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Now in Season 3. Incisive (centrist/progressive) commentary on 🇨🇦 Canadian politics and culture with a focus on media and political literacy. Facts First.
Jan 25 118 tweets 41 min read
Reading the full text of the Federal Court decision on invocation of the Emergencies Act and posting interesting nuggets

🧵/2 It would seem that this particular one applicant was grandstanding and tried to make it look like she was speaking for way more people than just herself.

She was quickly and summarily bounced out right on her butt.

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Dec 13, 2023 6 tweets 2 min read
1. NOTE: Top row created by @TrueEager with available data from the article for easier comparison.

Wow!

What a difference a bit more than 2 weeks make.

The kicking the tires phase is over. The PP Honeymoon is over. And the fakeover was a massive failure
Image 2. The last poll, from any company, that had the spread at 10 points or fewer was back in September. Image
Dec 11, 2023 12 tweets 3 min read
1. FUN FACTS TO COUNTER CPC / PP BS ON INFLATION

According to Department of Finance Fiscal Reference Tables, in the years before Harper became prime minister, there were nine consecutive years of budgetary surpluses, from 1997 to 2007. 2. During that period, inflation rates during that were 1.62% and 1% in 1997 and 1998, respectively, then ranged from 1.73% to 2.76% in the years during which we paid down the most debt, despite that we recorded a surplus of over $79 billion over 8 of those years.
Nov 15, 2023 12 tweets 3 min read
A. Three Truths:

1. Israel has right to defend itself
2. Hamas must be eliminated
3. There are STILL rules to war

#PMJT was tasked with this by a collection of Israel's traditional allies as THE geopolitical risk they wish to avoid is Saudi Arabia flipping back to Iran's camp. B. THE goal is to contain this regionally.

SA realpolitik: There are only so many Palestinian civilian casualties it can look past without having to break ties with Israel to work with Iran. The US (and allies) need to show they can rein #Netanyahu in.

And Bibi's not listening.
Oct 22, 2023 10 tweets 2 min read
Realpolitik

1. Given he is the leader of a pluralist nation, the prime minister of Canada has to choose words and a tone that reflect that we have many citizens who identify with either side of the current reality for Palestinian civilians and Israeli civilians, in the region. 2. He not only must be concerned with sending the right message to the world as well as to the most immediate concerned parties, but also with not creating division or increasing tensions domestically.
Apr 11, 2023 17 tweets 3 min read
1. HYPOCRISY THY NAME IS CONSERVATIVE

Conservatives have a problem with Trudeau buying doughnuts for his staff.

Conservatives have no problem with Skippy delivering Timmie's to occupiers / terrorizers / hostage takers. 2. Conservatives have a problem with Trudeau charging $6,000 / night for the Queen's funeral

Conservatives have no problem with Candice spending ~ $19,000 on linens, a mattress, and moving costs for a few months.
Feb 27, 2023 21 tweets 20 min read
@PierrePoilievre INCONVENIENT QUESTIONS

1. Why have you not yet addressed Canadians via the National Press Gallery, with unlimited questions, to speak to this issue personally?

2. Why will you not put your voice and face to your denouncement of Anderson? @PierrePoilievre 3. Anderson stated your denunciation of her meant you had no business having your position and would have trouble being re-elected.

tiktok.com/@jaro_giesbrec…

Do you consider this meddling in our elections and domestic affairs?

If so, why have you not defended our elections?
Feb 26, 2023 4 tweets 3 min read
1. @PierrePoilievre has got to be the biggest, most heinous dick in Canadian political history.

Not only did he approve of 3 of his very key MPs dining with a far-right extremist, potentially a Nazi...

2. But he also attended a rally FOR #Ukraine, a nation Vladolph Putler is LIE-claiming he's liberating from [wait for it] Nazis!!

He then has his minions spin his attendance as proof it was true NOBODY IN THE WHOLE CPC knew nothing about #ChristineAnderson's views.
Dec 30, 2022 6 tweets 3 min read
@brianlilley 1. "First off, on the issue of bail, the Trudeau Liberals passed Bill C-75 back in 2019 to make bail easier to get," writes Lilley but then he refuses to commit journalism by answering the questions: Easier to get for whom / for which kind of crimes? @brianlilley 2. "[...] it’s unlikely to happen while the Trudeau Liberals are in power given their hug-a-thug mentality," claims Lilley but, all the highlighted sections are tougher penalties, ways to make it easier / faster to prosecute, or clean-ups of messy parts of the Law.
Dec 30, 2022 4 tweets 2 min read
Kits!

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Ep. 35 [2022/12/28]

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Nov 1, 2022 6 tweets 3 min read
1. So #ThatFuckerDougFord wants to break teachers with a $4,000/day fine for striking.

I'm old enough to remember when he made 39 suspension and seizure orders with $100,000 fines for #OttawaOccupation "truckers" vanish within a week.

