Here Are 100 News Headlines That Sum Up Doug Ford‘s Last Four Chaotic Years as Premier
Doug Ford has repeatedly made headlines for getting into fights with Ontarians, ignoring important problems and getting booed
Four years go by fast.
As Ontario Premier Doug Ford seeks a second term, his first term was marked by constant head butting with teachers and health care workers, tenants and people on social assistance, as well as parents of autistic children.
Ford got passed a highly controversial law to gerrymander municipal elections in Ontario’s biggest city while ignoring Ontario’s second biggest city as it struggled with a far-right occupation and weeks-long power outages.
Here is a look back on the headlines that summed up Doug Ford’s last four years:
Headlines about Doug Ford getting booed / publicly shamed
Watch the moment thousands of people booed Doug Ford at the Toronto Raptors’ NBA championship paradehttps://t.co/COwx5chSRZ #cdnpoli #onpoli #WeTheChamps
— PressProgress (@pressprogress) June 18, 2019
1. Premier Doug Ford booed by massive crowd celebrating Raptors Championship parade
2. Premier Doug Ford booed at Special Olympics ceremony
3. Boos, Jeers And Shame: Collapsing Support For Ford Government ‘Unprecedented’
Headlines about Doug Ford and democracy
‘A direct affront on democracy’: Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi, who has also been critical of the size of Toronto’s council, blasts Ontario Premier Doug Ford for how plan was handled. https://t.co/ExDh3KPPCy
— CBC News Alerts (@CBCAlerts) July 27, 2018
4. That is tinpot dictator stuff’: Calgary Mayor Nenshi blasts Ontario Premier Ford
5. Ford government trampled democracy with mid-election changes, Toronto tells top court
6. ‘Doug Ford will do anything to cling to power’: Premier invokes notwithstanding clause
7. PC Leader Doug Ford pressed on why he’s not taking more questions from the media
8. Toronto residents oppose Ford’s use of notwithstanding clause: Poll
9. Doug Ford shuts service that helps Ontario citizens fight wealthy developers
Headlines about Doug Ford and racism
Ontario premier Doug Ford refuses to apologize for comments about immigrants and ‘the dole’ https://t.co/maeiYIhi9l
— The Globe and Mail (@globeandmail) October 19, 2021
10. Doug Ford says he supports Stephen Lecce after apology for fraternity ‘slave auction’
11. Doug Ford’s comments on racism ignore history of black trauma in Canada, writer says
12. Facing criticism, Ontario Premier Doug Ford backpedals comments on racism in Canada
13. Premier Doug Ford backtracks on comment that there is no systemic racism in Canada
14. Ontario Premier Doug Ford refuses to apologize for comments about immigrants and ‘the dole’
15. Doug Ford won’t apologize for comments about immigrants
16. Doug Ford Under Fire Over ‘Reckless’ Personal Attack on Indigenous Relations Critic
17. Ford’s ‘catastrophic’ legal aid cuts target refugees and immigrants
Headlines about Doug Ford and women
Even before my time, @Chatelaine (and the one and only @rachelagiese) had Doug Ford’s number. (From 2018) https://t.co/ktQ0wBpApd
— Denise Balkissoon (@balkissoon) February 17, 2021
18. What Doug Ford Says About Women Says Even More About Him
19. A partial list of attacks on women’s rights under Doug Ford
20. Ford government quietly stalls implementation of pay transparency law
21. How Doug Ford’s Government Reduces Abortion Access
22. Doug Ford’s Office Launches Vulgar, Sexually Demeaning Attack on Journalist
23. Ford cuts all provincial funding to Ontario College of Midwives
Headlines about Doug Ford and education
NEW: Three of Canada’s biggest newspapers are running expensive full-page ads paid for by a mysterious group using a ‘made-up name’ and a fake mother to attack Ontario teachershttps://t.co/ddVxSQP41E #onpoli #onted #vaughanworkingfamilies
— PressProgress (@pressprogress) February 2, 2020
24. Ontario Reverts to 1998 Sex-Ed Curriculum in a Win for ‘Trump-Like’ Premier Doug Ford
25. With strike date looming, Ontario Premier Doug Ford slams teachers’ union leaders
26. Sex-ed rollback, launch of snitch line, created ‘chill’ among teachers, court hears
29. Tens of thousands of high school students walk out en masse to protest out-of-date sex-ed curriculum
31. Fee opt-out a Doug Ford government attack on student unions, court hears
32. Ontario appeal court dismisses Ford government’s appeal over controversial Student Choice Initiative
33. Ontario court rejects government bid to defund student unions
34. Students struggling after Ford’s ‘upsetting’ OSAP cuts
35. OSAP trends on Twitter as student outrage grows over loan and grant estimates
36. Mysterious group uses ‘made-up name’ and fake mom to attack teachers in Canada’s biggest newspaper
Headlines about Doug Ford and health care
Nurses ‘abandoned’ by Ont. premier, nurses’ association CEO says https://t.co/mgNR7XdROi pic.twitter.com/yaVF2kMxkJ
