#roman baber

[onpoli]

York Centre MPP and lying enthusiast Roman Baber has been removed by Doug Ford from caucus and will not be permitted to run for the PCs in the next provincial election.

His removal comes only a couple hours after he posted his open letter calling for Ford to stop “imprisoning” Ontarians so we can “go back to normal life.”

[babakca]

Roman Baber  _ Running for the  Canada Conservative Party leadership.   Toronto June 1 2022.  Photos BABAK 

[stevemaclellan]

TORONTO — Ontario Premier Doug Ford has removed a member of his government from caucus for speaking out against COVID-19 lockdowns.

On Friday, Ford said legislator Roman Baber will no longer sit as a Progressive Conservative and cannot run for the party in the 2022 election.

The move comes after Baber issued a public letter Friday calling on Ford to end the provincewide lockdown, calling it “deadlier than Covid.”

[mwplanet]

The race to lead the Conservative party of Canada

The party will announce a new leader on September 10, following Erin O’Toole’s ousting.

Photo via CBC

By Shauri Taylor

For the third time in seven years, the Conservative Party of Canada is set to choose a new leader. The race comes after the party’s caucus in the House of Commons voted 73 to 45 to remove Erin O’Toole as its leader following their 2021 federal election loss.

On August 15, 2021, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called for the dissolution of Parliament to hold an early federal election. The election occurred on September 20, 2021, with Trudeau winning his third term as prime minister alongside a minority government. Across the aisle, the Conservative Party continued as the official opposition, losing two seats in the House of Commons following the election.

In late January, CBC News reported that organizers of an effort to oust Erin O’Toole had collected the signatures necessary to hold a secret ballot vote to determine the future of his role as party leader. A letter bearing the names of members of parliament for O’Toole’s removal was brought to Conservative caucus chair Scott Reid. Less than two days later, on February 2, O’Toole was ousted as party leader when 73 Members of Parliament voted to replace him. Candice Bergen, who previously served as deputy party leader under O’Toole, was voted in as interim leader by private vote. She will remain leader temporarily until her successor is chosen.

During the 2020 Conservative leadership race, Erin O’Toole had promised to work and run as a “true blue” conservative, pledging to “defend our history, our institutions against attacks from cancel culture and the radical left,” and “fight” for jobs in the manufacturing and natural resources sectors. However, many party members believed he fell short of this commitment. Senator Denise Batters had previously called for a leadership review before the 2023 Conservative convention as she said he ran a campaign “nearly indistinguishable from Trudeau’s Liberals,” mentioning his flip-flopping on core party policies such as guns, the carbon tax, and conscience rights. Batters was subsequently removed from the national caucus of MPs and senators by O’Toole after launching a petition “urging party members to back an earlier vote on his leadership.” She was later reinstated following Erin O’Toole’s removal.

As of April 16, numerous conservative politicians and figures in the private sector have announced and have begun their leadership campaigns:

Carleton Member of Parliament Pierre Poilievre was the first to announce his candidacy for conservative leader. Poilievre has been a member of parliament since 2004 and held numerous Cabinet positions in Stephen Harper’s government. On March 8, Member of Parliament Leslyn Lewis announced that she would run for conservative leader a second time. Lewis previously sought the position in 2020, placing third behind Peter MacKay and Erin O’Toole. Independent Ontario legislator Roman Baber, formerly a member of provincial parliament for the Progressive Conservative government until January 2021, announced his candidacy on March 9. 

Joseph Bourgault, president and CEO of St. Brieux’s Bourgault Tillage Tools, is also running for the position of Conservative leader. Former Quebec premier Jean Charest confirmed his leadership bid on March 10. He was previously a cabinet minister under Brian Mulroney’s government and served as Quebec premier in the Quebec Liberal Party from 2003 to 2012.

Brampton mayor Patrick Brown entered the race on March 13. Brown was previously a member of parliament under former prime minister Stephen Harper and won leadership for the Ontario Progressive Conservative party in 2015, where he served as Opposition leader until 2018. Bobby Singh, who works for Core Tech Consulting and is a previous candidate for member of parliament in the Scarborough-Rouge Park area, has joined the race.

Huntsville-Parry Sound Member of Parliament Scott Aitchison joined the leadership roster on March 20. He previously served as councillor and mayor of Huntsville. Pitt Meadows—Maple Ridge Member of Parliament Marc Dalton also entered the leadership race that day. Former Member of Parliament Leona Alleslev joined the leadership race on April 5. She was first elected to the House of Commons in 2015 as a Liberal but joined the Conservatives in 2018. Lastly, former Conservative candidate Joel Etienne announced plans to run.

