Will Greaves
@WillWJGreaves
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Prof @uvicpoli , local dad. Global and Canadian politics, Arctic, climate, people. What is ‘security’ and who gets it?
Victoria, British Columbia
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We must get better at holding multiple truths at once. Canada was founded through colonialism, empire, and genocide. Canada is a successful multicultural democracy. Canada has failed Indigenous peoples. Canada is among the oldest, most stable constitutional orders in the world.
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Union Station just completed a decade-long, billion dollar renovation and expansion, and it’s already flooding. Our infrastructure is not ready for what is coming.
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Everyone in Canada should have to take a mandatory course on federalism. Everyone. Media included. Media especially.
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If very rich people are mad about the budget perhaps it’s actually good.
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If very rich people are mad about the budget perhaps it’s actually good.
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It truly feels like we are running an experiment in Canadian politics right now over whether a sitting prime minister can withstand a concerted media campaign effort to drive him out of office.
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@cmclymer
@ohheyjenna
Every one of these teens would make a better president than Donald Trump.
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Bibi Netanyahu is a criminal whether or not he’s also a war criminal and Canadians who are using his self-serving deflection to bash their own prime minister have truly lost all sense of decency, reason, or perspective.
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Truly wondering what my fellow 30 to 44 year olds expect from a Conservative government besides gutting the public services we, our kids, and our aging parents rely on in exchange for an income tax cut that doesn’t come close to compensating for their loss.
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"This is f-ing Canada, not North Korea" is such a telling comment. In North Korea you don't get to film arrests, get due process, or flout the laws either, dudes. You're just mad that you don't get impunity from the law as you believe you deserve.
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A̶s̶s̶i̶s̶t̶a̶n̶t̶ ̶P̶r̶o̶f̶e̶s̶s̶o̶r̶ ☹️
Associate Professor 😀
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You’ll know Canada takes climate change seriously when it is finally possible to travel between big cities by train for less time and money than air travel. In the West, that means taking this train from Vancouver to Calgary instead of it being exclusively for affluent tourists.
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@GOPLeader
We’d reply that we were actually around for the last three years and know better.
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Haha, joke’s on you, Andrew, that’s a graph of child poverty rates in Canada.
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Total mask off moment here. Smith and other conservative politicians attacking universities are simply trying to manipulate the system into promoting their version of reactionary conservative values.
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Most Canadians struggle with two languages, meanwhile the guys working in this Montreal shawarma shop are bouncing between customers in French, English, and Arabic, and one just busted out some Spanish, too.
We need better language education in this country.
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It’s officially a foreign funded movement and I look forward to the Alberta government’s inquiry into its interference in our democracy.
The GiveSendGo donor data was just leaked. What does it say about where the money is coming from?
Of the 92,844 donations, 51666 (56%) came from the US, 36202 (29%) came from Canada, and 1831 (2%) came from the UK. The top ten donor countries are here:
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Many people hated Stephen Harper b/c they felt his policies were bad, and protested him accordingly, but never targeted him for violence. Some now see violence as an appropriate tool against a leader they dislike. It’s one of the fascist currents at work in Canadian conservatism.
Trudeau cuts appearance in Belleville, Ont., short as protesters swarm motorcade
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“If future Conservative governments can’t override people’s Charter rights, we’ll never be able to govern again!” says professional Conservative.
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So, is the Leader of the Opposition just going to get away with making up bullshit about terrorism on the floor of the Commons or what?
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I hope Ontarians just remember that
@fordnation
is a lying liar who loves to lie, leading party of crooks, nepotists, and self-dealers. Not a single good thing to say of the lot of them.
Doug Ford’s Ontario government removes 7,400 acres from Greenbelt
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Cannot express enough how much I hope voters in the 905 become aware that Pierre Poilievre thinks they’re stupid.
“Officially exposed”?
By… Twitter?
How dumb does he think the common people are?
Don’t answer that
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One of the more frequent claims today is that very rich people will leave Canada because of the increased cap gains tax, and I’d like to know when conservatives embraced the Marxist notion that the rich have no patriotism or loyalty except to finance capital.
Lol not really good at math are you
@WillWJGreaves
?
Maybe you should start with the question of “Who pays 60+ percent of the taxes in Canada?”
Probably don’t want to alienate those people. Especially since they have the ability to leave and take their money with them.
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Perhaps it wasn’t a great idea to chase women who wear hijabs, many of whom provide care work, away from Quebec.
Update: Quebec Premier François Legault says the province needs to find 2,000 health-care workers as soon as possible to make up for the staffing shortage in Quebec's long-term care homes.
