1. Ford announces Toronto & Peel regions will move into the Grey zone. Then he and Brian Lilley move all of Ontario into the bromance Twilight Zone. 2. Reports reveal CPC administrative teams staffed entirely by Andrew Scheer's sisters.
3. Ford says York region not moved to lockdown because Vaughan Working Families assures him Lecce's Team Nonnas promise to behave. 4. Elliott says when Dr Williams said Ontario would be back in Green by Xmas he meant green sweaters. 5. Lecce says 113% of Ontario schools are safe.
6. UCP's Ministry of Environment and Parks says data they haven't collected yet indicates many parks they're selling are underutilized. 7. Kenney to tear out Living Wall on Federal Building. Says the $75K savings can be better used buying For Sale ads for parks he's not selling.
8. Madu says AB to stop practice of Carding. Says street checks will continue though because those are really delightful social interactions Indigenous people say they quite enjoy. 9. Henshaw says Kenney and Shandro don't attend Covid briefings because Oil & Gas not feeling well.
10. As Covid cases soar in Alberta, UCP introduces legislation to cut red tape. 11. As Covid cases soar in Ontario, Doug announces new office supplies procurement system. 12. As Covid cases soar in Canada, O'Toole announces things in Canada were much better before the pandemic.
13. Premier of Canada's most populated province admits he subscribes to the Toronto Sun and his wife makes Toronto Sun scrapbooks. That's it. That's the scary part. 14. Doug announces on Monday there will be an announcement on Wednesday about an upcoming announcement on Friday.
15. National Post article implies 800K Canadians fraudulently collected CERB. CRA says that's untrue. Post shrugs. 16. 'Great Reset' conspiracy theory gains traction for two hours on Tuesday, but then Poilievre gets distracted proclaiming his love for his wife and Michael Cooper.
17. Rempel outraged that Health Canada isn't distributing Fast Testing the FDA has deemed ineffective. That's it. That's the funny part. 18. O'Toole says he'll probably give Scheer a stern talking to about Scheer's decision to maybe have done something a smidge ethically naughty.
19. Giuliani suffers rare medical condition. Causes large intestine to excrete itself through face. 20. Ivanka says she use to like Orange is the New Black but now says it's a dumb show that could never happen in real life, right? 21. Don Jr gets first positive test result ever.
22. Doug insists his decision to take a week to announce lockdowns which will happen after his birthday weekend had nothing to do with his reservations at Harv's Birthday Funtime Eats and Go-Karting Track this weekend 23. Lecce levels up on redoubling the layers of his hiding.
24. Half measures mean lockdowns will inevitably expand to other regions and be longer than a month. On the bright side though, this may slow down Doug's cross-province election campaigning. Maybe. 25. Conservatives say free speech is critical. I got blocked by Shandro this week.
26. UCP argues that just because only 20 people have used their Made-in-Berta Covid app that doesn't mean those 20 Issue Managers haven't got good value from it. 27. Kenney says federal Covid alert app totally faulty. Says the pizza he ordered on the app still hasn't arrived.
28. After a great 20-year stint, this marks the last weekend of me living in downtown Toronto. I'll miss weekends hangin' in Kensington, daily walks through Ontario Place before Doug tears it down, and all the diversity. I won't miss the traffic, condo construction or lake fires.
29. Sure, things feel like they suck right now. My unsolicited advice? Think back to a time in your days when things were totally bleak. Really hard. You got through all that, right?
We'll be okay.
But yeah, we should probably stop voting Conservative.
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1. Doug Ford says the hardest part for families who have lost loved ones in an LTC is that Doug has to get up for work at 6 AM. 2. Jason Kenney warns Albertans for the eleventh time that this Covid flu thing is getting pretty darn serious.
3. O'Toole says he'll fight for freedom of expression in Canada because 9 trillion Canadians are out of work because of the virus Trudeau imported from China. 4. Doug insists Feds need to step up with more funding for provinces because the $9B Doug's hoarding isn't nearly enough.
