Chris Selley @cselley Twitter profile

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Chris Selley

@cselley

2 years

This idea that the Canadian flag is now traumatizing to people because of the convoy is the most embarrassing never-met-an-actual-problem Canadian thing currently on the market. Stop it.

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3 months

The idea that Danielle Smith is "pandering to the far-right" is somewhat complicated by the fact that like 90% of Canadians will agree with what she's doing.

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@cselley

2 years

If the government refuses to disclose the reasons for the emergencies, Trudeau and his ministers should never, ever hear the end of it until they change course.

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@cselley

4 years

But it was beyond the pale for Andrew Scheer to say this like 72 hours ago.

Mackenzie Gray

@Gray_Mackenzie

4 years

“The barricades must now come down. The injunctions must be obeyed and the law must be uphleld” – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau More at

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4 years

No real people care about the fucking donuts. Fucking stop it.

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3 months

The Israeli Consulate is nowhere near Mount Sinai. The U.S. Consulate is 650 metres south of Mount Sinai. The man on the roof with the flag did not think it was either consulate. They're targeting a Jewish hospiptal because it's Jewish. Period.

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@cselley

5 years

Oh my God, Tim Horton's, literally nobody wants chicken nuggets from you. What are you even doing? Is it some kind of modern art project?

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@cselley

4 years

"We're all in this together" is the most ridiculous lie of the last six months, bar none.

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3 months

This bill is absolutely insane. I can't believe what I'm reading.

Private Member's Bill C-372 (44-1) - First Reading - Fossil Fuel Advertising Act - Parliament of...

Private Member's Bill C-372 (44-1) - First Reading - Fossil Fuel Advertising Act - Parliament of Canada

www.parl.ca

Canada Proud

@WeAreCanProud

3 months

#REPORT : NDP-Trudeau stooge Charlie Angus has introduced a bill that would see Canadians jailed for up to two years for expressing pro-oil and gas opinions.

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4 years

This is absolutely pathetic.

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2 years

Trudeau's mask/no-mask game is truly baffling.

Justin Trudeau

@JustinTrudeau

2 years

It was all smiles on board the steam train in Summerland today! People came from across the country – and some even came from out of the country – to see all that the Okanagan Valley has to offer, and I can't say I blame them. Hope the rest of your trip went smoothly!

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3 years

The idea of living here after this is over actually makes me laugh out loud. We’re done; Ontario.

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4 years

100% of Canadians know for a fact what this country would look like if the oil sands were in Quebec.

Power & Politics

@PnPCBC

4 years

'Oil is dead': @ElizabethMay & @yfblanchet warn Ottawa against supporting Alberta's oilpatch. Read more:

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10 months

You know your country is irretrievably fucked when otherwise serious people defend $71,000 in four day limo fees on grounds it would be unfancy to complain. I’ve pretty much given up.

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3 years

I fear things are going to get REALLY nasty once the vaccines are approved for kids and hesitancy proves to be significant.

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@cselley

6 months

See, THAT'S hate speech.

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@cselley

5 years

That is legitimately bananas. No serious conservative party should let Rebel in the building.

Michael Bueckert

@mbueckert

5 years

So... The #UCP gave Rebel Media space to report live from @jkenney 's election night party in Calgary. Now that's access! The racists and white supremacists are ALREADY in the building! Yet another warning sign going forward. #abpoli #abvote #ableg

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3 years

If the Conservatives were implementing Guilbeault's C-10 people would be self-immolating in protest.

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7 years

Nobody ever tells that joke in Canada or anywhere else.

Bernie Sanders

@SenSanders

7 years

"There’s a joke we sometimes tell in Canada: What’s a Canadian? An apologetic American with health care.”

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5 years

I'm not saying authorities should crop-spray these people with measles morbillivirus and then quarantine them in a remote aircraft hangar until they beg for mercy. But I'm not NOT saying that either.

CBS News

@CBSNews

5 years

Hundreds rally to preserve right not to vaccinate children amid measles outbreak

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3 years

How stupid does this government think Ontarians are? I mean seriously.

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Chris Selley

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11 months

This is outrageous. People need to be fired.

Conservative MPs furious after e-mails show federal officials worked on ways not to answer their...