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And the organizers just announced the anti-trans march in Victoria has been cancelled because they’re so outnumbered.
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Just pondering the wild patronage and conservative in-fighting of Danielle Smith paying Preston Manning a quarter million dollars to write a report about how badly Jason Kenney treated unvaccinated people.
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@PierrePoilievre
@bankofcanada
Who on your team has decided that attacking the independent central bank is a good call? Try to remember the good of the country and refrain from attacking our key national institutions, yeah?
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This is not a conspiracy tweet. This is a ‘Canadian media is more concentrated than ever, social media is broken, and the preponderance of political opinion in this country is ideologically moderately conservative’ tweet.
It truly feels like we are running an experiment in Canadian politics right now over whether a sitting prime minister can withstand a concerted media campaign effort to drive him out of office.
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A student evaluation writes: "This course was better than I thought it was going to be. You almost make Canadian politics interesting."
I consider this high praise.
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It’s not “parental rights,” it’s “anti-LGBTQ.” Don’t let the bigots define the ground you’re fighting on.
We’re aware of Danielle Smith’s plan to release a parental rights policy this week.
I want to be clear: The Alberta NDP will do everything we can to ensure these targeted children are protected.
The timing of this announcement, days after Alberta learned of Caidence’s
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You’re not a serious person if you treat Jon Kay like a serious person, sorry, I don’t make the rules. But seriously, if your organization still invites him to things you should know people notice and it makes you look terrible.
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That Bitcoin dudes have gotten behind the anti-vax convoy is very telling. Both reflect the triumph of philosophies of personal gain at collective expense. Both cause harm while fashioning themselves as champions of freedom, when really they’re mostly magical thinking.
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By this logic none of us should ever have to hear Andrew Scheer complaining about the prime minister ever again.
"Although she has every right to think and say what she wants, Kim Campbell is in no position, given her own record, to comment on another political leader," writes
@matthewsconway
#cdnpoli
#ParlCA
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This is what trans-gender panic leads to. This is what shrieking and wailing in front of public schools leads to. This is what anti-intellectualism and attacking higher education leads to.
Earlier today, a man burst into a classroom at the University of Waterloo and demanded to know what the course was about. He then drew two knives from his jacket and began to stab the prof.
The course was Philosophy of Gender.
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First ministers don’t have bromances. PM’s job is not to hand out money. Premiers’ jobs aren’t actually to beg for federal money, either, though understandable why many are confused given quality of coverage.
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@Travisdhanraj
@cafreeland
@melaniejoly
@JustinTrudeau
You may have noticed there's some important things happening in Europe, too. If he wasn't there you'd be asking why Canada isn't at the table when big international decisions are made.
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@fordnation
They're not "new" variants, they're variants that are already here and spreading because of your government's inadequate and ultimately ineffectual policies. Nice try, but try again.
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@KamilKaramali
“This parking lot is the heart of the community.” Absurd. These neighbours should be ashamed.
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When a Conservative shadow minister describes the only Governor General appointed by the last Conservative Prime Minister as a “random Liberal,” you know their objections to Johnston’s appointment are 100% political theatre and not to be taken seriously.
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The finance editors bemoaning inflation and the politics editors implying PMJT should pony up umpteen billions for health care should have a meeting.
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Wait wait, people who dislike the government are mad the prime minister won’t call an election when it suits their preferred party and would harm his own? Shocked, I tell you, shocked. Someone call a royal commission.
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@JoyAnnReid
Hate to say it, but it's this kind of thing that is going to lead so many of us non-Americans to avoid US travel for work/family
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@ianhanomansing
And your audience isn’t buying it. Instead of getting so defensive, consider why your framing of the topic evokes this response.
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Does everyone now understand how fucking crazy these tweets are or is it still confusing who the tyrant is?
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@maxfawcett
Which just goes to show how wildly attractive a destination Alberta would be for young people and families if you guys had a government that was even 50% less offensive and 50% more competent.
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It should be completely unacceptable to all Canadians that a territorial capital has no clean drinking water for its nearly 8000 residents.
#cdnpoli
City of Iqaluit lab tests of the water supply confirm the drinking water is contaminated with fuel.
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@tom_deligiannis
I do actually think there’s a parallel, but the difference is the US at least knows when it’s election is and has convention season coming up, so there is a time sensitivity if it’s going to happen. The coverage of JT feels more straightforward bullying to me, tbh.
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The exact guys who threatened Indigenous people blockading roads and rail this time two years ago are now threatening to strangle the Canadian economy if the government doesn’t resign over vaccines. The first they called economic terrorism, the second is patriotism, I guess.
