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@TweeetLorraine

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Auto columnist for @drivingdotca , Motherlode @thespec . Debut A Face in the Window () 2023. You'll never feel safe at a cottage again.

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Joined March 2010
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Lorraine Sommerfeld
8 months
New followers! Welcome to the crazy train! Buy my book. It's awesome and fun if you love cottages and escaped killers and things like that.
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1 year
@rgay No doubt saying we asked for it, even after death...
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Lorraine Sommerfeld
8 months
#Ontario keep your eye on the ball. We are about to find out who owns us. The most corrupt cabinet in history, beholden to people named Mr. X and The Fixer, with an OPP who admit they can't or won't investigate, and a federal agency that is "considering it". We are being played.
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5 months
Us: Healthcare is crumbling, Covid is still making homeruns, teachers are inundated, grandma is terrified of a Home, my kids can't afford housing and my community has record numbers of unhoused freezing in winter. Doug Ford: Here's some more booze. #onpoli
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Lorraine Sommerfeld
6 months
The vaccine rollout in Ontario is controlled by Shopper's Drug Mart?? @fordnation this is a travesty- a deadly one. Our local pharmacies have saved our lives. They're not getting vaccines. No testing, no publicity and no accountability. We need the #auditorgeneral again. #onpoli
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To no one's surprise, they've been delivering samplings of the quantities we ordered in massive containers without shipping labels. Sometimes these massive shipping containers would arrive empty.
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4 months
I just did more housing than Doug Ford.
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15 days
Waiting for the rest of the world to discover the premier of Ontario called in the bomb squad for a totally secret (twitter, reddit) mail in insurrection consisting of (checks notes) 99 cent packages of (checks notes again) gravy.
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Lorraine Sommerfeld
3 months
#loblaws cackling over everyone happy to get back to buying expired cheese so they don't notice the MRI machines being installed by the self-checkouts
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Lorraine Sommerfeld
6 months
I'll start calling Twitter X the same day I start calling the Skydome Roger's Centre.
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Lorraine Sommerfeld
1 year
@MittRomney Bring yourself to watch it. Maybe you'd do something.
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4 months
Heading to the mall to renew my passport at Sunglass Hut.
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3 months
These are deeply unserious people. They have absolutely no idea what they are doing. None.
@l_stone
Laura Stone
3 months
#BREAKING : Premier Ford just announced the government is scrapping license plate registrationโ€ฆentirely #onpoli
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3 months
With colleges and universities in a tailspin, Doug Ford announces he is concentrating his efforts and resources on...kindergarten. #onpoli
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4 months
Sigh.
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3 months
Dear Doug: I can't thank you enough for ditching that stupid vehicle registration. I can finally ignore all those fines, get rid of that expensive car insurance and tell my kids' other parent they'll never find me for child support. I'm free! #ONpoli
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Lorraine Sommerfeld
5 months
At a time when monuments and naming rights are being changed after history has pointed out the error of dubious honours, folks, I give you Rob Ford Stadium.
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Lorraine Sommerfeld
23 days
Dude, these are paper bags that your buddy makes. The rest of the country has figured out bringing a carrier with them. It's not rocket surgery. But it does smell like when I throw corruption on a bonfire. Of the vanities. Nod to Tom Wolfe.
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Ontario PC Party
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We're committed to improving affordability and convenience for everyone in Ontario. That's why we're calling on the LCBO to bring back paper bags, at no cost to consumers.
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He is NOT getting the Swiss Chalet dipping sauce.
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Barney Panofsky's Best Intentions
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Be right back. Just gotta run down the road to the mailbox.
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5 months
In Burlington today ๐Ÿคฃ
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1 year
Explaining Sisyphus to some people is just an uphill battle.
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3 months
We need to march. Our province is being stripped for parts.
