Joan Jardin
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Joan Jardin
@joanjardin.bsky.social
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Retired Union Worker & Teacher, Community Volunteer, Labour Union Council Member & activist. Kingston Ontario
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Nice to celebrate 10 years of the Coalition of Kingston Communities. #ygk 📢📣🎶🍾☕️💥
People watching Charlie Angus who is speaking online
November 16, 2025 at 7:20 PM
The Tentative Collective Agreement delineates compensation for workers' labour & expectations of mgt @CBCNews @CBC It's an agreement between Workers & management, aka partners -not merely to deal with a strike.
CBC, I used to value you so much. Please improve your work.
CBC Headline 'Deal reached to end Air Canada strike'.
August 19, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Please hire people who know something about Labour, CBC, or at least ask someone so you don't look so lopsided.
It is a Tentative Collective Agreement, not a strike deal. A strike is but one mechanism to demonstrate the importance of the jobs workers do.
@CBC
August 19, 2025 at 2:09 PM
At the Healthcare Shadow Summit in Huntsville to demand the Premiers and the Prime Minister support and enhance Publuc Healthcare in Canada. It what we want and need and it makes us stronger in every way.
A photo of Joan and Greg with a large red frame that states 'I Support Publuc Healthcare'.
July 21, 2025 at 2:49 PM
No to Ontario's Bill 6.
Support works.
Criminalization makes all worse.
#ygk concerned citizens care.
May 29, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Great discussion and lots of common ground at the Resistance Tour with @CharlieAngusNDP on Kingston #ygk
Thanks to all.
Broom Factory is full, with overflow.
May 16, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Last day of Advance Polls. I voted last week.
Canadians, please vote for public services and caring.
Joan outside of Election Office holding a Daria Juudi-Hope NDP button having just voted.
April 21, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Don't choose to privatize our healthcare.
There are many ideas to support & improve our healthcare. Listen to the workers.
Wrongly and sadly, the only thing Ford/Cons/his friends want to hear is more for-profit healthcare.
Our children deserve better.
We need better @ontariondp.bsky.social
It is a choice to privatize our health care. To claim it is necessary is false.
February 23, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Please vote to keep our values public health care system.
For-profit healthcare has worse outcomes, reduces accessibility, and is more expensive. Don't choose it . Our children and rural areas will be hurt the most.
The Ford govt is privatizing our public health care system. It is false to claim they are not.
February 23, 2025 at 8:47 PM
If the Ford/Con govt gets re-elected, we may lose our cherished and valued Public Health System.
Please don't choose to hurt our public system more.
Our children don't want to go bankrupt for their health.
Learn. Vote carefully.
Spread the word: Make it heard! Look at the record and vote to protect our public health care system... or we are going to lose it. You can find the data, details & sources for all the information here at www.StopForProfitHealthCare.ca
February 23, 2025 at 8:44 PM
What do you do when our govt is supposed to protect us from lawbreakers is instead promoting and paying those who are breaking the laws to hurt us?
Choose better. Stop choosing a govt that doesn't protect us.
Patients forced to pay thousands of dollars in illegal fees to for-profit clinics. Under the Canada Health Act, it is illegal to charge patients user fees or sell queue jumping for the wealthy. OHIP covers all medically needed surgeries & diagnostic tests. However, patients are being charged record-breaking illegal fees in Ford's privatized surgical clinics. Instead of stopping them, the Ford government is expanding them.
February 23, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Only an inept govt would cause ERs to close in Ontario Canada.
Think about the impact of your vote.
Rural areas are hurt the most. Don't vote for your continued harm.
The Conservative govt is not your friend.
A record number of local emergency departments closed. In 2023, there were 1 199 closures of local hospitals' emergency departments, birthing units, ICUs & urgent care centres. By December 2024, the number of emergency department closures had broken all records. Before 2018 when the Ford government took power, emergency department closures were almost unheard of.
February 23, 2025 at 8:28 PM
I want a govt that serves Ontarians. Ford/Cons spend our money badly... too often.
Choose better.
@ontariondp.bsky.social
Stop Ford's gravy chain.
Don't believe what Ford says. Look at what they've done. The Ford government spent more than $103.5 million in public money on advertising in the last year. That's the highest amount ever, reports Ontario's Auditor General, and most of their ad campaigns were to promote themselves. Look at the actual record & please consider health care when you vote.
February 23, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Vote well!
February 23, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Shame!
Choose better Ontario!
The only way you can argue that Ford/Cons reduced hallway medicine is because he has closed too many hospitals/ ERs so fewer hallways.
Enough!
February 23, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Ontarians are being shortchanged on healthcare. Why is our Govt giving money to friends with spas, instead of spending it on us. We want well-funded healthcare!!
February 23, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Ontario funds its healthcare the least in ALL of Canada!
Shame. Demand better. Choose better.
@ontariondp.bsky.social @maritstilesndp.bsky.social
February 23, 2025 at 7:59 PM
ONE MILLION more people don't have family doctors since Ford/Cons got into govt in 2018.
Now 2.4 Million don't have family doctors.
There were 1.3 million without a family doctor in 2018 with a Liberal govt. Life is getting worse... choose a better path. @ontariondp.bsky.social
February 23, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Things that make you say HMMMMmmmm.
February 23, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Good idea to vote asap. The weather in Feb is uncertain.
I voted at the Returning/election Office. Needed to ensure my vote for Elliot Goodell Ugalde @ontariondp.bsky.social #ygk was in. Need Hope.
February 16, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Today, Thursday, Jan 9 2025, there is more snow in Dallas Texas than in Kingston Ontario (Canada)
Dallas. Kingston
Snow on the ground in Dallas. Small patches of snow on the ground in Kingston
January 9, 2025 at 8:53 PM
I am supporting our Canadian Postal Workers @CUPW
During the strike, no mail but I have a message.
Mailbox with I support Postal Workers sign
November 20, 2024 at 12:18 AM
Saw some of #ygk 's most fabulous activists at the @cupw rally today.
The corp is asking for many awful stupid cuts - SHAME.
They are fighting our fight.
#Solidarity
@KDLCSolidarity
Many people at the CUPW rally in Kingston.
November 19, 2024 at 10:49 PM