Common Ground Ontario
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We are a grassroots initiative focused on mobilizing volunteers, amplifying progressive candidates, and ensuring every vote counts. https://commongroundon.blogspot.com/
The provincial election is over and the vote splitting was a huge issue but we know we cannot fix things overnight! The work of Common Ground Ontario and many others is just getting started and so this is not the end; it is just the start of a movement BUT we just need a week or so to rest :)
March 3, 2025 at 3:46 PM
The provincial election is over and the vote splitting was a huge issue but we know we cannot fix things overnight! The work of Common Ground Ontario and many others is just getting started and so this is not the end; it is just the start of a movement BUT we just need a week or so to rest :)
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Thanks to your 2,250 comments, the Ontario Government has withdrawn their request to dump sewage into the Ontario Place West Channel! This is a win for marine life & habitat, the rowers and other water users! 🎉 ero.ontario.ca/notice/019-9534 #topoli #onpoli
March 2, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Thanks to your 2,250 comments, the Ontario Government has withdrawn their request to dump sewage into the Ontario Place West Channel! This is a win for marine life & habitat, the rowers and other water users! 🎉 ero.ontario.ca/notice/019-9534 #topoli #onpoli
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Doug Ford is a generational politician. But while he may dominate Ontario politics today, he has a lot of ground to make up before he can claim the top spot in the electoral history books of the province. medium.com/p/how-doug-f...
How Doug Ford’s Electoral Success Ranks Historically
Riding high in the polls during the 2025 Ontario Election, Premier Doug Ford boasted that he wanted to win the largest majority mandate in…
medium.com
March 1, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Doug Ford is a generational politician. But while he may dominate Ontario politics today, he has a lot of ground to make up before he can claim the top spot in the electoral history books of the province. medium.com/p/how-doug-f...
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@reggcohn with the most-read column in the @TorontoStar today.
#onpoli
www.thestar.com/politics/pol...
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Martin Regg Cohn: Doug Ford wins an election with an embarrassing turnout that changes absolutely nothing
Re-elected as premier with his third majority in Thursday’s Ontario election, Doug Ford now helms a Progressive Conservative dynasty unseen for decades.
www.thestar.com
February 28, 2025 at 11:06 PM
@reggcohn with the most-read column in the @TorontoStar today.
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www.thestar.com/politics/pol...
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www.thestar.com/politics/pol...
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📊It's Friday night, which means it's time to dive into the 338 Sunday Update. And let me tell you: the numbers are on the move again.
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February 28, 2025 at 11:29 PM
📊It's Friday night, which means it's time to dive into the 338 Sunday Update. And let me tell you: the numbers are on the move again.
📫Get it right in your inbox by signing up for the newsletter here: www.338canada.ca
🍁Thank you for your support!
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Hogarth was an explicit anti bike lane candidate, there at the Bloor west announcements to kill them, quite visible. And she lost. Bike lanes are a settled issue in Toronto. In the last mayoral election the anti bike lane candidates lost.
www.thestar.com/politics/ele...
www.thestar.com/politics/ele...
Etobicoke-Lakeshore live Ontario election results
Etobicoke-Lakeshore live Ontario election results
www.thestar.com
February 28, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Hogarth was an explicit anti bike lane candidate, there at the Bloor west announcements to kill them, quite visible. And she lost. Bike lanes are a settled issue in Toronto. In the last mayoral election the anti bike lane candidates lost.
www.thestar.com/politics/ele...
www.thestar.com/politics/ele...
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Becoming a bit of a recurring theme at this point, as right-coded politicians keep thinking attacking bike lanes is a path to electoral success. Didn’t work in the mayoral by-election either. I’m thinking it’s just generally not a salient issue — even bike skeptics have bigger things to worry about.
February 28, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Becoming a bit of a recurring theme at this point, as right-coded politicians keep thinking attacking bike lanes is a path to electoral success. Didn’t work in the mayoral by-election either. I’m thinking it’s just generally not a salient issue — even bike skeptics have bigger things to worry about.
