Jason Wagar
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@311Toronto
It’s now after 3 pm and I guess Animal Services hasn’t been by, because someone’s having some fun now:
http://t.co/ff0ybbm5cX
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CN Rail posted a net profit of $4.216 billion last year.
JUST IN: CN Rail confirms it is laying off roughly 450 employees due to the ongoing rail blockades.
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Mike Harris is being appointed to the Order of Ontario while serving as Chair of Chartwell, which raked in massive profits as residents fell ill and died.
No words.
As Chancellor of the Order of Ontario, it is with great pride that I congratulate the 2019 and 2020 Order of Ontario appointees.
Read about the 47 new appointments ➡
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And it’s just SUCH A COINCIDENCE that the Ontario Science Centre board, who last night decided to close the site, is stacked with Conservative insiders…
#onpoli
#BREAKING
The Ford government is closing the Ontario Science Centre today. They say a report has found the roof is at risk of collapsing. Fences are already going up here.
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@311Toronto
There’s a dead raccoon on the sidewalk outside 819 Yonge (at the SE corner of Church).
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what if
you stopped paying attention to the polls
what if
you paid attention to the issues
what if
you voted for the candidate you wanted most
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In lieu of flowers, family of Conrad the
#DeadRaccoonTO
asks for donations to
@TWC_Wildlife
to help orphaned critters
http://t.co/QxC4DK88aL
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Solid analysis from
@CBCQueensPark
shows just how much critical revenue the LCBO generates for all of us.
It pays for schools, healthcare, roads, + other public services.
Yet again, the Conservatives are taking our money and giving it away to their friends.
#onpoli
NEW: Here's an in-depth look at how the LCBO makes money, from the really huge numbers ($7.4 billion in gross sales last year) to the small ones ($5.97 from a $14 bottle of wine.)
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This morning
@MaritStiles
challenged Ford’s Conservatives to implement three simple solutions to help shorten ER wait times and prevent closures right away:
1️⃣ Drop appeal of
#Bill124
2️⃣ Establish safe nurse-patient staffing ratios
3️⃣ Cap private healthcare agencies
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Ford’s Conservatives saw the engineering report on the Science Centre roof as a convenient way out of a political problem. “Unsafe! Put up massive fences to underscore the point!”
Huge political miscalculation.
Now the original architectural firm is calling their bluff.
#onpoli
Please refer to Moriyama Teshima Architects' official update regarding the
@OntScienceCtr
.
#ontariosciencecentre
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Instead of fixing this, the Conservatives are spending our tax dollars on a private luxury spa and to rip up contracts a couple years early.
They don't care about you.
#onpoli
A local MPP posted shocking images of a partially flooded Humberside Collegiate Institute, calling out the Ford government for letting Ontario's public schools fall into a desperate state of disrepair.
"We have hit rock bottom."
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Patiently waiting for a
@ShopprsDrugMart
cashier earlier. They encouraged me to use the self-checkout. I said I didn’t like to use those because I thought they were bad for workers.
They told me “there’s trouble” if less than 50% of their sales aren’t through those machines.
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Desperate to show she's a "different kind of Liberal" (their party's words, not mine), Bonnie Crombie has invited *checks notes*
CHRISTY CLARK
to speak at the Ontario Liberals' AGM.
Unsurprising, as just like Crombie, Clark has a lot in common with Doug Ford, too.
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Ford's early election tease has been a boon for
@MaritStiles
'
@OntarioNDP
, who've raised $1.1 million in just ten weeks. 20,000 donations.
Voters who want Ford gone are coalescing around Stiles—expect that to grow as they get to know her better.
#onpoli
NEW: Premier Doug Ford says at a news conference, "We aren't having an election this year."
@RichardCityNews
asked the premier if he'd rule out a "winter" or "spring" election, which he didn't.
@ColinDMello
followed up, but Ford wasn't any more specific on its possible timing.
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.
@TheJagmeetSingh
makes it clear—the next election will be a race between:
Conservatives, who’ll give away even more of our money to big corporations,
and
New Democrats, who’ll fix healthcare, build homes we can actually afford, and tackle runaway greed.
#ChooseHope
#ParkHP
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Imagine relying on a pension you worked hard to earn and it abruptly disappeared. This should be illegal.
#canlab
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While Premier, he helped build Ontario’s immoral long-term care system, which is one of the finest examples of “profits over people.”
Here’s
@CanadiansOrg
on the matter.
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Toronto Police Chief Myron Demkiw ought to resign.
If he won't, he should be removed.