A source told Global News that less than 48 hours after Conservative Members of Parliament voted against keeping O’Toole as leader, the party sold thousands of new memberships. The due date for membership applications is June 3, and the distribution of ballots will follow. The new party leader will be chosen at a convention on September 10, which gives candidates time to campaign and make their pitches to prospective voters. The deadline to announce candidacy was April 19, with leadership hopefuls having until April 29 to pay the $300,000 required race fee.

With the Conservative leadership race far from finished, party members will closely follow contender campaigns while candidates make their bids for the coveted position, all holding the same incontrovertible goal: shaping the future of federal politics in Canada.

[a-really-big-cat]

OTTAWA — Rookie Ontario MP Leslyn Lewis is taking a second run at the Conservative leadership.

She confirmed her candidacy in a 45-second video shared on social media Tuesday and emailed supporters asking for help to collect the 500 signatures she needs to officially enter the race. She also launched her campaign website with a link to purchase memberships to support her and make donations.

"I'm running to lead our party and our country based on hope, unity and compassion," Lewis wrote on Twitter.

She is the second declared candidate in the race. Ottawa-area MP Pierre Poilievre, announced his candidacy last month just days after Erin O'Toole was voted out of the leadership by the Conservative caucus after just 17 months in the role.

Former Quebec premier Jean Charest has scheduled a campaign launch event in Calgary Thursday, where he will formally announce his candidacy.

Several others are still mulling it over, including former Conservative MP Patrick Brown, now the mayor of Brampton, Ont., former Ontario MP Leona Alleslev, current Ontario MP Scott Aitchison and independent Ontario MPP Roman Baber.

Lewis, a former Bay Street lawyer who moved to Canada as a child from Jamaica, ran in the 2020 leadership contest as a relative unknown, having never before served in elected office. She was the only woman in the race and placed third behind O'Toole and Peter MacKay, a former Tory cabinet minister who led the Progressive Conservative party before it merged with the Canadian Alliance in 2003.

She has been a vocal critic of COVID-19 vaccine mandates and a Liberal campaign promise to revoke the charitable status of anti-abortion pregnancy centres.

She pulled a lot of support from the party's base in Western Canada and members of its well-mobilized social conservative network, some of whom are already backing her again.

"I can say with confidence we will 100 per cent be endorsing Leslyn Lewis in the upcoming Conservative Party leadership race," said Alissa Golob, co-founder of the anti-abortion political group RightNow.

"Lewis is currently the only candidate who can truly unite the party and win the demographics the party needs to target to win."

Lewis was elected as an MP just last fall in the rural southwestern Ontario riding of Haldimand-Norfolk but was not given a role in O'Toole's shadow cabinet.

That omission drew the ire of the party's social conservative wing, many of whom moved their votes from Lewis to O'Toole in the 2020 leadership's final ballot, helping him secure the victory.

This lady seems cool

[ao3feed-superbat]

Sensible madness

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/34NkxPp

by Anna12aot

What if Kate and Bruce were born around the same time? What if the tragedies that made them the heroes they become, also happened around the same time? What if the two of them ended up living together? What if the two of them ended up as huge theater nerds? What if they had some actual healthy coping mechanisms along side their totally not super unhealthy vigilante detective hobby that nearly kills them on a weekly basis? What if everything wasn't a shitty cheap ass drama show written by racist, misogynist, homophobic, all the bad ism's and phobia's and ist's?

(No disrespect to the individuals who try to give us good diverse content. Actually, all the respect because DC as whole is a weak dumb ass bitch and kudos to those people for tolerating that bastard.)

Here is my sad, pathetic attempt to fix the DC universe that I am very much under qualified and under prepared for. Enjoy. (And I'll get to finishing the relationship tags soon, it's just not on the agenda right about now. There is just so many fucking characters. The character tags are technically unfinished because that won't be all of the characters showing up. Do I really hate myself and DC that much?)

Words: 633, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English

Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Superman - All Media Types, Superman (Comics), Wonder Woman - All Media Types, Wonder Woman (Comics), Red Hood and the Outlaws (Comics), Under the Red Hood, Red Robin (Comics), Young Justice (Cartoon), Justice League - All Media Types, Justice League: War, Justice League & Justice League Unlimited (Cartoons), Teen Titans (Animated Series), Teen Titans: The Judas Contract (2017), Teen Titans (Comics), Harley Quinn (Comics)

