Thread by @mynamesnotgordy

What I learnt on the Twitter this week:

1. After cancelling Scarborough's transit build twice in ten years, Doug Ford puts shovel to ground this week. Says if he loses 2022 election he will cancel this plan too though.
2. Handle falls off Doug Ford's ceremonial gold shovel.

3. Stephen Lecce says with most Ontarians fully vaccinated by September his redoubled layers of safety at schools should probably work this time.
4. Ontario's Chief Medical Officer Dr David Williams retired Thursday. ON's pandemic response measures finally became clear on Friday.

5. Experts recommend those receiving AZ first dose get Pfizer or Moderna second dose. Doug Ford receives second dose of AZ this week at photo opp. That's it. That's the funny part.
6. Doug Ford flexes bicep for vaccine photo opp. Appears in Toronto Sun next day as Sunshine Girl.

7. Majority of CPC MPs vote against Conversion Therapy Bill saying the sentence structures in the legislation banning the psychological torture made them feel icky.
8. MP Garnett Genuis insists Bill means parents could be sent to Guantanamo Bay for telling their kids to man up.

9. Toronto sends police to remove homeless people in city park. John Tory says city had no choice since he'd already granted parade permit to anti-mask group for the same day.
10. Tory says giant inflatable duck must show prove of residence before floating into harbour in July.

11. With more news of one of Canada's darkest chapters revealed this week, Erin O'Toole says Canada Day should not be cancelled because he already has a bouncy castle and Snowbird fly-past booked for his annual Canada Day family barbeque in The Shwa.

12. Liberal MP Carolyn Bennett demonstrates the importance of timing and decorum by not demonstrating it.
13. Pierre Poilievre repeatedly criticizes Carolyn Bennett's behaviour. Says both he and Michelle Rempel insist Parliament is no place for snark or childish outbursts.

14. Catholic Conservatives outraged to learn government will spend millions investigating Catholic Church's oversight of Residential Schools. Say future generations of Catholic Conservatives will have to shoulder government debt.
15. Trudeau insists CEO of Catholic Inc apologize.

16. With thousands of established Ontario businesses closing down or struggling to stay afloat, Doug Ford's daughter to open new kookie store after selling eight dozen kookies to family members for $75 a dozen.
17. Ontario to move to Step 2 early. Announcement unrelated to #16.

18. Jason Kenney announces additional prizes for Alberta vaccine lottery. Says cheap Jameson whiskey and SJAM statues should really get his base getting needles in arms.
19. Kenney says Alberta has always elected their senators and Trudeau should stop preventing what isn't true.

20. BC's "Heat Dome" to see some areas reach above-40 degree temps this weekend. Even Tina Turner and Mel Gibson say they won't be visiting BC anytime soon.
21. Canadians spend a year and a half complaining about pandemic virus then spend months complaining about brand of cure.

22. With Liberals taking a decisive lead in polls over the CPC, Pierre Poilievre set to release new line of aviator sunglasses. Says all models of PP Peepers come with patented Liberal Corruption Detection technology.
23. Ontarians still wait for Ford's beeping Covedd bracelets.

24. As a white guy Settler it's not my place to offer any commentary on the news about the horrific discovery at Cowessess First Nation this week. I only hope we can all keep this sad history - and today's challenges - top of mind and action. For a long time moving forward.

25. School's done. Man. Our students, educators, school staff and parents. And our new grads? Wow. Nice work.

You may not get the kind of party you'd hoped for and deserve - but you have a lifetime ahead knowing how ph*cking phenomenal you were this year.