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Robert Benzie
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Robert Benzie
@robertbenzie
Queen's Park Bureau Chief for the Toronto Star
Joined March 2011
- BREAKING: An @OntarioPCParty political staffer has been fired/asked to resign after it was revealed she donated $100 to the illegal Ottawa blockade, sources told the @TorontoStar. #onpoli
- 2023 property tax hike: 7% 2024 property tax hike: 9.5% 2025 proposed property tax hike: 6.9% That means the equivalent of a 24% increase since 2023. #topoli
- .@TorontoStar photographer Rene Johnston's front-page picture is worth way more than 1,000 of my words. Brilliant. #onpoli #cdnpoli
- Props to @cafreeland for making the exact same face so many of us make when we hear people say they plan to travel regardless of the pandemic. #COVID19
00:00 - A rattled looking @PierrePoilievre lashes out at a CBC reporter’s question about the rookie @CPC_HQ leader’s support for the so-called “Freedom Convoy” protest. Complains in both English and French about “bias.” (His press conference inexperience is shining through.) #cdnpoli
- Kudos to staff at an Orillia supermarket that wouldn’t let a woman with a shopping basket full of toilet paper hoard so many rolls. They said she could buy two big packs and made her put the rest back on the shelf for other customers. #panicbuying #COVID19
- This is the largest protest we have seen at Queen’s Park in a long time. Thousands of students. #onpoli #climatestrikecanada
- BREAKING: @DrEricHoskins says Ontario to "provide life-saving care" to foreign kids whose surgeries cancelled due to Trump's travel ban.
