#FirePiccini

The Ubiquitous J-Man

@theubiquitousj-man.bsky.social

2 months ago

OPP investigating another group given millions by Ford government Ontario cut funding to Jake’s House after ‘years’ of managing ‘issues and risks,’ including related to the disability charity’s ‘governance … and fiscal responsibility’

OPP investigating another group given millions by Ford government...

www.thetrillium.ca/news/the-tri...

#OnPoli
#OntarioSkillsDevelopmentFundScandal
#FirePiccini
#FordAbomiNation
#FordFailedThePeople
#FordCorruptAF
#NeverVoteConservative

The Ubiquitous J-Man

@theubiquitousj-man.bsky.social

2 months ago

That is correct!
😡

#OnPoli
#OntarioSkillsDevelopmentFundScandal
#FirePiccini
#FordAbomiNation
#FordFailedThePeople
#FordCorruptAF
#NeverVoteConservative

The Ubiquitous J-Man

@theubiquitousj-man.bsky.social

2 months ago

Labour minister has given PC donors’ companies 80% of for-profit businesses’ Skills Development Funds Most became donors or increased their donations after the SDF was created

"Labour minister has given PC donors’ companies 80% of for-profit businesses’ Skills Development Funds"...

www.thetrillium.ca/news/the-tri...

#OnPoli
#OntarioSkillsDevelopmentFundScandal
#FirePiccini
#FordAbomiNation
#FordFailedThePeople
#FordCorruptAF
#NeverVoteConservative

The Ubiquitous J-Man

@theubiquitousj-man.bsky.social

3 months ago

‘Adult entertainment club’ faces new questions after business licence filing and millions in provincial cash A business licence application is raising more questions about an ‘adult entertainment club’ that has come under scrutiny because of an alleged link to a provincial fund.

But unsurprisingly a strip club WAS successful...
🙄

www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/poli...

#OnPoli
#OntarioSkillsDevelopmentFundScandal
#FirePiccini
#FordAbomiNation
#FordFailedThePeople
#FordCorruptAF
#NeverVoteConservative

The Ubiquitous J-Man

@theubiquitousj-man.bsky.social

3 months ago

TTC 'unsuccessful' in provincial Skills Development Fund application Agency ‘anticipated’ funding for $1.6M apprenticeship program

TTC 'unsuccessful' in provincial Skills Development Fund application...

www.thetrillium.ca/news/municip...

#OnPoli
#OntarioSkillsDevelopmentFundScandal
#FirePiccini
#FordAbomiNation
#FordFailedThePeople
#FordCorruptAF
#NeverVoteConservative

The Ubiquitous J-Man

@theubiquitousj-man.bsky.social

3 months ago

That's why Dougie shut down Queen's Park until the end of March.
He's hoping the whole thing blows over...
🙄

#OnPoli
#OntarioSkillsDevelopmentFundScandal
#FirePiccini
#FordAbomiNation
#FordFailedThePeople
#FordCorruptAF
#NeverVoteConservative

The Ubiquitous J-Man

@theubiquitousj-man.bsky.social

3 months ago

Ethics watchdog to investigate David Piccini over Skills Development Fund Integrity commissioner's office confirmed the probe after the New Democrats and Liberals complained the minister violated the Members' Integrity Act.

Ethics watchdog to investigate David Piccini over Skills Development Fund!

www.thestar.com/politics/pro...

#OnPoli
#OntarioSkillsDevelopmentFundScandal
#FirePiccini
#FordAbomiNation
#FordFailedThePeople
#FordCorruptAF
#NeverVoteConservative

The Ubiquitous J-Man

@theubiquitousj-man.bsky.social

3 months ago

BREAKING: Integrity commissioner to investigate labour minister over Skills Development Fund Ontario’s NDP, Liberals filed complaints about David Piccini

Integrity commissioner to investigate labour minister over Skills Development Fund!

www.thetrillium.ca/news/politic...

#OnPoli
#OntarioSkillsDevelopmentFundScandal
#FirePiccini
#FordAbomiNation
#FordFailedThePeople
#FordCorruptAF
#NeverVoteConservative

The Ubiquitous J-Man

@theubiquitousj-man.bsky.social

3 months ago

Two companies listed under portfolio of Ontario Securities Commission-sanctioned CEO's firm got Skills Development Fund grants Another of Sayan Navaratnam’s companies was hit with hundreds of thousands of dollars in penalties for allegedly ‘misleading’ investors

Two companies listed under portfolio of Ontario Securities Commission-sanctioned CEO's firm got Skills Development Fund grants.

www.thetrillium.ca/news/politic...

#OnPoli
#OntarioSkillsDevelopmentFundScandal
#FirePiccini
#FordAbomiNation
#FordFailedThePeople
#FordCorruptAF
#NeverVoteConservative

Chris Glover

@chrisgloverndp.bsky.social

4 months ago

Ontario will require skills grant applicants to reveal if they hired lobbyists Bowing to pressure, the Ontario government will soon require that groups hiring lobbyists for help getting millions of dollars from the $2.5-billion Skills Development Fund will now have to report

Ford's solution to the Skills Development Fund scandal.