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death

Categories: F/F, F/M, M/M, Multi, Other

Characters: Bruce Wayne, Kate Kane, Alfred Pennyworth, Lucius Fox, Jim Gordon, Helena Bertinelli, Harold Allnut, Hiro Okamura, Vic Sage, Renee Montoya, Patrick "Eel" O'Brian, Zatanna Zatara, Basil Karlo, Talia al Ghul, Selina Kyle, Holly Robinson, Kitrina Falcone, Dick Grayson, Slade Wilson, Rose Wilson, Grant Wilson (DCU), Joseph Wilson, Damian Wayne, Barbara Gordon, Gus Yale, Wendy Harris, Jacob Kane, Catherine Hamilton Kane, Diana (Wonder Woman), Jason Todd, Koriand'r (DCU), Roy Harper, Bette Kane, Duke Thomas, Tim Drake, Kon-El | Conner Kent, Stephanie Brown, Billy Batson, Harper Row, Cullen Row, Shawn Tsang, Natalia Knight, Sasha Bordeaux, Carrie Kelley, Jaina Hudson, Cassandra Cain, Cheyenne Freemont, Tiffany Fox, Luke Fox, Barry Allen, Wally West, Bart Allen, Jay Garrick, Iris West, Max Mercury, Clark Kent, Kara Zor-El, Kara Danvers, Lois Lane, Jonathan Samuel Kent, Jonathan "Pa" Kent, Martha Wayne, Martha Kent, Thomas Wayne, Sam Lane, Lucy Lane (DCU), Donna Troy, Cassie Sandsmark, Artemis of Bana-Mighdall, Akila of Bana-Mighdall, Queen Hippolyta, Atalanta, Antiope (Wonder Woman), Bana-Mighdall Amazons, The Amazons (Wonder Woman), Grace Choi, Anissa Pierce, Jefferson Pierce, Jennifer Pierce, Oliver Queen, Thea Queen, Emiko Queen, Dinah Lance, Hal Jordan, Guy Gardner, Jessica Cruz, Simon Baz, Jon Stewart, Kyle Rayner, Jade Nguyen, Jennifer-Lynn Hayden, Artemis Crock, Ra's al Ghul, Nyssa Raatko, Silver St. Cloud, Wildcat (DCU), Tatsu Yamashiro, Jason Blood, Jason Bard, Crispus Allen, Kate Spencer, Onyx Adams, Boston Brand, David Zavimbe, Calvin Rose, Jean-Paul Valley, Santiago Varga, Baber Shah, Percy Sheldrake, Cyril Sheldrake, Jiro Osamu, Lonnie Machin, Harriet Cooper, Agatha Wayne, Vicki Vale, Harley Quinn, Pamela Isley, Harleen Quinzel, Harvey Dent, Joker (DCU), Jonathan Crane, Waylon Jones, Bane (DCU), Roman Sionis, Floyd Lawton, Hugo Strange, Thomas Elliot, Drury Walker, Jervis Tetch, Victor Fries, Oswald Cobblepot, Edward Nygma, Cyrus Gold, Solomon Grundy (DCU), Shauna Belzer, Peyton Riley, Ulysses Hadrian Armstrong, Vandal Savage, Noah Kuttler, Julian Gregory Day (DCU), Thomas Blake (DCU), Arthur Brown, Count Vertigo, Garfield Lynns, Warren White, Charles "Chuck" Brown, Zeus (Wonder Woman), Onomatopoeia (DCU), Peter Merkel, Peter Merkel Jr., Deever Tweed, Dumfree Tweed, Victor Zsasz, Ben Turner, David Cain, Titus (DCU), Lady Shiva, Lazlo Valentin, Barton Mathis, Matilda Mathis, Mark Desmond, Mortimer Drake, Alfred the Cat (DCU), Ace the Bat-Hound, Bat-Cow (DCU)

Relationships: Clark Kent/Bruce Wayne, Hal Jordan/Bruce Wayne, Hal Jordan/Clark Kent/Bruce Wayne, Hal Jordan/Clark Kent, Tim Drake & Dick Grayson & Jason Todd & Bruce Wayne & Damian Wayne, Dick Grayson & Bruce Wayne, Tim Drake & Bruce Wayne, Bruce Wayne & Damian Wayne, Kate Kane & Bruce Wayne, Alfred Pennyworth & Bruce Wayne, Jim Gordon & Bruce Wayne, Diana (Wonder Woman)/Kate Kane, Kate Kane/Renee Montoya (past), Talia al Ghul/Bruce Wayne (past), Kate Kane & Jason Todd, Helena Bertinelli & Kate Kane & Jason Todd, Kate Kane & Clark Kent, Kate Kane & Alfred Pennyworth, Kate Kane & Oliver Queen, Kate Kane & Damian Wayne, Kate Kane & John Stewart, Bruce Wayne & Kara Zor-El, Barbara Gordon & Bruce Wayne & Damian Wayne, Dick Grayson & Bruce Wayne & Damian Wayne, Bruce Wayne & Zatanna Zatara, Hal Jordan & Bruce Wayne, Talia al Ghul & Bruce Wayne, Lucius Fox & Bruce Wayne, Lucius Fox & Luke Fox & Bruce Wayne, Stephanie Brown & Bruce Wayne, Cassandra Cain & Bruce Wayne, Stephanie Brown & Kate Kane, Cassandra Cain & Kate Kane, Luke Fox & Kate Kane

