Thomas Watson Jr.
@ThomasWatsonCD
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(he/him)Gentleman, Insurance Broker, Risk Manager, Community Volunteer, Monarchist. Don’t let perfect stop progress. Charity is a way of life
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Check out these foreigners here to take Canadian jobs!!
Oh wait…nevermind…they are here to bail us out because we cut the Canadian jobs.
Firefighters from Mexico have arrived in Edmonton to help with the wildfires in Alberta 🇨🇦🤝🇲🇽
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A friend of mine asked me why I fight so hard for public education in Ontario when, “You can afford private school for your kids.”
My answer- “I can. You can’t.”
High quality public education benefits all of society. Private education benefits those who can afford it
#onted
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If "Covid is over" then why did more people die of Covid in 2022 than in 2020 and 2021?
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I can’t believe this needs to be said but- if you’re meeting the bloody Prime Minister you suck it up and shake his hand like an adult. Don’t even have to like the guy…lord knows I haven’t always liked every PM I have met but I was still respectful.
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Carbon tax goes up 3.3 cents a litre today.
Gas was 147.9 yesterday. Today it’s 161.2
Something tells me the problem isn’t taxes.
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Ontario government months into Covid- We can’t tell you were to get a vaccine so good luck and figure it out.
Ontario government days into a LCBO strike- Here’s an interactive and downloadable map of every location you can buy booze cross referenced to type of booze you want.
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It's weird that I just got an e-mail saying my child has been exposed to head lice in her class...but they can't say anything about COVID.
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Gas yesterday $1.53
Gas today $1.80
Tell me again how the carbon tax is the problem?
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Ok Boomers and Gen Xers saying “I paid 18% for my mortgage stop complaining about 8%”
18% of 60k is $10,800
8% of 500k is $40,000
Please shut up about your historical experience.
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Months ago I remember people laughing and joking about the chaos of American school board meetings. Last night that chaos came to the
@OCDSB
. We should all be terrified and push back HARD against this trend.
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Yesterday was wild.
Did I really see the Premier of a province with a population smaller than the GTA say she would take 50% of the CPP Fund to start her own pension?
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You know what I haven’t seen before in my 35 years living in Ontario? ERs closing due to lack of staff. Seems to me that is a pretty epic failure on the part of our Minister
@SylviaJonesMPP
. Probably the type of thing you resign in disgrace from.
#onpoli
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UK- “We want unrestricted access of our dairy to your market.”
Canada- “Ok we want unrestricted access of our beef to your market.”
UK- “No….deals off!”
Media- “Trudeau fails again!”
Like…does anyone actually bother looking into things anymore?
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Son has a fever of 104.6. Should probably take him to
@CHEO
but all that would do is have him uncomfortable there until morning instead of uncomfortable at home. I do so love living in
@fordnation
hellscape of a province. Fuck you Doug.
#onpoli
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Ok so let me get this straight- the Province guts the ability to collect development charges, municipalities raise property tax 5-100% to cover the loss, property owners pay much more to stay in their homes, developers make more money, and somehow this will lower housing cost?
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The idea of hollowing out the public education system so parents can send their children to ideologically “pure” schools without contributing to the public good is terrifying. An important part of education is learning about ideas/issues outside of your own bubble.
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First human case of Bird Flu in North America…if this goes human to human it will make Covid look like seasonal allergies.
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What if instead of putting
@ServiceOntario
kiosks in for profit American stores (like
@Staples
) we put them in
@ONLibraryAssoc
libraries?
We already pay for them with (municipal) tax dollars and any revenue would do well to improve the free public programs and service
#ONpoli
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So if booze is so easily available why are we spending 1 billion dollars to cancel the Beer Store contract a year early?
The Ontario government has launched a new, interactive map of retail booze outlets across the province as LCBO workers remain on strike.
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Honest question- Ontarian’s have been told over and over again that the only thing we need to access medically necessary care is our
#OHIP
card.
Why then do we have to pay for blood tests a medical doctor has deemed to be necessary for our healthcare?
#onpoli
#OntarioHealth
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Good morning
@PierrePoilievre
. When can I expect you to weigh in on
@fordnation
and his big gatekeeper energy? Seems like overriding Charter rights to force some of the lowest paid workers in the province to work instead of negotiating with them would meet your definition.
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All I want from 2023 is society recognizing that cleaner indoor air and high quality masks will save a lot of people from needless disability and death.
#NewYear
#coronavirus
#cdnpoli
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Hey Ontario parents- those school boards, like Essex, saying “schools are open while CUPE is on strike but keep your kid home if they rely on an EA.” are quite clearly saying that only some children matter. Be mad.
