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ADVOCATE Poverty/Disabilities/Elderly
EX PRESS SEC
Public Health Ontario/Ontario Ministry of Health/EPCOR/
Pol staff HoC/QP/CityHall
I am happy beyond belief twitter in Ontario today is dominated by Aurora Borealis and good vibes.
I can't remember the last time everyone was so happy at the same time over the same thing.
(I hope it encourages more people to get into astronomy)
Let's keep the good vibes going
Repeat:
Never. Leave. A. Loved. One. Alone. In. A. Hospital. when seriously ill.
Ever.
A friend or relative must be at their bedside at all times if possible, or as much as possible. Their life chances and recovery depend on it bc nurses can't provide the full care they need.
Dear Americans:
I've watched every presidential visit to Canada closely.
This was by far the most enjoyable I can ever recall.
Your President is a good man. I believe he means what he says and doesn't spin us. He's a decent human being.
You elected a good one here. Thank you
The President of the United States just scolded the Conservative caucus for not clapping for 50% women cabinets.
The Conservatives are now an international embarrassment. The whole world just saw that.
Thank you Joe!
Apparently the UK Ambassador to Afghanistan (Sir Laurie Bristow) held out at the Embassy to get his people out first.
And now he's at the Kabul airport getting Afghan interpretors out one by one.
Extraordinary courage.
If we decided that $2000 a month is a basic requirement to live for out of work workers.
Why are we making people who are often the most vulnerable of society, and the sick and disabled, live in crushing poverty at 650-1050 a month?
None of my schools had a graveyard when I was growing up, marked or unmarked.
The only things our schools buried in the ground were time capsules.
Child graves at schools is not normal.
It's genocide.
The Prime Minister is isolating because his child has Covid.
Erin O'Toole knows this.
For him to demand Trudeau meet with the convoy is beyond absurd, it's offensive. Especially after the sight of a confederate flag.
Your daily reminder that we decided humans need $2000 a month on CERB to survive in Canada for basic life essentials.
But we refuse the same humanity and dignity to people with disabilities, health conditions and long term unemployed. We make them live at about $1050.
I was diagnosed HIV positive 6.5 years ago.
One pill a day and I am undetectable and untransmissable and healthy.
Now it seems, whenever the treatment is approved in Canada, all I will require is a couple injections every couple months.
Science has nearly defeated HIV!
I know very little about Premier Cochrane so I'll confess that ignorance right off the bat.
But yesterday she drove around Yellowknife with an unhoused person looking for more unhoused people to assist personally and help evacuate.
This Premier deserves our respect.
Ideally, get a group of family and friends to do shifts.
Patients who have worse outcomes or die of something very preventable are usually alone.
**Every hospital in-patient needs a 24-7 advocate at their side.**
(fin)
Oh my God. The White House didn't only change the transcript, *they also altered the video this way on their website.*
Which mimicks what the Kremlin did. ๐ฒ
#Maddow
POTUS says goodbye and thank you to Elizabeth May and Jagmeet, and walks right by Pierre without looking at him or saying a word after that cringe handshake earlier.
Confirmed: Joe thinks he's a weasel.
Joe is a good judge of character.
Dear British Tabloids:
Welcome to Canada.
1. Prince Harry served 10 years in the British army serving alongside Canadians inc 2 tours in Afghanistan.
2. He also almost single-handedly helped significantly dent HIV stigma in the UK.
Harry and Meghan deserve all our respect.
Look at this: after a speech supporting abortion rights, Liberal, NDP, Green and Bloc MPs clap, or rise to applause.
The entire Conservative caucus in the House does nothing. Sit stone cold. And there's your answer if you are worried about a CPC govt and women's health.
The Prime Minister does not have a private jet.
The Prime Minister is required to travel via Royal Canadian Air Force assets that exist for the federal govt to safely transport military and govt leadership across Canada and the world.
If Trudeau insisted on commercial he would
Voters in Alberta and Ontario re-elected governments that completely destroyed their health systems.
It boggles my mind.
And makes me very angry.
I don't understand this country.
It's batshit crazy.
CBC is a publicly funded broadcaster. That's vital in a big country like Canada. Without it huge numbers of Canadians would have no regional news reporting or broadcaster at all.
But CBC is independently operated and managed.
The Prime Minister cannot call up Adriene Arsenault
I'm sorry, I know there is other news today, but I still can't get over that a hotel sheltering refugees was LIT ON FIRE after a Toronto Sun columnist printed hateful lies about them AND NOTHING HAS HAPPENED TO HER OR HER EDITOR.
While a divorced single Dad, Pierre Trudeau led the creation of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, while raising three extraordinary children, one of whom would be Prime Minister one day.
FYI.
Olivia Chow has not stopped to even breathe since she was elected.
