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May 30 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Snowmobiling Ford goes incommunicado for 5 days while the domestic and US-funded Jethro convoy of anti-Trudeau, anti-mandate anarchists barrelled through his province beginning Jan 26, 2022, sideswiping Toronto before hightailing it to Ottawa, promptly turning 20 blocks of.../2
...the capital's downtown core and Parliament Hill into a dystopian truck-stop on Jan 29;

The Konvoy runs amok in Ottawa, bringing 24/7 diesel fumes, honking horns and images of children being used as shields against police actions. The QAnons arrogantly brandish a farcical.../3
..."Memorandum of Understanding" challenging Canadian democracy, wave Nazi swastikas and US Confederate flags, (but lack a permit, plans or porta-potties);

The Ford-bolstered squatters indulge in violence and vandalism, urinating on war memorials, dancing on the tomb of the.../4
...Unknown Soldier, desecrating a Terry Fox statue, plotting to kill RCMP officers and blocking vital bridges,l;

Nonetheless, Ford emerges Jan 31 and comes out for both anti-vax trucker/thugs and vaccines, unwilling to halt an occupation that only 14% of Canadians "strongly.../3
...supported" according to a contemporaneous Abacus poll;

Amid rumblings downtown Toronto would experience a trucker uprising, Ford was upbeat, even as downtown Ottawa residents were left alone to face bullying, harassment, anti-Semitism, misogyny and homophobia in their own../4
...neighbourhoods. Proclaimed the premier about the white replacement theorists: "I just hope it's always a peaceful protest. If people want to come down and protest, God bless them."

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#ClusterFord

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Robert Lee 🌃📝🎼💿 Profile picture
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The media has buried the lede again, as the impact of Ford's Bill 254 and its ham-fisted interference in election advertising and 3rd party involvement has been on display since the campaign began five weeks ago: Ford's face has been on screens continuously, along with the.../2
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Ford's election law is starkly favourable to his PCs; .../4
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May 31
April 2021, Ford's Bill 254 election financing revamp, aka the Protecting Ontario Elections Act, is characterized as the "Squashing Ontario Democracy Act" by Unifor, the country's largest private sector union;

Ford's election law is starkly favourable to his PCs, hobbling../2
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Ford's amendments double the time spending limits are imposed on political advertising by 3rd parties, from 6 to 12 months leading to an election. During.../3
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An ON Superior Court Justice found 4 sections of Bill 254 infringed s. 2. of the Charter based on freedom of expression;

In response to the Superior Court rebuke, as usual embracing audacity over.../4
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May 31
In a vindictive salvo against former Toronto city council colleagues, (no other city was targeted) Ford cuts wards from 47 to 25 in Aug 2018, four and a half months into the municipal election campaign ending in November; Ford also cancelled planned regional chair elections.../2
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Toronto sued, and the courts hurriedly ruled Sept 10 that Ford’s gerrymandering of political districts was undemocratic. So Ford accused the.../3
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May 30
The media itself took control of the pro-Ford bullhorn, T-minus 9, when the Toronto Star's Ontario politics columnist, Martin Regg Cohn, worked up a fawning account of the New Doug Ford for the once-upon-a-time liberal standard bearer;

No doubt to the chagrin of Journalist.../2
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May 30
Feb 8, 2022, Ford turns down City of Ottawa request for an emergency declaration over the trucker occupation, into its 11th day, as the negligent, likely complicit premier absconds from his duty of care to Ottawans, embracing instead the CPC strategy of ensnaring the PM in../2
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As combined police forces arrest and remove the capital occupation following Trudeau's Feb 14, 2022 Emergencies Act passage, (police towed more.../3
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Ford promised to send 1,500 OPP to help../4
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The Toronto Star newsroom joins the growing ©ClusterFord of formerly reliable newspapers that have succumbed to the confounding allure of a Ford administration (and pressure from new, true blue owners, NordStar Capital). A May 9 poll projecting a one-seat majority victory ../2
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Northern .../3
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