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Chris Glover
@chrisgloverndp.bsky.social
Dad, Grandpa, Former Teacher, Skateboarder,
ONDP Shadow Minister for Sport, Technology, and Democratic Reform, MPP for Spadina—Fort York

www.chrisglovermpp.ca
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🚨60% of Wasaga Beach Provincial Park's Beachfront lands is at risk.

The Ford government is proposing to amend the Provincial Parks and Conservation Reserves Act to remove this land from Wasaga Beach Provincial Park.

#ONpoli
Ontario taxpayers paid for a 401 tunnel study in 2021. Ford refuses to release it.

Now he’s handing a $9.1 million contract to a company that’s being sued by the City of Toronto.

Doug Ford: ”We are the only party that's fiscally responsible."

#ONpoli
NEW: 4 years ago, the government studied whether or not a tunnel under Highway 401 was doable, finding a risk of collapse and eventually pausing the work.

Now, it is refusing to release the study - after paying a company $9.1M to do it again. #Onpoli globalnews.ca/news/1151718...
Ford government refuses to release completed work on Hwy. 401 tunnel idea | Globalnews.ca
Ontario is refusing to release already completed work on the viability of Premier Doug Ford's Highway 401 tunnel vision after signing a $9.1 million contract to study it again.
globalnews.ca
November 10, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Want millions in tax payer 💰 from the Skills Development Fund?

Hire a lobbyist.

Proportion of successful applicants using a lobbyist is up 60%

Lobbyists include Labour Minister's wife, Doug Ford's Campaign Manager, Conservative Party President.

#PaytoPlay #ONpoli
November 9, 2025 at 4:30 PM
🚨LCBO revenues down $300 million

💰 that pays for schools, healthcare, infrastructure

Canceling beer store contract early cost $225 million

▶️Cost to Ontarians of privatizing alcohol sales:

$300 M + $225 M = $525 million

#ONpoli #FordMath
November 8, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Ford's gravy train stops at the strip club:

▶️May 2021- Z. Starkovski hires Ford's Campaign Manager as a lobbyist

▶️March 2022- Starkovski receives $251,998 from the Skills Development Fund

Starkovski's company has received $10 million from the SDF to date.

#ONpoli #Strippergate
November 7, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Doug Ford refuses to release a 2021 study for 401 tunnel that found a “potential for 401 roadway collapse”

Now he’s spending another $9 Million of our 💰 on a do-over.

#ONpoli

globalnews.ca/news/1151529...
Ontario awards $9.1M contract to study Hwy. 401 tunnel concept | Globalnews.ca
Internal studies into the concept at the Ministry of Transportation were paused in 2021 and found there was a 'potential for roadway collapse.'
globalnews.ca
November 7, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Ford gravy train stops at the strip club

▶️May 2021- Z. Starkovski hires Ford's Campaign Manager as a lobbyist

▶️March 2022- Conservative party paid Starkovski $31,947 for hosting fundraisers

#ONpoli #Strippergate
November 6, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Ford's gravy train stops at a strip club.

$10 million of Skills Development Fund went to the owner of a strip club.

Women refused to work and walked out because they were expected to wear fishnets and g-strings.

This is where Ford is spending our tax dollars.

#ONpoli
November 4, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Another family stop on Ford's gravy train.

Ford's campaign manager Kory Teneycke's sister in law scores $2.2 million in taxpayer funds to produce ads.

Creative Currency has also been paid over $4.8 million since 2022 by the Ford Conservative Party.

#ONpoli #FirePiccini
November 3, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Accountability on Ford's gravy train?

▶️55 recipients that failed to achieve goals
▶️13 recipients that failed to report outcomes

Received even more slush fund grants in later rounds of the Skills Development Fund.

#ONpoli #firePiccini
November 1, 2025 at 2:35 PM
The family rides on the gravy train.

Conservative Labour Minister's wife hired to lobby for private colleges who received $900,000 from the latest round of the Skills Development Fund.

🚨 Piccini is still in charge of distributing another $260 million tax dollars!?

#ONpoli
October 31, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Ford's gravy train is a circular economy.

Donate to the Conservatives, receive taxpayer money.

▶️FGF brands
Donated $34k
Received $1.25 million Tax Dollars
ROI 3,806%

▶️Ontario shipyards
Donated $18k
Received $26 million Tax Dollars
ROI 75,000%

#ONpoli #GravyTrain

globalnews.ca/news/1149929...
Critics claim skills development fund is ‘circular economy’ of tax dollars, donations | Globalnews.ca
Ontario Liberal MPP John Fraser claimed the process appears to be a 'scheme.'
globalnews.ca
October 29, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Latest stops on Ford's gravy train:

PC party vice-president got $1.75 million

Losing PC candidate got $4 million

Did anyone in the PC party executive not pocket money from the Skills Development Slush fund?