Raging Dissident on the
#Truckers
Convoy. Thousands and thousands of trucks headed to
#Ottawa
and aren't leaving until the mandates are dropped or the Entire Government Resigns..
Chew on that
#JustinTrudeau
(video cuts off)
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@FredduSpatula
Those aren't immigrants, it's rain, but as you're a spatula I get the confusion.
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What some people don't seem to understand is that I am a (relatively) rich guy who will be made richer by a Conservative government. I'm just not selfish enough to make that the sole basis for whom I support politically.
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Does anyone really think this is a persuasive or satisfactory rationale for why the leader of the opposition doesn’t have a security clearance?
Why won’t Conservative leader
@PierrePoilievre
get security clearance to review confidential information related to foreign interference?
@MichaelChongMP
says “What the prime minister is asking Poilievre to do is to essentially tie his hands behind his back.”
#cdnpoli
More:
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Looking past the homophobic jab for a moment, the funny part about rightwingers bashing PMJT for singing in a bar is these people were prepared to overthrow the government last winter just for the freedom to sing in bars.
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One wonders when and how the BC NDP will part ways with Dr. Henry. It’s been a mutually beneficial relationship during covid-19, but the number of parents I’ve spoken with angry about the fact that 80% of our kids have been infected on her watch is getting long.
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My new favourite genre of tweet: inadvertently highlighting that Canada’s economic performance is second in the G7.
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Truly cannot stress enough how much we do not need this horseshit in Canadian political discourse.
Kenney moves on to the culture wars by defending his curriculum review. On the education system: we are getting rid of critical race theory, wokeness, activist teachers, and inappropriate sexual content.
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Fascinated by this narrative that a two-time mayor of Victoria
#yyjpoli
who was succeeded by her ideological ally is somehow a failed politician or representative of what the people do not want.
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The fall of Ben Isitt from
#1
vote getter in 2018 to not winning re-election, despite a shift to an ever more progressive Victoria Council, is pretty damn interesting.
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The Freedom Convoy™️ bullshit poisoned these young men’s minds and led to their deaths and the shooting of six police officers. And Conservative MPs are marching alongside and singing their praise. Disgusting.
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Listen, could all the rich people who got into politics pre-pandemic as a power-seeking status symbol just resign so people who are prepared to do the work can govern?
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My phone is dying but tldr: as of 1:35 pm people in Victoria who love and support queer kids, queer families, and trans people showed up and shut down a smaller gathering of misguided people using kids as political tools. ✌🏼
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I would like commentators who are mad about Canada not signing a statement from a group of countries to which it does not belong to recall this the next time they’re tempted to complain about airfare and hotel rooms for Canadian officials to participate in international meetings.
PS/ It's now clear what group this was, courtesy of the UK statement above.
The Quint, being an informal alliance that involves 5 of the 7 members of the G7
I deleted the lead tweet referring to G7 minus 2, screengrabbed here for transparency.
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Who could have anticipated this man would have poor judgement and be unfit for public office? Such a shocker.
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@Roman_Baber
It’s petro-masculinity. You’re saying burning fossil fuels in cars and indoors, making plastic trash, and eating cow are normatively good because they are bad for everyone else. Harming others signifies dominance in the name of freedom. It’s ‘I’m a bad person’ identity politics.
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I hate this so much. As a mixed-race person reflecting lots on identity and belonging, I think of my Jewish friends, colleagues, and neighbours being told they actually belong somewhere else, and I want to throw things. Such a (wrong) belief is deadly to pluralism and to Canada.
Disgusting, vile, and violent to tell Canadian Jews the only way to be safe is to leave the country. And for what? For narrow partisan gain you're going to tell Jews in Canada - Jews in Montreal! - they'd be safer in South Florida? Outrageous. What is
@Anthony__Koch
thinking?
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Governments are not people, the state is not a household, Canadians have among the highest household debt levels in the world. Everything about this tweet is wrong.
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And now all parties to the Rome Statute must choose. A pivotal moment now for Canada and its foreign policy legacy, which includes the very establishment of the ICC. Do we stand behind the international legal institutions we helped create or not?
#ICC
Prosecutor
@KarimKhanQC
announces applications for arrest warrants in relation to Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant in the context of the situation in the State of
#Palestine
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More pocket money for a lower quality of life is a bad trade, in my opinion.
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Not looking forward to national headlines talking about BC’s shift to the right tomorrow just because of Ken Sim in Vancouver, when other councils across the province have taken small shuffles or big steps to the left.
