mom. that woman. marketing + communications. scale girl. rural advocate. ex-politician. sassy. notable. my employer is not responsible for my loud mouth.
In elections, clothes matter. Kamala Harris needs to ditch the forgettable fashion and seize the spotlight.
Women in politics can’t win, fashionwise. But Harris’s boring esthetic isn’t right for these unprecedented times.
#Opinion
Doug Ford to Mayor
@BonnieCrombie
- “stop whining”
Doug Ford to
@OntarioAuditor
Bonnie Lysyk - “stay in your lane”
Doug Ford to female-dominated
@CUPEOntario
- “don’t force my hand”
Seems as though
@fordnation
has a real issue with women standing up to him
She was a Toronto City Councillor for 13 years, a MP for 8 years and a community activist for decades.
But yes, let’s set all of that aside and only recognize her for being Jack Layton’s wife. 🙄💁🏼♀️
If you live in Toronto, you live in a city whose mayor is most notable for being the wife of another politician, a province whose premier is most notable for being the brother of another politician, and a country whose PM is most notable for being the son of another politician.
If you do anything today, take the time to follow
@AuschwitzMuseum
and read through the heartbreaking stories.
#WeRemember
means we never forget, and we don’t let the hatred continue and repeat itself.
#HolocaustMemorialDay
26 January 1942 | A Dutch Jewish girl, Alida Baruch, was born in Amsterdam.
In July 1942 she was deported to
#Auschwitz
and murdered in a gas chamber after selection.
As with anything Canadian, our two major railways are majority privately owned by American and British investors (the largest share-owner in CN being Bill Gates).
When our entire supply chains depend on them, perhaps they should be nationally owned again? 🤔
#cdnpoli
Canada cannot allow this rail dispute to disrupt our entire supply chain for the 9th time in 6 years. This strike will negatively impact all facets of our national economy.
@SenatorRobBlack
& I sent this letter to cabinet ministers urging swift & effective action.
@SenateCA
Pierre’s salary: $279,900 (will increase ~$11k Apr 1)
MP’s salary: $185,500 (will increase ~$8k on Apr 1)
We pay them this amount of money to act like complete toddlers in what is supposed to be one of the highest honours in this country. Absolutely disgraceful.
#cdnpoli
In the middle of an answer from Trudeau, Poilievre gets up to leave and his caucus gives him a standing ovation, interrupting Trudeau, and exasperating the Speaker.
#QP
The
#UnitedWeRoll
convoy is not about the energy sector anymore. Although the grassroots of the convoy was legitimate, it has snowballed into a hate-fueled group of racism travelling across our country. To see
@AndrewScheer
,
@fordnation
+ others cheering is sickening.
#cdnpoli
The
#UnitedWeRoll
convoy is a testament to the importance of Canada's energy sector and the crisis it's facing. Canadian energy workers deserve a government that supports their industry and champions it worldwide. Conservatives will fix the Liberal mess & get people back to work.
🧵:
#DYK
- for the *exact* same knee arthroscopy, the Ontario gov’t will reimburse a public hospital a max of $1,682, but at Don Mills Surgical Unit by Clearview, $4,037.
But yes, let’s ask these doctors why they support performing surgeries in private clinics :)
#onpoli
The average education support worker makes $39k. Over the last *10 years*, they have received a 8.5% raise.
In 2022,
@fordnation
gave 73 out of 83 MPPs special cabinet titles and with that, pay raises up to 42%.
They just spent $16M bribing parents.
Enough is enough?
#onted
@PierrePoilievre
Errr… dude. You kicked
@CarymaRules
out of your meet and greet yesterday, in which she had a ticket, because of the things she “writes on Twitter”.
As Bell Media shows what horrible people they are, remember to support local journalism that matters. Things like the reversal of the Greenbelt wouldn’t have happened without
@EmmaMci
,
@fatimabsyed
and the amazing peeps at
@thenarwhalca
!
Support them!
NEW: Financial audit reveals Therme's mega spa at Ontario Place is economically unfeasible.