Additional Tags: No Smut, No Incest, Implied/Referenced Rape/Non-con, Past Rape/Non-con, Implied Sexual Content, Implied/Referenced Alcohol Abuse/Alcoholism, Implied/Referenced Suicide, Not Canon Compliant, Other Ships Not Mentioned in Tags, will try to remember to add them later, Other Additional Tags to Be Added, Fix-It, Fix-It of Sorts, I am trying to fix the entire DCU while very much trying not to, This was supposed to be like just about the Batfam, But I started doing research, and it was really confusing, Then I got angry, and then hyped, and this happened, The Author Regrets Nothing, The Author Regrets Everything, I Wrote This Instead of Sleeping, How Do I Tag, Batfamily (DCU), Protective Batfamily (DCU), Batfamily (DCU) Feels, Domestic Batfamily (DCU), fuck you dc, It's Not Paranoia If They're Really Out To Get You, Please Kill Me, I Tried, I Don't Even Know, some people die, no one stays dead, but god, God is Dead, Cause I killed him for letting DC continue this shit show, Nothing makes any fucking sense, This doesn't make any sense, It's a fucking mari go round of bullshit, enjoy, Explicit Language, To Be Edited, Not Beta Read, Bruce Wayne is Batman, Young Bruce Wayne, Bruce Wayne Has Issues, Growing Up Together, Romani Dick Grayson, Bruce Wayne is a Good Parent, Kate Kane is a Good Parent, Alfred Pennyworth is the Best, Good Parent Alfred Pennyworth, Good Grandparent Alfred Pennyworth, Jim Gordon Knows, Everyone Needs A Hug, Everyone Has Issues, Everyone Is Gay, And they're all panicked gays, Fluff and Angst, Family Fluff, Romantic Fluff, Fluff and Hurt/Comfort, Angst and Hurt/Comfort, Angst and Feels, Humor, Gallows Humor, Bruce Wayne's Sense of Humor, Jason Todd’s Morbid Humor, this is gonna get long, Like over a few hundred thousand, Or this will die after it's reached 3k, Don't Like Don't Read, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD, Trauma, Psychological Trauma, Childhood Trauma, Mental Health Issues, Mental Institutions, Because of arkham, Arkham Asylum, Eventual Romance, Eventual Relationships, read the tags, Tags May Change, Tags Are Hard, Body Image, Jewish Character, Canon Disabled Character, Canon Rewrite, Hispanic Character, Black Character(s), Native American Character(s), Arab Character, Arab Damian Wayne, We Die Like Men, Everyone is a minority in some way, This will have all the representation, Racism, Racist Language, They will suffer because of their racism, Don't worry, Don't Have to Know Canon, Hopefully you won't have to know canon, Because if I don't do this right, Than you will be so confused, Better Than Canon, I take most of my inspiration from the justice league cartoons, and from the harley quinn movie soundtrack, This Is Not Going To Go The Way You Think, Trans Character, Gay Panic

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/34NkxPp

[ao3feed-batlantern]

by Anna12aot

What if Kate and Bruce were born around the same time? What if the tragedies that made them the heroes they become, also happened around the same time? What if the two of them ended up living together? What if the two of them ended up as huge theater nerds? What if they had some actual healthy coping mechanisms along side their totally not super unhealthy vigilante detective hobby that nearly kills them on a weekly basis? What if everything wasn't a shitty cheap ass drama show written by racist, misogynist, homophobic, all the bad ism's and phobia's and ist's?

(No disrespect to the individuals who try to give us good diverse content. Actually, all the respect because DC as whole is a weak dumb ass bitch and kudos to those people for tolerating that bastard.)

Here is my sad, pathetic attempt to fix the DC universe that I am very much under qualified and under prepared for. Enjoy. (And I'll get to finishing the relationship tags soon, it's just not on the agenda right about now. There is just so many fucking characters. The character tags are technically unfinished because that won't be all of the characters showing up. Do I really hate myself and DC that much?)

