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(Re)Tweeting #ClimateAction , govt inconsistency. Non-partisan. Usually snarking. #StopTMX she/her Not looking. Offline between 8 a.m. and 3 p.m.

Settler - Songhees & Esquimalt
Joined December 2008
Don't wanna be here? Send us removal request.
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@Liv_F
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23 days
Never more true.
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@Liv_F
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Which city in Canada needs to burn down to convince people that devastating wildfires are now a thing that happens, and a thing that needs to be taken seriously?
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Now imagine this heat without access to clean drinking water.
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@OheyitsAlex @TheElliotPage @UmbrellaAcad Like when Klaus was pining over lost love and Diego said who was she and Klaus said he and Diego said glad you found someone. There was no drama other than the actual real drama they all constantly face.
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@_ADWills Do steampunk whale airships count? (Scott Westerfeld)
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@FaeJohnstone I had short hair when I was a ten-year-old girl, and was mistaken for a boy several times (mortifying). When I said girl, the people who thought boy were embarrassed, apologised, and accepted that I was a girl. How far society has fallen that someone would now argue the point.
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@erinotoole We asked for UBI. You're offering a GST holiday, and half-price at Swiss Chalet (*some restrictions may apply). You might not be listening.
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@jkenney The number of bad decisions that had to be made for this to be created and tweeted by this account is staggering. Yet here it is.
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@ThatEricAlper Getting catalogues in the mail. I liked flipping through catalogues to see what was available, but, also, I really quite liked receiving big envelopes containing catalogues (the Wish Book, IKEA) in the mail. The whole paper catalogue experience.
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@richardmarx Freddie Mercury
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@Liv_F
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2 years
Trevor Noah is the most compassionate and well-spoken human. I love hearing his perspective on things.
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"I was never beefing with Kanye West, I was concerned about Kanye West." Trevor on his "beef" with Ye. #BetweenTheScenes
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#NewProfilePic Short dress, bare legs in solidarity with Ms Freeland's right to wear whatever she wants.
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@eanderson4791 @ask_aubry But I have so much sympathy for the baby.
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@JustinTrudeau Stop dismissing the protesters as being an anti-science "fringe" minority. They are people. Canadians. Voters. They are frustrated because they don't feel heard in your democracy. The hateful symbols and bad behaviour are appalling, but that's what it took to get your attention.
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A hero died today in the service of her country. Criticism of Rona's new job, Andrew's paperwork, Justin's spending, and Pierre's office decor can maybe wait for another day. RIP Capt. Jennifer Casey 🇨🇦💔🇨🇦
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@VancityReynolds @stevenpage @GGCanada @CanadasNAC Steven Page, references to Bruno Gerussi and Alex Trebek, and the Oh Henry bar Canucks jersey and a spirit bear all in one video! So much of the best Canadian love! And you deserve it.
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@mynamesnotgordy The "Live, Laugh, Love" on my new throw cushion is the wrong shade of teal.
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Hey Canada, let's try something new. Let's elect NO white men to public office for five years and see what happens. Just five years. Then we can open it up again. Who's in? #NoRoomForRacism #MMIWG #cdnpoli
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People say bacon is the barrier to going vegan. I could live without bacon. The real barrier is butter.
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@vancolour This is disgusting behaviour on the part of @jthornthwaite . The group chuckles are disappointing, but the story she tells, and the way she tells it are vile and nasty and petty. This says nothing about Bowinn or Ralph. It says so much about Jane.
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@ethanjweiss My name is ___ and I confess I am a sinner and fall short in the eyes of God. ___ And I thought the second one was really mean because they didn't know me at all. And I wouldn't sign it, and they said I had to, and I wouldn't, and they kicked me out. (It WAS really mean.) 2/2
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@PierrePoilievre That the CBC is a Crown corporation is breaking news for you? Has its funding model never come up in committees or budget debates or question period? I feel like you should have known that CBC was government-funded before now.
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We don't need to preserve history; we need to teach history.
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3 years
I lost a dear friend to cancer this morning. #fuckcancer
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@ArnoldViersen @Laurel_BC But, at some point today, you thought it was a good idea to make those comments. An apology for your attitude doesn't change your attitude.