#topoli
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@BonnieCrombie
…here’s Ontario’s Liberal government announcing beer in billionaire Galen Weston’s Loblaws stores.
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38 years ago today, Toronto Police arrested 286 people after raiding four gay bathhouses with sledgehammers and axes.
The next day, 3,000 took to the street to protest police harassment.
(Photo by Gary Hershorn, via
@queer_history
)
#PrideTO
#canqueer
#topoli
#onpoli
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Mainstreet's latest polls show Ontario starting to gather behind
@AndreaHorwath
and the
@OntarioNDP
—look at that voter intention line.
They also have the NDP seat count ahead of the Liberals by a full 20 seats.
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And here’s
@TorontoStar
on how Chartwell paid out $98.3 million to shareholders after receiving more than $3 million from provincial governments for front-line workers’ pandemic pay.
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.
@maritstiles
is the real deal. Not only will she hold Ford to account in the Legislature, but she will use her background in organizing to bring people together for meaningful change. I’m really excited about what this means for the
@OntarioNDP
and for our province.
#onpoli
I’m honoured to be the next leader of Ontario’s NDP.
The work to defeat Doug Ford and form a government that works for people starts right now.
Be a part of it:
#onpoli
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Tesla made ~500,000 cars last year.
Now it’s recalling 475,000.
Tesla recalls more than 475,000 Model 3 and Model S electric cars
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Moving beyond clickbait headlines: Great Barrier Reef not dead—but on life support. Not too late. Need to act now
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Every. single. move. Ontario's Conservative government makes stinks of corruption.
They are taking our money and using it to enrich a select few of their already wealthy friends.
#onpoli
#NEW
: The Financial Accountability Office of Ontario is launching a formal inquiry into the Ford government's decision to close 9 ServiceOntario outlets and convert them into Staples Canada stores, 680 NewsRadio has learned.
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Stiles’ NDP demonstrating they have the chops to be a government for rural and urban Ontarians alike.
#onpoli
In Wilmot, Ontario, farmers are being told that they have to sell their land to the government or it will be confiscated.
We held a town hall to get to the bottom of this with nearly 500 in attendance.
#ONpoli
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These companies pay workers a poverty wage, then try to squeeze out even more profit by moving the labour onto the customer.
Then these companies further punish the workers if not enough customers don’t want to use those machines.
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Brutal: as many as a third of unemployed Canadians will not qualify for either EI or CERB. This program has more holes than swiss cheese. Fix it now!
#ParkHP
#cdnpoli
New financial supports are in place to help unemployed Canadian workers during
#COVID19
but new analysis from
@DavidMacCdn
shows how many workers are left out.
#cdnecon
#cdnpoli
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Yuk yuk the Premier just joked that all of those sick and disabled Ontarians in pain—those anxiously watching the clock for their turn in an MRI—are less important than animals.
While he forces us into a two-tier system where the rich get care, faster, and everyone else is SOL.
At a ribbon cutting ceremony for King Animal Hospital on Tuesday, Premier Ford seemed to joke about Ontario's burdened health care system. Ford quipped that overflow patients can attend the animal hospital for their MRIs and CT scans.
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“…no immediate concerns observed…”
–City of Toronto inspector on the Ontario Science Centre.
#onpoli
City inspectors scrambled to respond to Ontario Science Centre shutdown: documents
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Someone’s having a bit of fun with this poor guy (who’s been there since at least 8:45 this AM). Yonge & Church.
http://t.co/4WshUGX4uM
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@ConsumerSOS
@selwynpieters
Two things can be true at once.
1. Homelessness in Toronto is a crisis.
2. It's shitty to film an unhoused person without their permission and post it on the internet.
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Polls don't vote.
Projections don't vote.
People vote.
So go vote! And vote for the candidate you *want* to win—the candidate who most closely reflects your values, who shares your vision for a better province, and who you want to represent your voice.
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If you haven't already, go get your shot!
'Supply is no longer the problem:' Toronto has 34,000 vaccination appointments still available for this week
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Hold on—Trudeau came to Parkdale Legal's temporary home, did a photo op and announced funding for legal aid services for refugees + immigrants, and it turns out the clinic won't see a cent? All that public money is going to private bar lawyers using LAO certificates? Wow.
#ParkHP
@viraniarif
@JustinTrudeau
#FactCheck
: None of this money will flow to community legal aid clinics like
@ParkdaleLegal
or the immigrants and refugees who rely on them.
