Asif Hossain
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Toronto, Ontario
Joined September 2008
Clearest indication yet that Canada will outlast all other Western liberal democracies.
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Hi, Kevin. Toronto is in Canada.
Really? Toronto Raptors not going to go to The White House because they want to boycott President Trump who has done more for the African/American community than Obama did? Really? Take a knee. We need more diversity in the NBA. Unfair.
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Mike Pence is now linking 9/11 to Qasem Soleimani. As if you weren't yet convinced that nothing means anything anymore in modern conservatism, the US vice president just suggested that Soleimani helped al-Qaeda, one of Iran's greatest enemies. Total dumbshits will believe this.
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If you've noticed this winter pretty much nobody is wearing Team Canada mittens despite it being an Olympic year, that's due to the new partnership with Lululemon. The Hudson's Bay Red Mittens were $15. The Lulu price: $68. Result: a very predictable drop in brand awareness.
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Conservatives: We could’ve had reasonable negotiations with the convoy people. Convoy people:
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I didn’t want to tweet this in the middle of the vigil, but Doug Ford telling Muslims he has their back while actively employing Nick Kouvalis — who once proudly ran a xenophobic campaign for political gain — was a bit much.
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The English language. Also, Clueless.
What piece of pop culture has ruined your first name?.
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Conservatives: Trudeau must stop foreign interference in Canada. *India murders someone in Canada and Trudeau steps up* . Conservatives: Why is Trudeau at war with India?. Modern conservatism is a movement with no consistent beliefs or principles, it's just 'own the libs' 24/7.
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Per latest polling, two thirds of Canadians support Trudeau invoking the Emergencies Act against the astroturf protests, and over 8 in 10 feel they've gone on too long. The Canadian public is decidedly and ruthlessly against the so-called convoy.
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Apparently nobody in Canada was alive in 2010 and are not aware groups like G20 and NATO attract window smashing anarchists when they hold meetings in cities like Toronto or Montreal. Incredible that everyone in this country is a teenager learning things for the first time.
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Let's take a minute to appreciate how in the space of a week, a sophisticated, mysteriously-funded, right wing operation to destabilize Canada fell apart because most Canadians were like, "nah.".
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Trudeau: "Mr. Bernier, your role on this stage is to say publicly, what Mr. Scheer thinks privately." . This was brilliant. It's entirely true. #cdnpoli #elxn43 #leadersdebate2019.
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Ten years ago this week The Globe published the story of Ford family illegal drug trafficking among other activities, including a kidnapping charge. Doug Ford threatened to sue, of course he never did. Remember this when @fordnation talks about crime and locking people up.
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Rob Schneider cancelled his trip to Canada due to “tyranny.” Trudeau has really done it this time. We’re on the verge of losing other A-list celebs like Scott Baio, Kevin Sorbo, and the Shamwow guy.
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To the people who drove downtown today, how did you think this would go? . #wethenorth #toronto #wethenorthday
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Per what the prime minister just said, Ontario is getting nothing today that they couldn't have gotten months ago on childcare. So, Doug Ford wasted months, costing families thousands, so he could have a talking point for his re-election campaign. #onpoli.
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If there's a strike on Friday, send your kids to the constituency office of your local @OntarioPCParty MPP. They seem to think public education is a glorified babysitting service anyway, so let them be the sitters.
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If your standard for Canada's "international reputation" is what Russell Brand, Piers Morgan and Fox News thinks about a law that definitely did not affect Briane from Chilliwack, you need higher standards.
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I could be off by one or two, but I think that's 22 Conservative MPPs out of 76 that came to office with Doug Ford as Premier, who are not running again under his banner. This is not normal after one term. #onpoli.
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They thought they had Toronto. They really, really did. One of the wealthiest, most conservative wards in the city just rejected a Conservative flag bearer without ambiguity. Total rejection.
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.@fordnation spending nearly a billion for a parking garage and tree clearing to realize only $1.1 billion in revenues over *95 years* from @ThermeCanada. He's clearing an Ontario Place urban forest for lemonade stand money. The stupidity of "fiscal conservatives" strikes again.
