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@TomPark1n
Tom Parkin
5 years
A real moment. Singh, pledging the $1.8B needed for clean water in First Nations communities, is asked if he’s writing a “blank cheque” for all indigenous people. His response is as measure and firm as we have come to expect of Jagmeet.
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Tom Parkin
2 years
If Pierre Poilievre and Candice Bergen are having a tantrum, something good for Canadians probably just happened
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2 years
Canada — 38M pop — 34,000 COVID deaths Florida — 21M pop — 66,000 COVID deaths Texas — 29M pop — 81,000 COVID deaths American “patriots” at work
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2 years
Singh used his power to force Trudeau to start a national dental plan — big win for many Canadians Poilievre, who enjoys a generous dental plan paid by us, today voted to deny a dental plan for kids of families earning under $70,000 Pierre Poilievre — not in it for you!
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2 years
Air Canada executives decided to sell tickets to flights they couldn’t staff then dumped the resulting chaos on understaffed workers to take the stress and harassment. Execs then blamed the federal government for the mess they created. Nice people.
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3 months
Bell took $40M in public money, used it to up the dividend, sold the assets, fired the employees Let’s Talk!
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Lauren O’Neil
3 months
“After announcing the job cuts, Bell said it would push ahead with a more generous dividend payout to its shareholders.”
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2 years
Amazing that by the end of this year, every Canadian child under 12 in even a modest-income family will be able to visit the dentist for free, just as they can go to a physician or have surgery We can do great things when we try
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4 years
CBC edited out the clip of police driving two cars into a line of people — that’s the story. Since when does journalism delete the story? CBC needs to explain.
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Luke LeBrun
4 years
Here's a side-by-side comparison of what CBC News Network aired this afternoon and the original video clip. I'll let you be the judge about whether the final 5 seconds that @CBCNews omitted from its broadcast showed events that had public interest value.
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Tom Parkin
2 years
The people with f*ck Trudeau t-shirts and bumper stickers are disgusted with a tweet by Peterborough’s mayor
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2 years
Just a simple suggestion for Conservative MPs: if you don’t want to be accused of supporting an illegal occupation where Nazi flags are flown, don’t support illegal occupations where Nazi flags are flow
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1 year
John Carpay has been arrested and charged, Convoy 2.0 has been cancelled, Jordan Peterson has been sanctioned by his professional college and Pierre Poilievre is the most unpopular new Conservative leader ever Things are looking up! Happy New Year!
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1 year
My guess is Ford, Smith and Moe are fighting the federal push to share comparable provincial health care data because it’d show their defunding has accelerated the crisis and their privatization schemes don’t fix it I’d like to see the data
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2 years
I’m disgusted the mayor of Ottawa would agree to surrender parts of Ottawa to continued far-right occupation This whole situation is deeply disturbing
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2 years
Poilievre has “spent every minute of his time in office fighting against fair wages, good pensions and a better life for working people. He is not a worker, and he definitely doesn’t get what it means to be a member of the working class.”
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Getting punked by comics like the 22 Minutes guy are a chance for a politician to show they a have sharp wit and can laugh Poilievre’s response was witless, plodding, and he threatened the guy’s job. Total boor.
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Tom Parkin
2 years
Danielle Smith is a field test of what a Pierre Poilievre govt would be like. Sorry it had to be you, Alberta.
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Tom Parkin
2 years
Reporting that Poilievre is building alliances with far-right extremists isn’t a smear, it’s just a statement of fact We’re lucky to have reporters with the courage to do their jobs even while being intimidated — in the name of freedom — on behalf of someone seeking to be PM
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2 years
Pierre Poilievre’s collapsing support among young voters is quite the story
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Tom Parkin
2 years
The freedum™️ crowd has not protested the new Ontario law that coerces vulnerable patients into long term care facilities so I don’t think their concern is really about loss of freedom
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1 year
Globe editorial: “There was no actual investigation into the matter, no fact-finding, no search for narratives other than the premier’s. “In short, Mr. Ford said he didn’t do anything wrong, and the integrity commissioner said, ‘Okay.’”
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Tom Parkin
2 years
The Conservative Party is dead. Long love the Convoy Party!
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Tom Parkin
9 months
How do you fire a corrupt premier with a majority government?
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Tom Parkin
2 years
Bad start for Poilievre: - polling shows a net negative leadership score - MP quits - calls press conference with no questions allowed - flames out on a journalist. There is a reason he is more unpopular that Scheer or O’Toole
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Tom Parkin
1 year
If the purpose is to get more regular surgeries done, why not ensure existing (public) surgical rooms have the staff to operate more hours?
