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Feb 19 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Time to take a break from doomscrolling and watch this week’s #RuPaulsDragRace. Just kidding—I’ll still be doomscrolling throughout. And waiting for certain queens to not get read for their flat wigs and dubious taste.
Oh, look—another flat wig. #RuPaulsDragRace
That was an amazing fake-out. #RuPaulsDragRace
Right choice! She deserved that win. #RuPaulsDragRace
“I think I developed a false sense of confidence.”
No kidding. You should be in the bottom. #Untucked #RuPaulsDragRace

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Feb 21
Here’s the reason “Briane” and the other sob stories don’t exist: For their accounts to have been frozen for donating small amounts to the occupation, the RCMP and banks would need to be doing mass surveillance on the transactions going to the various funds. 1/
The measures were aimed at participants in the occupation to make it uncomfortable for them to stay. RCMP would have likely used licence plates to identify them and coordinated with banks as to the accounts to freeze. Only 76 accounts have been suspended thus far. 2/
The RCMP doesn’t have the surveillance of transactions, or the time and resources to find $20 and $50 donors. It defies credulity.
But the point is that the Conservatives are pushing the narrative that this is about Trudeau the Tyrant punishing dissent. 3/
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Sep 8, 2021
Countries don’t measure their unemployment rates the same way. It’s not an apples-to-apples comparison, and the Star’s fact-checker is letting O’Toole get away with lying with statistics.
No, PHAC didn’t dismantle GPHIN. Its reporting structure is a mess but it is still active, and it did note the first instances of COVID and made the alert – the problem was the alert not going anywhere useful. The review panel on GPHIN noted this if you actually read the report.
To paraphrase: “I talked to economists who said it’s not a problem, but I can’t judge that to be a false statement on O’Toole’s part.”
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May 7, 2021
In the #HoC for Friday #QP.
Bergen leads off by video, concerned that Bill C-10 is an attack on free speech.
Guilbeault, hewing to talking points, reads that this is about making web giants pay for Canadian artists, while they want suggested playlist to have more Cdn artists.
Bergen lies and says the Bill is about people only saying Liberal-approved things online.
Guilbeault suggests she actually read the bill to say users are not regulated. #QP
Deltell worries that immigration files take longer for Quebec than elsewhere, not respecting Quebec’s targets.
Schiefke recites that Canada is moving quickly to meet targets because they have increased resources. #QP
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Dec 11, 2020
In the #HoC for the final #QP of 2020.
Carol Hughes is in the big chair.
Gérard Deltell leads off to deliver a Bloc demand for unconditional health transfers.
Darren Fisher reads some talking points about the transfers since the start of the pandemic.
Tracy Gray blames the Canadian government and not the UK for delays to the Canada-UK trade deal.
Ng says they are looking for timely passage of the bill but also working with the UK about mitigation of the bill doesn’t pass in time. #QP
Gray has a very selective memory when it comes to the shenanigans and incompetence coming out of the UK on this trade deal. #QP
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Oct 28, 2020
Invoked new legislative powers how? The federal government can’t simply demand the provinces do anything.
You can’t invent federal levers out of thin air! thestar.com/politics/feder…
Further to this, I’m not sure how useful more robust federal models would have been. We’re a big country with lots of separate outbreaks, and one federal model isn’t all that helpful – especially because healthcare delivery is provincial jurisdiction.
And even if they had more robust models, what was Hajdu supposed to do with that information? Federal health delivery is only for the Canadian Forces, First Nations and Inuit, and that’s not even under her department any longer.
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Feb 23, 2019
Seeing a lot of “Why should the victim resign?” in my reply feed re: JWR not resigning per Shawcross Doctrine if she really was inappropriately pressured. Apparently it’s time for some remedial civics. 1/n
1) Ministers serve at the pleasure of the prime minister. He or she can appoint, shuffle, or dismiss them at will. Nobody “deserves” a Cabinet set. 2/n
2) Cabinet operates on the principle of solidarity. You stand and fall as a group, not as individuals. That’s also why there’s cabinet confidence - so that disagreements get aired behind closed doors, but you stand united in public. 3/n
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