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WATCH: An event for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was cut short in Belleville, Ont., today after nearly 100 protesters surrounded him and his motorcade.
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"I can't stress how disappointed I am with Pres. Trump for making this decision … I’m not going to rely on President Trump, or any PM or President of any other country again. Our manufacturing, we're gearing up and once they start, we’re never going to stop them" – Doug Ford
While on my way today to cover the Ambassador Bridge trucker protest, I stopped at a truck stop in Woodstock Ontario, where I met Ted McNeill. He had to take a five hour detour to get his truckload of food into Canada. He shared this message to those protesting COVID-19 mandates.
FWIW, I believe we need a thorough, meticulous and public review of the act, especially the banking measures, which might very well have been abused. The government must answer for this.
Imagine if Andrew Scheer had told the oil convoy guys: 'We're with you. Support your industry 100%. But you are being used by racists, and they have no place in your movement, my party or that building over there, where we make the laws that govern this great, diverse country.'
Nice try
@JustinTrudeau
your lies and manipulation aren’t working anymore. You’ve been censoring Canadians who go against your tyrannical gov for way too long. It’s game over
#crimesagainsthumanity
#treason
In an 'emergency' press conference, the truckers' new spokesperson Tom Marazzo says: "I'm willing to sit at a table with the conservatives and the NDP and the Bloc, as a coalition. I'll sit with the governor general."
I bitterly resent
@DerekSloanCPC
for distracting us with his bullshit about Dr. Tam while we have been mourning the worst mass shooting in Canadian history, and not even bothering to tweet a message on the day of the vigil.
Overwrought American coverage of our emergency should include context on the source of the antivax bullshit that has put us in the soup. The vast majority of this poison is made in the USA. Please note that in your stories.
Stock Day is sharing content from convoy organizer Pat King, a white supremacist. Day should know better, should know it’s wrong and dangerous to platform white supremacists, even when the specific content has nothing to do with race.
@Jim_Elves
@OttawaPolice
Have senior officers considered addressing the growing sense among members of the public that frontline officers are tolerating law-breaking because they are sympathetic to the protesters?
I am worried that we are so busy prosecuting the Liberals for failure to procure vaccines that we are not paying enough attention to policies that are allowing the virus to spread.
Closed for the rest of the week. This is just the mall. Another week without work as the convoy demands the resignation of the government and a veto over how Canada is governed.
He has the confidence of the House of Commons, whose members were elected in a fair and free election. Say what you like about him, but don’t say he is a dictator, because there are real dictators, and they like it when we confuse the question.
Worth noting: Conservative MP Rachael Thomas (née Harder) on Monday in the House of Commons said "many Canadians" hold the view that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau fits the definition of a dictator. She did not cite a poll.
If Poilievre thinks this kind of statement will stop journalists from exploring his interactions with people linked to far right extremist organizations, he is likely to be disappointed
No wonder trust in the media is at an all-time low.
One of Global News' so-called journalists decided to smear me & thousands of other Canadians because we criticized the federal government's unscientific & discriminatory vaccine mandates.
My campaign's response to this attack.
@MeehanCarolAnne
@OttawaPolice
@CanadianPM
@JustinTrudeau
@Ottawa
Why are you directing public anger at the prime minister instead of at the attorney general of Ontario, who has responsibility for policing in Ontario? It seems like a bad time to put partisanship ahead of the safety of your constituents.
Good writing: 'People were calling for "freedom" but what they wanted was absolute license; they were the entitled demanding to be indulged. There were figures from the far right and the far gone. There were con artists and their willing marks.'
Jason Kenney's party, having already rolled back LGBTQ protections, backed 1st reading for bill that empowers doctors to refuse and not even refer for services like abortion or medically-assisted suicide.
‘Five presidents—liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans—have looked to Tony Fauci for advice; it is not impossible to imagine Trump being the first to angrily dismiss the counsel he offers if it does not fit with his own poor instincts.’
On January 30
@TheAtlantic
published this from President-elect Biden’s pending White House chief of staff
@RonaldKlain
:
“Coronavirus Is Coming—And Trump Isn’t Ready”
1. Something doesn't add up here. Police behaviour doesn't make sense. They don't want to enforce the law? They want a bigger budget? They are afraid of the convoyers?
2. Graham Richardson is doing a great job.
After years of covering politics, I’ve learned to roll my eyes at hypocrisy. It’s kind of priced in, inevitable. But Poilievre is a special case because he’s so craven, poodling up to the convoy that has shut down Ottawa, seeking to align himself with a growing force.
We used to mock those who said the left does not want history taught in school so that citizens would not be alarmed when they see it being we see MPs bow in silence,giving up their sacred access to Parliament because ‘The King’says so.Will even one stand?
Justin Trudeau bears the ultimate responsibility for invoking the Emergencies Act and the measures now ruled unconstitutional. But, Ontario Premier Doug Ford should not be let off the hook. He went against his fellow premiers and supported this federal overreach.
CP isn't CBC's news service, it is Canada's national news agency, established in 1917. This is deceptive messaging. It is beneath the office that Poilievre holds. This is not the way to win over voters who are beyond sick of Trudeau but aren't sure about Poilievre.
Trudeau’s media are desperate to stop his continued downfall. Today, CBC’s news service CP wrote a hit piece on me because I dared criticize the World Economic Forum—a group of multinational CEOs and powerful politicians that push their interests.
I work for our people in this…
I think the Liberals may have relied too heavily on the vaccine wedge — which they did indeed seize on during a close election — and now they have to cope with the blowback.
For several years, I have been arguing that Trump-style populism would not connect in Canada. The convoy has changed that. For the first time I see the necessary elements in place.
"Boss, we've been talking and we all feel it might be better if you postpone the beach for just a day. We know you need a break, for sure, but you created the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, and maybe you should mark the first one in some way? No? OK. Beach it is!"