➡️ Therme can't make money without major subsidies
➡️ No info on source of Therme's financing or capability of meeting commitments in 95-year lease
Time to scrap this plan entirely.
Ford will call an early election in the spring and will win, because in one swoop he is knee-capping his opposition while the PC’s spend more time fundraising than doing their actual jobs.
Ford is dismantling democracy while everyone turns a blind eye.
#onpoli
Also, next year the opposition parties lose out on what has been their most reliable source of revenue: Ford is scrapping Ontario's taxpayer-funded per-vote subsidy to the political parties.
NDP & Libs got more from that subsidy in 2023 than either party got from donors.
#onpoli
🧵: It is official, I filed my all of my forms to run for Mayor of
@ThamesCentre
this morning.
I am incredibly proud of the work we have done in the last 7.5 years to be a progressive + forward-thinking municipality, and who is always striving to be better for our residents 1/
“Urban sprawl is lousy policy for all kinds of reasons. It’s expensive, it’s bad for the climate and environment, it does little (if anything) to tackle the housing crisis, and now it’s poised to undermine our food security.”
#onpoli
#ontag
#onmuni
Being happy that a “suspected” shooter is dead is not how democracy works.
Cheering for extrajudicial murders, and cancelling experts, is not a democracy. They are wild takes for someone who wants to lead a G7 nation.
I condemn in the strongest of terms the attempted murder of former President Trump today.
I am relieved he is safe. My prayers are with other innocent people harmed or killed by this heinous act.
I am also happy that the suspected shooter is dead.
Democracy must prevail.
All the love goes to the
#HumboldtStrong
Moms and the billet Moms as they celebrate their first Mother's Day without their sons. Your pain is unimaginable.
#HockeyMoms4Humboldt
@karrieporter
This is horrifying and disturbing, Karrie, and I’m so sorry you have to deal with this. You are a phenomenal Councillor who stands true to her beliefs and your community is exceptionally lucky to have you!
Someone sent me this the other day when I needed it - you might too :)
This thread. Seriously though
@Starbucks
- 4 billion single use cups a year (8000 paper use cups a minute!), hundreds of millions of plastic “stoppers”, your goal is to have 80% of your stores have emission clogging drive-thrus... but yes, milk is the concern. 🤦🏼♀️
#cdnag
Hey
@starbucks
So you think dairy is bad for the environment. My dairy is 1.5 hours away from your headquarters and more local and sustainable than your coffee, plastic cups, and private jet. I also don’t make 3 million people burn fossil fuel to drive 10 mins for a cup of coffee
Good morning to everyone, except for the person who hit my dog and left her laying on the side of the road, and didn’t even have the human decency to at least ring the doorbell. I hope you have a less than spectacular day.
ps. If you want the parts from your vehicle, call me.
Today, parents, families, best friends and an entire community said their final good-byes to a boy who could light up a room, but made the ultimate decision that he couldn’t take this world anymore. Hug your kids. Be kind to each other.
#MentalHealthAwareness
#ldnont
#tg7
I will my thank yous again. It has been a pleasure to serve you on Council for the last 8 years. We have accomplished many great things, and I hope the next Council carries on the touch. All the best, Thames Centre.
According to the
@OPP
- impaired driving charges were up 16% in 2023 over 2022, and impaired driving deaths were up 10% in the same period. Over 10,000 charges were laid in 2023, with over 215 in the week of Christmas alone.
But yes, it’s not a problem.
#onpoli
Premier Doug Ford suggests that this expanded alcohol regime isn't a contradiction from his position against decriminalization.
He says he has zero tolerance for impaired driving (despite his AG offering leniency for low-risk offenders)
#ONpoli
I’ve never met
@jenniferelle_
in real life - but I want to be her bff.
We don’t agree on everything... but we need more *rational* people who can talk politics. *Especially* on this dumpster fire of a platform. If you do anything today, give her a follow.
#cdnpoli
Weird, Bonnie Crombie isn’t an MPP so she literally *COULDN’T* vote for it.