#ParkHP
#cdnpoli
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This episode of
@onthemedia
, on the secrecy + overstepping of US Customs & Border Control, is remarkable
#journalism
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Shut down by the very same Conservative MPP who supported the closure of a busy ER in her own riding.
Conservatives promised an end to the Ontario Liberals’ scandals + secrets. To be the most transparent gov’t in Ontario’s history.
Instead, they doubled down.
#onpoli
Yesterday we gave Ford and his politicians a chance to testify about why they closed your Ontario Science Centre.
They shut it down hard.
Ontario, you deserve answers.
#ONpoli
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@MacLeodLisa
Another bad faith, willful misunderstanding that does nothing more than sow the seeds of division.
If MPP MacLeod were in Cabinet, she'd be the Minister of Rage Farming.
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Compare two
#onpoli
leaders:
@MaritStiles
announces a smart idea the gov't could do *right now* to make life better for people and takes it to debate in the Legislature.
Crombie pops out of hiding to announce what she wouldn't do if she hypothetically became Premier in 2026.
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It’s almost like Doug Ford is privatizing healthcare the way Kathleen Wynne privatized hydro.
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ok ok ok ok so the Halton County Radial Railway Museum is very cool AND DID YOU KNOW OLD RAILCARS USED TO HAVE THIS FEATURE? (starring
@jplarocque
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uhhhh looks like this guy's renting a saran wrap dome for $100 / night (incl meals) on airbnb
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This inspired me to make a donation to
@stjoespromise
in support of their
#COVID19
response.
Kudos to the healthcare professionals for keeping our
#ParkHP
communities safe.
Went into the Emergency Dept. at St Joseph’s Hospital in
#Toronto
for a suspected broken finger. I was asked to wear a mask, which I refused to do. As a result, hospital staff asked me to leave and immediately called 3 security guards to escort me out.
#filmyourhospital
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The Ontario Liberals are making no efforts to hide the fact that Crombie, Ford, and Clark are all cut from the same cloth.
They put themselves and their friends first, and everyone else last.
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No better cautionary tale to temper excitement about the privatized redevelopment of Ontario Place and those flashy renderings than Hotel X.
how it started how it’s going
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Tell me if any of this sounds familiar:
Clark oversaw a scheme that saw BC Liberal donors buy up land for cheap.
Clark spent millions of public dollars on a partisan propaganda campaign.
Clark's staff skirted FOI rules by deleting government emails.
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Wore the loudest shirt I own to go cast my ballot for one of the hardest working and most principled activists I know:
@BhutilaKarpoche
.
#ParkHP
—and Ontario—are better with Bhutila.
#StrongReadyNDP
#onelxn
#onpoli
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.
@MaritStiles
directly challenges Doug Ford on his early election rumours: bring it.
#onpoli
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They said “it’s actually a help if you use those machines because then we don’t get reprimanded.”
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“I should definitely get an Apple Watch in order to track my exercise!”
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✔️ new licence plates
✔️ new logo
✔️ new unsedated colonoscopies
#ONpoli
BREAKING: the Ford government is trying to find close to half a billion dollars in savings from OHIP. It’s looking at reducing pain injections, some MRI’s, sedation for colonoscopies and more - determining which are overused or unnecessary. A
@CityNews
exclusive tonight.
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These empty chairs have a better plan
#onpoli
The CPAC hold music is ominous as hell, playing as the camera stares at empty chairs. It's wildly apocalyptic.
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Clark took millions from land speculators all while having one of the worst records on housing affordability.
Clark took her province backwards on climate action.
Clark's party was investigated by the RCMP over suspicious political donations from deep-pocket donors.
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Clark froze disability rates while the cost of living went up and up.
Clark ripped up bus passes for people with disabilities.
Clark slashed funding for women's centres.
...The list goes on and on.
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"You cannot elect a leader who takes money from the same people who are donating to Doug Ford and says that somehow they're going to act any different."
–Liberal Yasir Naqvi on Bonnie Crombie
#onpoli
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Folks around Dufferin Grove Park realllllly excited to cast their ballots for
@BravoDavenport
today!! (And a huge number already have!!)
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On last night's virtual
@NDP
rally, dozens of young people—many of whom who said they've never taken political action before—sign up to host virtual phone banks for
@theJagmeetSingh
.
It was remarkable. And the organizers were so excited!
Even more wind in the sails.
#NDP
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Meanwhile, in the real world,
@MaritStiles
continues her quest to clean up corruption at Queen’s Park.
#onpoli
NEW - NDP leader Marit Stiles says she is calling on the Auditor General to start a probe into “private fee-based health care” It comes as some nurse practitioner clinics charge for access.
