hands are clean and his soul is incorruptible. But his behaviour is contemptible. My latest: bit.ly/3RUSRjY
- In the midst of a crisis, amid shortages and suffering, it is a relief that Doug Ford has struck a tone that speaks to all Ontarians. Give him credit for being the best premier he can be when his province needs him most. Tuesday's column:
- The untold story of Doug Ford's first budget: Tories are spending $5 billion more than Liberals, yet cutting deeply into programs. Where did the extra money go? A tale of unforced errors--costing us billions in budgetary blunders. My wknd column:
- The $30 million Doug Ford budgeted to battle a federal carbon tax is going down the drain: Ontario's top court has ruled it completely constitutional, just like Saskatchewan's court. Why are Ontario taxpayers being bled by the premier?
- Congrats from our PM and around the world, yet not a peep from our premier re Nobel Prize in Economics to Ontario prof David Card. Turns out Doug Ford dare not recognize Card's research on how minimum wage hikes help economies. Today's column:
- BREAKING: Ex-premier Bill Davis repudiates Doug Ford's unprecedented Charter override: "That it might now be used regularly to assert the dominance of any ... politician over the rule of law or the legitimate jurisdiction of our courts of law was never anticipated or agreed to.”
- Some politicians try to buy votes. Doug Ford wants to buy your silence. And acquiescence. For a roughly $200 payout, to be handed out to everyone in Ontario, the premier hopes voters will forgive his political sins and forget his legal transgressions.
- The Opposition Leader is right. OPP's acting commissioner Brad Blair did the right thing blowing the whistle on Doug @fordnation police power play.The people of Ontario owe our thanks to Brad Blair. As acting Commissioner of the OPP, Blair put the integrity of the police service ahead of his own ambitions. #onpoli
