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John Bowker

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Policy researcher, retired record & book peddler. Transit, housing, land use, energy, infrastructure & misc #onpoli wonkery. #ONDP. Tweets my own (he/him)

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John Bowker

Eastern Ontario PC MPPs are finally permitted to speak following the collapse of a secret deal in which Doug Ford reportedly agreed to gag his MPPs opposed to the Alto rail project if Mark Carney supported the Billy Bishop expansion www.thestar.com/politics/pro... #onpoli #cdnpoli

Doug Ford’s MPPs criticize Mark Carney’s Alto high-speed rail project after Billy Bishop vetoThe 300 km/h train that would cut through farmland in rural ridings represented by Tory MPPs has always been unpopular with some members of Ford’s caucus.www.thestar.com
John Bowker

“It’s Billy Bishop for Alto, that was always the understanding”: So every time a Toronto Liberal MP pretended to lack an opinion on YTZ expansion, they were fulfilling a secret deal Carney made with Ford to benefit JPMorgan while silencing their own constituents #onpoli #cdnpoli

John Bowker

Carney and Ford reportedly shook hands on a secret deal in which the PM would approve the Billy Bishop airport expansion, and in exchange Ford would silence eastern Ontario PC MPPs who opposed the Alto high-speed rail project www.thestar.com/politics/pro... #onpoli #cdnpoli

John Bowker

It should be a bigger deal that Ford & Carney made a secret deal to prevent MPs & MPPs from representing their constituents in Toronto and rural eastern Ontario. Is everyone a “fringe group” to these governments? #onpoli #cdnpoli

John Bowker

Carney and Ford reportedly shook hands on a secret deal in which the PM would approve the Billy Bishop airport expansion, and in exchange Ford would silence eastern Ontario PC MPPs who opposed the Alto high-speed rail project www.thestar.com/politics/pro... #onpoli #cdnpoli

John Bowker

Carney and Ford reportedly shook hands on a secret deal in which the PM would approve the Billy Bishop airport expansion, and in exchange Ford would silence eastern Ontario PC MPPs who opposed the Alto high-speed rail project www.thestar.com/politics/pro... #onpoli #cdnpoli

‘Disappointed’ Doug Ford spoke privately with Mark Carney after decision blocking Billy Bishop expansionCarney cancelled the island airport scheme before it could cause his Liberals any political turbulence, including potentially in the Aug. 31 Beaches—East York byelection that the prime minister called...www.thestar.com
John Bowker

A mysterious “black particulate fallout” has periodically covered Hamilton communities with soot. Ontario NDP leader @maritstilesndp.bsky.social says the Ford government knows what is in the soot and demanded it share this information with the public www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... #onpoli #hamont

Ontario NDP leader says Premier Doug Ford 'has the answers' to what's in soot blanketing Hamilton communities | CBC NewsAfter Hamilton neighbourhoods were blanketed by an unknown black substance in early July, Ontario's official opposition is calling on the government to share what it knows about the recurring issue.www.cbc.ca
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Isaac Callan

NEW: Ontario Premier Doug Ford billed taxpayers for a flight to Orlando last summer to attend the conference of a private-sector union that has repeatedly endorsed the Progressive Conservative Party and received millions in government funding. #onpoli globalnews.ca/news/1199582...

Premier Ford charged taxpayers for Florida trip to attend union conference at Disney | Globalnews.caThe province's travel, meal and hospitality expense disclosure list shows four individuals expensed commercial flights and hotels totalling $11,709 for the trip in mid-July 2025.globalnews.ca
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Ricochet Media

EXCLUSIVE: First Nations Chief says government MPP is lying about meeting with him. Kevin Holland, an associate minister in the Ford government, told a reporter he met with the Gull Bay Chief. Wilfred King says it never happened. @jonthompson.bsky.social reports. ricochet.media/indigenous/f...

First Nations Chief says government MPP is lying about meeting with himPC representative Kevin Holland told a reporter he met with the Gull Bay Chief. Wilfred King says it never happened.ricochet.media
John Bowker

“A big part of getting out of this slow tailspin is clarifying & limiting the mandate of the Toronto Port Authority. The federal agency should leave the question of expansion to people who are actually elected and accountable,” writes @graphicmatt.com www.thestar.com/opinion/cont... #onpoli #cdnpoli

Matt Elliott: A Billy Bishop expansion has been grounded — yet again. Time to end the dogfight over the island airport once and for allThere’s time now for a real consultation about what the public wants Toronto’s waterfront to be.www.thestar.com
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Jim Stanford

I partnered with the Ont Coalition for Better Child Care and the Assoc of Early Childhood Educators on a new study on the economic benefits being harvested by Ont from the new $10-a-day national child care program: childcareontario.org/stanford-rep.... More jobs, more GDP, more govt rev. /2

New Report: $10aDay Child Care Plan Boosts Ontario GDP by $13.6 Billion, Generating Over $2 Billion in Provincial Revenue for the Ford Government - OCBCCTORONTO (July 27, 2026) — A new report released today reveals that the expansion of affordable child care services in Ontario has delivered a substantialchildcareontario.org
John Bowker

Modernizing distribution systems to enable smart grids may require new regulatory policy, but this has nothing to do with Mattamy’s desire to scrap the “beneficiary pays” principle and force Durham ratepayers to subsidize sprawl in suburban Whitby www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art... #onpoli

Why a multibillion-dollar electricity infrastructure gap is threatening Ontario’s housing goalsThe province’s strained grid is already thwarting its ambitious plans to build 1.5 million homes. Who will pay for a massive expansion?www.theglobeandmail.com
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