Words: 633, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English

Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Superman - All Media Types, Superman (Comics), Wonder Woman - All Media Types, Wonder Woman (Comics), Red Hood and the Outlaws (Comics), Under the Red Hood, Red Robin (Comics), Young Justice (Cartoon), Justice League - All Media Types, Justice League: War, Justice League & Justice League Unlimited (Cartoons), Teen Titans (Animated Series), Teen Titans: The Judas Contract (2017), Teen Titans (Comics), Harley Quinn (Comics)

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death

Categories: F/F, F/M, M/M, Multi, Other

Characters: Bruce Wayne, Kate Kane, Alfred Pennyworth, Lucius Fox, Jim Gordon, Helena Bertinelli, Harold Allnut, Hiro Okamura, Vic Sage, Renee Montoya, Patrick "Eel" O'Brian, Zatanna Zatara, Basil Karlo, Talia al Ghul, Selina Kyle, Holly Robinson, Kitrina Falcone, Dick Grayson, Slade Wilson, Rose Wilson, Grant Wilson (DCU), Joseph Wilson, Damian Wayne, Barbara Gordon, Gus Yale, Wendy Harris, Jacob Kane, Catherine Hamilton Kane, Diana (Wonder Woman), Jason Todd, Koriand'r (DCU), Roy Harper, Bette Kane, Duke Thomas, Tim Drake, Kon-El | Conner Kent, Stephanie Brown, Billy Batson, Harper Row, Cullen Row, Shawn Tsang, Natalia Knight, Sasha Bordeaux, Carrie Kelley, Jaina Hudson, Cassandra Cain, Cheyenne Freemont, Tiffany Fox, Luke Fox, Barry Allen, Wally West, Bart Allen, Jay Garrick, Iris West, Max Mercury, Clark Kent, Kara Zor-El, Kara Danvers, Lois Lane, Jonathan Samuel Kent, Jonathan "Pa" Kent, Martha Wayne, Martha Kent, Thomas Wayne, Sam Lane, Lucy Lane (DCU), Donna Troy, Cassie Sandsmark, Artemis of Bana-Mighdall, Akila of Bana-Mighdall, Queen Hippolyta, Atalanta, Antiope (Wonder Woman), Bana-Mighdall Amazons, The Amazons (Wonder Woman), Grace Choi, Anissa Pierce, Jefferson Pierce, Jennifer Pierce, Oliver Queen, Thea Queen, Emiko Queen, Dinah Lance, Hal Jordan, Guy Gardner, Jessica Cruz, Simon Baz, Jon Stewart, Kyle Rayner, Jade Nguyen, Jennifer-Lynn Hayden, Artemis Crock, Ra's al Ghul, Nyssa Raatko, Silver St. Cloud, Wildcat (DCU), Tatsu Yamashiro, Jason Blood, Jason Bard, Crispus Allen, Kate Spencer, Onyx Adams, Boston Brand, David Zavimbe, Calvin Rose, Jean-Paul Valley, Santiago Varga, Baber Shah, Percy Sheldrake, Cyril Sheldrake, Jiro Osamu, Lonnie Machin, Harriet Cooper, Agatha Wayne, Vicki Vale, Harley Quinn, Pamela Isley, Harleen Quinzel, Harvey Dent, Joker (DCU), Jonathan Crane, Waylon Jones, Bane (DCU), Roman Sionis, Floyd Lawton, Hugo Strange, Thomas Elliot, Drury Walker, Jervis Tetch, Victor Fries, Oswald Cobblepot, Edward Nygma, Cyrus Gold, Solomon Grundy (DCU), Shauna Belzer, Peyton Riley, Ulysses Hadrian Armstrong, Vandal Savage, Noah Kuttler, Julian Gregory Day (DCU), Thomas Blake (DCU), Arthur Brown, Count Vertigo, Garfield Lynns, Warren White, Charles "Chuck" Brown, Zeus (Wonder Woman), Onomatopoeia (DCU), Peter Merkel, Peter Merkel Jr., Deever Tweed, Dumfree Tweed, Victor Zsasz, Ben Turner, David Cain, Titus (DCU), Lady Shiva, Lazlo Valentin, Barton Mathis, Matilda Mathis, Mark Desmond, Mortimer Drake, Alfred the Cat (DCU), Ace the Bat-Hound, Bat-Cow (DCU)

Relationships: Clark Kent/Bruce Wayne, Hal Jordan/Bruce Wayne, Hal Jordan/Clark Kent/Bruce Wayne, Hal Jordan/Clark Kent, Tim Drake & Dick Grayson & Jason Todd & Bruce Wayne & Damian Wayne, Dick Grayson & Bruce Wayne, Tim Drake & Bruce Wayne, Bruce Wayne & Damian Wayne, Kate Kane & Bruce Wayne, Alfred Pennyworth & Bruce Wayne, Jim Gordon & Bruce Wayne, Diana (Wonder Woman)/Kate Kane, Kate Kane/Renee Montoya (past), Talia al Ghul/Bruce Wayne (past), Kate Kane & Jason Todd, Helena Bertinelli & Kate Kane & Jason Todd, Kate Kane & Clark Kent, Kate Kane & Alfred Pennyworth, Kate Kane & Oliver Queen, Kate Kane & Damian Wayne, Kate Kane & John Stewart, Bruce Wayne & Kara Zor-El, Barbara Gordon & Bruce Wayne & Damian Wayne, Dick Grayson & Bruce Wayne & Damian Wayne, Bruce Wayne & Zatanna Zatara, Hal Jordan & Bruce Wayne, Talia al Ghul & Bruce Wayne, Lucius Fox & Bruce Wayne, Lucius Fox & Luke Fox & Bruce Wayne, Stephanie Brown & Bruce Wayne, Cassandra Cain & Bruce Wayne, Stephanie Brown & Kate Kane, Cassandra Cain & Kate Kane, Luke Fox & Kate Kane