She's not even sworn in yet and she's already mediating key disputes, meeting one on one with key community service providers and hammering together workable action plans.
Around the clock.
Thus exposing...
At Minimum:
1. Premier Ford must resign. This is not about one minister and his CoS. It's a massive $8 BILLION PLUS criminal conspiracy directed out of the Premier's Office.
2. A full blown PUBLIC judicial inquiry with sweeping powers to compel testimony from anyone it wishes.
TD Bank has been charging me $40 a month in bank fees.
I'm unemployed. I draw from my amount maybe 3 or 4 times a month, usually transferring money to my parents for expenses.
I think it's outrageous. I'm going to demand they pay me back or I'm leaving TD. Fed up with this bank
It is not okay to ask a Prime Minister or any politician sensitive details about their private life.
It is always okay to ask them how they are feeling! Respectful and tasteful.
Well done JP!
Well done Prime Minister!
And well done Canadians for giving the Trudeaus privacy.
Imagine for a moment, that we knew Paul and Karla Homolka's victims were discarded in a landfill.
Next, imagine their families were told it wouldn't be searched.
There would have been riots in the streets.
So, what's the difference?
I would support an Emergency Order prohibiting protests at vaccination clinics.
This is urgent now because children are attending these clinics.
#onpoli
I LOVE this Governor-General.
Look at this hug Mary Simon gave KD Lang who was overwhelmed and crying pretty hard (as one would hearing your life read out to you).
You can't fake that, Simon must be a beautiful person on the inside too.
I'm still amazed at the naivety of so many people in Canada.
If you don't think the Conservatives and far right movements are coming for our rights you haven't been paying attention.
This is a GRAVE SITE.
It is not a leisure park for you to do whatever the heck you want.
We need a law: ban all organized protests on the grounds of the memorial. This is a place for sombre reflection and respect NOT Speakers Corner.
Yes Doug Ford actually had the gall to say "walk a mile in my shoes" because it's a tough life sitting in a briefing "until midnight".
He said that as ICU and ER nurses, doctors and paramedics and essential workers are being driven to mental and physical collapse.
Ontarians:
Please ignore the premier.
Please ignore the Minister of Health.
DO NOT change your practices. Maintain strict distancing.
DO NOT go to events with hundreds of people.
DO NOT go to bars.
Maintain Stage 1/2 living.
Dear Dr. Moore:
Your absence this week while my friends and neighbours test positive for the first time - the virus is so close now it is on my doorstep - is the worst dereliction of duty I can recall or have witnessed from a senior Ontario public official perhaps ever.
Dear those who want to forgive Doug Ford:
Thousands of people are dead.
Thousands can't get their cancer surgeries.
Tens of thousands are sick.
He lied to us for a year about taking expert advice.
He was rejecting their advice the whole time.
He lied every single day.
That HUGE Conservative lead?
GONE.
Just like that.
After flirting with Pierre and getting to know him, 905 fence sitter voters found a way back to the Liberals.
Last month Governor General Mary Simon awarded KD Lang Canada's highest Honor for the performing arts.
And of course KD made it one of the most memorable award ceremonies EVER just being KD.
Watch KD Lang make the world laugh and cry in equal measure in the same moment:
Part 1
So, two things are clear.
Bell is in big trouble and is on the verge of losing huge numbers of subscribers. To quell public rage, they need to:
1. Fire Michael Melling.
2. Publicly apologize. Hire Lisa back?
Firing Melling won't be enough to satisfy their customers/audience
Doug Ford claims a nurse told him yesterday "Thank God you came here. We need the federal government to give us more vaccines".
I'm calling bullshit on this one.
#onpoli
I don't understand why we can't make masks at least mandatory in places like grocery stores.
We keep reinfecting each other with Covid and the flu and cold bugs. And we don't need to.
It's so senseless.
I had a friend who was violently attacked by his Dad when he told him he was gay. And he was an adult by then.
He threw his son down the stairs. So even when it's voluntary outing, it's dangerous.
No student should EVER be outed to their parents against their will.
#onpoli
They were stopping elderly people from getting life saving medication at their pharmacies and from getting food at their grocery store while subjecting residents to non-stop honking 24 hours a day.
The Convoy were a pack of disgusting criminals who belonged in prison cells.
If you're a gay man like me and you're not supporting Trans students in their moment of greatest threat and need, we can't be friends.
It's that simple.
Zero tolerance for hate against Trans people, period.
Too many of you are on the wrong side and it disgusts me.
Dear confused parents:
(that's as diplomatic as I can be)
Do you remember deciding you were straight and a man, or straight and a woman? Do you ever recall it being a choice?
Of course not. You knew who you were without asking the question or thinking about it.
I was RTd by Bette Middler. SHE READ MY WHOLE RANT.
I'm a gay man. Do you know how much Bette Middler means to me?