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Tom Parkin
2 years
How come Poilievre never directs Conservative rage at the billionaires and corporations?
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Tom Parkin
2 years
They used to say wearing a mask is your choice. But a doctor choose to wear one on TVO and is now being personally belittled and mocked by right-wing opinionists.
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Tom Parkin
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If cops will co-ordinate a lie in a murder trial even when they know there’s video disproving them, how far do they go when they know there’s nothing to disprove what they say?
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Tom Parkin
2 years
What a huge display of cowardice and weakness to argue that the way to diffuse violent protestors is to agree to their demand to remove the health policies that protect us
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1 year
Doug Ford should release Brian Lilley’s mandate letter
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Tom Parkin
2 years
I’m finding it difficult to not conclude the far-right and white supremacist organizers harassing Ottawa residents are enjoying a police treatment no other group in society would receive
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2 years
These guys could build a bomb in full public view and the cops would stop traffic to help them
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Tom Parkin
2 years
Pierre Poilievre today met with a leader of a terrorist group, four members of which are currently held without bail on charges of conspiring to commit politically-motivated murder Poilievre won’t distance or explain Journalists: please don’t be intimidated from doing your job
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Tom Parkin
1 year
No shocker: CBC investigation finds Doug Ford’s developer buddies own land he cut out from the Greenbelt While attacking low-wage workers with notwithstanding, Ford PCs’ were boosting their buddies’ wealth by millions But he’s in it “for the little guy”
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Tom Parkin
2 years
Poilievre wants to cut your pension but pay for his Not in it for you!
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Tom Parkin
5 years
I think it’s wrong to run this headline without including that this assertion is made without evidence. When media does this reporters become complicit in the propagation of an empty assertion as if it was true.
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The Globe and Mail
5 years
Doug Ford says federal carbon tax will plunge Canada into recession
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Tom Parkin
1 year
Doug Ford accelerating a crisis by defunding health care during a pandemic then using the crisis as a reason to fund private hospitals is another example of him putting private interests far above public interests
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Tom Parkin
2 months
If Shoppers Drug Mart is draining $1.4M a week from OHIP, that’s $73M a year Weston is skimming from the taxes people pay toward healthcare
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Tom Parkin
4 years
The Conservative Party is polling at its lowest level of popularity since formation
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Tom Parkin
1 year
Flush with pandemic profits, Loblaws has invested in Maple, a private Toronto company putting fee-paying patients at the front of the line for a physician visit And Loblaws’ lawyers seem to have found a loophole in the Canada Health Act to do it legally
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Tom Parkin
2 years
Did we ever get an ID on the two men pictured having dinner with the interim leader of the Conservative Party?
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Tom Parkin
5 years
Thanks to TAXES we have public education, health care, transit, ambulances, police, firefighters, roads, bridges, arenas, worker training and trades, labour inspectors, environment inspectors, food inspectors, colleges, universities, foreign aid, an army, navy and airforce....
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Andrew Scheer
6 years
Thanks to TAXES, Canadians are paying $20 more for a case of beer. Last year, Justin Trudeau brought in his beer tax, which will go up every year and further drive up prices. He’s failing to make life more affordable for Canadians.
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Tom Parkin
9 months
Loblaw reports $508M profit for Q2, an 31.3% increase from Q2 2022 How’s our standard of living doing?
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Tom Parkin
1 year
Stiles: how did you choose which lands to cut from the greenbelt? Clark: no answer Stiles: did de Gasperis and Rice get insider information from you? Clark: no answer
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Tom Parkin
1 year
Ford’s changes lift property taxes off developers, dump them on home owners and renters, then tells Mississauga mayor to “stop whining” about it When cornered, Ford’s sexism rings through
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Tom Parkin
8 months
When shop owners are afraid to open and people can’t work or walk down their own street without harassment, it’s occupation Certainly isn’t freedom
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Mackenzie Gray
8 months
Tamara Lich's lawyer, Lawrence Greenspon, has argued in court this morning that the Convoy was not an occupation Outside of court, Greenspon said “It’s an insult to (Ukrainians) and anybody else who’s survived an occupation to be calling what happened in Ottawa an occupation”
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Tom Parkin
2 years
Doug Ford is promising if you just vote for him again he’ll fix health care and the other things the things he broke
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Tom Parkin
1 year
Doug Ford said the Science Centre is in disrepair and nobody goes there, but reports show attendance is up and the provincial govt has frozen its operating grant for 10 years
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Tom Parkin
5 years
If Trudeau had kept his word on electoral reform: - BQ would have about 10 few seats - Alberta and Saskatchewan would have Liberal MPs - Toronto would have diverse representation rather being the Red Square It’s not a divided country, it’s a broken electoral system.