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@mynamesnotgordy You have a family doctor? You must live in a fancy province.
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@Rainbow_Silks Taking the photo because it is cute and fun is fine. Some kids love playing dress-up. Orchestrating the photo so you will have it ready when your child lives out the life you have planned for them is a bit controlling and disturbing.
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@Sflecce So...you're back at the negotiating table making a good faith and maybe even generous offer? Because that's probably the most important tool available to you.
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@aswinn I told partner that doctors would agree to perform a lobotomy/hysterectomy on a woman at her husband's request without her consent until about mid last century. He didn't believe me, looked it up, then couldn't believe he hadn't heard about that.
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Catherine McKenna advocates for environmental causes! She'll be a great Environment Minister! Approves and buys TMX pipeline. Steven Guilbeault was arrested for his climate convictions. He'll be a great Environment Minister! Approves Bay du Nord. Are we doing this wrong?
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@GregFergus Well, that was gross. "You're aware of that?" "I've written on it." Dr. Jones is the epitome of preparedness and class. Mr. Brock is not.
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Building the TMX pipeline through fire and flood does not show strength and courage. Canada could show strength and courage by admitting that the TMX was a bad idea, or is a bad idea now, and stopping. #StopTMX #ClimateAction
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@KatuniaOB Stores that enforce mask-wearing should have disposable masks available at the door for anyone who has forgotten theirs. That's the case at a lot of stores here. "Please wear a mask. If you've forgotten yours, please ask staff and one will be provided." Or just a box by the door.
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I don't understand why the world is so broken. Why governments choose business over people, money over science. Why voters choose known liars over the possibility of the unknown. Why people who rely on science and expertise for living reject scientists and experts. I hate it.
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@deesnider I love the original, but the piano version you released to promote awareness of children's cancer is my favourite. Thank you for being both smart AND compassionate.
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Happy birthday to me! I'm older, you see! Some people are younger, But those people aren't me! 🎉💖🎈🎉🎈🎂🎈🎉🎈💖🎉
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@NikaDragomira I've voted in churches. A mosque is not different. It's an available building with space where they can set up.
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@ctvottawa As a fellow tall person, can confirm: Clothes fit differently on different people. As a mother: If you ever touch my daughter's mid-thigh for the purposes of a dress code 'blitz' or anything else, you will hear from me. A lot.
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@RudyCerda I want to say that one drew the shapes by directing the turtle. Just me?
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@JustinTrudeau Cancel Canada Day. Cancel it from the federal level. Your broken heart isn't enough here.
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@jkenney How do you know they are middle class teens, and are not blue collar teens? How do you know the rail workers are blue collar and not middle class? Why is your world so defined by perceived social stratum? #Wetsuweten
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@paulinaporizkov Late 40s. At exactly what age am I supposed to stop having fun? I'll be sure to pencil it in...somewhere.
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@SassyMetisChick ...I have never, ever before known or even heard stories of a man who wanted to, much less demanded to, be consulted on a woman's menstrual hygiene product choices. I... 🤯
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@hankgreen Yes. The ocean is *NOT* magic. You are absolutely right. *nods emphatically* (No one teach Hank the secret handshake.)
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@charleslafrance @Snowden @cancivlib That's the problem. If you defend this because it benefits you, but would oppose it if it didn't...let's just say that's not how values are supposed to work.
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@jjhorgan @wordsleadmeon If you had been more respectful of Indigenous rights, including the rights of the Wet'suwet'en, your statement would be more relevant. And we do not yet know how most of the fires were started. I hope you aren't jumping to conclusions.
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@om_eye_goodness No one is ever too old to be reading children's books. I could forgive his ignorance of Animal Farm far more quickly than his snark about children's lit.
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Vaccination saves people's lives. #StartAnArguementIn4Words
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@lovedoveclarke The bestie of a man I dated when I was 23 was convinced I was lying when I said I didn't have a child because of the stretchmarks on my hips (bf had a pool). He NEVER believed that they were just because of a growth spurt in puberty. Later, I had a kid. No new stretchmarks.🤷‍♀️
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@marcomendicino Did the RCMP ever figure out what happened at the Coastal GasLink site? Was that actually a thing? Was it staged? How is that investigation going?