5. Lecce tweets about a chat he had with someone about something. LaGrange says "Hold my Min of Ed beer!" and tweets about a *great* chat she had with someone at some point. 6. Lecce tweets more selfies of Lecce, proving to parents he's working hard tweeting selfies of himself.
1. Alberta's War Room says it's just like any other plucky little startup with $30M of no-strings-attached budget, an unaccounted for $1.5B and logo design department called Google search. 2. Doug Ford learned how to colour code Excel tabs
3. Conservatives are outraged about cancel culture and urge people to stop shopping at Whole Foods to force them to uncancel poppies. 4. Doug Ford says government deregulation is required in order for business to grow and that's why he's legislating Whole Foods to listen to him.
5. Kenney says "personal responsibility" is the way to fight Covid, not lockdowns; then locks himself away in his mom's basement to avoid media. 6. Ford's new tiered pandemic system politely suggests a change in business hours if all your customers are hospitalized or dead.
Some learnings I've learnt living in these here pandemic times:
1. Everyone should have access to the internet during a pandemic. Oh, and funny hats. 2. These past ten years the dust bunnies under my sofa and bed have been pretty busy building thriving little towns and villages.
3. Screaming into the abyss is a real thing. My neighbour just doesn't get it. 4. If you want really nice weather all summer long, just declare a pandemic lockdown. 5. Amazon will pack two lightbulbs into a microwave-sized box. Can confirm.
6. Right wing politicians really don't like not being in front of people. Which is kind of weird, since they don't seem to like people. 7. Sometimes I find myself wondering if the person who invented the salad bar sneeze guard back in olden times truly knew what they were on to.
1. Kenney says a deal with Saudi Arabia to build a petrochemical plant in Alberta doesn't affect Alberta's reputation for producing "ethical oil" because the contract was printed on paper made of recycled cardboard healthcare promises.
2. With Ontario's Covid case numbers at record highs, Doug says numbers are on their way down. Ford says if you tilt the graph paper down to the right that's pretty obvious. 3. Doug decides praying Covid will go away isn't working so he begs the Great Pumpkin to make it go away.
4. After posting photos of 50 maskless family members standing squeezed shoulder to shoulder, MPP Oosterhoff says the knitting circle just wasn't done with their masks yet. 5. Doug says people should give Sam a break. Says Sam detailed his car, so the province should forgive Sam.
1. Ontario's Premier is governing the province utilizing the Cheesecake and Prayers model. 2. With Covid numbers still on the rise across the province, Ontario's Health Minister has a good feeling about that changing soon. 3. Nuns are sexy
4. Jason Kenney acknowledges oil may not be Alberta's saviour after all. Then reenacts the scenes from The Boys when people's heads spontaneously explode. 5. Alberta releases new school curriculum. Includes mandating hairshirts and rosaries as new official school uniforms.
6. Trudeau tells CPC if his government's as corrupt as they say it is then they should overturn it. CPC says "We could if we wanted! But we don't feel like it!" 7. Scheer appears in airport wearing a suit and slippers with no mask. Says his CERB isn't enough to cover new shoes.
1. Doug promotes the part of his Fall Pandemic Plan ensuring all Ontarians get free flu shot. Elliott says flu shots are in the mail. 2. Reports indicate Ford did nothing for LTCs while campaigning across Ontario this summer. #SmileCookie
3. Lecce says merit trumps seniority when hiring teachers. Doesn't define merit. Says Oosterhoff is doing robust and layered Bing search for definition of merit. 4. Doug prays he doesn't have to expand lockdown rollbacks to other regions. Then prays for hydro prices to drop too.
5. Kenney announces his staff will take a 7% pay cut. Says this will demonstrate they understand joblessness. Because 93% of too much pay is exactly like joblessness. 6. Kenney announces another project providing short-term jobs that may or may not happen in the next five years.