… and we sit here and wonder why the public doesn’t understand basic civics lessons, because apparently even our government doesn’t 🤦🏼♀️
NEW: Our Ontario PC motion to scrap the carbon tax on transportation fuels has passed!
But guess who refused to vote for it? Bonnie Crombie and Liberals!
She’s the Queen of the Carbon Tax. She’ll cost you.
Want to see exactly how COVID has spread through Western?
@MLHealthUnit
has done a phenomenal job at contact tracing, and here you can follow the dots on how exactly it spread with things like sharing a drink, an e-cigarette, a ride, a get together, etc.
#MiddlesexProud
#ldnont
BREAKING: The Ford government is spending $225 million to speed up the implementation of beer and wine in corner stores.
After Sept 5, all convenience stores province-wide will be able to sell beer and wine.
After Oct 31, all grocery stores will be able to opt-in.
#ONpoli
I truly thank each and everyone of you for your messages.
I truly believe when one door closes, another opens. My head is high and I’m excited about what bigger and better things that come next.
You haven’t seen the last of me ✌🏻
As a true Leafs fan, I will take every “
@MapleLeafs
suck” joke there is, and laugh alongside and say “next year, FFS!”
But, making a joke about rape isn’t funny. Especially as we grapple with the hockey culture that exists that excuses sexual assault. We have to do better.
#NHL
Shout-out to
@MikePMoffatt
and all of the other parents who fought so passionately so this. Your love and dedication to your gorgeous kids - and all kids with autism across this province - did not go unnoticed!
#onpoli
#AutismDoenstEndAtFord
F you,
@nationalpost
.
How about: Anita Anand given Minister of Defence title to clean up the mess a man left behind.
Or: Anita Anand works her ass off; rewarded with Minister of Defence responsibility she’s more than capable of
#cdnpoli
#cabinetshuffle
/
@AnitaOakville
My Grandpa was a Conservative MP. I was raised a Conservative, and voted Conservative “because”.
I’ve received phone calls by Conservatives that I’m a “disgrace” to my family when I’ve shown support for friends in other parties.
Today’s CPC is not my Grandpa’s Conservatives.
"Advocate for people the same way you advocate for roads. Use your power for good. When you hear of people in our community that feel unsafe, believe them. Just like you always believe the people who say that the roads are a mess."
#localgov
#onmuni
🧵: I’ve been quiet on this front, but if you haven’t heard, I filed my papers back in May to run for Mayor in
@ThamesCentre
in the upcoming
#onmuni
elections!
Things will start ramping up in the upcoming weeks, so I’m starting to get organized and ready to hit the campaign 1/
Premier Doug Ford now tweeting Brian Lilley’s opinion pieces.
What kind of fucking bizarro world is this? Just kidding, it’s everyday in Ontario where we just wonder what new lows we can sink to.
#onpoli
This decision shouldn’t have been made in the first place but I’m glad to see our brave men and women in uniform getting the respect they deserve.
Police officers deserve nothing but our support for the work they do to keep us safe.
The harsh reality is, encampments exist because we don’t have the services required to “fix” issue. By “cleaning” up an encampment means you are just pushing them somewhere else out of sight for now.
It’s gross to be bragging about this.
#ldnont
THANK YOU
@CityofLdnOnt
@lpsmediaoffice
and everyone else who played a role in the encampment clean-ups that happened this Thursday & Friday in the
#OEV
municipal parking lots and on sidewalks. I received so many messages of gratitude!!
You made a difference & brought hope.
🧵: Under the leadership of
@karen_vecchio
, the Status of Women Committee published 45 reports, often unanimous across party lines, and more than any other committee. This included a report on IPV in 2022, and where things like Bill S-205 came together. Karen did a provoking 1/
Laurie Scott posted photo-ops from a visit today with Stephen Lecce… and when you zoom into the photo, I’m not sure this is really the message the province wants to be seen with. Or maybe they do. What do I know - stranger things happen.