@thenarwhalca
The Narwhal
3 months
It's 5:03 p.m. in Ontario but we've got BREAKING NEWS: The Narwhal has learned the Ontario government is mulling changes to environmental laws that it believes will block lawsuits from landowners and fast-track highway, energy and transit projects. #onpoli
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7 months
Ontario's Minister of Health has a diploma in radio broadcasting. Before becoming John Tory's EA. World's biggest pandemic goes on and we're being led by... #onpoli
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Lorraine Sommerfeld
1 year
Let's discuss which professions should be getting free tuition ahead of police. #onpoli
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Lorraine Sommerfeld
8 months
Every.single.night. at 6pm the neighbour fires up his leafblower. Every night. Don't people drink martinis anymore?
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Lorraine Sommerfeld
4 months
While our hospitals are taking out loans to stay afloat...what the hell is happening?
@RichardCityNews
Richard Southern
4 months
NEW - Health Minister Sylvia Jones announces that starting this spring the government will expand the number of private surgical and diagnosed centres. Will be OHIP covered.
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Lorraine Sommerfeld
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Let's be clear: subsidizing drivers is backwards and wrong.
@CBCQueensPark
Mike Crawley
1 month
For a driver who fills a 50-litre tank once a week, the ongoing cut to the provincial gas tax means saving $148 a year. For the provincial treasury, it means forgoing revenue of about $1.2 billion a year. #onpoli
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3 months
Galen Weston is the last person I'd buy weed from. Dude, you're a narc in a sweater vest. Go home.
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Lorraine Sommerfeld
5 months
This is brilliant.
@brittlestar
Brittlestar
5 months
ONTARIO GOVT BOOZE CONFERENCE
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3 months
Almost this entire deficit would have been covered if Doug Ford hadn't scrapped and refunded licence plate fees. Master class in Finance. #onpoli
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4 months
It worked, twitter. Everyone is getting a granny bra for Christmas.
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1 month
Doug Ford thinks a 4 plex is four houses in a trench coat?
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@RichardCityNews Ford would let Molsons advertise in the maternity ward.
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10 months
It's happening!!
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3 months
@qikipedia Ever folded sheets?
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8 months
Remember when the excellent show Veep closed up shop, saying they couldn't make a parody any longer when the real thing was out-circusing their writers? Welcome to Ontario.
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7 months
All that evidence but brought down by a rub 'n tug.
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4 months
There is a mouse loose somewhere in my house. So you all have a pleasant night. I'll be in hell.
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Lorraine Sommerfeld
1 year
WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK DOUG FORD
@CTVToronto
CTV Toronto
1 year
Ontario wants to expand a licensing regime that allows residents to unleash dogs in an enclosed area to teach them how to hunt captive coyotes, foxes and rabbits.
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2 months
Measles. Deadly Measles. This bullshit predates covid by 20 years. Jenny Mccarthy you have blood on your hands.
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3 months
I would like to see a Doug Ford presser with @RichardCityNews and @ColinDMello and Doug can't leave until he answers all their questions. Ketchup throwing is optional.
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Lorraine Sommerfeld
3 months
Watching @deAdderCanada - who has skewered politicians of all stripes forever - go balls to wall on PP is epic. And a warning. The jesters know all.
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4 months
We can now unravel the Staples money and timeline and wait for the walk back...I've already seen this show.
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6 months
Good bye cottage...51st year in the rear view mirror ๐Ÿฅฒ
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Lorraine Sommerfeld
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Gravy gripers: if I'm gonna be forced to watch billions of dollars land in crooked pockets and be wasted on backassed licence plates and miracle bracelets you're damned straight I'm gonna be ok with wasting a few more to be entertained by the stupidity of this corrupt government.
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Lorraine Sommerfeld
3 months
I'll be on @CBCTheNational tonight in the ongoing fight against car theft. Spoiler alert: manufacturers owe us better security.
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Lorraine Sommerfeld
2 months
I'm an auto journo who wants fewer cars. I want pedestrian only spaces. I want cities that put people first, not vehicles. I'm writing myself out of a job. We're doing this all wrong.
@ward1wilson
Maureen Wilson (She / Her)
2 months
More predictable, formula-baked pieces like this compromise the integrity of local journalism. Facts don't seem to matter. This highway would never be built today because it kills & injures human beings, by design. "Brace Yourself" for more yawns.
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@ConsumerSOS Burlington ๐Ÿคฃ Bought the house I was born in.
