1. The key to Ontario's economic recovery is hair salons in Vaughan. 2. The key to Alberta's economic recovery is lowering wages and cutting jobs, not taking money out of people's pockets with a sales tax.
3. Ontario set vaccination records this week while having no vaccines in the freezers because of Trudeau 4. Federal Conservatives outraged about all the money Trudeau spending on Canada and provincial Conservatives demand Trudeau send more money. That's it. That's the funny part.
5. In February, Conservatives demand the Feds deliver vaccines. In March they demand the Feds deliver the Kielburgers. CPC insiders say in April they'll be demanding Trudeau cancel The Beachcombers. 6. Conservatives outraged Dr Seuss is being cancelled and demand CBC be closed.
7. Weeks after Ontario's Ministers of Health and LTCs testify Ontario Premier willfully ignored medical and science experts recommendations, Doug Ford still rides high in the polls. Proving the entire Niagara Region is in fact comprised solely of members of the Oosterhoff clan.
8. Ford government hires Toronto's former police chief to consult on redesign of Ontario Place. Ford says Saunders' $172K salary is money well spent since Saunders once rode the waterslide at OP's Kid's Village. 9. All regions in Ontario move into a different colour this week.
10. People in their 80's line up in -10 degree cold for hours waiting for first shot. Hillier calls it "logistical hiccup." Ford blames Trudeau for weather. 11. Johnson & Johnson develop stable, one-shot vaccine. Poilievre outraged Margaret Trudeau travelled to Europe that time.
12. Tyler Shandro says gyms to only allow activities not provoking heavy breathing. Thousands of Kenney supporters outraged, saying that's the only way they know how to breathe. 13. AB government raises park camping prices. Kenney says Outdoors has to pay its fair share too.
14. Manitoba Premier says Trudeau was really mean to him. Conservatives demand Trudeau explain why he hates Salsbury House and wedding socials at the Legion so much. 15. Doug Ford reverses protections MZO's were supposed to offer but never did and renames Greenbelt to Donorbelt.
16. Toronto to move from Lockdown to Grey. Millions of Torontonians change from Club Monaco black sweats to Banana Republic black leisure sportwear pant. 17. John Tory says city thinking about vaccinating 24/7. Says decision will depend on condo development road closure schedule.
18. O'Toole encourages Conservatives to stop paying to read "the leftist Toronto Star" because CPC memes are totally free and just as informative. 19. Globe & Mail publishes article comparing weekends watching Netflix to Anne Frank's experience. That's it. That's the funny part.
20. UPC announces plan to close libraries to save taxpayers $1.2M. Kenney to make announcement from marble-floored front lobby of $30M-a-year O&G War Room. 21. Hillier says doctors know their role in vaccination plan. Doctors say they don't. Doug Ford says teachers are to blame.
22. My Pops waited in line for 2.5 hours to get his first shot this week. Which is good news. Except for Doug Ford's "well-oiled machine!" 23. Lecce says he's grateful for everyone's collaboration and input. Proving he has no idea what collaboration and input actually means.
24. We're a couple weeks away from being a full year into this pandemicking thing. That's 8760 hours. According to Malcom Gladwell's thesis, another 240 hours and we should be experts at sweat pants and Zoom meetings.
Probably need another year to master home haircuts though.
25. It's supposed to reach 14 degrees here on Tuesday.
Vaccinations are happening. Spring will soon be springing.
We're gettin' there. We really are.
So here's a happy summer song from that Hootie dude. (No, this is not the new Doug Ford campaign ad)
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1. If you wax your car four times every week for a month your car will not be faster 2. Doug Ford's favourite things are Timmie's egg sammiches, Lays potato chips, McDonald's fries, Tim's Smile cookies, and Brian Lilley articles.
3. It takes an hour every day for two weeks to learn to juggle three balls. It takes a little longer to learn to play the saxophone. 4. It takes a Conservative politician six months to summon the courage to place a piece of fabric on their face 5. Being loosey-goosey is not cool.