The revelation prompted Commons Speaker Anthony Rota to issue a rebuke Tuesday over the failure to fully answer written questions

www.theglobeandmail.com

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Chris Selley

@cselley

5 years

Can you imagine what Canadian politics would be like right now if Bombardier made the 737-MAX?

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Chris Selley

@cselley

2 years

God, how great would it be if Ukraine handed Putin his ass.

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Chris Selley

@cselley

12 days

Notice how this tweet doesn't mention what time it leaves to get in by 9 a.m.? The answer is 4:19 a.m.

VIA Rail Canada

@VIA_Rail

12 days

Early birds, rejoice! 🐦 We're pleased to announce the new 641 early-morning departure which will operate between Ottawa and Toronto (arrival before 9 a.m.), with stops in Kingston, Belleville, Cobourg and Port Hope, as of May 27. More information:

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Chris Selley

@cselley

2 years

I tell ya, I don't know where Pierre Poilievre gets this cockamamie idea Canada might be infested with gatekeepers...

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Chris Selley

@cselley

6 years

A Children's Aid Society shut down a perfectly decent foster home because the parents wouldn't tell kids the fucking Easter Bunny is real. WHAT?

Chris Selley

@cselley

6 years

This story is INSANE.

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Chris Selley

@cselley

1 year

For the love of God, @johntory , you cannot unresign. Go.

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@cselley

3 years

I'm old enough to remember when a Liberal MP accused @MichelleRempel of "stoking fear" and "contributing to vaccine hesitancy" by pointing out this limited information. It was Saturday.

CBC News Alerts

@CBCAlerts

3 years

Canada's National Advisory Committee on Immunizations does not recommend Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine for those aged 65 and older 'due to limited information on the efficacy of this vaccine in this age group at this time.' Delivery of the drug is expected this week.

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4 months

Disgusting. You know what would solve this overnight? Hockey Canada saying it won't participate in IIHF tournaments.

CTV News

@CTVNews

4 months

Israel barred from International Ice Hockey Federation events over security concerns

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2 years

Ontario Twitter: "It's a disgrace that we aren't distributing rapid tests for free like Nova Scotia does, for example, at liquor stores." Ontario Government: "We ere now distributing rapid tests for free, including at liquor stores." Ontario Twitter: "LIQUOR STORES???"

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3 years

People realize all these Catholic Churches burning down have real live Indigenous parishioners, right?

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@cselley

3 months

I adore the idea that the protesters and protest organizers know every Jewish-owned business in the city — Indigo, Cafe Landwer, etc. — but were totally in the dark about *Mount Sinai Hospital*, its logo being a stylized Star of David, being Jewish.

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3 years

I cannot BELIEVE the "why aren't you closing schools?" narrative taking hold. What we're doing to these kids will have to be answered for.

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@cselley

2 years

It should be illegal to make people use a telephone to cancel a subscription they purchased on a computer.

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@cselley

2 years

I keep reading that Ontario is doing what it's doing re: COVID restrictions purely because of the upcoming election. This narrative conspicuously ignores the fact everyone else is doing the same basic thing.

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@cselley

2 years

Excellent. Not only does the union I unwillingly belong to take partisan stands, it's now using my dues to help CUPE break the law.

Colin D'Mello | Global News

@ColinDMello

2 years

NEW: Unifor says it has donated $100,000 to CUPE for their strike support fund. Unifor tells CUPE workers at Queen’s Park “you will no bear these fines” #onpoli #onted

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4 years

I'm trying to wrap my head around the PM's extra two weeks of isolation. Honest Q: If it's because they don't know when Sophie became virus-free, then shouldn't the kids be in the same situation?

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2 years

My only opinion on Trudeau's lounge act is that it amazes me how little risk-management goes on in the PMO even after all the ... stuff.

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2 years

I didn’t realize Trudeau and Joly had actually been invited to the Iran protest. That’s not great.

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2 months

NATIONAL PHARMACARE: <doesn't exist for 157 years> NDP/LIBERALS: "We have a framework for a discussion about national pharmacare, with no price tag, subject of course to provincial buy-in." MEDIA: "Will Pierre Poilievre destroy Canadian pharmacare?"