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This is a travesty.
@ColinDMello
Colin D'Mello | Global News
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BREAKING: The Ford and Trudeau governments have announced a joint agreement that will allow Ontario to begin working to build its signature Highway 413 on the western edge of the Greater Toronto Area. #onpoli
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@MrsBingleman @JilMcIntosh She never said Lorraine...
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Lorraine Sommerfeld
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I hate when she finds her phone charger.
@MacLeodLisa
Lisa MacLeod
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Literally our federal parliament allowed a nazi - a real one - in their House and gave him a standing ovation. Maybe get your House in order before you start telling us how to run ours?
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Me fave spring pic
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@MikeSington @magsterpe You're broken, America.
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Lorraine Sommerfeld
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Something tells me the RCMP will be dusting gravy packets for prints before they figure out why the Greenbelt was going to the highest bidders. #onpoli
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Lorraine Sommerfeld
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PP is me by the third date: glasses are back on and I'm eating leftover shepherd's pie in bed at 10. Don't be fooled by first date party manners, voters. I remain a catch; him, not so much. #canpoli
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Lorraine Sommerfeld
5 months
So #KieranMoore is doing a call to action over spiking covid rates and all I can think is "who"? May every member of this corrupt government go play in traffic.
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Lorraine Sommerfeld
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"Why won't it let me put the jack on the ten?"
@clareblackwood
Clare Blackwood
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โ€œtime to sit down and learn what a fourplex isโ€
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Hey Doug Ford. You like to eat. Stop paving over farmland.
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Cottage. Alone. Hickory Sticks. Vodka. Jigsaw puzzle. I got this.
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10 months
Plant clover, get bunnies.
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Lorraine Sommerfeld
1 year
If you haven't swayed in a bar belting out The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald while beer is simultaneously raining down and lapping at your boots are you really Canadian?
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Lorraine Sommerfeld
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The scary thing about listening to Trump babbling on at these rallies about demonstrably dumbshit nonsense is that he's saying it to people who are demonstrably even more dumbshit than he is.
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Lorraine Sommerfeld
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Supreme Court rules that Doug Ford telling his ministers to privatize everything everywhere all at once must remain a secret #onpoli
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@MrsBingleman @JilMcIntosh I'd like to have a word with Suzy and Cathy...
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Lorraine Sommerfeld
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Anyone else in Ontario feel like we could save a lot if time by just crawling under the bus ourselves?
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Lorraine Sommerfeld
3 months
Do.not.stop.
@RichardCityNews
Richard Southern
3 months
โ€œYou got to give this one upโ€ Premier Ford tells me when I ask him if he was aware of ServiceOntario changes. Last week he says โ€œNone of us delt with itโ€ Without answering that question or where the business case is, Ford instead said โ€œBuddy, you got to get a new storyโ€
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Doug Ford disappears for weeks on end all the time and we don't care if he's been photoshopped into a Timmy's ad.
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Lorraine Sommerfeld
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Ontario needs @MaritStiles as its next premier.
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Lorraine Sommerfeld
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Dropped BF at the airport. Stopped at store to get apples, eggs and milk. Came out with Crunch and Munch, potato chips, cashews and hotdogs.
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Lorraine Sommerfeld
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Whenever I do a speaking gig and they let me know they have an honorarium for me I ask them to forward it to the local foodbank. Hundreds have gone that way this year. Money I wasn't expecting anyway, so I'm no hero. But if you have unexpected $, please help your locals.
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@DMacOttawa @peggy_blair It's historical. This is on the oil companies.
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@MrsBingleman @JilMcIntosh I love your hostility ๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿคฃ
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Lorraine Sommerfeld
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@lornepw Thanks, Lorne!
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Lorraine Sommerfeld
1 year
Anyone else amazed at how forgettable John Tory turned out to be? #onpoli
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@ConsumerSOS Even if donated, the messaging is terrible.
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Lorraine Sommerfeld
3 months
Of all the terrible things Doug Ford has unleashed on this province, I think the explosion of promotion and access to gambling might end up being the most costly.
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Lorraine Sommerfeld
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@picardonhealth @reggcohn @TorontoStar People with influence really shouldn't waste their capital doubling down on bad takes.