Additional Tags: No Smut, No Incest, Implied/Referenced Rape/Non-con, Past Rape/Non-con, Implied Sexual Content, Implied/Referenced Alcohol Abuse/Alcoholism, Implied/Referenced Suicide, Not Canon Compliant, Other Ships Not Mentioned in Tags, will try to remember to add them later, Other Additional Tags to Be Added, Fix-It, Fix-It of Sorts, I am trying to fix the entire DCU while very much trying not to, This was supposed to be like just about the Batfam, But I started doing research, and it was really confusing, Then I got angry, and then hyped, and this happened, The Author Regrets Nothing, The Author Regrets Everything, I Wrote This Instead of Sleeping, How Do I Tag, Batfamily (DCU), Protective Batfamily (DCU), Batfamily (DCU) Feels, Domestic Batfamily (DCU), fuck you dc, It's Not Paranoia If They're Really Out To Get You, Please Kill Me, I Tried, I Don't Even Know, some people die, no one stays dead, but god, God is Dead, Cause I killed him for letting DC continue this shit show, Nothing makes any fucking sense, This doesn't make any sense, It's a fucking mari go round of bullshit, enjoy, Explicit Language, To Be Edited, Not Beta Read, Bruce Wayne is Batman, Young Bruce Wayne, Bruce Wayne Has Issues, Growing Up Together, Romani Dick Grayson, Bruce Wayne is a Good Parent, Kate Kane is a Good Parent, Alfred Pennyworth is the Best, Good Parent Alfred Pennyworth, Good Grandparent Alfred Pennyworth, Jim Gordon Knows, Everyone Needs A Hug, Everyone Has Issues, Everyone Is Gay, And they're all panicked gays, Fluff and Angst, Family Fluff, Romantic Fluff, Fluff and Hurt/Comfort, Angst and Hurt/Comfort, Angst and Feels, Humor, Gallows Humor, Bruce Wayne's Sense of Humor, Jason Todd’s Morbid Humor, this is gonna get long, Like over a few hundred thousand, Or this will die after it's reached 3k, Don't Like Don't Read, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD, Trauma, Psychological Trauma, Childhood Trauma, Mental Health Issues, Mental Institutions, Because of arkham, Arkham Asylum, Eventual Romance, Eventual Relationships, read the tags, Tags May Change, Tags Are Hard, Body Image, Jewish Character, Canon Disabled Character, Canon Rewrite, Hispanic Character, Black Character(s), Native American Character(s), Arab Character, Arab Damian Wayne, We Die Like Men, Everyone is a minority in some way, This will have all the representation, Racism, Racist Language, They will suffer because of their racism, Don't worry, Don't Have to Know Canon, Hopefully you won't have to know canon, Because if I don't do this right, Than you will be so confused, Better Than Canon, I take most of my inspiration from the justice league cartoons, and from the harley quinn movie soundtrack, This Is Not Going To Go The Way You Think, Trans Character, Gay Panic

[eretzyisrael]

York Centre MPP and university alum Roman Baber likewise wants an investigation into what led to the violence.

“Make no mistake — this was not peaceful protest,” he said in a statement. “This was an attempt to shut down a university-sanctioned event, using violence and intimidation.”

He said he’s been in contact with both university administration and Toronto Police for an explanation, and is calling for the creation of a ‘concrete plan’ of ensuring the safety of the school’s Jewish students.

On Twitter, Premier Doug Ford expressed his disappointment with York University for allowing the ‘hate-filled protest,’ expressing his support both for Jewish students and the community.

“There is no place in Ontario for racism and hatred,” he tweeted.

A Toronto Police spokesman said that while officers ejected a number of the combatants from the property, and at least one of the injured persons filed a police report, no charges were laid.

[onpoli]

Ontario’s Integrity Commissioner has released info about each MPP’s income, assets, and liabilities, and it’s kind of ridiculous to see how many MPPs own or partially own “investment properties” they can rent out to make more money.

The map above doesn’t even capture the full extent of what’s happening - Roman Baber and Stan Cho have three and four investment properties, respectively, in Toronto; Rudy Cuzzetto and his wife have nine, spread across Oakville, Burlington, Niagara Falls, and Montreal. In total, 17 PC MPPs own 31 investment properties, 7 NDP MPPs own 8, and 2 Liberal MPPs own 2.