#bcpoli
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We are in a fascinating time in which Canadian conservatives simultaneously govern most provinces and routinely ignore that provincial governments exist and are responsible for most things in this country that currently suck.
The provinces run health care policy, underspend - Ontario not even spending what it budgeted; Alberta refusing to tax to raise revenue - all while abandoning basic public health measures like mask mandates.
But sure, it's Trudeau's fault.
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I mean, the play here politically is hoping that middle class suburban voters around Toronto and Vancouver accept marginally lower federal income tax in exchange for undermining the institutions of Canadian society. Seems like a bad trade.
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@anniegirl1138
@Frazzling
The ad misspells ‘Edmonton’ in the first five seconds. High quality stuff from the UCP.
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@maxfawcett
We've got to put "truckers" in scare quotes. All those cool and reasonable South Asian truckers just trying to do their jobs and get home to their families aren't lifting covid restrictions.
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Scale of 1-10, how obnoxious is it to add “award-winning” to my bio?
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In the last six months British Columbia has been on fire, flooded, and too hot to move. But keep going on about bbq, Erin, godspeed.
#cdnpoli
#priorities
Barbeque is a staple of Canadian living, but it's also getting more expensive.
The rising cost of living under the Trudeau Liberals means you're paying more for the same meal this year than you were last year.
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The only real response to this is to reject the premise of this very stupid question.
"Which party would be best on dealing with a lack of freedom in Canada?"
CPC: 45%
PPC: 24%
LPC: 10%
GPC: 5%
NDP: 2%
Abacus Data / June 13, 2024 / n=1356 / Online
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“Transphobes go home!” Yes, but on the other hand it’s kind of satisfying watching the wheels come off this anti-trans, anti-LGBTQ shmuckfest. 🌈✨
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@nationalpost
Like clockwork, here you are running defence for the CPC. He was hanging out drunk with sovereign citizens on the side of the highway. Have some self-respect.
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@EmmMacfarlane
The gatekeeping of criticism against the various PHOs has really been something. As though highly qualified experts who fail thoroughly in their jobs should be immune from criticism because times are tough all around.
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1) Could the Sun have made Zelenskyy look more stereotypically Jewish? 2) Other anti-semites are immediately going to repurpose this comic only with Ukraine replaced by Israel, so it’s doubly harmful.
Way to go,
@TheTorontoSun
! You’ve managed to 1) insult
#Ukrainian
dignity during their existential struggle for survival, 2) perpetuate
#antisemitic
stereotypes, and 3) advance Putin’s
#propaganda
efforts — all in one cartoon! Real slick.
@AdrienneBatra
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The fundamental problem isn’t NATO expansion, it’s Russian aggression that threatens its neighbours and makes them turn to NATO.
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@PierrePoilievre
Have you spoken with Stephen Harper about this? He seemed to think David Johnston was pretty okay when he appointed him the only Conservative Governor General in the last 30 years.
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@AhmadGarza3
@LeighStewy
This tweet would’ve made a lot more sense three months ago than it does today.
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As a British Columbian under 70 who’s now more than six months out from getting boosted, may I just say: wtf, man.
WATCH: B.C. has more than 225,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccine set to expire next month. This as the province still has no plan to provide most people under the age of 70 with a fourth dose.
@RichardZussman
has more.
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I believe this is just a way of spinning a 30% test positivity rate, but then again I didn’t care for grade 11 math so perhaps I’m missing something.
Dr. Bonnie Henry says 70 per cent of people getting tested for COVID-19 don't have it
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I keep going back to Canada’s 2015 election night, when a longtime PM who had centralized power lost an election to an opponent he despised, took the stage in front of his loyal supporters ... and immediately accepted the result. I wasn’t appreciative then but am now.
#cdnpoli
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“So how does this end then?” when Ottawa cops have been enabling the blockades for two weeks plus. The nerve.
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Courts are bad (except when they side with conservative causes), journalists are bad (except when they’re CPC candidates), gatekeepers are bad (except when they’re conservative provincial governments), politicians are bad (except when that’s the only job your leader’s ever had).
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“Why have we been silenced?!?” shouts the woman with a microphone standing on a stage in a public space, talking to hundreds of people.
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@teewatterss
@KristinRaworth
Seeing him wear a Darfur t-shirt during that is a bit wild. Timeless Gosling, timeless atrocities.
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@AndreaHorwath
Defend Ontario steel aluminum sectors, but don’t blame
@JustinTrudeau
or
@Kathleen_Wynne
. There is one person responsible for this trade vandalism, and that is
@realDonaldTrump
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