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Let's see, Trudeau's Emergencies Act was: . -A temporary measure. -Voted on by Parliament. -Revoked when no longer needed. -A public inquiry will be made on the use of EA. Yup, just like a dictatorship.
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This entire "protest" in Ottawa and elsewhere came down to this: they thought people would join them, but the vast majority of our population took one look and said "nope," and everything else since then has been incessant victimhood and whining because nobody likes them.
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.@JoshMatlow on stage now, congratulates Olivia Chow and says the “Rob Ford/Doug Ford/John Tory” era is over, and yes, “if we want to fix the city we’re going to have to pay for it.” . On brand to the end. Love this guy. #TorontoMayor
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@CPC_HQ I knew you guys gave up, but making it official before the election call was a bold choice.
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Harassing people at work, parking on a war memorial, and now putting an upside down flag and an anti-mandate sign on a Terry Fox statue. These protesters may be bankrolled by deep pockets, but maybe their wealthy anonymous benefactors should've chipped in for a PR session.
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Nobody would’ve spent $80 million on land without knowing the legislation was changing. The corruption in Ontario right now under @fordnation is shamelessly blatant.
Talk about timing. In September, prominent developer Michael Rice paid $80M for land that’s been protected for almost two decades. Weeks later, Doug Ford announced changes to the Greenbelt. Rice’s land was suddenly set to open up for housing.
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A real person who was part of a firm that appears to have lobbied Doug Ford's government to take lands out of the Greenbelt, without legally registering as lobbyists.
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Has Pierre Poilievre chained himself to a vehicle yet, or does he only play a supporter on social media to get their data?.
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Please don't get legal advice from a former psych professor who became famous for saying Canada would put him in jail for not using gender pronouns. He might not have a strong grasp of the law.
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In business, if a vendor pays for your lunch and then wins a contract from you, it's called a bribe. In Doug Ford's "open for business" Ontario, you can attend the premier's daughter's party, give her $1000, get favourable legislation from her dad, and it's not called a bribe.
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Why would the leader of the Conservative Party say she's "saddened" by authorities finally making some progress in Ottawa? Unless, Conservatives want to keep using the misguided, misinformed people on the ground for their own purposes, while sacrificing the residents of Ottawa.
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Doug Ford is going to use the notwithstanding clause to override our Charter and the courts, all so he can shut down dissenting voices during an election campaign. This is the most anti-democratic, and anti-Canadian thing done by an Ontario premier in my lifetime. #onpoli.
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Doug Ford sends 175,000 free rapid tests to private schools in September, while flatly turning down public school requests at the same time. Remind me who the "elitists" are again?.
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Pollster @AngusReid shares two pieces of obvious right wing disinformation. The "church" is a housing project, and the Trudeau video is old and visibly edited. This is supposed to be a "smart" and "moderate" conservative by the way. Conservatism is irredeemable, it's fucked.
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The politicians who backed a foreign funded "protest" on Canadian soil to divide and destabilize our cities, are now asking for "unity" - do I have that right @CandiceBergenMP?.
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Doug Ford's "BlackBerry" story must be understood in wider context. It's not that he's frugal, he has a stack of refurbished ones, it's that he's unwilling to embrace new things, even if it's better for him and others. This is the evergreen problem with Ford & the Conservatives.
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.@PierrePoilievre qualified for a lifetime taxpayer funded pension by the age of 31, which was needed because he has no other job experience or qualifications. Him taunting anyone about a government pension is the height of hypocrisy - but that's a virtue in modern conservatism.
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Corruption at a level I haven't seen or heard before in Canadian politics. Connected billionaires buy protected, unusable land, then magically that land becomes profitable overnight. Any support of @fordnation & @SteveClarkPC's corrupt housing bill gives permission to this.
