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Jan 28 • 12 tweets • 4 min read
It’s not surprising that Canada has enough victims of misinformation or hate or inchoate anger to form this so-called Freedom Convoy. But the way Canada’s conservatives are embracing all of that - or enough - is a sad, clarifying show of where we’re going. thestar.com/opinion/star-c…
At the protests I've been at, the anger and high level of emotion can be contagious, and the more people at a higher temperature, the more chance the spark catches. I'm not sure this convoy can even organize this convoy, but the emotion is there
The trucker I spoke to today pointed out that they're paid by the mile, so while unvaxxed truckers are doing domestic routes now, trips to the US can mean more money, depending. Which means it's a financial incentive, but not likely a bankruptcy difference
By the way, there is indeed a labour shortage in trucking, partly due to the poor working conditions that @SaraMojtehedz recently wrote about. As one vaccinated trucker told me yesterday, there are so many other things they could be protesting.
Anyway, if and when this happens, remember: the US has a vaccine mandate for truckers, too. This is a show.
A thread from one of the best journalists on this issue. Vaccine mandates for truckers is not the central issue out there
Again, you want to fight for truckers? Here.
I am still gobsmacked by this. It is literally what happened: the warning message was sent out, O’Toole talked about lowering the temperature and his staff sent out that convoy fan video a few minutes after the press conference ended
If you wondered which side Canada Proud, whose founder is a senior Erin O'Toole staffer, is on
Meanwhile, yeah, this was a thing that happened.

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Jan 27
So which issues deserve to be heard? The demand to dissolve the government? To imprison officials? Maybe see some traitors hang?
This is such a clarifying moment in Canadian politics
But they deserve to be heard, I was told
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Jan 27
The far right in Canada is following the exact same playbook as the far right in the United States, and what you see today is going to be worse tomorrow. Meanwhile, the federal conservatives are fighting over who wants to align with Max’s crowd
Meanwhile, there are people on every 401 overpass across the GTA from the 400 east.
And there are senior conservatives (who in this case are taking talking points from a National Post writer, I believe) who are on board
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Jan 25
This is what conservative politicians from across the country are lining up to support
This is what conservative politicians are lining up to support as it travels across the country
This, again, is the convoy conservative politicians keep lining up to support!
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Dec 13, 2021
According to a memo and multiple sources, this week Ontario intends to expand its booster campaign almost any way it can, and faster 18+ eligibility will follow. It’s a huge lift, and welcome. And in the age of Omicron, that may not be enough. thestar.com/opinion/star-c…
This is terrific
This is a central issue: the province is treating vaccination like an all-out emergency, but there are no accompanying restrictions. Which tells me the provincial government remains exceedingly reluctant to impose any province-wide restrictions, again
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Dec 11, 2021
“This is the scariest it has been since the pandemic started.” I didn’t want to write this, and you probably don’t want to read it. But Omicron is here, and it is almost certainly a force unlike anything we have seen. This will be very hard. thestar.com/opinion/star-c…
It's a hurricane
This is a question people who are responsible for hospital staff are starting to ask. N95s in hospitals is probably a good idea
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Dec 10, 2021
I fear this is going to develop faster than we can react to it: holiday parties, holiday travel, an exhausted populace that doesn't want to hear it, and isn't really being told anyway. Omicron will spread so fast, and unless it's strangely easy on the unvaccinated, it will hurt
That yellow line looks a lot like the Omicron line in other countries
Vaccination still protects against sever outcomes: that is the good news. But again, unless it is oddly weak against naive populations, this will spread so fast and find people who aren’t protected
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