#ONpoli
October 24, 2025 at 12:02 PM
The Ford PCs took a program meant to help workers and turned it into a donor rewards system.

Most of Ontario’s latest “Skills Development” grants went to PC insiders.

We deserve a fair program that helps workers—not insiders.

#ONpoli

www.thetrillium.ca/news/the-tri...
Groups led by PC donors received majority of recent Ontario training funds
One group received $14 million, the largest grant of the Skills Development Fund’s fifth round, after hosting a $120,000 fundraiser for the labour minister’s riding association
www.thetrillium.ca
October 22, 2025 at 2:17 PM
House resumes today
Will we get answers or more diversions?

▶️Recap: Auditor General called the Skills Development funding program "not fair, transparent or accountable."
▶️Piccini attends the Paris wedding of a lobbyist who got $8.5M
▶️Piccini attends Leafs game with a lobbyist who got $7.5M

#ONpoli
October 20, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Listen:
Did he or didn't he pay for the hockey tickets?

What do you think?

Ford's Minister attended Leafs game with lobbyist who then receives $7.5 million from Skills Development Slush Fund.

#ONpoli
October 18, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Today's stop on the Ford gravy train:

Ford's Minister tipped off donor about the #Greenbelt sell-off at fundraiser just before 2022 election.

#ONpoli
NEW: ‘Mr. X’ claims Minister David Piccini tipped him off about Greenbelt removals
John Mutton made the claim in an interview with the integrity commissioner and then on a podcast. The minister denied it through a spokesperson.
www.thetrillium.ca/news/politic...
‘Mr. X’ claims Minister David Piccini tipped him off about Greenbelt removals
John Mutton made the claim in an interview with the integrity commissioner and then on a podcast. The minister denied it through a spokesperson
www.thetrillium.ca
October 17, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Reposted by Chris Glover
Labour minister Piccini says handing $100M in grants to friends and PC backers isn’t corruption—it’s “skills development.”

With 800,000 Ontarians are looking for work, every Skills Development Fund dollar should go to workers—not lobbyists and PC insiders.

#ONpoli

www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/arti...
Ontario labour minister denies Skills Development Fund used to reward friends, political allies with millions in grants
Ontario’s labour minister is defending upwards of $100 million in grants from a controversial government fund to unions or industry organizations that supported the governing Progressive Conservative ...
www.ctvnews.ca
October 17, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Ford's gravy train

Company that failed to deliver medication to elderly and palliative patients received $18 million from the Skills Development Slush Fund.

When taxes and contracts are given to Conservative donors—patients are left in pain.

#ONpoli #OntHealth

globalnews.ca/news/1148152...
Company involved in Ontario medical supply shortages received skills development funding | Globalnews.ca
Government records show Bayshore Home Care Solutions received more than $18 million through multiple rounds of the Skills Development Fund, a period it was served by lobbyists.
globalnews.ca
October 17, 2025 at 6:26 PM
1.1 million Ontario jobs are at high risk of automation. Yet, there’s no plan from Ford’s Conservatives to protect these jobs or create jobs for the 800,000 Ontarians already unemployed.
October 16, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Ford's gravy train

Clients of Ford's campaign manager received $100 million from the Skills Development Slush Fund.

The Auditor General called the fund "not fair, transparent or accountable."

#ONpoli
October 15, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Two years since the #Greenbelt scandal broke, and it’s the same story: Ford’s friends get richer while Ontarians get priced out of housing, healthcare, and higher education.

This isn’t leadership—it’s government by and for Ford’s insiders. It’s oligarchy.

#ONpoli
October 10, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Some people go to Paris for love. Others go for lobbyists whose clients got millions from their government.

#ONpoli
October 8, 2025 at 10:45 PM
We’re watching the dismantling of our democracy by Ford’s Conservatives in real time.

A poll released yesterday found that a majority of Ontario parents support keeping their trustees. Ford needs to listen to parents and stop this madness.

#ONpoli #OntEd
October 7, 2025 at 1:16 PM
🚨Ontario’s Auditor General says Ford’s Skills Development Fund process was “not fair, transparent or accountable.”

800,000 Ontarians are looking for jobs—and Ford has turned the Skills Development Fund into a personal slush fund.

#ONpoli
October 6, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Ford says:
"I’m tough on crime and a prudent fiscal manager.”

Reality:
🚨273,000 traffic offenses withdrawn because of staff shortage in Ontario courts

💰$9.3 million tax dollars given to Ford's friend to train staff at the friend's nightclub

#ONpoli

www.ctvnews.ca/canada/artic...
October 1, 2025 at 12:12 PM