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Doug Ford’s anti-bike lane Bill 212 was always bad policy, but now also seems like bad politics. PCs handily lost Etobicoke-Lakeshore last night, home of the “controversial” Bloor West lanes. And PC vote share in bordering Etobicoke Centre was basically flat from 2022. What was the point?
February 28, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Doug Ford’s anti-bike lane Bill 212 was always bad policy, but now also seems like bad politics. PCs handily lost Etobicoke-Lakeshore last night, home of the “controversial” Bloor West lanes. And PC vote share in bordering Etobicoke Centre was basically flat from 2022. What was the point?
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While Ontario Premier Doug Ford won a 3rd majority government, his PCs lost ground in Toronto to Bonnie Crombie’s Liberals, including the ouster of Christine Hogarth in Etobicoke-Lakeshore who touted plans to remove the Bloor bike lane www.thestar.com/politics/pro...
How Toronto voted: Liberals make gains at expense of PCs and NDP
Despite Doug Ford’s third majority, the Liberals regained territory in Toronto on Thursday, taking back seats from the PCs and NDP.
www.thestar.com
February 28, 2025 at 12:33 PM
While Ontario Premier Doug Ford won a 3rd majority government, his PCs lost ground in Toronto to Bonnie Crombie’s Liberals, including the ouster of Christine Hogarth in Etobicoke-Lakeshore who touted plans to remove the Bloor bike lane www.thestar.com/politics/pro...
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Well I am the first in line to vote at my polling station. They got me a chair.
GET OUT THERE ONTARIO! Don’t let me down.
We do not want 4 more years of Ford because of voter apathy. Don’t let a little snow slow you down.
GET OUT THERE ONTARIO! Don’t let me down.
We do not want 4 more years of Ford because of voter apathy. Don’t let a little snow slow you down.
February 27, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Well I am the first in line to vote at my polling station. They got me a chair.
GET OUT THERE ONTARIO! Don’t let me down.
We do not want 4 more years of Ford because of voter apathy. Don’t let a little snow slow you down.
GET OUT THERE ONTARIO! Don’t let me down.
We do not want 4 more years of Ford because of voter apathy. Don’t let a little snow slow you down.
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Like @thekeenanwire.bsky.social here, I've always appreciated the communal aspect of voting. It really IS a pleasure. I even met a new neighbour at the polling station this morning. 🥰
www.thestar.com/opinion/star...
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Edward Keenan: We’re all better off when more people vote — but here’s the real reason to cast your ballot today
A vote for someone who doesn’t win isn’t “wasted” as some people claim — it’s counted the same as the others.
www.thestar.com
February 27, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Like @thekeenanwire.bsky.social here, I've always appreciated the communal aspect of voting. It really IS a pleasure. I even met a new neighbour at the polling station this morning. 🥰
www.thestar.com/opinion/star...
www.thestar.com/opinion/star...
Today is election day and you have one thing you need to do if you haven't done so yet .... VOTE!!!!
#ONpoli you have until 9pm so let's work together and start flipping those blue seats to send Ford a message!
#ONpoli you have until 9pm so let's work together and start flipping those blue seats to send Ford a message!
February 27, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Today is election day and you have one thing you need to do if you haven't done so yet .... VOTE!!!!
#ONpoli you have until 9pm so let's work together and start flipping those blue seats to send Ford a message!
#ONpoli you have until 9pm so let's work together and start flipping those blue seats to send Ford a message!
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Good morning, Ontario! Today is the day to #VoteFordOut if you haven't already done so! Don't let the bad weather, polls, or lack of voter information cards deter you. You can go to elections.on.ca to find your polling station & which ID's to bring. Polls are open 9AM to 9PM. #ONpoli #ONDP #OLP #GPO
February 27, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Good morning, Ontario! Today is the day to #VoteFordOut if you haven't already done so! Don't let the bad weather, polls, or lack of voter information cards deter you. You can go to elections.on.ca to find your polling station & which ID's to bring. Polls are open 9AM to 9PM. #ONpoli #ONDP #OLP #GPO
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One of my neighbours put this up on their lawn. Civic virtue signalling! (extremely complimentary)
February 26, 2025 at 11:03 PM
One of my neighbours put this up on their lawn. Civic virtue signalling! (extremely complimentary)
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Today is the day, Ontario … vote! Everything you need to know at www.elections.on.ca/en.html
February 27, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Today is the day, Ontario … vote! Everything you need to know at www.elections.on.ca/en.html
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A reminder to folks who will be voting at Jack Purcell Community Centre today — there is no parking on site. Please park on Elgin or nearby side streets. Or if you can, walk over.