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Lorraine Sommerfeld
2 months
Waiting over two years to stop putting politics over people DYING speaks volumes about first doing no harm...to yourself. Waiting a further two years to finally speak is indefensible.
@CharliePinkerto
Charlie Pinkerton
2 months
Dr. Merrilee Fullerton, who resigned from Premier Doug Ford's cabinet & as a PC MPP just under a year ago, has released the prologue of her book: A Physician in the Political Arena. Here's the former long-term care minister's long-awaited explanation of why she quit politics.
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Lorraine Sommerfeld
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What if all the Big Mayors used their Big Mayor powers to run Ford aground? #onpoli
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Lorraine Sommerfeld
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"Why did no one peel this apple? I've never eaten apple peel"
@mynamesnotgordy
Barney Panofsky's Best Intentions
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Pierre Poilievre seen today trying to remember where he left his sunglasses.
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Wanna know how seriously to take covid? Forget your "leaders". Watch movie sets and pro sports. How they protect the people who matter. Unlike the rest of us.
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Lorraine Sommerfeld
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Omg this is amazing.
@TheoMoudakis
Theo Moudakis
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Please enjoy my #DougFord cartoon for Thursday's @TorontoStar
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The @GreatGravyUprising is the most Canadian thing ever.
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Lorraine Sommerfeld
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So much this!
@introvertsmemes
introverts memes
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For real
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Lorraine Sommerfeld
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People before cars. Smarten up, politicians.
@JoeyColeman
Joey Coleman
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Mayor @AndreaHorwath publicly calls on Councillors Francis, Jackson, Pauls, Clark, Beattie, Tadeson, Spadafora, and McMeekin to reconsider their vote against affordable housing development at 5 and 13 Lake Avenue South in Stoney Creek. #yhmcc #HamOnt
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What's he gonna do when he runs out of daughters?
@ColinDMello
Colin D'Mello | Global News
9 months
Exactly one year ago today, Premier Doug Ford hosted a $150/ticket stag and doe in his family backyard. The Integrity Commissioner: โ€œThe premier confirmed that those guests, identified as developers, are personal friends.โ€ #onpoli
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Lorraine Sommerfeld
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This is great.
@TDotResident
TDot Resident
2 months
#ONpoli ๐Ÿšจ๐Ÿšจ๐Ÿšจ New Doug Ford Super Bowl ad just dropped!!!
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@mynamesnotgordy *Ontario Place that will one day be named Rob Ford Casino and Spa.
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Lorraine Sommerfeld
6 months
My son was born 32 years ago tonight. I love my little warlock so much. Happy Birthday, Christer, my beautiful boy โค๏ธ
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Lorraine Sommerfeld
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It will not be game changer.
@fordnation
Doug Ford
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Highway 413 will be a game changer for drivers. Letโ€™s Get it Done!
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@bevkj ๐Ÿคฃ
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Lorraine Sommerfeld
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BF going away for two weeks. His theme will he 'skiing'. I'll be at home. My theme will be 'cheese'.
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Lorraine Sommerfeld
7 months
Motherlode is 20! How a six week gig turned into two decades
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Lorraine Sommerfeld
5 months
OMG FOX NEWS WAS WRONG ๐Ÿซจ
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Lorraine Sommerfeld
5 months
If you go to Dunnville hospital, mask up. Lots of covid. No masks. FFS. Actually, ANY hospital-mask up. Please.
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Lorraine Sommerfeld
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@mynamesnotgordy Awesome idea. Don't even need a stamp! DO IT.
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Lorraine Sommerfeld
2 months
We're seeing what a stacked court looks like in the U.S. Why aren't we stopping the worst premier in Ontario's history from doing it here?? #ONpoli
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Lorraine Sommerfeld
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Frank. My grandcat.
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Lorraine Sommerfeld
10 months
JULY 18. You'll be able to order on July 18! Buckle up for a great ride! (she said, quietly)
@WRDStories
Winding Road Stories
10 months
Coming July 18th, the debut thriller by Lorraine Sommerfeld @TweeetLorraine
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