Applicants will have to disclose if they used a lobbyist.

Of course, the Minister of Labour can just ask his wife, the lobbyist.

#ONpoli #FirePiccini

www.thestar.com/politics/pro...

The Ubiquitous J-Man

@theubiquitousj-man.bsky.social

4 months ago

Company given $2M from Skills Development Fund run by Ford family dentist: sources The company’s CEO also worked closely with the wife of the minister in charge of the grant program at the time

Company given $2M from Skills Development Fund run by Ford family dentist: sources

www.thetrillium.ca/news/the-tri...

#OnPoli
#OntarioSkillsDevelopmentFundScandal
#FirePiccini
#FordAbomiNation
#FordFailedThePeople
#FordCorruptAF
#NeverVoteConservative

The Ubiquitous J-Man

@theubiquitousj-man.bsky.social

4 months ago

Ford government seeks planning exemptions for training centres built with Skills Development Fund cash Premier Doug Ford is making sweeping exemptions to planning rules — all for the benefit of operators running worker training facilities built with money from the Skills Development Fund, warns

Ford government seeks planning exemptions for training centres built with Skills Development Fund cash.

www.thestar.com/politics/pro...

#OnPoli
#OntarioSkillsDevelopmentFundScandal
#FirePiccini
#FordAbomiNation
#FordFailedThePeople
#FordCorruptAF
#NeverVoteConservative

Lisa 🍁

@laviolisa.bsky.social

4 months ago

More corruption from the Ford government 👇. People need to wake up and vote him out next election.
#OnPoli
#FirePiccini
#FordCorruption

The Ubiquitous J-Man

@theubiquitousj-man.bsky.social

4 months ago

#OnPoli
#OntarioSkillsDevelopmentFundScandal
#FirePiccini
#FordAbomiNation
#FordFailedThePeople
#FordCorruptAF
#NeverVoteConservative

The Ubiquitous J-Man

@theubiquitousj-man.bsky.social

4 months ago

Here’s how unions that backed Doug Ford scored on funding applications Almost half of the 17 unions that endorsed Premier Doug Ford for re-election got nearly $40 million from the controversial Skills Development Fund despite low-ranked applications, according to secret ...

Here’s how unions that backed Doug Ford scored on funding applications.

www.thestar.com/politics/pro...

#OnPoli
#OntarioSkillsDevelopmentFundScandal
#FirePiccini
#FordAbomiNation
#FordFailedThePeople
#FordCorruptAF
#NeverVoteConservative

The Ubiquitous J-Man

@theubiquitousj-man.bsky.social

4 months ago

Martin Regg Cohn: Here’s why Doug Ford is in no hurry to fire his hapless labour minister David Picinni makes a better buffer than fall guy for the premier, Martin Regg Cohn writes.

Here’s why Doug Ford is in no hurry to fire his hapless labour minister...

www.thestar.com/politics/pol...

#OnPoli
#OntarioSkillsDevelopmentFundScandal
#FirePiccini
#FordAbomiNation
#FordFailedThePeople
#FordCorruptAF
#NeverVoteConservative

The Ubiquitous J-Man

@theubiquitousj-man.bsky.social

4 months ago

Star Editorial Board: Doug Ford’s latest scandal is almost too brazen to be believed It suggests Ford has established a system where public money is being handed out not based on need or merit but on who you know or who you pay

Doug Ford’s latest scandal is almost too brazen to be believed!
😡

www.thestar.com/opinion/star...

#OnPoli
#OntarioSkillsDevelopmentFundScandal
#FirePiccini
#FordAbomiNation
#FordFailedThePeople
#FordCorruptAF
#NeverVoteConservative

Chris Glover

@chrisgloverndp.bsky.social

4 months ago

Low-scoring applicants averaged the highest payouts from Doug Ford’s Skills Development Fund Until the Star obtained the database, scores were such a closely guarded secret the public didn't know the application scores of funding recipients.

🚂 On Ford's gravy train, the last are first:

Lowest scoring applicants got the highest taxpayer payouts.

#ONpoli #firePiccini

www.thestar.com/politics/pro...

The Ubiquitous J-Man

@theubiquitousj-man.bsky.social

4 months ago

Exec pay rises for Skills Development Fund recipients, including one tied to ‘adult entertainment club’ Executive pay jumped for many recipients of an Ontario job training grant, according to salary disclosure viewed by CTV News, including at one numbered company that partnered with an agency that later...

Unbelievable!
😡

Exec pay rises for Skills Development Fund recipients, including one tied to ‘adult entertainment club’...

www.cp24.com/local/toront...

#OnPoli
#OntarioSkillsDevelopmentFundScandal
#FirePiccini
#FordAbomiNation
#FordFailedThePeople
#FordCorruptAF
#NeverVoteConservative

The Ubiquitous J-Man

@theubiquitousj-man.bsky.social

4 months ago

Low-scoring applicants averaged the highest payouts from Doug Ford’s Skills Development Fund Groups with the worst-ranked applications seeking money from Premier Doug Ford's $2.5-billion Skills Development Fund got, on average, the biggest payouts, according to a Star analysis.