#onpoli
Just spent the last couple of hours in
@LHSCCanada
Children’s Emerg with Colin. Say what you want about our health care system, but the health care workers in the hospitals don’t deserve any of the shit they deal with in there. Thanks for the extraordinary care tonight ✌🏻
Did you know in 2009,
@Chapmans_Canada
factory suffered a fire and the Chapman’s family ensured every employee still received their pay cheque. After realizing cost of testing, they’ve incentivized being vaccinated offering $1/hr wage increase.
Upset by this? No one cares.
Having more than one school board compete for public money - particularly one special religious school board - when the needs are so huge across all boards is ridiculous.
I’ll say it again + a little louder - eliminate the Catholic board.
#ldnont
#onpoli
The London District Catholic school board will be building a new, $51-million high school in the city, education ministry officials announced Thursday.
@HeatheratLFP
has more:
#ldnont
Harvest season continues! The rain has left small windows of opportunity, and also has left it impossible to load trucks in the field - meaning it’s on the roadway. Have a little patience as farmers work through the season - take a deep breath!
#MiddlesexProud
#ontag
#ldnont
I saw Urgent Neurology here in
#ldnont
in March, and have been waiting for an MRI of my head/neck so I can follow-up and hopefully get a diagnosis.
I *just* got an MRI appointment, and it’s February 2024 outside
#ldnont
.
Tell me again
@fordnation
, we have the best healthcare.
He was apprehended in 2002. He got the longest possible sentence for second-degree murder under Canadian law at the time he was sentenced.
In *2014*, the Criminal Code was amended to allow consecutive life sentences.
How the fuck is this Trudeau’s fault, Michelle?
#cdnpoli
49 innocent lives this sicko took, yet he is eligible for day parole.
On what planet is this ok??
In Justin Trudeau’s Canada that’s where.
Sick.
Victims rights should come before criminals rights.
It got too hot in the kitchen for Melling, so he bailed to go cry at home for 2 weeks, leaving Katrine to stay put to clean up the mess (how typical)… and to top it off they appoint a guy named “Gray” as some sick joke.
Did I get it?
#ctv
#lisalaflamme
Have you stopped and listened to how dumb you sound?
Mark Carney isn’t Trudeau’s “replacement”. Trudeau hasn’t even stepped down.
Carney is a private citizen - why would you have him come talk about what he would do as Prime Minister?! Can politics get any stupider?
#cdnpoli
I regret to inform you that “Glass Onion” is actively bad. I will discuss first the actual writing of the movie followed by the politics of it. Both suck. SPOILERS follow.
Just in case you thought we were taking the housing crisis seriously in the Province of Ontario. ✌🏻
ps.
@mferreriptbokaw
+ other Ont MP’s - if ya’ll are going to just keep screaming at Trudeau about housing, look at those fingers pointing back at what’s happening at home
#onpoli
NEW: After lots of internal deliberations about fourplexes (four units as-of-right) province wide - Premier Doug Ford shuts down the effort.
Ford says that’s “off the table for us” largely because there would be push back from residents.
#onpoli
Acceptable occasions to wear yoga pants… whenever you goddamn want.
Imagine being married to this douchebag that controls you so much you can’t even wear yoga pants outside your house.
Acceptable occasions to wear yoga pants…
Alone in your house w/ your husband.
Working out alone in your private gym while your husband watches you.
The end.
No public venues. Not social media.
The CPC’s stance to inflict abuse on a medical doctor, an expert in the field, and threaten her license because it does not follow their belief is appalling and disgusting. Poilivere did the same when he insulted
@MikePMoffatt
in the House.
This is not leadership.
#cdnpoli
I’m sorry that
@CharlieAngusNDP
received this threat after calling out the
@CPC_HQ
for their threats to revoke my medical license because I took a stand against them (based on inaccurate and inflammatory reporting by Adam Zivo)
Unfortunately, this is par for the course in my
Make this summer an Ontario-made summer!