6. Iron rings around LTCs are made of unicorn burps and fairy farts 7. The unemployment rate for kitchen junk drawers in Canada skyrocketed in 2020 8. If you hold your lighter up and flick it while watching a concert on YouTube be sure you're not standing under a smoke detector
1. CPC MP Cheryl Gallant says she knows Trudeau started COVID because she used her special extraterrestrial CB radio to make contact with alternate universes which told her Trudeau caused lockdowns to make his drive to the cottage easier.
2. Erin O'Toole states repeatedly he was in RCAF, when he was not. O'Toole says he *did* write his RCAF's Insurance Brokers licencing exam after he left the Canadian Armed Forces' Air Command, but he moved after that and his RCAF Insurance Broker's licence was lost in the mail.
3. With all of Ontario moved out of a province-wide lockdown and back into a variety of colour-coded stages, Doug Ford further confuses the entire province by behaving like he's in a Code Green area no matter what stage the location of that particular photo opp is actually in.
Even though I tried to ignore Twitter this week but what I still learnt on the Twitter this week anyway:
1. While NFLD's government responds to a severe COVID outbreak with ninja-like pandemic management skills, Ontario's Premier promotes Tim Horton's new real egg sammich.
2. After Niagara's Chief Medical Officer receives death threats about the lockdown, Doug Ford tells constituents of Sam Oosterhoff's riding to "cut it out with the silly death threat shenanigans, you fun-loving supporters of mine!"
3. Doug Ford says people need to be able to work to earn a wage so he has to start opening the province but don't you dare leave your house to frequent these businesses employing people you shouldn't be exposing to Coe-Vedd. Also, get yourself a Timmie's scrumptious egg sammich.
1. Canada declares Proud Boys a terrorist group. In unrelated news Conservative politicians across Canada hastily scratch hundreds of names off their annual Christmas card lists. 2. Groundhogs predict six more months of rotating lockdowns.
3. During Facebook townhall, Jason Kenney urges Covid deniers in Alberta to stop believing Facebook conspiracy theory nonsense about the pandemic and instead focus their attention on the fact the US is attacking Alberta's O&G sector with Laurentian Elite space lasers.
4. Ford announces the best way to fight Coh-VEDD is to go to the country's busiest airport and take a big group selfie with healthcare workers. 5. O'Toole says "Ottawa" is at the root of all Canadian problems. Says this from his office in Ottawa. That's it. That's the funny part.
1. Trudeau announces mandatory testing for all arrivals at Canadian airports. An hour later Doug Ford announces mandatory testing at Pearson. Ford says Trudeau's tests will detect Covid - but not the dangerous Ontario strain, Coe-VEDD.
2. Kenney says Alberta is "under attack" by the US. Also reports Alberta targeted by Liberal space lasers for years. 3. Kenney declares Alberta coal to be fully organic, gluten and peanut-free. 4. CPC MPs wear I ♥️ O&G masks in HoC. Say coal-based filters work *cough* great.
5. Shandro argues UCP cabinet must meet in person instead of virtually because not all UCP MLAs know how to make their own lunch. 6. Ford says Ontario's chief doctor has to balance health, the economy, and fear of ying-yang firecrackers when making any pandemic-related decisions.
1. Doug Ford says if Pfizer doesn't step up, he'll drive a tractor-trailer full of firecrackers down to Kalamazoo to talk ying-yangs with Pfizer's CEO. 2. Joe Biden's first act as President is pouring himself a giant cup of Kenney tears.
3. Jason Kenney appears on the FOX News to plead his case for Keystone. Insiders say Kenney set to appear on The Weather Channel and The Jerry Springer Show sometime next week. 4. Kenney ends his Fox News interview by storming off set shouting, "Marica! Marcia! Marccciaaa!"
5. Bernie Sanders first man to land a lawn chair and wool mittens on the moon. Afterward he meets with The Beatles and then makes a guest appearance on Friends 6. Neither Biden nor Harris tweet anything incendiary or riddled with typos this week. 74 million Amurikuns confused.