So the De Gasperis family decided to pay $21 million a year to borrow $100 million for a piece of Greenbelt land that wasn’t supposed to be developed? Why would anyone do that unless they had a crystal ball or some other way to know that they could develop the land in the future?.
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Only 15% of Conservative candidates say they're fully vaccinated, according to the Globe. The number may be higher, but they won't say. An astonishing figure from people seeking to form government. This gives cover to vaccine hesitancy and helps prolong the pandemic. #Elxn44.
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If more Americans start moving up north after this pandemic, our scandals are going to mystify them. "Prime minister visits his children.".
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While Canada’s conservatives demand we do whatever Trump wants and fast, Mexico shows a spine. Totally unsurprising that the people who whine about “national identity” all day long in Canada are immediate cowards ready to drop sovereignty to appease US right wing nutjobs.
Mexican President Sheinbaum fires back at Trump in a statement: "Seventy percent of the illegal weapons seized from criminals in Mexico come from your country. We do not produce these weapons, nor do we consume synthetic drugs. Tragically, it is in our country that lives are lost.
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Entirety of Doug Ford’s reign has been a pay-to-play system for real estate developers, for-profit long-term care and healthcare operators. He passes legislation for those who grease his wheels (housing Bill 23 is a prime example), corrupt is all he knows.
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I’m not here for a single ‘Doug Ford is emotional ‘cause he wants to be liked’ take. Ford cut Toronto city council in half, cancelled the most important piece of our transit plan, and overruled city planning out of a combination of spite and corruption. Ford shouldn’t be liked.
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Maybe don't interact with Jamie Sale and Theo Fleury's content, and let them mire in their own hellish algorithm instead of bringing their content to yours? . This is a request.
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"I never thought the leopards would eat my face," and so on. Brian Lilley (and the entire Postmedia roster) has for years empowered the very people attacking him.
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Lots of five figure anonymous donations in the trucker convoy @gofundme campaign. Just a tad suspicious.
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"Smaller the shovel, bigger the PR stunt.". -Ontario proverb.
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Covid vaccines administered per 100 people in the world's 30 largest countries + Canada: we are third. People who insist Canada's procurement was poor for the sake of striking a political balance between Trudeau and Ford, need to explain why we're so high on this list.
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That Pierre Poilievre can lie without hesitation to say he was minister of housing and use dubious, context-free stats to claim housing was cheap when he was (not) minister, should make people think how shamelessly untrustworthy he is and will be again if let back in government.
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Doug Ford was asked what changed overnight that he suddenly went from January 4 for 18+ boosters to December 20. He gives a non-answer. The real answer: Doug Ford saw his political life flash before his eyes. #onpoli.
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Barbecues, bouncy castles, saunas, and giving away as many free goods as anyone will have 'em. What's happening in Ottawa and now Toronto are not protests, this is a well-funded campaign to advance a political cause. Same formula used by fake populist politicians (ex: Ford Fest).
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Did you know Ontario has an environment minister? Anyway, this is what @Andrea_Khanjin's government did this week to over 800 mature trees in a public park.
Looking for a fun way to work off your Thanksgiving feast? Visit an Ontario Park and enjoy the beautiful colours of fall before it’s too late. Discover the ten must-visit Ontario Parks this Thanksgiving weekend:
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Once a week, the premier of Canada's biggest province goes on TV to blame other people for him not listening to the Science Table in February, leading to a Third Wave. #onpoli.
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Erin O'Toole says it was "un-Canadian" to call an election. I don't know what that means, but he was ready with a state-of-the-art studio within hours of the election call, so was it "un-Canadian" for the Conservatives to raise millions and be ready for an election? #Elxn44.
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We're seeing unprecedented footage from Queen's Park. Doug Ford has shown up for work. #onpoli.
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Now @fordnation is saying we didn’t have enough vaccines. Neither did the vast majority of the world, yet they didn’t all have Ontario’s third wave breakout, did they? If Ford doesn’t have any plans to mitigate and just looks to the feds to keep providing, why is he the premier?.