No wonder @FordNation won't testify. 2. He promised⬇️, after waiting ~2 weeks to get up off his lazy, unaccountable backside to "stand shoulder to shoulder" in dismantling the Ottawa Occupation... but less than a week later, he flip-flopped and gave a free pass on "severe consequences" .

cbc.ca/news/canada/to…
Nov 1, 2022 5 tweets 5 min read
@CheriDiNovo @Sflecce 1. A little flashback to what happened when an Ontario government tried to pull this with #Bill115:

Ontario Superior Court Judge Thomas Lederer ound that the provincial government “substantially interfered” with teachers’ right to collective bargaining.

globalnews.ca/news/2652200/o… @CheriDiNovo @Sflecce 2. The government was forced to pay:
- $103.1 million to the province’s elementary teachers
- $50 million to the Ontario Secondary School Teachers’ Federation
- $56.7 million to the Canadian Union of Public Employees.

AND
Oct 31, 2022 4 tweets 2 min read
Kits!

🌄🦫 We now have a morning show 🦫🌄

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Ep. 11 - 2022/10/31

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Oct 29, 2022 4 tweets 2 min read
Kits!

🌄🦫 @TrueEager has a morning show 🦫🌄

Every Mon, Weds, and Fri at 7 Eastern, we livestream Just a Nibble (The Not Quite Daily Beaver)

For when you still want your Beaver-Grizzly goodness, but don't have time for a full bite

Ep. 10 [2022/10/28]

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Oct 29, 2022 6 tweets 4 min read
Daaaaaamn!

For the second time since September 16 #FelixAugerAliassime defeats World #1 #CarlosAlcaraz.

He's on a 12-match winning streak and will play for his 3rd consecutive title tomorrow.

🔥🔥🔥

#FelixonFire @felixtennis Image RE: @felixtennis is setting himself up very nicely to be named this year's winner of the #LionelConacherAward, given annually to Canada's male athlete of the year by the sports writers of the @CanadianPress.

montreal.ctvnews.ca/3-finals-in-3-…
Oct 27, 2022 8 tweets 3 min read
1. To all the Conservatives and pro-CON journalists saying the EA wasn't necessary because Trudeau.

To all #TheLoudmouths calling the dismantling of the Ottawa Occupation the worst violation of human rights in Canadian history.

Flashback to 2010.

2. Flashback to when, thankfully-former-PM Harper was in charge...

Stuff like this didn't need get to the 4th weekend before police had a very clear plan and plenty of resources for kettling, riot gear, cages for protestors, tear gas...

Oct 24, 2022 4 tweets 2 min read
Kits!

🌄🦫 @TrueEager has a morning show 🦫🌄

Every Mon, Weds, and Fri at 7 Eastern, we livestream Just a Nibble (The Not Quite Daily Beaver)

For when you still want your Beaver-Grizzly goodness, but don't have time for a full bite.

Ep. 9

podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6L… If you prefer video...

Sep 22, 2022 4 tweets 2 min read
1. Finally some movement in QC election polls following the debate during which PLQ leader Dominque Anglade and CAQ leader Franky legs performed poorly whilst Québec Solidaire leader Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois and Parti Québecois leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon impressed. Image 2. In the race for 2nd place Québec Solidaire takes the lead, the PQ gets a bump, the Parti Conservateur du Québec is flat, and the PLQ drops. Image
Sep 22, 2022 16 tweets 6 min read
1. Analysis

Several polling companies (Nanos, Abacus, Léger) have issued results of late stating that the Conservatives are leading in the polls, but there are certain things I've noticed about these result that are of interest.

ctvnews.ca/politics/nanos… 2. In the Nanos numbers, the NDP is up nearly 6% over the past 4 weeks... But there is no apparent reason for this. Had Bill C-31, with the start of the national dental care program been tabled a month ago, and Canadians were super excited about it, that could explain it.
Sep 14, 2022 8 tweets 3 min read
1. So, it seems pretty clear that Canada's National Hatekeeper™️ is going the full Maple Trump.

Already fighting with media (and fundraising off it) with minions and the "Hate-Everything" RWNJ independent media doing the "The Media Is The Enemy" thing

2. And of course, the rejected-by-Canadian Yankee Doodle Andy -- who **REALLY* wants to be Speaker again -- has been recycled as P. Staines' Archbishop of the Our Lady of the Perpetually Victimized parish...
Sep 12, 2022 4 tweets 2 min read
1. When one wins with 68% (in part because party brass "took out" your main competitor), but my how the minions quickly fall in line...

Exhibit A: Michelle Rempel Garner Image 2. cbc.ca/player/play/20…

"I'm ready to work and I'm ready to work behind a new leader."

AND

"I feel a sense of relief and hope this morning." -- Michelle Rempel Garner