2/ Also, he's blaming our higher unvaccinated rate. That rate wasn't any better when they opened the province up for Stampede. It's not like we had enough vaccinated in July, but then a bunch of unvaccinated people moved here 🙄
3/ also says higher unvaccinated rate "despite our best efforts."
Not true, IMHO. There were provinces that much earlier than now, implemented real vaccine passports - and not the half-measures one we have, where you get out of being vaccinated by choosing being tested instead
4/ these passports - the ones by other provinces, have proven to be motivating factors for those who didn't become vaccinated earlier
5/ also repeating his line about other places in the world also struggling - as though two wrongs make a right
6/ also the Alberta premier is repeating his line about Alberta having the lowest death rate.
1. Simply using death rate as deciding metric, ignores Long-Covid
2. He's using the averaged rate from over the entire pandemic (see link for current rate)
7/ adding this relevant comment by @Mikeggibbs - he's probably referring to the CBC segment that just finished, where they played part of the radio interview (I link the interview in my top quote-tweet in this thread)
I try really hard to be fair, when reading tweets by journalists. Their jobs have to be more complicated & difficult than I can imagine, & I have my own biases. That said, it sure appears as tho Mr. Akin has a very narrow view of anything associated with PM Trudeau. Sad, really
2/ Here's part of what PMJT said, & the important context that Mr. Akin leaves out of his tweet:
"These two men have gone thru an unbelievably difficult ordeal. For the past thousand days they have shown strength, perseverance, resilience & grace, & we are all inspired by that."
3/ source for my quote, and I assume the source for Mr. Akin's comment (which I quote-tweet at the top of this thread)
1/ (abbrev) "Nowhere were consequences of our collective blind spot over Que more evident than in English-lang debate. Rather than probing deeply into Bloc priorities dur only opp most Cdns had 2 learn more, moderator q'd Blanchet sharply about prov leg enacted by diff party" ...
2/ "By contrast [to very little coverage of Bloc priorities], we know altogether too much about Maxime Bernier, a man who finished fourth in his own riding and whose party elected not a single candidate." nationalobserver.com/2021/09/24/opi…
3/ (abbrev) "This creates serious dilemma for journalism bec what Bernier is doing is clearly newsworthy, tho primarily in context of how he's exploiting imperatives of news cvrge & stoking violence. The risk to public can't be ignored.
When people react strongly on Twitter to a headline, it's usually that they didn't read the article. See my next tweet for some quotes from the article, that provide nuance & context ...
2/ (abbrev) "Justin Trudeau said Sat that he remains open to getting rid of Cda's FPTP electoral system if his party re-elected, but added it's not a priority since there's no consensus on the issue."
(they did hold cmte mtgs, do studies, but no consensus among diff parties)
3/ (from article Mr. Coyne is reacting to) "Trudeau said, however, that he would not favour proportional representation as an alternative, saying the system "gives more weight to smaller parties that are perhaps fringe parties."
- when did Trudeau say he was against taxing billionaires? Mr. Singh just said both Mr. Trudeau & Mr. O'Toole are against taxing the billionaires. This presser is nuts. Too many disingenuous statements. Discouraging that there are voters that believe him. #Elxn44#elxn44vote
2/ just after posting my above tweet, @krismeloche's tweet appeared in my TL, basically saying the same thing
Heather McPherson just said Jason Kenney has not handled the pandemic well, but also Trudeau sat on the stage and said "yeah, you're right, it's the best summer ever"
Seriously? I don't recall Trudeau sitting on a stage w Kenney & saying directly to Kenney "yeah, you're right"
listening to Erin O'Toole's presser (played on delay by @CBCNews, since there had been overlap between the leader's speeches)
His answer to reporter's questions regarding what Premier Kenney could've done differently, and O'Toole is using the false dichotomy of health v econ
2/ I guess that answers the question of what he would have done, if he'd been PM this past 18 months. We'd have been in much worse shape. It's this flawed thinking that has resulted in the crisis here in Alberta (IMHO)
3/ This article is from Nov. 2020, perhaps a bit out of date now - but the concepts discussed are still relevant. Also, good data included theconversation.com/data-from-45-c…