Firing up this account briefly to support my alma mater and our President. Immensely proud to see
@mcgillu
dig in its heels to fight back against this bullying government.
We are undertaking this legal action because we believe that these measures are illegal and if upheld, will threaten McGill’s mission, its place as one of the world’s top universities and its vital role in Quebec.
The fight to overturn Roe vs Wade started the day after the decision was rendered. It took 50 years of politics but the 🇺🇸 far-right finally won. If you don’t think the same fight is happening in 🇨🇦 you are not paying attention.
This insurrection is and always was about the money. So expect its architects to go completely bananas about the government’s response. It’s calibrated, non-violent, and will be very effective. They did the right thing today.
#EmergenciesAct
Free advice to all politicians re the Ottawa occupation: nobody gives a flying fig about jurisdiction. Get on the phone, make a plan together, and fix this mess. It’s Day 10.
#Ottawa
I'll bite. She endured personal tragedy while suffering with a mental illness under grinding public scrutiny that nobody in the press understood or sympathized with. She used her experience to help others who were similarly afflicted. Margaret Trudeau is a good person.
What has Margaret Trudeau achieved in life to warrant being paid $250k to give a few pep talks to kids, apart from marrying a prime minister and being the mother of another?
Oh, right. That’s how things work in a banana republic.
Just saw a video of
@AndrewScheer
, kids in tow, being hounded through the airport by a reporter. Guys, please don’t do this. You have no idea what his kids may be enduring.
Please remember social media is not broadcast. 13% of Canadians are on twitter and your YouTube and TikTok feeds are not for everybody — they’re made for you. You control what you say, not what you see. And what you see isn’t representative of 🇨🇦 as a whole.
#protip
PM Trudeau: "Enough is enough. Go home & stay home. This is what we all need to be doing & we're going to make sure this happens, whether by educating people more on the risks or by enforcing the rules if that's needed. Nothing that could help is off the table."
#cdnpoli
#COVID19
Of course it’s gross and abhorrent what racist buddy from YouTube said about Poilievre’s family.
If you’re outraged when they target your loved ones, but serve them coffee and Timmy’s when they’re doing it to your political adversaries, you’re going to get some blowback.
My goodness the replies. These two people, who have devoted most of their adult lives to public service, have three kids and are doing the responsible thing. Give your heads a shake folks.
#BREAKING
: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is self-isolating as a precaution while his wife, Sophie Grégoire Trudeau, awaits the results of a COVID-19 test, the PMO says. Trudeau is not exhibiting any symptoms, the statement says.
A view of the protest in central Moscow this evening. Thousands across the country are risking serious repercussions to protest Putin’s attack on Ukraine. More than 850 people detained so far.
September 26, 2022. It has been 1000 days since I had a cigarette. I determined to never smoke another. If you’re trying to quit smoking or anything else that’s bad for you, keep trying. It’s possible. 🚬
Believe it or not I have a lot of conservative friends. Made a point to reach out to them over the past few weeks. You’ll be happy to know they’re all as concerned as my liberal friends are about the turn Canadian politics has taken.
Today I introduced a Private Member’s Bill to abolish all current vaccine mandates, and ban any and all future vaccine mandates.
Give people back their medical freedom. Let them take back control of their lives.
Join before Friday June 3rd:
I am not going to copy or retweet the leader of the extremist right-wing party in my country because that’s what he wants: amplification. You knew what kind of person he was before he said what he said today. This is not news to anyone paying attention.
There’s a 9 year old boy in a London hospital tonight who probably doesn’t know his whole family is dead. All because of hatred and the people who spread it.
It’s beyond awful what we’re capable of doing to each other, and what we tolerate being done to the vulnerable among us.
So young women reporters get threatened with rape for doing their jobs, a 58 year old woman gets fired for wearing her natural hair colour, and Finland is suddenly the town from Footloose.
Stellar week for recruiting women into public life.
The problem with this line of argument is that tens of millions of Canadians found it possible to live their lives in peace — and help each other through a tough time. Most people didn’t come to Ottawa with hot tubs and bouncy castles.
"This was an emergency that Justin Trudeau created by attacking his own population, by driving up their cost of living, by making it impossible for people to pay their bills, and live their lives in peace," says Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre as he comments on
#POEC
report.
Anytime I tweet support/congrats for
@cathmckenna
or any other successful woman I’m reminded this site has a bottomless pit of anonymous accounts that exist to spread lies/hate about them. Somebody’s paying for these 😈 farms, and it’s past time
@twitter
did something about it.
Half the country is on fire and Poilievre is personally filibustering the most important climate budget in Canada’s history.
These are his priorities and interests. I didn’t think it possible in 2023, but the CPC is worse on climate now than it was under Harper.