February 27, 2025 at 12:00 PM
A reminder to folks who will be voting at Jack Purcell Community Centre today — there is no parking on site. Please park on Elgin or nearby side streets. Or if you can, walk over.
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Why do Ford’s PC candidates expect to get the job, when they won’t show up for the interview? It’s a shame that our democracy is such a pain in the ass for Doug. #onpoli
February 27, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Why do Ford’s PC candidates expect to get the job, when they won’t show up for the interview? It’s a shame that our democracy is such a pain in the ass for Doug. #onpoli
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Has this not happened yet?
Doug Ford needs to cancel Ontario’s contract with Starlink now. Absolutely solidarity with Ukraine but also to avoid it being used as a bargaining chip by Musk and Trump against Canada. Right now, Premier Ford.
“The United States has threatened to cut off Ukraine's access to Starlink satellite internet terminals if Kyiv does not reach a deal with the U.S. regarding critical mineral resources, Reuters reported on Feb. 21, citing three sources familiar with the negotiations.”
February 23, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Has this not happened yet?
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Ontario Election 2025: The Healthcare Crisis in Ontario
Feb 22 2025
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February 22, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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Voters have now gotten to see the leaders face off on the debate stage. Were Ontarians watching, and have the debates changed the race? @jeyantvo.bsky.social asked @erinkelly.bsky.social (Advanced Symbolics) #onpoli
Did the Ontario Leaders' Debates Move the Needle With Voters? | The Agenda
YouTube video by TVO Today
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February 21, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Voters have now gotten to see the leaders face off on the debate stage. Were Ontarians watching, and have the debates changed the race? @jeyantvo.bsky.social asked @erinkelly.bsky.social (Advanced Symbolics) #onpoli
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"There is no such thing as not voting: you either vote by voting, or you vote by staying home and tacitly doubling the value of some diehard's vote." -David Foster Wallace, novelist, essayist, and short story writer (21 Feb 1962-2008) via A Word A Day
February 21, 2025 at 2:24 PM
"There is no such thing as not voting: you either vote by voting, or you vote by staying home and tacitly doubling the value of some diehard's vote." -David Foster Wallace, novelist, essayist, and short story writer (21 Feb 1962-2008) via A Word A Day
This is why normally we don't have elections in Ontario in February #ONpoli It is a real hazard and if someone gets hurt, we know who to blame! Let us know if you have any issues getting out to vote or volunteer! Thanks @angeliquemoss.bsky.social and Canadian Affairs for getting this story out!
Op-Ed: We should be furious about Ontario's snap election www.canadianaffairs.news/2025/02/19/o...
Great article in Canadian Affairs by @angeliquemoss.bsky.social , I fully agree w/ her views on this winter election as I deal with a sore shoulder after slipping on snow earlier today #ONpoli
Great article in Canadian Affairs by @angeliquemoss.bsky.social , I fully agree w/ her views on this winter election as I deal with a sore shoulder after slipping on snow earlier today #ONpoli
Op-Ed: We should be furious about Ontario's snap election
Premier Ford's decision to call a snap election in the dead of winter undermines the democratic process, affecting prospective candidates, volunteers and voters
www.canadianaffairs.news
February 21, 2025 at 3:00 AM
This is why normally we don't have elections in Ontario in February #ONpoli It is a real hazard and if someone gets hurt, we know who to blame! Let us know if you have any issues getting out to vote or volunteer! Thanks @angeliquemoss.bsky.social and Canadian Affairs for getting this story out!