Government Decides To Do A Bunch Of Terrible Things More Slowly So We Won’t Notice Them As Much

In a rare moment of clarity, Doug Ford and whomever pulls the strings that make his arms and lips flap have decided that perhaps being universally hated might not always be so great and have kicked a few particularly stupid cuts down the road. Ontario’s Progressive Conservative government has backed down on retroactive funding cuts …

Ford Government Says Sensible Thing

A promise from the Doug Ford government is about as useful as a marzipan dildo so we’ll see where this goes, but for now, because I am nothing if not a fair man, I’ll give them credit for the way they’re handling this one publicly. Ford pledges not to re-open abortion debate after 3 MPPs …

What’s The Matter? I Thought You Guys Loved Cuts

‘It goes way overboard’: Ford calls OPP on protesters who brought guillotine to Queen’s Park I had to say the obvious thing in the title, but now I need to have a word with whomever did this and anyone who thinks it might be a good idea to do some similar thing in the future. …

And Hopefully We Never Will Again

Everything here is true, frightening and absolutely insane. We’ve never had a premier like Doug Ford before. Here’s why I don’t get it whatsoever, but clearly there are people in this world who like Doug Ford and think he’s doing a good job. If you do happen to be one who believes his government is …

Let’s Fund Schools Based ON Factors That Are Out Of Their Control. What Could Go Wrong?

As is usually the case with these things I’m open to hearing why this isn’t a stupid idea, but it strikes me that basing more than half of a college or university’s provincial funding on factors like how many students graduate, how many of them wind up employed and how much money they make is …

Maybe Ford Is ON To Something. At The Rate He’s Going, We Might All Be Better Off Under Water

It’s pretty obvious to anyone with eyes, ears or a brain that Canada’s flooding problem has gotten worse in the last few years. So naturally, now is the perfect time to cut a province worth of conservation authority funding in half. Ontario conservation authorities say the provincial government has cut their funding for flood management …

PC Government About To Spin So Hard We’ll All Feel Dizzy

This should be fun. I can hardly wait to see which of these poor schlubs they shove out here to explain to us all that this bad thing we’re doing is actually good because *spins the wheel of utter nonsense*. NDP revives Tory bill curbing taxpayer-funded partisan ads in bid to embarrass Ford government The …

We Acted In Good Faith. We Know We Did Because We Said So

I haven’t been sued once in my life let alone multiple times in under a year, but I want to think that if this were not the case, that I would, at some point, be wise enough to pause and reflect upon why this might be happening and what I might do to make things …

Open For Whatever We Tell You To Be Open For, Or Else

So remember when I said that Doug Ford wouldn’t be happy until we were all covered in PC campaign stickers? Clearly somebody in his office read those words and thought “wow, what a great fuckin’ idea!” Ontario to mandate anti-carbon tax stickers at gas pumps Yup. Dude is out here legally obliging private businesses to …