Jordan Peterson is either mischievous or an idiot. He is blaming Trudeau for wrecking his daughter's wedding when it is American rules, and his father's decision not to get vaccinated, that are responsible.
Because I contracted COVID-19 at the decadent and depraved Kentucky Derby, I could not give a talk for
@thewalrus
in Toronto this week to discuss this article. Instead, therefore, I have decided to do a thread on Twitter. 1/n
It's obvious the people running Ottawa can't handle this, can't figure out how to say they can't handle this and ask for help. Nothing in their experience has prepared them to handled a crisis like this. The first thing they need to do is admit that they suck at this.
This web site will become significantly less useful to me if it no longer features CBC content. Whatever your complaints about CBC, it provides vital coverage.
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@Twitter
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@Twitter
.
In all seriousness, speaking at the same protest as actual white nationalist Faith Goldy indicates that either Scheer should have known better, or he just didn't care. It wasn't a secret that she was on board with its worse elements
'All non-immigrant, non-U.S. citizen air travelers to the United States must be fully vaccinated and provide proof of vaccination status prior to boarding an airplane to the United States.' .
I'm at my daughter's wedding in California. I will never forget
@justintrudeau
that my father is not here because of your utterly unconscionable, unconstitutional and vindictive travel ban.
This morning I talked to an Elgin Street store owner who paid his female employees to stay home because it was unsafe for them to walk to the shop during the convoy.
Cooper either lost it here or he is unhinged. He insulted a witness and read from the manifesto of the Christchurch shooter, which was written to troll the gullible. Not impressive.
I live 50 miles away from the Canadian border. You don't take out your wallet or your credit card when you go to the doctor or the hospital there.
If Canada can provide health care to all its people at half the cost, we can join the rest of the world and pass Medicare for All.
NEW: Premier Doug Ford’s office says it’s “deeply concerning” that Dr. David Fisman was paid by ETFO (as revealed by the Toronto Sun) while providing advice to the gov’t on the school re-opening plan.
But the premier’s office doesn’t call for a resignation.
#onpoli
Reporters aren't buying it because it doesn't make sense. He was creating literally billions in value for developers he knows well, guests at his daughter's wedding, and he wasn't aware of how that was happening?
Premier is asked how it’s possible he knew nothing about the process behind the Greenbelt land removals: “I can’t micromanage hundreds of thousands of employees.. I don’t believe in micromanaging, I believe in delegating.”
We need an inquiry. Politicians and health experts promised Canadians that the vax would prevent transmission. Pfizer admits it never tested for that. It’s executives sat in silence while trusted officials gave incorrect info to the public. That’s just wrong.
People who own and run long term care homes need to fear being imprisoned for neglect. If they don't fear that now, we need to change the law so that they do.
We know that most Canadians supported vaccine mandates because they offered the best hope of surviving the pandemic with less loss of life. They worked, by the way. There are a lot of people alive now who would have died without them.
At her inaugural press conference, Alberta Premier
@ABDanielleSmith
says the unvaccinated are "the most discriminated against group that I've ever witnessed in my lifetime."
Mr. Frum may have been in the United States so long that he has forgotten that in a Westminster system the Speaker is in no way accountable to the office of the prime minister.
The question the Parliament of Canada is debating today: how many times in his career does a prime minister get to say, "I had no idea, it didn't involve me, somebody else made that embarrassing decision while I was otherwise engaged"? Seems like there should be some upper limit
Hey
@Trevornoah
- thanks for everything you’re doing to celebrate Nelson Mandela’s legacy at the
@GlblCtzn
festival. Sorry I can’t be with you - but how about Canada pledges $50M to
@EduCannotWait
to support education for women & girls around the world? Work for you? Let’s do it.
Touched down in Malaysia! I'm looking forward to a productive week of meeting with officials, industry leaders, and partners from Canada and the Indo-Pacific to promote our world-class products - like the lobster I enjoyed for lunch in Kuala Lumpur! 🦞
I hate this. You drag yourself out to listen to a boring speech and then the politicians’ flunkies tell you to get lost. No questions. I could have stayed home! No class.
At a Conservative Party of Canada
@CPC_HQ
event in Corner Brook, NL this evening, handlers for
@PierrePoilievre
asked the media to leave following his speech; preventing us from posing questions to the party leader.
#nlpoli
#cdnpoli
Enough is enough. Its time for the Trudeau government to stand up for the rule of law.
Blockades are not protests - they are an attack on the freedom of Canadians to live their lives and travel freely through their own country.
No tweet from
@MaximeBernier
or
@peoplespca
about terrorist attack in Christchurch. He likely wants to avoid alienating some of his supporters by expressing solidarity with the victims.
Maxime Bernier doesn't believe that human activity causes climate change, he says in scrum. I always find that kind of amazing. It's like not believing in the Bay of Fundy. It's not a matter of opinion.
François Legault. Rex Murphy. Stockwell Day. All three have done things in their lives that I admire. But when they deny systematic racism, they are denying reality. You can't fix a problem if you don't think you have a problem.
NEW: The Ontario Medical Association
@OntariosDoctors
calls for mandatory vaccinations: “All health-care workers should be required to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 to protect themselves, their patients and the community.
#onpoli
As I have been researching Diagolon, I keep thinking of a line from James Baldwin: "I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense that once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.”
I don’t know who these men around
@JustinTrudeau
are - and I am not casting doubt on the idea that there was a security threat - but the clothes they are wearing are not normal RCMP or CAF uniforms. They may be ex-military but forces don’t protect politicians.
I am told LPC has reached a deal with CPC to pass coronavirus compromise plan tonight. It only took this long because of huge Liberal miscalculation yesterday. Epic frig-up.