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David Hamer

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21 Jul

In Canada’s corner of the world, #COVID19 experience so far is 696 deaths 😔 per million population, lower than Belgium (2166), Italy, UK (1887), USA (1878), Spain, France, Portugal, Sweden (1438), Switzerland, Austria, Germany , Netherlands, and Ireland (1004). 🌎 is at 531.

Canada’s experience at 37,392 #COVID19 cases per million population is lower than Sweden (107,746), Netherlands, USA (105,338), Belgium, Portugal, France, Spain, Switzerland, UK (80,861), Austria, Italy, Ireland, and Germany (44,666). 🌎is at 24,673.
worldometers.info/coronavirus/#m…

Weekly change in #COVID19 deaths and cases (past 7 days):
🇺🇸USA: -6% deaths,
+52% cases
🇬🇧UK: +61% deaths
+42% cases
🇨🇦Canada: -16% deaths,
-18% cases
worldometers.info/coronavirus/we…

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David Hamer

@DavidHamer_1951

28 Mar

@brianlilley

On the @brianlilley @yelich_ivana scandal, there’s a lot of confusion on here about what is and is not a conflict of interest. A COI arises when a person who’s under a duty places themselves in a position where they have a personal interest that conflicts with that duty.

A COI can be ‘waived’ if the person makes disclosure of the conflict and the parties affected consent to the person carrying on with performance of their duty. In the journalistic context, it’s sensible that such consent be express on the part of the employer and implied on the

part of willing readers. Thus we commonly see, for example, business reporters disclose that they own shares in companies they’re writing about. One personally once heard the respected Mr. Paikin giving a talk on Ontario politics disclose that his spouse works for one of the

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David Hamer

@DavidHamer_1951

25 Mar

Remember, Ontario. We have federal carbon pricing in Ontario because of one person and one person only. His name is Doug Ford. Under Kathleen Wynne, we had a cap-and-trade system, working with Québec and California, that meant the feds left the Province alone. Doug threw that out

thereby bringing the federal regime down on us. At the same time, he demolished wind turbines, tore out EV charging stations, established his unconstitutional gas pump sticker circus, and launched his loser of a challenge to the federal legislation (for $30,000,000).

And his abolition of cap-and-trade cost Ontario’s government an estimated $3 billion (according to his own Financial Accountability Office) and imposed higher costs on Ontario households than does federal carbon pricing.
fao-on.org/en/blog/public…

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David Hamer

@DavidHamer_1951

24 Mar

@Docs4GunControl

Long reflection on the gunnie community and gun control in
🇨🇦Canada.👇🏻
@Docs4GunControl @Polysesouvient @christmasali @alandrummond2 @DanforthFSC @DavidLametti @BillBlair #cdnpoli

As evident on here and elsewhere, the 🇨🇦Canadian gunnie community nurtures a culture of bullying and grievance. It’s not enough for our gunnies to disagree strenuously with gun control advocates, which they’re perfectly entitled to do.

Instead many work actively to bully their opponents into silence. Perhaps the best example of that is the ill-fated campaign by the so-called Canadian Coalition for “Firearm Rights” to organize mass complaints of professional misconduct against physician advocates of gun control.

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David Hamer

@DavidHamer_1951

25 Jan

@erinotoole

Now that @erinotoole has completed the defenestration of @DerekSloanCPC, it's time for him to come clean on his relations with Canada's NRA-style gun lobbies.
Is he still with them, as he proclaimed loudly during his leadership campaign?👇🏻

Here's Mr. O'Toole meeting with one of those groups, the Canadian Coalition for "Firearm Rights", less than a year ago:
1. He maintains he's the only person in the leadership race who's spoken against the Liberals' Bill C71.

@CPC_HQ

2. He says he'll repeal the Firearms Act and replace it with something drafted by gun owners, gun manufacturers, police and 'members of the public' (appointed by @CPC_HQ no doubt).
3. He promises to 'educate' Canadians who have no contact
with what he calls 'gun culture'...

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David Hamer

@DavidHamer_1951

17 Jul 20

Here’s where we’re at on l’affaire #WE:
In the midst of an historic and deadly pandemic, Canada is trying desperately to avoid a dreaded ‘second wave’ while preventing economic collapse, with a government that the vast majority consider to have responded rather well.

@CPC_HQ

Mortified by the polls, @CPC_HQ, led by @PierrePoilievre and cheered on by #cdnmedia aching for clicks, want the PM and his entire Cabinet, along with endless senior officials in the public service, to be utterly consumed with explaining who was in the room, who sent which memo

to whom, and who made which phone call to whom and when, all in connection with the approval of a programme to aid 🇨🇦Canada’s youth this summer (not next summer), which approval had already been withdrawn immediately upon questions being raised about it. And, despite all the

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