#onpoli
#CUPESolidarity
#onted
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I get it now! They made
@levarburton
wear a visor all through TNG because the world was not ready for the depths of emotion that his eyes can portray. Really digging this older, tired, best dad version of everyone’s favourite engineer.
#StarTrekPicard
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Wow!!
The Prime Minister
@JustinTrudeau
- “What kind of leader refuses to be briefed. One that isn’t serious about something as important as foreign interference” in regards to Opposition Leader
@PierrePoilievre
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The same people that celebrated when Steven Harper named
@MarkJCarney
as Governor of the Bank of Canada and bragged when the Exchequer named him the first non-Brit to lead the Bank of England are now saying he’s trash.
Weird.
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Wouldn’t it be hilarious if
@JustinTrudeau
used the federal money the Premiers are refusing to be accountable for to just make charitable donations to hospitals and healthcare orgs dorectly?
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Doug- “Developers will no longer need to pay for the water and sewer lines in their new subdivisions.”
Ontario- “So they will pass those savings on to the consumer?”
Developers- “Nope!”
Cities- “So…property taxes are going to go up!”
How does this make anything affordable?
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@theJagmeetSingh
He didn't walk away. He offered the Premier's everything they wanted as long as they agreed to prove that they spent the money on healthcare. They refused.
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Hey
@LoblawsON
- since I work as an unpaid cashier with the self-checkout where is my 10% discount?
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@nilikm
My 4 year old went to JK for the first time today. We forget to hand her her
@masks4allCanada
N95 as she was getting on the bus. My wife drove to the school to give it to her. She got off the bus...wearing a N95. She said "You forgot but I packed extras for my friends so I am ok"
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John Tory was served up as a distraction by Ford to get the press off of him and the developers.
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Say it with me folks- CPP is NOT a tax.
Pierre Poilievre has said he wants to eliminate the CPP "tax" which, in essence, means he wants to eliminate CPP. So the guy who qualified extremely young for a gold plated GOVERNMENT pension wants to eliminate them for anyone else. Typically Conservative.
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Ontario hospitals- We have ORs sitting unused due to lack of funding and lack of staff. Can we have more funding and staff so we can open them and keep them open longer?
Premier Ford- You know what we need folks? Private surgical centres!
#
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I drove the 407 from end to end and back in June so I could get from Ottawa to Niagara-on-the-Lake for a work meeting. The bill makes my eyes water…but still better than Toronto traffic.
I wonder what the province could be doing with all the tolls they privatized?
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@nilikm
Soooo ummm
@OttawaPolice
and
@rcmpgrcpolice
does Dr. Kaplan-Myrth need to get shot before you do anything?
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“Show me a table with 11 Nazis and 3
@CPC_HQ
MPs who tolerate them and I will show you 14 Nazis.”
This is an easy one
@PierrePoilievre
- remove them from caucus or be forever confirmed as a sympathizer.
FYI
@LeslynLewis
doesn't like being tagged on tweets that accurately report she hangs out with modern day Nazis. She immediately untags herself from the conversation. While I totally get that move, maybe some journalists could get her on the record talking about her new pal?
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Should parents feed their kids? Yes
Are some kids still not being fed? Yes
Should we make sure kids are feed? Yes
We’re starting a National School Food Program in Canada.
Thousands of kids in Newfoundland and Labrador will now have healthy meals guaranteed at school — starting this school year.
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Ok so someone needs to explain this to me like I’m five, or a UCP voter, how can someone over contribute to a pension plan that has a hard maximum on annual contributions?
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Tonight’s
@OCDSB
Trustee meeting is a RL example of
@Twitter
. Half the people come with facts, data, research, and calm the other half screams until everyone gives up.
#BringBackMasks
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Remember that time Pierre said there was a terrorist attack at the CAN-USA boarder and it actually wasn’t but he just needs to stoke rage and hate?
I do. It was today. It was less than 4 hours ago.
#PierrePoilievreIsLyingToYou
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Today was the first day my daughters JK classroom had 100% attendance...ever. They took a photo to celebrate. Let that sink in. It's 28 Feb and school started in September. Today was the FIRST day every student was present.
#onted
#unsafeschools
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Remember folks- the Red Cross is called in for Disaster Relief. CHEO is a disaster zone and our leadership at Queens Park is doing nothing about it. Be mad. Phone your MPPs. Phone the Premier. Do something.
#onpoli
#redcross
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I have over 300 clients that use heat pumps.
According to my records only 4 of them have had issues and 3 of those issues were installation problems.
The 4th seems to be no heat when there is no power…which is not heat pump specific.
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It’s weird living in a world with so much information yet so little knowledge and even less wisdom.
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Every time you get a tornado warning your property insurance renewal goes up 2%.