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This little orange going to cast their ballot just made my day. Received it in an email from the
@NDP
to remind me to vote for
@PaulTaylorNDP
later on today!
#ParkHP
#cdnpoli
#elxn43
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At the same time
@MaritStiles
was working hard to stand up for thousands of small businesses facing layoffs and closure...
Doug Ford was handing cash to Walmart and hosting a $1,000-a-plate fundraiser...
And Crombie was nowhere to be found.
#ONpoli
Your MPP for Toronto Centre,
@KristynWongTam
, and I are calling on the province to join the
@OntarioNDP
’s call for an extension of the CEBA loan deadline until the end of 2024.
#ONpoli
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#MeanwhileInCanada
We can do better than this. Our PM needs to quit the PR campaign and get to work helping more people in need.
#cdnpoli
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Ontarians have sacrificed a lot since March—folks have lost jobs, homes, loved ones... others have worked on the front lines (sometimes in risky situations) and kept away from family and friends.
And our finance minister takes not one but TWO holidays out of the country.
#onpoli
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okay
i've oiled the wood table
descaled the coffee maker
hemmed the curtains
organized the junk drawer
sorted the recycling
arranged footwear by season, colour, and style
regrouted the bathroom tile
tightened the hinges on the french doors
now what
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@Kathleen_Wynne
With respect, as Transport Minister, you helped the Fords cancel Transit City—wasting years and throwing out millions of dollars of work:
#onpoli
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.
@MaritStiles
'
@OntarioNDP
filed an elections complaint over last year's fundraiser after the NDP found questionable donations...
#onpoli
#StarExclusive
: Doug Ford's Tories set to abandon lucrative fundraiser in wake of Greenbelt scandal
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"If only someone in charge of the province would do something!"
- Ontario Premier Doug Ford
#onpoli
Premier Doug Ford says Ontario is officially in 2nd wave of COVID-19. 'We know it will be worse than the first wave and our actions will decide if it is a wave or a tsunami.'
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social distancing, day forty-one:
using this t-shirt design from
@yourewrongabout
to reply to every message on every platform
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I am announcing that later this afternoon, I will announce that tomorrow, I will make an announcement.
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Solidarity with the
@OPSEU
Local 535 members on strike at
@agotoronto
.
I’m a loyal AGO member who will not be crossing a picket line until these workers get a fair deal.
#ArtMatters
and so do arts workers.
#canlab
More than 400 Art Gallery of Ontario workers to begin striking immediately
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If I were Bonnie Crombie and needed to shake off my reputation as an out-of-touch, developer-connected elitist, I’m not sure I would host a $1,700-a-ticket cocktail reception with an out-of-touch, developer-connected elitist.
#onpoli
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Ford’s To-Do List:
☑️ Create crisis in public healthcare through underfunding and cuts
➡️ Privatize it
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Yup.
Thankful for the
@OntarioNDP
’s
@BhutilaKarpoche
,
@JessicaBellTO
,
@kernaghant
, +
@JoelHardenONDP
for bringing forward the Rent Stabilization Act. It’s up for second reading Thursday.
It’d help ensure a new tenant pays no more than what the last tenant paid.
#ParkHP
#onpoli
We have seen a stark increase of no-fault evictions and renovictions in Ontario as a result of vacancy decontrol.
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Wonderful first screening at
@ParadiseOnBloor
. Toronto's newest—and most beautiful—movie palace.
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So much for a Bonnie Bump...
Under Crombie, the Ontario Liberals have their worst polling average in the first three months after picking a new leader since the 80s.
😶
#onpoli
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@queensprincipal
Sanctioned or not, this atrocious behaviour from students symptomatic of a larger issue beyond overdue to be addressed.
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“We consulted with Canadians but we didn’t like what the overwhelming majority said so we’re going to pretend we didn’t hear them.”
#cdnpoli
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More cartoon villainy from the Premier of Ontario.
A secret plan to fill in part of Lake Ontario…
…what did he promise behind closed doors, and to whom?
#onpoli
We've unearthed documents revealing the Ford Conservative's secret plans for "Phase 2" at Ontario Place....
They'll override any law, pave over our lakefront , give away millions of $$, to benefit their insider friends while Ontarians struggle
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“I am not this film’s target audience.”
No, it’s made for people with empathy and humanity, a sense of humour and fun.
Honestly, the only thing exhausting here is how delicate
@Sean_OConnell
is and cis white dudes’ stranglehold over film criticism.
His loss!
#TurningRed
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