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7 months

Amidst outrage over Poilievre's apple, I worry we're overlooking a key point: If you want to accuse someone of being like Trump, you should have >0 examples at the ready. If you can't, maybe the narrative is crap

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2 years

Today's children, as adults, will not look kindly upon people currently claiming we have to shut down schools to "keep children safe." Everyone knows children's relative invulnerability is the silver lining to this turd. Pretending otherwise, for whatever reason, helps nothing.

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@cselley

2 years

Look I think poilievre should face the media too, but the functional difference between him refusing to take a question and Justin Trudeau “answering” one is very minor.

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@cselley

10 months

I feel like "Canada is broken" is quietly gaining traction, including among those who were originally appalled at the idea

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@cselley

5 years

What the absolute fuck. Everyone’s calling Chris a total pro and I agree. But for the record, a merciless elbow to the face would also have met my definition of total pro.

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@cselley

4 years

Boris Johnson flies commercial to St. Lucia, the Daily Mail reports, but Canadians know this is impossible. Prime Ministers cannot fly commercial, ever, under any circumstances. #fakenews

Prime Minister and girlfriend Carrie Symonds fly BA economy

EXCLUSIVE: The Prime Minister landed in St Lucia on Thursday morning after a long-haul British Airways flight from London. It has now emerged he and Carrie Symonds were seated in economy.

www.dailymail.co.uk

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20 days

This is an absolutely crazy thing for him to say. If I were one of the jurors I’d be scared shitless.

Wendy Gillis

@wendygillis

20 days

Chief Demkiw: “While we respect the judicial process and appreciate the work of the 12 citizens who sat on a very difficult case, I share the feelings of our members who were hoping for a different outcome.”

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1 year

I don't know a way to explain Jean Chrétien's gravitas at this point that doesn't involve wilful blindness, including from the media. He has FAR more to answer for on residential schools than, say, Egerton Ryerson.

Chris Selley: That's enough, Jean Chrétien

nationalpost.com

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Chris Selley

@cselley

10 months

Behold Canada's new Transport Minister, who believes high-speed rail is impossible between Quebec City and Toronto because there are too many stops.

Transport Canada

@Transport_gc

10 months

Welcome to our new Minister of Transport, the Honourable Pablo Rodriguez.

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8 days

High speed rail. You should have asked for tips on high speed rail.

Montreal Gazette

@mtlgazette

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Quebec asks France for tips on applying secularism laws in education system

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@cselley

2 years

A good policy that all CPC candidates should support.

Pierre Poilievre

@PierrePoilievre

2 years

As PM, I will introduce a Free Speech Act. Reverse Liberal censorship. Fire their gatekeepers. Defend your charter right to freedom of expression online.

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3 years

It’s not inconceivable that today marks the beginning of the end of the Conservative Party of Canada. “Personal low carbon savings accounts”! JFC.

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@cselley

20 days

If Ontario wants citizens to stand by and watch while yobs loot a liquor store then it should get out of the liquor store business. Crown corps are the people’s business and the LCBO haemorrhages taxpayer money to unchallenged theft.

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7 months

If anyone had predicted 10 years ago that more than 1 in 25 Canadian deaths would be from euthanasia, they’d have been laughed off as a crackpot.

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@cselley

4 months

I love the "Menzoid isn't a journalist" argument. Like that makes it better.

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@cselley

2 years

@bruce_arthur I think the allegation in question, if true, is considerably more dangerous shit.

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@cselley

3 years

The last 36 days almost literally could not have been more useless.

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Chris Selley

@cselley

2 years

No way will Pierre Poilievre draw big in downtown Toront-

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@cselley

3 years

I will hear no criticism of Jagmeet Singh for skateboarding or handstanding on the campaign trail from anyone who was impressed Justin Trudeau won a charity boxing match.

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Chris Selley

@cselley

8 months

So I got distracted and didn't finish reading this until just now. It is alleged they actually landfilled the Diary of Anne Frank. This is dissolve-the-school-board territory...

'Empty shelves with absolutely no books': Students, parents question school board's library weeding...