Never seen anything like what’s happened in the west on SWIFT in the last 48 hours. It was a red line on Wednesday for half the EU. Now it feels like it’s going to happen. 🇺🇦
The public sector got us through two years of pandemic, vaccinated everyone who wanted one, and kept several million Canadian households from going bankrupt. But the commentariat has declared Canada broken because they have to wait for their passports?
That sound about right?
Canada is not perfect. No place is. But gee whiz it’s reassuring to see political leaders of different parties put politics aside to fight
#Covid19
. 👏
I have been calling on the federal government to increase the wage subsidy for small and medium-sized businesses. These people are the backbone of our economy and this time has not been easy on them. Thank you
@JustinTrudeau
- this support will protect thousands of jobs.
Happy Canada Day folks. It’s a weak and brittle country that refuses to reckon with the darkness of its history. Strong ones own even their horrific mistakes, and resolve to make amends and do better. Let’s be one of those. 🇨🇦
Lots of reasons to be dark these days, but we can choose to be positive. How many places could endure 3 weeks of this madness with no bloodshed? Proud of my city and country. Stay strong and stoic. 🇨🇦
#Ottawa
Don’t say the murderer’s name. Say the victims names. Make them as well known as Sidney Crosby, and bury that arsehole with the people he killed.
#NovaScotia
⚡️⚡️The President of Switzerland announced that the country will join the EU sanctions against Russia.
Significant, considering Switzerland’s traditionally neutral stance
The thing to remember is that Poilievre is seeking out these young men and lying to them. And reinforcing the lies they’re being told by very bad people who mean them harm. It’s appalling.
Those of us who did not learn about the horrors of Residential Schools in a classroom should understand why fights over curriculum are important.
#Education
#GenX
Greetings new followers. Despite the batshit conspiracy theories propagated by right wingers, I neither work for nor am I paid by the government, PM, Liberal Party, or anyone related to any of the above. Haven’t in years.
My views are my own. That freedom is precious. ✌️
One of the hardest things to do in politics: tell your supporters a truth they need to hear but don’t want to hear. Ford is the first conservative to do that in a long time.
Premier Doug Ford lashes out at anti-social distancing protest on the Queen's Park lawn, calling them "irresponsible, reckless, selfish" and he proceeds to call them "yahoos."
"Obviously they don't care about everyone else in Ontario."
Trudeau haters will find something wrong with today’s testimony I’m sure. Most people will judge the Prime Minister’s rationale for invoking the Emergencies Act — and detailed description of how his thought process developed — to be eminently reasonable. Reassuring even.
#POEC
The long term strategy of right wingers is to toxify the public square so people shy away from public service. One of the ways they do that is to defame all their opponents as corrupt. It has to be confronted or it will work.
In my experience, the best way to win a campaign — against Pierre Poilievre or anyone else — is to offer a clear choice to people, and relentlessly but positively communicate what makes your leader, team and program the better choice.
People are not stupid.
Poilievre was basically Uber Eats for this crowd when they occupied Ottawa in January. Now we’re supposed to believe he doesn’t recognize their leader in Halifax?
People aren’t stupid.
I hope the lesson liberals take from
#elxn43
is that you can win with a strong climate change policy.
I hope the lesson conservatives take is it’s going to be harder and harder to win without one.
With that, I’m taking a
@twitter
break. Thanks for the engagement.
Canadian musician Natalie MacMaster honoured those killed in the Nova Scotia shootings by playing fiddle alongside a video of one of the victims, 17-year-old Emily Tuck.
#NovaScotiaRemembers
How many other people became Canadian Finance Minister after five years in senior federal Cabinet posts in which they successfully negotiated trade deals with Europe and the United States? This qualifications debate about is utter nonsense.
#Freeland
Ontario is the most prosperous diverse place on Earth because our kids go to great public schools together. You want to fuck that up in one easy step, do this. 👇👇👇
Time for school choice in Ontario.
With what we pay per student for education in Ontario, parents could choose a nice private school with a voucher system.
Thank you you to Bill Morneau for his public service. He’s a good person who got into it for all the right reasons. Among other things, Canadians got a stronger Pension Plan and Health Accord because of his hard work. Neither would have happened without him.
This is Dan Bilak. He lives in Kyiv but is from a small Ukrainian village called Toronto —- as he describes it. He is not on
@twitter
because he’s busy. He was a lawyer. Now he’s a soldier. He asked me to post this message for him.
#Ukraine
🇺🇦
Bannon, Jones, Ezra, McInnes. The list goes on and on. They all got rich monetizing hate and other people’s suffering. Hope this is the beginning of a large reckoning.
Macron, Biden, Trudeau, Scholz, Ardern — all elected or re-elected in the last 18 months.
Where are the “Rise of the Sensible Centrists” stories?
Emmanuel Macron wins a second term as France’s president | The Economist
No Amazon Prime Day for Canada due to Justin Trudeau’s third wave.
Only India and Canada will miss the massive 2-day sales event, with Amazon citing worsening COVID waves in both countries.
#cdnpoli
#COVID19