I might have a stroke. Or start crying. It will be one or the other.
Here's to the 90% of truckers who support vaccination and are doing their jobs keeping us well stocked and earning an honest income instead of grifting.
It's the most sickening, egregious, sleazy govt corruption scandal in Ontario in my lifetime. It rates as one of the worst most flagrant abuses of power in Canadian history. It would land most US Governors a lengthy prison sentence.
It's so serious...the Opposition should call
@Mikeggibbs
I don't know if you noticed Mike, but not one reporter thanked Ms. Lysk for her report, what the hell is going on in Ontario? NDP/Liberals want resignation of Clark, just Clark? What about Ryan Amato, chief of staff running amok?
I hate it when politicians yell at us during pandemic.
What I loved about Trudeau is that it was pretty clear he wasn't angry at us. He's angry at the premiers.
He screamed at them for us.
I liked that.
I worked for an Ontario Minister of Finance, and also inside a few government ministries.
Cabinet ministers cannot drive themselves on work days. In fact it's forbidden, an ironclad rule they have no say in at all.
Because:
1. Canada is a major world economic player. A modern
Finance Minister Freeland, says she doesnโt own a car, but neglects to mention her taxpayer-funded car and driver. Public records show she used a government car and chauffeur at least 15 times between April 2021 and March 2023 for travel around Toronto, Montreal and Quebec City.
The 100% full supermoon tonight from my telescope!
I have a stomach flu so it's hard for me to be out of bed and I'm nauseous but I did this anyway just for you twitterverse! ๐คฃ
Do NOT "both sides" this. The PCs are 100% to blame for disrupting your child's education.
How can parents tolerate knowing education workers use food banks bc the govt is underspending by 8 Billion Dollars?
Parents, stand with them for as long as it takes!
#StrikeBackOntario
WARNING:
Let's get ahead of this, okay?
Doug Ford is going to go on television today and yell at people. He's going to be angry. And the first impulse of many if not most people, will be "Good for Doug, he's right".
RESIST. THAT. COMPULSION.
He's playing you.
Nathan Phillips is on CNN.
What concerned you the most?
"Fear. Not for myself but fear for the next generations. Fear for where this country is going. Fear for those youth. Fear for their future, their souls, their spirits."
Good on the federal cabinet to come out strongly condemning the anti-๐ณ๏ธโ๐ violent rhetoric spewed last night in Edmonton.
It would be nice if the NDP and the Bloc and Greens would issue similarly worded condemnations:
#ableg
#cdnpoli
Nothing has smelled right about the China story.
Got a really bad feeling Global News has made a mistake and will get burned badly for it.
I'm sorry but I don't believe for one second Han Dong betrayed the Michaels.
It doesn't pass the smell test.
Why would a leaker who
Saskatchewan will allow bars to open.
With a 50% capacity rule.
And *hoping* drunk people will observe social distancing rules.
I didn't realize a government this stupid was possible in Canada. And I live in Ontario.
Guess what haters.
We have allies.
LOTS of them.
Allies who like us, fight to WIN: that's right the UNIONS!
And we're just getting started!
You threaten Trans and Queer youth we fight you for as long as it takes for you to leave them alone!
#TransRightsAreHumanRights
I'm with Trudeau and the feds on this one, I assume Jagmeet agrees:
THE PROVINCES MUST SPEND HEALTH TRANSFERS ON HEALTH, AND WHATEVER PRIORITIES THE FEDS SET.
The federal govt is ELECTED. Voters want them to ensure transfers aren't stolen and hidden by sketchy lying Premiers.
3 important things about the federal Judge's decision on the Emergencies Act:
1. *The Judge said he would have supported invoking the Act as they did had he been sitting around the cabinet table. That with the information they had at the time, the cabinet did the right thing.*
I am stunned and so happy to report a liason on an *unofficial off the record basis* with the Canadian Armed Forces contacted me.
They wanted me to know that a member of the military who sent me a homophobic message was identified.
They assured me that the Canadian military has
I hope most Canadians feel like I do and are absolutely disgusted with Pierre's personal attacks on David Johnston.
Pierre isn't fit to tie Johnston's shoelaces.
I'm one of those people who gets a severe reaction to Covid. I was almost hospitalized last year.
So I would appreciate it if people would do what they can to limit spread during this wave.
Wear a mask indoors around crowds. And get vaccinated when vaccines are available.
That extraordinarily emotional moment with the two Michaels was triggered by the Michaels.
They were waving to and thanking Minister Jolie.
She responds almost tearfully with her hand on her heart.
So obviously the govt's relations with the Michaels are unaffected by
I don't understand the point of back to school for a couple weeks while 3rd Wave is still raging and *no one has their second dose* as a menacing variant looms which is currently sweeping thru the world, and is already here.
Am I missing something?