Several Peel District School Board students, parents and community members are concerned about a seemingly inconsistent approach to a new book weeding process intended to ensure school library books...

www.cbc.ca

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@cselley

6 years

10/10 ✊

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@cselley

3 years

Every question for Trudeau in the first week should just be "Why?" Follow-up: "No but seriously, why?"

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@cselley

6 months

Also I really wish we could spare 10% of the outrage over politicians *explicitly* disrespecting journalists to denounce the ostensibly friendlier politicians who flamboyantly disrespect journalists, every day, with their non-answers, talking points and evasions.

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@cselley

4 years

Part of the WE reckoning has to involce schools and teachers coming to terms with how they (mostly) willingly subjected their students to something as objectively goddamn creepy as WE Day.

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@cselley

6 months

Concordia: Come for the $17,000 out-of-province tuition, stay for the anti-Semitism!

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Chris Selley

@cselley

4 years

Nothing in this Throne Speech justifies there being a Throne Speech.

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2 months

CBC is cutting journalist jobs but it’s covering the Oscars, even though it can’t get near the red carpet. Honestly? It deserves to die.

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@cselley

1 month

I have trouble not seeing this tweet as a deliberate Fuck You to normal people. I'm sure that's NOT what it is. I'm sure it was designed by multiple highly paid civil servants. And yet it's indistinguishable from a gratuitous insult, piss-take or indeed satire.

Veterans Affairs CA

@VeteransENG_CA

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We want to wish Veterans, current members of the @CanadianForces and @rcmpgrcpolice and their families a happy March holiday season! ☀🌷 #CanadaRemembers

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3 years

I can't understand why this shrill, petulant Liberal campaign about nothing isn't winning hearts and minds.

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@cselley

6 years

We should really probably actually teach civics.

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@cselley

8 months

He's not making fun of it. Everyone can see he's not making fun of it. This party needs a comms lockdown until it figures out WTF is happening.

Arielle Kayabaga

@KayabagaArielle

8 months

Pierre Poilievre’s Conservative Party is making fun of the fact that for many millennials the path towards homeownership hasn’t been easy, I’m in a privileged position but my story is actually one that so many Canadians, and immigrant families have experienced.

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6 months

Three Jewish schools shot up now in Montreal. I don't know how anyone isn't walking around with a horrible feeling in the pit of their stomachs.

Israel-Gaza war updates, Nov. 13: Poilievre condemns 'terrorist attacks' against Montreal Jews

montrealgazette.com

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@cselley

1 year

Seriously, once and for all, knock down 24 Sussex. It’s made of dead rats and asbestos, it has no historical significance, it’s not pretty, it costs the GDP of Paraguay to fix. Enough already.

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@cselley

3 years

I guess the most depressing thing is, if the PM can't even find something symbolic to do on the symbolic occasion that he created as part of supposedly dead-serious but much-doubted plans to fix incredibly serious problems ... how serious is he about the serious parts?

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@cselley

2 years

For God's sake, NHL players, just bail on the Olympics, rent an arena or two somewhere and hold a proper goddamn tournament. YEESH.

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@cselley

2 years

It's not inconceivable at this point that the truckists are actually *delaying* Canada's reopening, because it's considered politically poisonous to agree with them in any way, shape or form. Meanwhile, the rest of the world reopens...

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@cselley

8 months

Ret. Maj. Barbara Maisonneuve sticks her thumb straight into the Ottawa media's eye. If thousands of people drive to Ottawa to protest, she says, Trudeau should "listen to them" and not "run away from a bouncy castle." MASSIVE applause.

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@cselley

4 months

If you actually think Poilievre thinks electricity comes from lightning, you are deranged. The man has broken your brain. Help is available.

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@cselley

6 years

This story is INSANE.

Requirement to tell foster kids the Easter Bunny is real violated couple’s charter rights, judge...

A decision says Frances and Derek Baars’ charter rights were violated when the girls — aged three and five — were taken away and their foster home was closed.

www.thestar.com

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@cselley

4 months

Oh just get fucked already

Toronto Sun

@TheTorontoSun

4 months

Federal agency sizing up air pollution from bagel shops and pizzerias

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@cselley

10 months

Funny how Trudeau’s security detail will agree to him wading into situations like this, but we’re meant to believe flying commercial on vacation is unthinkable.