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Tom Parkin
2 years
A bunch of Conservative MPs encouraged these occupiers to dig in and hold out but when things got real were nowhere to be found
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Tom Parkin
2 years
Just pathetic to watch O’Toole make excuses for the convoy of hate
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Tom Parkin
2 years
Going to ring this bell a little louder because it seems some don’t want to hear it: Four convoy supporters were arrested at the Coutts border blockade and charged with conspiracy to murder. They were heavily armed and had Diagolon patches on their gear.
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Tom Parkin
2 years
It’s a lot easier for some people to believe this is is “trucker protest” than confront the reality it is a foreign-funded far-right plot using trucks
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Tom Parkin
1 month
How a Toronto police sergeant took home $400,000 in 2023 needs to be explained to the public
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John Bowker
1 month
Um, who is this, and why are they the third-highest paid person working for the City of Toronto? #TOpoli
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Tom Parkin
3 years
To get to COVID Zero we need to go through Conservative Zero
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Tom Parkin
8 months
Bonnie Crombie, the candidate of fake change - wants to open the Greenbelt - is financially backed by some of the same land speculators as Doug Ford - is at a Raptors game with Mr X — who paid for the tickets?
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Tom Parkin
3 years
Liberals ended CERB months ago, replaced it with CRB and cut it to $1200/mo. That’s $9.38/hour, based on four 32-hour weeks — well below minimum wage. Any real journalist who reports employers spreading misinformation about CERB “spoiling” workers would include these facts.
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Tom Parkin
2 years
Poilievre announces the biggest, most-inflated shadow cabinet ever — at 51, quite a bit bigger than that actual cabinet — because he’s fighting inflation
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Tom Parkin
2 years
Workers know a pension plan contribution — especially one matched by your employer — is a benefit, not a tax. Only employers would call it a tax. Once again, by calling pension contributions a tax, Poilievre reveals *he’s not in it for you*
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Tom Parkin
3 years
Have people just stopped listening to Justin Trudeau?
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1 year
Trudeau giving money to conservative premiers with no strings attached is like a zookeeper giving knives to monkeys
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Tom Parkin
2 years
Just in case you’re confused, it’s not the job of journalism to just ask questions politicians like
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Tom Parkin
8 months
Mr. X’s contract: “in addition to a $6,000-per-month payment, Mr. X’s firm would be paid an additional $225,000 ‘Greenbelt fee’ if the land was removed from the Greenbelt, and another $775,000 should the lands get the necessary zoning to build houses”
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Tom Parkin
3 years
NDP is the only major party gaining voters since the 2019 election NDP + 60,572 LPC - 585,611 CPC - 600,065 GPC - 802,090 BQ - 95,186
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Tom Parkin
2 years
Poilievre didn’t do nothing about the far-right’s vile and violent attacks against women reporters, he encouraged them
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Tom Parkin
3 years
Perfectly healthy 55 year olds who are protected by working from home are being given vaccines before those working everyday in warehouses, meat plants and other dangerous environments. It’s pandering to their political base, not public health.
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Tom Parkin
2 months
Weston is draining $1.4M/week from OHIP through useless “prescription checks” Shoppers Drug Mart denies it has revenue targets, but internal emails show otherwise And BTW, what are OHIP and Minister Sylvia Jones doing to stop this vampiric scheme?
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CBC News
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More than a dozen current and former Shoppers Drug Mart associate owners and pharmacists tell CBC News the chain sets targets for medication reviews, and corporate management pressures owners to meet them. .
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Tom Parkin
8 months
MLS composite house price index shot up 86% under Harper, from 112.4 in 2005 to 208.2 in 2015 It then rose another 59% under Trudeau, hitting 330.3 in 2022 Harper’s housing record was a disaster, then it got worse, but this smug professional falsifier tells you otherwise
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CPAC
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"I am the one that delivered housing costs that are half of what they are today back when I was minister. And we're going to have an even better result when I'm prime minister," Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says as he outlines his party's housing plan. #cdnpoli
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Tom Parkin
1 year
But how can Ford leave Lecce in place? He’s the guy who created the crisis and obviously can’t be trusted to negotiate in good faith. Need a new minister.