— CTV News (@CTVNews) January 5, 2022
37. Nurses ‘abandoned’ by Ont. premier, nurses’ association CEO says
38. Ford government mandate empowers hospitals, long-term care homes to ‘deny’ healthworkers N95 masks
39. Nurses’ association displeased with Ford’s ‘lack of courage’ on vaccine mandate
40. Many Nurses in Ontario May Be Unable To Get Paid Sick Days Because of Doug Ford’s Bill 124
Headlines about Doug Ford and cuts to services
42. Here’s a list of cuts and program changes the Ford government has backtracked on
43. Here’s everything the Doug Ford government cut in its first year in office
44. Doug Ford’s Budget Includes a Hidden $1.3 Billion ‘Decrease’ in Education Funding
45. The Ford government spent its first year slashing. Here’s who got burned.
46. Doug Ford announces that cuts to municipal public health and childcare programs will go ahead
Headlines about Doug Ford and the environment
Ontario ‘automatically’ approves permits for developers that harm at-risk species, auditor-general says – @jeffreybgray on today’s reports on the Ford government’s environmental policies from the AG #onpoli https://t.co/xSKXmLRlvZ
— Laura Stone (@l_stone) November 22, 2021
47. Doug Ford moving to permanently exempt logging industry from endangered species law
48. Ontario ‘automatically’ okays permits that harm at-risk species
49. Doug Ford declares open season on endangered species in Ontario
50. Money talks, and the Ontario government’s pre-election budget doesn’t spend much on climate
51. Doug Ford is clear-cutting Ontario’s environmental laws
52. Doug Ford’s latest plan to reduce carbon pollution is low on ambition — and detail
53. Ford’s climate record isn’t a top election issue. Here’s why some critics are trying to change that
54. Doug Ford government puts Ontario’s water up for grabs
55. Doug Ford didn’t tell you Ontario cancelled 227 clean energy projects
56. Ford government seeks to deprioritize green energy
57. Doug Ford’s government slashing programs designed to save energy in buildings
Headlines about Doug Ford and social assistance
58. Centralize, digitize, privatize: unpacking Ontario’s welfare reforms
60. ODSP recipients urge Ford government to increase payments, say it’s impossible to live on
62. How Legal Aid Ontario is adjusting to Doug Ford’s deep cuts
Headlines about Doug Ford and labour issues
“Worker protections have “absolutely without question, taken a step back” under Ford’s leadership, CUPE Ontario President @FredHahnCUPE told @pressprogress.”https://t.co/bDPzRoSmcW#onpoli #ONelxn #VoteFordOut2022
— CUPE Ontario (@CUPEOntario) May 27, 2022
64. Here’s what Ontario’s biggest labour unions have to say about Doug Ford’s anti-worker track record
65. How Uber got almost everything it wanted in Ontario’s Working For Workers Act
67. “No more confusion about Doug Ford”: the fight for decent work in Ontario
68. Ontario’s minimum wage for gig workers faces mounting criticism
69. Amid protests, Tories pass bill that scales back workers’ rights and freezes minimum wage
70. Ford government fails to implement law to protect temp workers that was left dangling by Liberals
72. Ontario criticized for raising minimum wage by only 10 cents
73. Despite expert advice, Ontario refuses to budge on paid sick days
74. 30 Ontario inspectors laid off despite Doug Ford promise no one will lose jobs
75. Doug Ford asked Sask. to send health-care workers to Ontario: sources
76. Doug Ford to return $1.5 billion to 300,000 businesses from workers’ compensation fund
Headlines about Doug Ford and long-term care
80. Ford defends bill that critics say shields long-term care homes from lawsuits
81. Party of Profits: Ontario Tories and the profit motive in long-term care
Headlines about Doug Ford and COVID-19
VIDEO: Doug Ford, in the middle of a deadly pandemic, calls paid sick days a “waste of taxpayers money”https://t.co/gFqVhDzi7g #onpoli #canlab
— PressProgress (@pressprogress) February 16, 2021
82. Doug Ford, In the Middle of a Deadly Pandemic, Calls Paid Sick Days a ‘Waste of Taxpayers Money’
86. Doug Ford scrambles to learn how to work from home after aide tests positive for COVID-19
87. ‘We made a mistake’: Emotional Premier Doug Ford apologizes for controversial COVID-19 restrictions
Headlines about Doug Ford and housing
89. Struggling Families At Risk of Losing Housing Thanks to Doug Ford’s Cuts, Toronto City Manager Warns
91. Residential eviction ban for Ontario tenants comes with some exceptions
93. Doug Ford Wants to Charge $25K to Record People Getting Evicted on Zoom
94. Ford government votes against year-long ban on residential evictions
95. Doug Ford has promised a second ban on evictions, but no one knows what that will look like
Headlines about Doug Ford and the Convoy occupation
BREAKING: Ontario Premier Doug Ford was snowmobiling on Feb 5, as the City of Ottawa was under siege and dealing with an insurrection.
The premier acknowledged that he was at the cottage. https://t.co/n2r9DbYslz#onpoli
— Colin D’Mello | Global News (@ColinDMello) February 11, 2022
97. Where has Doug Ford been during Ottawa emergencies? Someplace else
98. Ontario skipping third meeting with federal, Ottawa governments to discuss ongoing protests
99. Premier Ford was in Muskoka area as Ottawa dealt with escalating convoy protests
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