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Right now @PierrePoilievre is signalling to Canada that he’s not prime minister material. India is led by an autocratic Narendra Modi with decades of sectarian blood on his hands, and Poilievre would rather take his word than Canada’s own intelligence services. Unfit.
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Swastikas, confederate flags, and Trump symbols are common at just about any rally promoted by hard right, anti-gov't elements in North America, they have been since 2015. How did the Conservatives not see that coming and openly associate themselves with this?.
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Toronto is a city of three million people, in a metropolis of six million. It's by far the biggest city and metro area in Canada. If there was some spontaneous, country-wide movement against mandates, how is it that our protest routes lay completely empty today?.
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Andrew Scheer promises to spend money *and* cut taxes *and* balance the budget. Doug Ford promised the same. Neither Scheer nor Ford released an election platform. #cdnpoli #elxn43 #leadersdebate2019.
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I suspect there are many people today who can't publicly say what they really, truly want to say about the Doug Ford government. Today's announcement that tells Ontarians they're basically on their own unless hospital bound, combined with an absent premier was something. #onpoli.
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Canada was the second country to approve Moderna, and third to approve Pfizer-BioNTech. There is no holdup at the federal government. This is pure political theatre from @Sflecce to distract from his lack of school plans as the third wave slams into Ontario.
Canada should lead the world — #1 not #50 — when it comes to vaccine delivery. We are asking for a plan from the federal government to do just that for our youth as we look ahead to the next school year.
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Two huge lies from Conservatives in the last 24 hours: . -The prime minister met privately with Yaroslav Hunka.-Hunka was vetted by Parliament security. Neither of these things happened. Hunka didn't get a private audience, and it's on the Speaker to vet Hunka, not security.
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This is a good, clean, shareable graphic. Please make more.
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"We're the founding party of this country." -Erin O'Toole. I don't know how to break this to him, but the Conservative Party of Canada was founded 18 years ago. Canada is slightly older. #Elxn44.
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Back when police weren’t some of the best paid people in Ontario, one of the arguments used was if they were better paid there’d be less incentive to be corrupt. It’s not the pay, it was never the pay, it’s the culture of near total impunity that incentivizes their corruption.
Officer with Toronto police's Drug Squad facing impaired driving, drug possession charges
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If a government purposely held back public money in order to fund private initiatives - which Ontario did - then no amount of "well, actually" obfuscation from the usuals will change the fact that Doug Ford had his eyes on privatization from the start, and he's succeeding.
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Destruction of public education followed by privatization was *always* the plan. This whole lot of Ford Conservatives are pure scum, including their propagandists like @brianlilley. They should never, ever be treated with anything other than scorn and distrust. Awful people.
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A very nutty development in Canadian media going under the radar. An active @nationalpost journalist, Adam Zivo, is a spy for a foreign country and they don’t seem to care. Yes, the same National Post that breathlessly warns about, wait for it, foreign interference.
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Yeah but did you know we paid billions to get beer at corner stores a year before it would’ve cost nothing to do it?.
Number of Ontarians without family doctor reaches 2.5 million, college says.
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Erin O’Toole’s strategist laments Canada will miss Prime Day, blames Justin Trudeau. This callously ignores how Covid-19 hit Amazon warehouses hard for months in Doug Ford’s Ontario, and workforce spread under Ford is the big reason for 2nd & 3rd waves. This tweet is quite bad.
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The kicker in @PierrePoilievre accusing @theJagmeetSingh of only being in it for his pension is that Poilievre got his own pension while in two minority Conservative governments that were also propped up by the opposition, often the NDP. Nothing about Poilievre is ever genuine.
.@PierrePoilievre qualified for a lifetime taxpayer funded pension by the age of 31, which was needed because he has no other job experience or qualifications. Him taunting anyone about a government pension is the height of hypocrisy - but that's a virtue in modern conservatism.
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There'll be lots of people at the Ottawa rally on Saturday, and they'll make noise and show photos of large, seemingly miles long convoys, etc. That however, will not change the minds of majority of Canadians who support strong public health measures, including certain mandates.
