Child care policy researcher. Activist. Feminist. Grandmother. Working with many others to build a Canada-wide quality child care system.
Toronto
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MarthaFriendly retweeted
Calling the 87,000 people who participated in the Billy Bishop Airport consultation a “fringe group” because you disagree with them is lazy, but it is also antithetical to democracy. We shouldn’t tolerate this behaviour from an elected official.
The consultation process is only legitimate when it produces the outcome you want?
This is the same rhetorical tactic Donald Trump has repeatedly used: dismissing critics and opponents as illegitimate rather than engaging with the substance of their arguments. Undermine those whose views you don’t like by making things up about ‘who’ they are. Nice. Very nice.
We shouldn’t normalize this kind of politics in Canada.
We’ve seen where it leads.
Toronto island airport expansion killed by 'fringe group': Ontario minister nationalnewswatch.com/2026/0… #nationlnewswatch via @natnewswatch
MarthaFriendly retweeted
Good to know what your govt thinks of you and anyone who dares oppose them. I'm happy to be part of a 100,000+ concerned voices or what is now a so called "fringe group"
Blasting Ottawa for listening to ‘a small fringe group in Toronto'
thestar.com/politics/provinc… via @torontostar
MarthaFriendly retweeted
Today, Deputy Mayor @ausmalik and I submitted an urgent motion to demand the Province of Ontario give back our waterfront, including the Toronto Islands and Little Norway Park.
We have been demanding to see the plans, despite the Toronto Port Authority actively hiding them. We have researched the impacts on housing, the environment, congestion, and more. We have discovered who would benefit - like the Wall Street bankers at JP Morgan. Council has formally opposed the unacceptable overreach. We still do.
We thank the Federal government for listening, and the thousands of people who worked relentlessly to make Toronto's voices heard.
Return our waterfront to us.
MarthaFriendly retweeted
Child Care Now is asking the House of Commons Finance Committee (FINA) to recommend a larger investment in CWELCC as part of the federal government’s plan to make Canada strong. Read more here: ow.ly/2G6i50Z5pxG
MarthaFriendly retweeted
I wish the Ontario patient in agony in an ER chair (because there are no open beds) had the same lobbying capacity like the American bank JP Morgan worth $795 billion and who own Billy Bishop airport. Protect Ontario. Op-Ed by @richardwarnica
thestar.com/opinion/star-col…
MarthaFriendly retweeted
Torontonians aren’t asking for a runway on the lake so Bay Street CEOs can land their private jets. They’re asking for better health care, smaller class sizes, and safer highways in Northern Ontario. Those are the priorities that matter.
MarthaFriendly retweeted
Today, thousands of us sent a clear message to Doug Ford’s Conservatives:
❌ Stop privatizing health care
✅ Start funding our hospitals
🚑 Ensure everyone gets the public health care they need
I agree with @OntarioHealthC – our public health care is for people, not profit.
MarthaFriendly retweeted
Greetings PM @MarkJCarney & MPs who represent Toronto. Since all airports in 🇨🇦 are under exclusive federal jurisdiction, what is your stand on the expansion of the Billy Bishop Airport? Many Ontarians, who vehemently object to the expansion, want a timely response. #cdnpoli ✈️🛫
It's been a whirlwind day at Queen's Park so far as committee hearings begin on Bill 110, Building Billy Bishop Airport Act.
I spoke with the media after an intense back-and-forth with the Minister of Transportation.
#ONpoli
MarthaFriendly retweeted
Those in the private Canadian child care sector cannot continue to argue for higher-income parents to pay more money when they are simultaneously accepting public money from CWELCC.
Where do we "find" the money? Shift it back to expansion of non-profit centres.
MarthaFriendly retweeted
Carney and the 23 Toronto Liberal MPs can either side with Poilievre and Ford or they can side with Toronto.
We’ll see what they choose.
Pierre Poilievre says he is 'unequivocal' in supporting an expanded Billy Bishop airport trib.al/7QIToOk
MarthaFriendly retweeted
Former Liberal minister Greg Sobara said Billy Bishop airport plan is “a serious degradation of the Toronto Islands & Toronto's waterfront … I am appalled by the collective silence of the Toronto Liberal caucus members on this matter” tvo.org/article/analysis-why… #onpoli #cdnpoli
MarthaFriendly retweeted
DON'T Privatize our airports!! @MarkJCarney
Look how well it's gone with Metrolinx or Therme Spa
Toronto gets it.
MarthaFriendly retweeted
New joint statement from Canadian Journalists for Free Expression (CJFE) and Canadian Association of Journalists on the recent changes to Ontario’s freedom of information laws.
Access to information is essential for accountability, transparency, and the public’s right to know.
MarthaFriendly retweeted
NEW: An advocacy group is planning to file a constitutional challenge to Ontario’s freedom of information clampdown, arguing it breaches the right of voters to be informed for a meaningful debate about public issues.
globalnews.ca/news/11824648/…
#onpoli
MarthaFriendly retweeted
Great to see these "two stars of the [US] Democratic Party (and the personification of maximally cool guys) showcasing childcare. Why? As the @nytimes observes, "universal child care: is "a critical part of the affordability agenda" #cdnchildcare bit.ly/4crkuvG
MarthaFriendly retweeted
🚨 LULA DA SILVA ACABA DE EXPLOTAR LA MENTIRA GLOBAL 🔥
“Ni yo, ni la Unión Europea, ni Estados Unidos aceptamos ese acuerdo… ¡y ahora vuelven a inventar que Irán va a fabricar armas nucleares!
¡NO las van a desarrollar!
Es la misma vieja estrategia: primero te mienten, luego te destruyen.
A América Latina nos pintan como un continente de narcos.
Al mundo árabe lo convierten en sinónimo de terrorismo.
¿Y quién es el “bueno” en esta película?
¡Ellos! Siempre ellos.
¡Basta de mentiras para justificar guerras!”
¿Te suena familiar?
Lula lo dijo clarito. Copia, pega y que se haga viral.
#LaVerdadDuele #LulaNoSeCalla #HipocresiaOccidental #IranNoEsElEnemigo
MarthaFriendly retweeted
This is insane. One of Ontario's best reporters @TinaYazdani was fired from @CityNewsTO and they won't say why. They also removed a couple of her stories that showed her challenging the Ford government's garbage.
NEW: CityNews has cut ties with Queen’s Park reporter Tina Yazdani, @policornerca has learned, while at least two of her stories about the Ford government have quietly vanished from the web without explanation.
policorner.ca/p/scoop-the-fi…
MarthaFriendly retweeted
Trump lost this war in every possible sense — morally, legally, politically, economically, reputationally, and strategically.
MarthaFriendly retweeted
So after all this:
- The Iranian regime remains in place
- The enriched uranium remains in place
- Iran remains in control of the Strait of Hormuz, though it agrees to let ships through, for now
- The US agrees to talks based on Iran’s terms, including an end to all sanctions and Iran gets to charge $2 million a ship for passage through the Strait, in perpetuity.
- Meanwhile NATO is in ruins, the US and Israel are at odds, the Gulf States know they cannot depend on the US to protect them, etc etc etc
“Another such victory and we are undone!”
MarthaFriendly retweeted
Food Bank use is up 340% under Ford's government.
1 in 10 Ontarians now use the food bank.
Ford's solution?
Increase OW & ODSP, or build affordable housing so people have money for food?
No
He's helping sort food for the people who are hungry because of his policies.
#onpoli