Low-scoring applicants averaged the highest payouts from Doug Ford’s Skills Development Fund.
😡

www.thestar.com/politics/pro...

#OnPoli
#OntarioSkillsDevelopmentFundScandal
#FirePiccini
#FordAbomiNation
#FordFailedThePeople
#FordCorruptAF
#NeverVoteConservative

The Ubiquitous J-Man

@theubiquitousj-man.bsky.social

4 months ago

This $4.79M skills funding application set off warning bells. Ontario’s labour minister approved it anyway A company that received $4.79 million from Labour Minister David Piccini through Ontario's Skills Development Fund was flagged by a bureaucrat over concerns it might use the money to buy

This $4.79M skills funding application set off warning bells. Ontario’s labour minister approved it anyway!

www.thestar.com/politics/pro...

#OnPoli
#OntarioSkillsDevelopmentFundScandal
#FirePiccini
#FordAbomiNation
#FordFailedThePeople
#FordCorruptAF
#NeverVoteConservative

The Ubiquitous J-Man

@theubiquitousj-man.bsky.social

4 months ago

Audit leading Ford government to ask OPP to investigate a company it paid $40M was started this year: premier’s office The ‘forensic’ probe of the company was launched in 2025, despite the government observing ‘irregularities’ two years ago

Audit leading Ford government to ask OPP to investigate a company it paid $40M was started this year: premier’s office...

www.thetrillium.ca/news/politic...

#OnPoli
#OntarioSkillsDevelopmentFundScandal
#FirePiccini
#FordFailedThePeople
#FordCorruptAF
#NeverVoteConservative

Chris Glover

@chrisgloverndp.bsky.social

4 months ago

Labour Minister David Piccini recently attended the Parisian wedding of Keel’s lobbyist.

He also sat rinkside at a Leafs game with one of Keel’s directors.

#ONpoli #FirePiccini

The Ubiquitous J-Man

@theubiquitousj-man.bsky.social

5 months ago

Martin Regg Cohn: Ford government is tainted by what smells like a slush fund Public money for political loyalty delivered a big boost to the victorious Progressive Conservatives in last February's election, Martin Regg Cohn writes.

Ford government is tainted by what smells like a slush fund...

www.thestar.com/politics/pol...

#OnPoli
#OntarioSkillsDevelopmentFundScandal
#FirePiccini
#FordAbomiNation
#FordFailedThePeople
#FordCorruptAF
#NeverVoteConservative

The Ubiquitous J-Man

@theubiquitousj-man.bsky.social

5 months ago

‘Can’t make this up!’: Ford government faces questions over nearly $10M going to company with ties to ‘adult entertainment’ Ontario’s opposition parties are questioning the province’s labour minister about the possibility money from the $2.5 billion Skills Development Fund ended up at a company tied to an “adult entertainm...

‘Can’t make this up!’: Ford government faces questions over nearly $10M going to company with ties to ‘adult entertainment’!
😡

www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/poli...

#OnPoli
#OntarioSkillsDevelopmentFundScandal
#FirePiccini
#FordAbomiNation
#FordFailedThePeople
#FordCorruptAF
#NeverVoteConservative

The Ubiquitous J-Man

@theubiquitousj-man.bsky.social

5 months ago

Venue of $10M Skills Development Fund recipient, partners now licensed as an ‘adult entertainment club’ For decades, Zlatko Starkovski has leased the historic Exhibition Place building, which hosted PC fundraisers and the party’s campaign manager’s wedding in recent years

Venue of $10M Skills Development Fund recipient, partners now licensed as an ‘adult entertainment club’!
😳

www.thetrillium.ca/news/politic...

#OnPoli
#OntarioSkillsDevelopmentFundScandal
#FirePiccini
#FordAbomiNation
#FordFailedThePeople
#FordCorruptAF
#NeverVoteConservative

Dare to Dare

@daretodare.bsky.social

5 months ago

Venue of $10M Skills Development Fund recipient, partners now licensed as an ‘adult entertainment club’ For decades, Zlatko Starkovski has leased the historic Exhibition Place building, which hosted PC fundraisers and the party’s campaign manager’s wedding in recent years

It feels like a never ending blues riff of wasted taxpayer money. Every verse brings another decision that puts well connected players first while everyday Ontarians fall further back. Ontario deserves leadership that serves the people, not the privileged few. #VoteTheConsOut #FirePiccini #OnPoli

Dare to Dare

@daretodare.bsky.social

5 months ago

What can we do to pressure Piccini's resignation: 1) request an Integrity Commissioner inquiry; 2) ask the Lobbyists Registrar to review lobbying/gift compliance; 3) press police/Crown if there’s evidence of criminality; 4) use public/political pressure and electoral routes. #FirePiccini #OnPoli

Chris Glover

@chrisgloverndp.bsky.social

5 months ago

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

Chris Glover

@chrisgloverndp.bsky.social

5 months ago

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