That’s a huge number of landlords sitting in Queen’s Park. With home ownership being out of reach for an increasing number of people and with rent costs for retail spaces skyrocketing, especially in the GTA, it’s hard not to feel like this is a problem. Additionally, we can’t trust any of these MPPs to protect renters given that deregulation allows them to increase their profits.

A full list of which MPPs have investment properties is below the cut.

Teresa Armstrong (NDP, London-Fanshawe) has two in London

Roman Baber (PC, York Centre) has three in Toronto

Peter Bethlenfalvy’s (PC, Pickering-Uxbridge) wife has one in the US

Will Bouma (PC, Brantford-Brant) has one in St. George

Stan Cho (PC, Willowdale) has four in Toronto

Stephen Crawford (PC, Oakville) has one in Collingwood

Rudy Cuzzetto (PC, Mississauga-Lakeshore) has nine across four cities

Parm Gill (PC, Milton) has one in Ottawa

Chris Glover (NDP, Spadina-Fort York) has one in Toronto

Percy Hatfield (NDP, Windsor-Tecumseh) has one in Windsor

Christine Hogarth (PC, Etobicoke-Lakeshore) has one in Toronto

Andrea Horwath (NDP, Hamilton Centre) has one in Hamilton

Mitzie Hunter (Liberal, Scarborough-Guildwood) has one in Toronto

Logan Kanapathi (PC, Markham-Thornhill) has one in Keswick

Bhutila Karpoche (NDP, Parkdale-High Park) has one in Toronto

Vincent Ke (PC, Don Valley North) has one in Aurora

Billy Pang (PC, Markham-Unionville) and his wife each have one in Toronto

Sheref Sabawy (PC, Mississauga-Erin Mills) has one in Mississauga

Amarjot Sandhu (PC, Brampton West) has one in Brampton

Sandy Shaw (NDP, Hamilton West-Ancaster-Dundas) has one in Hamilton

Gurratan Singh (NDP, Brampton East) has one in Brampton

Dave Smith (PC, Peterborough-Kawartha) has one in Peterborough

Nina Tangri (PC, Mississauga-Streeetsville) has one in the UK

Michael Tibollo (PC, Vaughan-Woodbridge) has one in Brampton

Effie Triantafilopoulos (PC, Oakville North-Burlington) has one in Niagara Falls

Kathleen Wynne (Liberal, Don Valley West) has one in Newmarket

[torontopoli]

Conservative Toronto MPP's agree with Doug Ford's cuts, continue to be useless

Aris Babikian (Scarborough-Agincourt) blamed labour unions for stirring up opposition to the cuts.

Willowdale MPP Stan Cho says he has “great respect” for Mayor John Tory but that the budget cuts are about “righting the financial ship.”

[...]

Mayor John Tory, city councillors and some of their constituents are urging them to convince Ford and his cabinet to rescind the budget cuts, including one that hits Toronto harder than other cities, and sit down with municipalities to explore ways the province can save money and cut the deficit.

Ford’s office quickly let the Star know the MPPs would respond with a joint statement, which said: “Our government is protecting what matters most for Toronto families — like health care and education — by balancing the budget in a reasonable and responsible manner . . .

“While our government protects what matters — like health care and education — and cleans up an inherited fiscal mess, we are asking our municipal partners to work alongside us to find efficiencies.”

It repeated Ford statements about wasteful city spending and concluded: “We fight each and every day for the people of Toronto and we want to work with the City of Toronto as a partner,” and the MPPs welcome “any opportunity” to discuss the issues in greater detail with the city.

[...] Raymond Cho, a former longtime Toronto city councillor and, as minister for seniors and accessibility the most senior local PC MPP next to Ford himself, refused comment when approached by a Star reporter before bolting into a private PC backroom.

Several subsequent requests for an interview with Cho went unanswered.

Kinga Surma (Etobicoke Centre) also refused to stop, picking up her pace and striding quickly into a private room when a Star reporter identified himself and asked to speak about the budget cuts.

Christina Mitas (Scarborough Centre) is on maternity leave. Her office declined an interview request, pointing the Star to the joint statement.

[...]

The mayor, a former leader of the Ontario PC party, said more than one Toronto PC MPP has privately told him they are not comfortable with either the cuts or the way they were imposed. He declined to name them, saying the conversations were private.

Tory ratcheted up pressure Saturday with letters to the PC Toronto caucus telling each member how many subsidized child spaces in their riding they have imperilled. Residents look to them for leadership in reversing these “unilateral, retroactive acts,” Tory wrote, “especially because no one sought or received a mandate in the election to cut child care.”