Mickey Djuric

@MickeyDjuric

10 months

WATCH: An event for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was cut short in Belleville, Ont., today after nearly 100 protesters surrounded him and his motorcade. READ:

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5 years

Convert them *officially* to cannabis stores, that is.

National Post

@nationalpost

5 years

Efforts underway to convert 10 Coffee Time shops into cannabis stores in Ontario

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4 months

Just a reminder that this whole Convoy debacle is Ontario's fault.

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@cselley

6 months

I know every generation complains the subsequent ones are dumber, but ...

Caryma Sa'd - Lawyer + Political Satirist

@CarymaRules

6 months

This is funnier than any episode of Seinfeld. #cdnpoli #Toronto #Palestine #Israel #Gaza #CeasefireNOW

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3 months

Imagine writing a column insisting that Hamas was "provoked" into to murder hundreds of civilian concert-goers and then just strolling into the newsroom the next day and waving hi at your Jewish colleagues.

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3 months

"This week, when asked by a journalist whether Poilievre’s slogan — “jail not bail” — meant he believed Canadians should no longer have the right to be presumed innocent..." If we ask questions like that then we deserve mockery. Sorry. via @torontostar

Pierre Poilievre claims 40 offenders were arrested 6,000 times in Vancouver in a year. Is that...

The Conservative leader often pushes his tough-on-crime approach by relying on an eye-opening statistic. The Star investigates to see if it's true.

www.thestar.com

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@cselley

5 years

Holy cow it’s an adult!

Kim Campbell

@AKimCampbell

5 years

Please, once and for all, if a corrupt company is barred from bidding on a federal gov’t project, the only way there is a job loss is if the project itself is cancelled. The only loss is to the barred co’s bottom line. The jobs go with the project not the co.!

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1 year

National Assembly votes 108-0 (with Québec Solidaire abstaining) to demand Amira Elghawaby be fired.

Trudeau endorses contempt for Quebec by supporting Elghawaby, Legault charges

montrealgazette.com

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@cselley

2 years

Amazed to still see some medical experts parked at "opening schools is CRAZY." This is as uniquely Canadian as milk in bags.

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@cselley

6 months

Tough to imagine the Liberals going on like this for two more years, with everything they touch turning to crap.

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@cselley

6 months

That woman's expression is absolutely priceless. Speaks for all reasonable Canadians.

Caryma Sa'd - Lawyer + Political Satirist

@CarymaRules

6 months

Woman leaving Josh Matlow’s fundraiser accused by protester of being a “war criminal.” #cdnpoli #Toronto #Palestine #Israel #Gaza

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4 years

At this point the CPC needs to save itself from MacKay, and MacKay from himself. This is unhinged, self-harming behaviour.

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@cselley

7 months

It's kind of incredible how often and hard reality has been smacking Canada in the face in recent weeks. It's just relentless.

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1 year

Absolutely insane that the discussion is over whether to *reappoint* her. She should have been fired weeks ago.

Brenda Lucki vows to keep top RCMP job amid cabinet discontent

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has not made a decision on whether to reappoint Commissioner Lucki when her five-year term comes up for renewal in March

www.theglobeandmail.com

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@cselley

6 months

Worst. Anti-racism consultant. Ever.

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@cselley

25 days

whoah whoah whoah the JUSTICE MINISTER was there?! This is *crazily* inappropriate.

Arif Virani

@viraniarif

30 days

We know that online harms have real world consequences, and now is the critical moment to make the digital world a safe space. With industry experts at the Governor General’s Symposium, we discussed this and our Online Harms Act to create a safe experience for everyone.

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@cselley

2 years

It's so depressing how people still manage to blame Doug Ford specifically for not doing things that no province is doing or would ever do.

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@cselley

1 year

Man there have to be a LOT of politicians squirming right now, if relationships with staffers are now fair game for reporting.

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@cselley

15 days

This adventure is going to make Michael Ignatieff look like a political savant.

Mark Carney

@MarkJCarney

15 days

If you’re curious, here’s the video that Mr. Poilievre is kicking up a fuss about. Canada is a great country and we can make it even better. It’s time to build. Together.

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