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2 years
The most hated Canadian?
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2 years
Ford obviously has no respect for the Charter or our rights and freedoms
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2 years
In the past few months, Singh used his power to get dentalcare, pharmacare steps, housing investments, cuts to corporate welfare, rent relief and now low-income tax relief Conservatives got nothing except more angry and divisive
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Tom Parkin
2 years
Since the charter was signed in 1982, Ontario’s premiers have been Bill Davis, Frank Miller, David Peterson, Bob Rae, Mike Harris, Earnie Eves, Dalton McGuinty, Kathleen Wynne and Doug Ford. Nine premiers. But only Doug Ford has used notwithstanding. The problem is Doug Ford.
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Tom Parkin
2 years
If you don’t see the urgency of the Ontario election, consider that if re-elected, Doug Ford will help Pierre Poilievre try to become prime minister
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Tom Parkin
2 years
Andrea Horwath is running to beat PCs. There are 10 close races (within 5%) with PCs from 2018. And she is as few as 10 seats away from defeating Doug Ford. She just needs to flip those, he is out. Only Andrea has a path to defeating Doug Ford.
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10 months
Billionaire Silvio De Gasperis wants a court to stop an Auditor-General investigation into how Doug Ford decided at least 28 De Gasperis properties of nearly 3,000 hectares became exempt from greenbelt development restrictions
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1 year
The federal Conservative Party is getting worse with each leader and doesn’t even deserve to be official opposition
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2 years
A planned Ottawa rally is broadly being portrayed as an expression of Canada’s 225,000 truckers rather than of anti-vaxxers who speak for no one but themselves Journalists should be accurate, and perhaps even investigate what 225,000 Canadian truckers actually think
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Tom Parkin
3 years
We need a public inquiry into the sources of far-right violence in Canada
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Tom Parkin
2 years
Conservatives are so obsessed with Justin Trudeau it’s like Canadians don’t exist
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Tom Parkin
2 years
In the 1980s some provinces were creating two-tier health care, allowing doctors to extra-bill for publicly insured medicine. The federal government threatened action against those provinces. It worked. Does today’s federal government have the courage to protect health care?
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Tom Parkin
1 year
QP Briefing majority owner Paul Rivett blocked staff reporter’s story on Ford’s daughter seeking $1000 from premier’s developer pals, leading to this week’s staff resignations, say sources The story was then published by Global News’ Colin D’Mello
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“If Ontario just spent the average of what the other provinces have spent on health care per capita over the past five years, we’d be spending an additional $7.2 billion this year — more than enough to properly pay our beleaguered nurses”
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Tom Parkin
3 years
He’ll lower a flag, he’ll bend a knee. But he won’t stop fighting residential school survivors in court. And he won’t reform the RCMP.
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Tom Parkin
6 years
If Horwath’s NDP had been elected, right now MPPs would be debating a new drug and dental plan for all, investments to end hallway medicine, fixing housing affordability. Not protesting an attack of democracy.
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2 years
Bit rich for a guy who qualified for a lifetime pension at 31 years old to dismiss other people’s pensions as “taxes” that should be cut, is it not? Not in it for you, indeed!
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Tom Parkin
1 year
Some people here are being way too harsh on Finance Minister Freeland Maybe she’s cutting Disney Plus at all five of her houses, that’s a significant monthly saving
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9 months
Poilievre rants about unnamed WEF elites imposing their agenda on Canadians But when corporate food chain CEOs were called before parliament to explain their price hikes, he was a no show Have literally never heard the man challenge an actual CEO
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Tom Parkin
2 years
Basically, the Convoy’s plan was to hold neighbourhoods hostage until the government relented to their demands, which is armed insurrection manual stuff
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Tom Parkin
1 year
Funny we’ve heard nothing from the so-called “Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms” about the Ford PCs crushing constitutional freedoms?
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Tom Parkin
1 year
I present to you the leader of our great province
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2 years
I would love to see Poilievre answer why he today used his power to try to deny dental coverage for kids What a fake that guy is
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Tom Parkin
5 years
In Canada we now have a Liberal PM arguing it’s ok for a PM to break the law
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Tom Parkin
3 years
I don’t think Canadians are nearly as taken with Chystia Feeeland as she is
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