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While you want the Canadian flag 🇨🇦 back, I want Norse mythology back. Get Odin's name off your clothes, dammit.
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@CTVNews 🙋‍♀️Hi, I'd like a status report on my file? 🇨🇦 That sounds like a lot of work for us. Have you considered death as an option?
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I saw a woman wearing a fabulous red gingham sundress yesterday, and I said: "I love your dress," and she said: "F @ck you."
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@JBar1982 They didn't check the entry requirements before traveling?
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Remember Trudeau's electoral campaign pledge about camping? Is that why Kenney is closing parks in Alberta? Is Kenney deriding camping the way MacKay belittles yoga? Is this another "I'm the opposite of Trudeau" thing? #cdnpoli #abpoli
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@CBCEarlyEdition Those pesky people on the right side of history. How dare they keep reminding us that the world needs our help. (Compared to the $12.6B the Cdn govt is happy to spend building the TMX, a fraction of $3M is small change.)
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@mynamesnotgordy "I've been informed that it is irresponsible to be dangerously stupid in public. And yet, I expect that I will do it again."
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$23,000,000,000 is a really big number. Remember it when the federal govt asks you to be excited that they've spent $8,000,000 on green energy or housing. Taxpayers have spent at least $23B on pipeline subsidies and supports since 2018: report
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@mynamesnotgordy @AndrewScheer And often separated from him not just by distance but also by a hedge.
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@Innasol However did nature survive before people learned about raking the forest, and tidying out the logs, and things? It's a miracle any trees grew to be hundreds of years old at all without human intervention. Assuming you know anything about anything, and aren't just making shit up.
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"I know a lot of people are suffering, but I'm not, so I think you should reward this government to ensure my personal ongoing comfort," may not be the compelling political argument you think it is.
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When you keep talking about your ex, five years after a bad break-up, your ex is winning. Canada, it's time to move on from PM Stephen Harper. Focus on the boyfriend you have.
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@dannywalls644 "...fuck of her own free will..." Is that a thing people say? "I went out with a great person last night, and then I fucked them of their own free will." ??? ?
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@PaulDoroshenko @CBCKatie "Is it a rule you just made up?" I love that. Thank you, Katie.
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@AndrewScheer LOL Justin Trudeau is focused on personal attacks? @JustinTrudeau is mostly focused on governing. @AndrewScheer splits his time between personal attacks and spreading fake news.
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Righteous superiority. Well worth 22 minutes of your time to hear @hankgreen dive into some issues around social media. Thanks, Hank, for "I don't know." 💖 "What if Facebook Disappeared?"
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Taken at the same place as this profile pic. For perspective on how far from normal this air quality is. #YYJ #Smoke
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@ask_aubry Wet nurses. Whatever food was around that could be eaten would be fed to babies that needed to be fed. And breastfeeding was a thing more than ten years ago. I have no idea what point these people are trying to make, but throughout history, babies that needed to be fed were fed.
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@MikeKofiA I learned about King Leopold from Trevor Noah.
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BC is on fire. Below is the rough route of TMX. You can't really get from YEG to Burnaby without crossing the BC Interior. Now on fire. While we expand a pipeline through it. To carry more oil to fund the fight against climate change (???). Which is why we're on fire. #StopTMX
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Woah! That was a terrifying experience driving the #coquihalla , just north of Britton Creek. I’m shaking! 😱💔 We made it through just as they were stopping southbound traffic @DriveBC #bcwildfires #Kamloops 7pm August 15, 2021
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@mynamesnotgordy I very much hope that that doesn't become the internationally accepted standard of measurement for freedom.
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@janicesghost @ballerguy A male friend of mine once realised he had food poisoning in the process of taking a woman to bed, and tried to make apologies as he ran to the bathroom. When he came back, she was in tears because she thought he thought she was fat. Sometimes, it's actually food poisoning.
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@brittlestar You aren't truly Canadian until you've helped to push a car out of the snow.
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This past summer would have been a good time to hire students to start planting 2 billion trees.
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@pressprogress Ah yes. The notorious Tofino Freemasons.
