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31 Aug, 5 tweets, 2 min read
Looking for Jason Kenney and/or Doug Ford in #Elxn44
It’s a very different approach than the one Kenney and the CPC took in 2019.

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Jeez, people are touchy about that. I just find it interesting that the Conservatives no longer see Ford and (especially) Kenney as assets to be deployed, but as liabilities to be hidden. #Elxn44
If they're the latter, it's a good move by Team O'Toole.
Clearly, not all Premiers are off limits. #Elxn44

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Just spent a few hours looking at public data from a variety of sources and talking to people whose wisdom I trust. Right now, this is the closest election I’ve ever seen in Canada. Closer than 2019. Hardest working team wins. #Elxn44
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UHN is one of the largest and most important hospitals in Canada. You can see it from the Premier’s Office window. Unbelievable that we’re letting front line health care workers get harassed like this in a pandemic. #Covid19
If these were homeless people occupying a park, we might do something. If they were Indigenous People protesting a pipeline, we’d be reading all about how Canada is Broken.
It’s not just Toronto. Here’s video of these people harassing health care workers in Vancouver.
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Give the money to the sick instead of the hospitals, the river crossers instead of the bridge-builders, the people whose houses are burning instead of the firefighters.
All joking aside, if the policy advocated here worked, the childcare problem would have been largely solved by the Canada Child Benefit. It doesn’t and it wasn’t.
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As if @cabotcapebreton Cliffs No 16 weren’t ridiculously beautiful enough, this guy was perched on the side of the green this morning. 🦅 #CapeBreton
This place is pure magic.
To amend the cliché, the best revenge is living well on Cape Breton Island.
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The government of Canada starved Indigenous People into accepting treaties — that it never lived up to — in order to get the railway built. #cdnhistory Image
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The Liberal opposition of the day was not constructive, to say the least. Image
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