1. Federal Conservatives say climate change doesn't exist, while Conservatives in Alberta say Bigfoot is definitely real. 2. Doug Ford announces on Friday Ontario is vaccinating Ontarians at record rates with no vaccines from the Feds.
3. Doug Ford officially launches Ontario's third wave of the pandemic by visiting local donut shop and pizzeria. 4. Doug Ford says his government hasn't enacted any MZOs municipalities haven't asked for except that first one in Toronto people have found out about so far.
5. At the CPC's annual convention Erin O'Toole promises to accomplish a lot of stuff if elected Prime Minister except providing any details how. 6. Pierre Poilievre tweets that Canadians should have the freedom to drink on patios but only if they wear O&G hoodies and are smug.
7. Ford government says it can't speed up vaccinations because it may have to slow them down at some point and that's not the way business works. That's it. That's the funny part. 8. Stephen Lecce continues to leverage Zoom technology to showcase his uselessness across Ontario.
9. Doug Ford announces new pandemic measures education program involving daily updates regarding Cody the Coyote's current whereabouts. 10. Gen Hillier set to leave role in a week. Doug says he'd like to keep him on board but will appoint someone else to guard 300K unused doses.
11. Toronto Sun's Brian Lilley writes people who specialize in things like science and medicine are just like everyone else, but with specializations in science and medicine. That's it. That's the funny part. 12. Toronto Sun announces it's now anti-science. No one notices change.
13. Speaking to his prolife QAnon group, Sam Oosterhoff says key to effective public service is kindness. Except if opposition are grey-haired librarians. Them you taser. 14. Oosterhoff says saving unborn lives and homeschooling them is the only way he can continue to be elected.
15. Asked about MPP Oosterhoff speaking at QAnon-following prolife event, Doug Ford says he can't tell his MPPs what to think except those four MPPs he tossed out of caucus for saying stuff Doug didn't like. 16. Doug Ford releases new CoVEDD gardening video. No one knows why.
17. Recent polls show the Trudeau Liberals now more popular in Alberta than the UCP. Kenney voices outrage, saying, "It's high time the Laurentian elite in Ottawa provide the UCP with our fair share of the popularity!" 18. Jason Kenney outraged by Bigfoot cartoon. No, seriously.
19. CPC's Comms tweets "The Trudeau Liberals are more concerned about Canadians keeping their jobs than the Trudeau Liberals are about keeping their own jobs." I have nothing to add to this. I can't possibly make this funnier. 20. Andrew Scheer mans merch table at CPC convention.
21. CPC MP Cheryl Gallant selected to represent Pembroke riding again. At this weekend's CPC convention, Gallant to introduce motion for CPC to declare the party is officially against Trudeau eating anymore babies. 22. Erin O'Toole says he's a leader. No one's sure of what yet.
23. In his address at the CPC convention, Erin O'Toole says the CPC must change if they want Canadians to vote for them. CPC delegates vote to continue moving forward to the 1950's. 24. After CPC delegates ignore O'Toole's speech, Erin says it's time Trudeau got tough on China.
25. US commits to loaning Canada 1.5M vaccine doses. Doug Ford says he arranged this by poking Biden daily on Facebook for the past six months. 26. Dr. Williams says Ontario headed into third wave of pandemic. Ford says young people now getting sick too, opens up indoor dining.
27. Live video stream from the CPC convention:
28. Spring's here. Sure, we're likely headed into our third wave. But what's better than waving at robins from your livingroom window in April? 29. Doug will keep bungling vaccinations.
But they're coming.
This time last year this all seemed impossible.
• • •
Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to
force a refresh
1. The UPC's Energy War Room takes on Netflix. War Room says animated Bigfoot has un-Albertan thoughts. 2. Ford government says pandemic-related death statistics "not relevant" because none of those people are Party donors anymore anyway.
3. Internal document shows Ford government decided some LTC virus control measures "cost too much." Turns out "iron ring" was actually used pool noodle 4. Lecce signs announcement about sign language programs. Translaters say later he just signed 'ostensibly' over and over again.
5. Doug Ford releases long-awaited sequel to 2020's 'Doug Bakes!' video. 'Gardening with Doug' demonstrates dangers of planting petunias too close together during a pandemic. Also, safe moped riding across front lawn practices are shared. Rotten Tomatoes gives film 5 gaslights.
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.
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.