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@NickAdamsinUSA Could I be deported to Cuba? I hear they have doctors.
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Not only does 2020 suck, but it seems to suck particularly badly in Canada. So, to everyone who has some control over what life is like in Canada? Let's work together to reduce the level of suck. Smile. Wash your hands. Say something positive. Be safe. I'm done with the suck.
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@PierrePoilievre How is Leonardo DiCaprio a gatekeeper here? A gatekeeper to what? He is a person voicing his opinion. By "Remove the gatekeepers," do you mean "Silence expression and dissent"? Because, no.
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@StephenPunwasi Never heard of this, but it sounds like the premise of "Anne of Green Gables" where Matthew and Marilla asked for "a boy to help on the farm."
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So much more love than hate in #yyj . #TransRightsAreHumanRights
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Minister Savage is complaining that enviros are attacking the war room. The *war* room. If the Govt of AB wasn't gearing up for a fight, maybe they should have called it the mediation room. Or the knowledge centre. You call it a war room, you get what you get.
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You havta admit, those shifty environmentalists are doing a great job discrediting the war room #ableg
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@denisebatters Were you hoping for something that would escalate the situation, Senator? Because, if you were, that would be appalling.
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@JesseCDNMitche1 @luceforma @ArelyKelly26 When your daughter dyes her hair anyway to make a point, don't be a jerk about it. It's her hair, it's just hair, and, at 13, she's supposed to be testing boundaries.
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@JonesSebastian That Fort Mac wasn't more of a wake-up call still shocks me.
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I hate this woman. I don't hate many things. I don't like hating generally. I hate Sen. Denise Batters. That is all.
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Cannot get used to these black 🇨🇦 jerseys. We’re the good guys! #WorldJuniors
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@gbosslet If anyone (including the teacher) uses the wrong name or pronoun (wrong being not what the kid wants) for anyone in my kid's classes at school, all the students shout back the correct one, and shame whoever got it wrong. The kids have each other's backs. Which is awesome.
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@MayoFields @ask_aubry The blood usually is.
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@basecampbeers @maxfawcett Salt and butter are the "secret" ingredients in just about every good restaurant meal.
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I am filling my glass from a box of white wine on the floor in the mudroom because the fridge is full and the mudroom is fairly cold. Yes. I am just that classy.
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@PeterMacKay We're not really at a standstill, or held hostage, and the railways aren't really the foundation of the country anymore, but it does sound scarier your way.
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@ser_boromir @ChadOhman A parent might do worse than that.
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@ethanjweiss I joined a group called Pioneer Girls (in Grade 3?) because a friend said it was fun and they did crafts and things, and on week three they gave me a Bible and opened to the first page where there were two places to write my name: 1/2
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@mstyczen @Reuters Wash your hands. Wear a mask. Wear a condom. Use a glory hole. Wash your hands again. Layers of protection are best.
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@jjhorgan "Church fires are part of life." John Horgan in an earlier draft, maybe.
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@brandongonez FFS Ontario. When I suggested, a year ago, that you take to the streets, I meant protest Pr. Ford's cuts to public spending and environmental protections. You instead waited until now to protest because of a lack of cutting of your hair? I guess, until it hits you personally...
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I was horrified at how drab and dated the Ontario public school classroom was in @Sflecce 's tweet. Turns out, Mr. Flecce wouldn't know an Ontario public school classroom if he saw one. Maybe he hasn't. #onpoli #cutshurtkids
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@Sflecce So the poster falling off the wall in this tweet struck me as odd. Then I investigated. Turns out the minister decided to attack Ontario teachers using a stock photo from a classroom in Hortolandia, Brazil. I even found the guy who took the picture. ⬇️
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@mynamesnotgordy Feeling unexpected solidarity with rodeo horses now, and the image of Mr. Poilievre sobbing quietly...sigh. I'm a bad person. But YOU bring great joy.
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@EricaEhm Of course we cover their care. We don't withhold health care from people because we disagree with their choices. Smokers, reckless drivers, back country skiers, cliff divers, people who return to abusive situations, drug users, competitive boxers or MMA fighters... All covered.
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Love for WarGames! Always happy to see love for WarGames.
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