MPPs are also hearing from their constituents, directly and via left-leaning group Progress Toronto which has an online tool that lets people input their postal code and send a customized message about public health cuts to politicians including Ford and their local councillor.

“Everyone knows this constituent is opposed” to the cuts, said Progress Toronto’s Michal Hay, adding more than 8,600 people have sent messages to MPPs from different parties.

Her group is also doing robocalls targeted at residents of the 11 Toronto PC ridings, allowing them to be patched through to their MPPs’ office. About 2,500 people have done so, Hay said.

Several MPPs shrugged off the pressure campaign.

“The unions are organizing phone banks and demonstrations in front of the (constituency) offices,” said Aris Babikian (Scarborough-Agincourt). “But other than that, which I think they are a very small minority . . . on the contrary people are quite happy with what we’re doing and they want us to continue.”

MPP Roman Baber (York Centre) said he has “heard from a number of constituents over the last couple of days and appreciate everyone reaching out.

“Our government inherited a colossal mess from the former Liberal government,” he added.

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Stan Cho said he is happy to speak to concerned constituents and tell them, among other things, Toronto is incorrect alleging Ford government child-care cuts and policy changes will cost Toronto $84.8 million this year and jeopardize 6,166 subsidized daycare spaces for low-income parents.

“There’s no truth to saying there’s going to be 6,000 child care spots closed. I’d like to avoid politicking,” he said.

When the Star noted it was city staff, not politicians, who calculated the figure, the MPP said: “We’ve only asked them to cut administrative costs. The city has their budget. They don’t have to cut breakfasts for needy kids, they don’t have to talk about doing all these things I’ve heard on the news.”

Robin Martin (Eglinton-Lawrence): “I haven’t heard recently,” said Martin when asked if her office had received any complaints about the cuts. “I’d rather do this later.” Her office later declined an interview, pointing the Star to the MPPs’ joint statement.

Vincent Ke (Don Valley North): “It’s not cuts. It’s provincially we have to do the job. I think the municipality has to take their responsibilities. We do our job and they should do theirs.”

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Poilievre preferred among Conservatives, but Charest favoured by Canadians: poll

Although Ontario MP Pierre Poilievre remains the overwhelming favorite to be the next Conservative party leader, he trails opponent Jean Charest in overall support among Canadians.

According to a new Leger poll conducted in collaboration with the Association for Canadian Studies, 44 percent of Conservative voters believe Poilievre is the best candidate for party leader. Former Quebec premier Jean Charest has 17 percent of the vote.

The survey was conducted online between August 5 and 7 among 1,500 adult Canadians from Leger's representative panel. Because online polls are not considered a statistically representative sample, they cannot be given a margin of error.

Twenty-two percent of Conservatives were unsure which of the five candidates would be the best leader, while eight percent said none of them would.

Among the remaining candidates, Ontario MP Leslyn Lewis received 6 percent of the vote, Ontario MP Scott Aitchison received 2 percent, and former Ontario provincial politician Roman Baber received 1 percent.

This is Leger's first poll on the race since the leadership organizing committee kicked Brampton Mayor Patrick Brown out of the race last month over allegations he violated party rules and possibly violated federal elections laws.

In a June Leger poll, Poilievre received 44 percent of Conservative support, Charest received 14 percent, and Brown received four percent. Charest's numbers increased by three points in the August poll, while Poilievre's remained unchanged.

With ballots already cast, Christian Bourque, executive vice-president at Leger, believes Poilievre will win.

However, he believes the poll indicates that the Conservative candidate may face a more difficult path to victory in a general election.

According to the poll, Charest is favored by 22 percent of all Canadians for the position of the Conservative leader, while Poilievre is favored by 16 percent.

A Poilievre victory would make about one in every seven Canadians more likely to vote Conservative in the next election, with only a small fraction more saying the same about a Charest victory.

However, more than one-quarter of those polled said a Poilievre win would make them less likely to vote Conservative, compared to one-fifth who said the same about Charest.

This chasm is most visible in Ontario, where a Poilievre victory would make 28 percent of those polled less likely to vote Conservative, compared with 16 percent for Charest.

In Alberta, 24 percent said they'd be more likely to vote Tory if Poilievre wins, while 18 percent said they'd be less likely. If Charest is elected, 14 percent of those polled said they would be more likely to vote Conservative, while 27 percent said they would be less likely.

Bourque believes this raises existential questions for the Conservatives, who currently hold 30 of the province's 34 seats. The Conservatives have 37 of the 121 seats available in Ontario, but they need to do better in the most populous province to form a government.

Poilievre, according to Bourque, could help the Conservatives win the same seats by larger margins in Alberta, but won't do much in Ontario.

On September 10, the Conservatives will announce the winner of the leadership election.

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