It doesn’t matter if YOU don’t think climate change is real/a priority- your insurance company does and prices accordingly.
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Come on man…the bar was set so low and you still smashed your face into it.
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Resuscitated means 3 kids were dead, actually full on little dead kids, and through the god damned magic and hard work of CHEO they were brought back to life. If you’re not mad yet…what the fuck is wrong with you?
#onpoli
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You know that new highway we are building to save people 15 minutes in Toronto?
It's going to replace land that currently absorbs/retains water with asphalt that doesn't.
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You know if the people who keep saying “masks aren’t backed by science.” stopped yelling at that the scientists trying to walk them through the science they might just learn something.
#WearAMask
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Honestly at this point if the PM just said “Fuck it you’re all being idiots and I’m out.” then fucked off to his home in Papineau to watch us get exactly what we deserve I would totally get it.
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Tonight Premier Ford apparently learned that Ottawa is, in fact, part of Ontario.
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Am I re-wrapping all my wife’s presents right now because I wrapped them in the wrapping paper reserved for the Santa-to-kids presents only? Yes. Yes I am.
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Maximum employer and employee CPP contribution- $3,754.45
Maximum employer and employee QPP contribution- $4,038.40
Maximum CPP benefit- $1,306.57
Maximum QPP benefit- $1,306.57
Quebecers pay 8% more for the same benefit.
How would Alberta be any different?
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Personally I think the PM should agree to discuss EVERY one of the 900 budget amendments....and then keep the House sitting from 9AM to 12AM daily until they get through them.
Call. His. Bluff.
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Before everyone gets bent out of shape and screaming….what do you expect the Ceremonial Guard to do with their 100% WOOL uniforms they were in the heat all summer?
Shit like this, and people’s pearl clutching “omg the cost” reaction, is why we are not a serious country.
Governor General's office spent more than $117K on dry cleaning between 2018 and 2023
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My daughter was ready for the Pride Walk at her school today!
She loves that we are celebrating “People being allowed to be themselves.”
Excellent work by her teachers to ensure she appropriate understanding of Pride and the importance of it!
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Buddy of mine just told me the Walmart’s at Blair and Billings Bridge are going to be removing self checkout due to excessive theft. I guess that’s what happens when you don’t train your unpaid cashiers.
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This little ball of cuteness is 6 months old today. She just got her first flu and Covid shots too!
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Morning shower thought: Why is Ontario building new hospitals/rapid ERs when we have daily closures of existing hospital beds/ERs due to lack to staff?
Seems we should run what we have at full consistent capacity before building more right?
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@terelli
I’m a risk manager. Identifying, classifying, and controlling for risk is literally what I do all day.
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Sooo I guess we get to see which politicians don’t believe children should be able to eat.
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I can’t believe any professional risk manager would have signed off on this.
Sure theft is bad…but building fun little obstacles that will interfere with speedy egress in an emergency is much worse.
Here’s the deal
@LoblawsON
; no idea if you got a building permit for this or not, nor how it was reviewed and approved if so. But here’s my unofficial take: see that exit sign? If it’s dark, lights are out, room getting smoky, seeing that sign would save my life. 1/
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Dear God...every day a certain Sun Media columnist whose name may rhyme with Ryan shows us again and again that he's a prolapsed hemorrhoid on Canada's ass.
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Every unhoused person who dies in Ontario over the next couple of days is policy in action.
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Hey ummmmm
@fordnation
- I, and many thousands of Ontarian’s, are going into their second day without power.
Could you, I don’t know, spare a tweet or a ‘thoughts and prayers’ for us?
#onpoli
#icestorm2023
#OntarioStorm
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My 3rd child was born yesterday at 5:01PM weighing in at 8lbs 11oz. She’s doing well that her mom is recovering well. Thank you
@OttawaMidwives
Julie and Seneca for your amazing care! We are so pleased that midwife care was an option for us!
#newbornbaby
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Roads, Healthcare, and Education are the 3 main areas of responsibility for the Provinces. It’s actually impressive how badly the Ontario government is failing at literally its job.
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@YoniFreedhoff
It makes me incredibly sad for humanity that wearing a N95 when indoors is considered just “too difficult and uncomfortable.”…of course the fact my wife and 20 month old son are currently at
@CHEO
because he can’t breathe may be forming my response…
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19 week break from legislative work for our MPPs in Ontario.
But yeah those damn teachers who get 8 unpaid weeks off in the summer are the problem.
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Interesting- I tweet about my son being sick and the piss poor state of available healthcare and 95% of responses are people giving wonderful advice and offering help. 5% are anti-vaxx spreading the same lies that keep us in a pandemic. May they have the day they deserve
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Congrats
@fordnation
and
@SylviaJonesMPP
you two are responsible for a child dying in the floor of a hospital while waiting to access the “readily accessible healthcare Ontarian’s need.”
