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Dr Norlaine Thomas🇨🇦(She/Her) Profile picture
@Norlaine
Oct 1, 2020 • 5 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
Ever have thematic problems? One year it was water problems. The basement flooded 2x. Then a toilet mysteriously overflowed while we were out & damaged the drywall in the basement. Then the septic alarm went off in the middle of the night & we had to get an emergency service 1/5
Then the outdoor tap froze and cracked and created a huge ice sculpture attached to the side of the house. And the shower leaked and had to be seen by a plumber 3 times before it was resolved. And then the dishwasher hose came unattached... 2/5
Another year it was mice. Mice got into the cottage in the summer. Then mice got into the house just before Xmas (we think they came in from the garage in a box of ornaments). It took ages to be mouse-free. Now our mouser dog inspects anything coming in from the garage. 3/5
This year it seems to be tires. One tire on my husband's car just goes flat periodically. Two tires on the quad won't hold air more than about 20 minutes. The quad trailer has a flat tire. The tire pressure light in my truck keeps going on...Garage says there's nothing wrong. 4/5
One of the quad tires has already been into the tire shop to be fixed, and it's leaking air again. And I need to use the quad and trailer for hauling mulch and peat moss this week. Seriously, what gives? 5/5 #FirstWorldProblems

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Chris Selley recently published a piece in the National Post excoriating Poilievre's critics. Some of those mentioned were professors and media personalities. Fair enough. But he also had a go at a regular citizen for expressing her political views. Is that what MSM is doing
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@angryablib @TheBreakdownAB People in Alberta don't care. As long as it's conservatives doing it, they don't care. Kenney fired the Elections Commissioner that was investigating his leadership election. No one cared. The party was also being investigated by the RCMP. No one cared. They have changed laws to
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I just feel the need to say, Conservatives go on & on & on about freedom. Yet their campaign team employ persuasion methodology that can affect what you think. Shouldn't freedom to not have your thoughts messed with, without your knowledge, be the #1 freedom?
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And yet another poll measuring something irrelevant. Canada is not "broken". Depite what Poilievre and the CPC and the news media want you to think. For example,
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Canada is growing...
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The Canada Election Act of 2000 regulates the technical disclosures required by polling firms during elections. However, in non-writ polling, authenticity, ethics, and honesty are self-regulated. Poll results are often used to try to push public opinion. For example,
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When conservatives cut taxes, when Harper and the CPC cut taxes, they did 2 things. They cut corporate taxes on sucessful profitable companies. And they created tax credits that only people who made enough money could use. For example, the child sport tax credit. If you
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