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Doug Ford: We didn't hesitate to put measures in place to protect Ontarians. Ok, so let's recap: . July 15: We'll never do vaccine certificates here. July 30: *disappears from public eye*.Sep 1: Finally re-emerges, announces vaccine certificate. No hesitation at all! #onpoli.
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Hecklers showing up at Justin Trudeau's announcements, and he's letting it roll off like a pro on live TV. Meanwhile, Erin O'Toole holds his events inside a protected bubble that looks like a borrowed set from The Church Lady sketches on SNL. #Elxn44.
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Each time you see expensive Doug Ford ads during playoff hockey, remember he's using the notwithstanding clause to deny that same voice to others. It sets a horrible precedence. Who else could Doug Ford use the notwithstanding clause against to silence or deny rights? #onpoli.
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We're going to see a spectacular 24-hour turnaround on the railway labour lockout where anti-Trudeau people go from "why won't Trudeau intervene?" to "why did Trudeau intervene?" and the kicker - it's going to be the same people.
BREAKING: Liberal government intervenes in railway labour dispute
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Doug Ford: I'm for the people. *holds his press conference on a rooftop so he's deliberately inaccessible to people*. #onpoli.
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Using Doug Ford's logic of protecting democracy, I've slashed all the car tires in my neighbourhood to protect them from getting stolen. #onpoli.
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Ontario maintains its lead over Alberta as the stupidest-run province in the country for the second week in a row. Legacy.
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Hypothetically speaking, if I was embroiled in a major land deal scandal, and had also appointed my rumoured mistress to oversee development of a public park for private interests, I'd probably ask her to stop. Again, this is strictly hypothetical, in no way a real situation.
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Make no mistake that the 3:30 Doug Ford announcement is only happening so the big news heading into the weekend isn't his botched rapid test rollout today, but whatever he announces late on a Friday afternoon. Conservatives are managing the news cycle, not the pandemic. #onpoli.
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Jordan Peterson accidentally doxxing his accusers while insisting he doesn't need social media training is about as perfect as it gets. This man is a 24/7/365 walking liability.
Last night @jordanbpeterson posted to his 3.6 million followers a document containing the full names and detailed personal information of people who filed complaints against him to the Ontario College of Psychologists, regarding his use of social media. 1/3
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.@fordnation doesn’t know how people of colour are affected by carding, because he doesn’t experience it. It’s how he approaches all policy. Bad on housing, because he’s never been in need. Bad on transit, because he doesn’t ride it. If he isn’t touched by it, he doesn’t get it.
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Pierre Poilievre is on the side of the nutbars randomly shouting “groomer” at everyone, all while he calls others divisive. This isn’t a drill. Choose Poilievre and this is going to be the new normal in Canada. You really won’t like it after you’ve sleepwalked into it.
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Canadian news stays on Google, they'll pay $100 million to news orgs. This is positive, may serve as a model elsewhere in the world where Meta & Google are having same discussions. Trudeau Liberals were the grown-ups here. Social/digital destroyed news, this is a small clawback.
Google and the federal government have reached an agreement in their dispute over the Online News Act, sources tell Radio-Canada and CBC News.
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The 4/10 of you who voted Conservative in 2018, you elected an Ontario government that didn’t have enough respect for voters to even draw up an election platform. You didn’t really expect them to have a plan for a global pandemic did you?. #onpoli.
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Reminder: Toronto has been doing exactly this for 13 years. It’s why you’re waiting longer for TTC, there are potholes everywhere, no affordable housing getting built, and limited spaces in city programs for kids, adults & seniors. This is austerity, the destruction of city life.
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We might not have another federal election for more than 1,000 days. Every Canadian not named Pierre Poilievre must be thrilled about this.
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If anyone believes the Carey Price situation has been blown out of proportion, they should point the finger at him. He posed with a gun that’s not being banned, calling the nonexistent banning of it unjust. He blew it out of proportion to support a shitty gun nut organization.
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