May that child haunt you both for the rest of your unnatural lives.
Everyone needs to listen to this awful account of a 2 year old infant who drew its last breath on the floor of the ER at Lakeridge. As told by a nurse who is angry and traumatized. Who wouldn't be? Those poor parents.
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Nothing says “I practice the faith of Jesus,” like demanding a homeless shelter be closed.
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@PierrePoilievre
The biggest gatekeepers keeping Nurses out of Ontario are
@fordnation
and
@SylviaJonesMPP
who refuse to repeal Bill 124 and pay them properly.
Go after those gatekeepers and I will believe you’re serious about helping.
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CPC- our party gave Canada its first female PM!!
Kim Campbell- These folks are fucking nuts!
CPC- Kim who?
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The fact that parents who benefited from Ontario’s excellent public education system are themselves now demanding that their child(ren) only learn Reading, Rightin, and ‘Rithmetic in mind bending. Nothing like wanting to prep kids for the factory jobs of the 1800’s I guess.
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You need to be a world class shitbag for the Juno Beach Centre to publicly cut ties with you.
Good job JBC!
A brief statement from the Juno Beach Centre regarding recent posts on X (formerly Twitter) mentioning our institution.
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@CanadasLifeline
This is a really bad plan. I don't see this helping with your donor problem.
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If you don't think this is coming to a Canada near you....you're not paying attention.
Extraordinary and unnecessary cruelty. Brace yourselves, as much of the Western world is about to experience a decade of regressive hard right wing governments, I fear.
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So people want to kill a female Jewish family doctor school-board trustee because:
1- she’s Jewish
2- she’s a woman
3- she wants students to breath clean air
4- she trusts science
5- she believes LGGTQIA+ students should be allowed to be themselves
Yeah…I wish I was shocked
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I know
@Twitter
is mostly an alt-right hate machine and Russian bot farm…but occasionally you find people who are doing good.
@DrVivianS
is one of the ones doing good. Her advocacy for Seniors has really opened my eyes to how little we care for our elderly. Give her a follow!
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I remember thinking it was weird that my 5’2 audiologist told me to go for a walk with her after setting up my hearing aids. Made more sense when she was comforting my 5’11 sobbing self when I realized I could hear birds signing and the wind in the trees.
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In news that will shock no one a former Public Health Medical Officer…who opposed masking and is meh on vaccines…is going for a CPC nomination in Ontario
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It’s early in the day but I declare this the tweet of the day.
#CDNpoli
Someone needs to explain to me how the people in Canada who can’t afford 3 cents/litre changes to gas prices also have $250,000 per year in capital gains.
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@PierrePoilievre
@CPC_HQ
Sooooo this is where you’re going today instead of taking questions on the EA Inquiry report?
Leading from the rear isn’t leading Pierre.
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Ontario Government- No need to worry about
#COVID19
or wear masks. If you get it it’s mild and no worse than a cold.
Also Ontario government- here is a new OHIP billing code for treating
#LongCovid
This circle doesn’t square.
#onpoli
#CovidIsntOver
#WearAMask
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Something to think about for all the RN/RPNs who may want to jump to a private medical clinic in Ontario. Just found out from a client of mine that they aren’t covered by WSIB unless they opt-in. How did she learn this? By getting hurt at work and being told “Good luck!”
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If “Public Heath” is “Up to the individual” why can’t I smoke in my downtown Toronto hotel room?
#onpoli
#publichealth
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The GG is the Commander-in-Chief of the Canadian Armed Forces.
Wearing her uniform when acting in that capacity is entirely appropriate.
I weep for the level of civic knowledge Canadians have these days.
I really don't like how the governor general has started wearing a military uniform all the time. This custom was properly retired long ago, but I believe Michaelle Jean brought it back. The GG is supposed to represent civilian control of our military—we look like a junta here.
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You know that “Fire Trudope!” Petition that was sponsored by the MP from Peterborough?
I signed it….47 times from 47 different email address using 47 randomly selected postal codes.
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Certain blue tie wearing rage farming people in Canada may be mocking this but SK is loving it! Turns out…trying to be respectful and help another world leader maintain face is a massively popular move to the people in that country.
Korean media is going nuts about this picture.
Since there is a height difference (about 20cm) the korean dude tries to tiptoe in order to get higher. Seeing this
@JustinTrudeau
widens his stance to match the height and gets dubbed as "manner legs"
#cdnpoli
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@GilFitz37
@JuddLegum
@elonmusk
That’s why it’s 20% of revenue not 20% of profit. They fine in the top line not the bottom line.
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