Our new interactive map shows thousands of convenient options where you can still buy beer, wine, spirits and other drinks across the province. Check out a local brewery or winery for some fantastic Ontario-made products near you and
Next person who says to me “I don’t know how you can be Deputy Mayor and be a Mom”.. I’m going to keep it real. My house is a mess and my kids eat more KD + hot dogs than they probably should. But sometimes, I can be a great Mom, it’s balance.
#parenting
#munipoli
#momprobs
1. Greenland and Iceland are not in North America
2. Iceland has a carbon tax
3. Mexico is currently implementing a carbon tax
4. 12 US States have a state carbon tax
Debate carbon tax sure, but don’t lie to try and make a point. You just look dumb.
#cdnpoli
Q from audience - is democracy in danger?
@RadioFreeTom
- YES, and you should be concerned.
But, how do you defeat “the Russians”? Don’t get your news from Facebook. It’s that simple!
#OGRA2019
//
@Ont_Good_Roads
this vent, but can we all start being better people?!?! Be someone like my Grandpa Nels who could see a good person behind their party colour. Let’s put aside this party politics shit, and work together to create better communities because that’s what we are all here for. 7/
Colin has been training and working hard the past year, and it has paid off for him. Tonight he was offered a contract with the Ontario Nationals U14 baseball team as of September 1st! I’m so incredibly proud of this kid, he never ceases to amaze me.
#ProudMamaBear
🪡: This is a bit of a lazy take and just feeds into the urban/rural divide that exists in this province.
The issue is far more complex than a “do better” tweet and assumptions those in rural Ontario don’t actually care about anything.
#onpoli
#ruralmatters
1/
If you think that what is happening in the US, won’t happen here… just go to Norwich Township Council and see the absolute homophobia that exists between this + the flag burnings last summer. This is why we need
#Pride
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
I’m extremely proud of Councillor Stubbs!
#onmuni
Hundreds of people outside and inside the council chambers in Norwich Township this evening. Council is set to vote on two opposing motions: one banning non-gov’t flags, including Pride & Pride Progress flags, and another declaring June as Pride month.
One thing we don’t highlight enough, is how the average person is one misfortune away from being unhoused and surviving the streets.
If we did, we’d be a little more empathetic, and demand more from our elected officials. Especially a certain one in
#ldnont
.
I can’t keep up with my phone tonight, but THANK YOU!!!!!!!!! It’s still a little surreal, but looking forward to this new adventure!
#munipoli
#localgov
#thamescentre
🧵: It’s been just outside a year since I’ve no longer been an elected official, and it’s been such a great year! ✌🏻
I was in the car last week with Colin and mentioned it was the one-year anniversary, and his reply? “It’s been nice, Mom.” 1/
Just slipped into
@TSCStores
in
#ldnont
to get a few things. Outside was a man being extremely rude to the employee asking everyone to put on a mask. Please keep in mind, it’s not the employees implemented this. Don’t be an asshole to them. Stay classy.
#MaskUp
To the loser who dumped their old furniture on the side of the road on one of our back roads... you seriously suck. Our environmental staff have better things to do than clean up after you. Grow up.
#thamescentre
#thorndale
#ldnont
This “Professor” full out admits this isn’t the sole cause in a comment, but allows this original tweet to be amplified by MPs like
@Ryan_r_Williams
because it fits the “Trudeau is ruining everything” narrative. Disingenuous at best, but mostly just pathetic.
#cdnpoli
Curious about the impact of Canada's carbon pricing on food prices since July 1? Annualized food inflation rates by province:
PEI: 26.4%,
NS: 15.6%,
NL: 3.6%,
NB: 9.6%,
QC: -1.2%,
ON: 3.6%,
SK: 2.4%,
MB: 3.6%,
AB: 3.6%,
BC: 4.8%.
This is gross, and this is why you’ll keep ending up with shitty elected officials.
Protest at constituenty offices. Protest at Parliament. Leave their private home and families alone. Anyone who does this is a piece of shit. Plain and simple.
#cdnpoli
Breaking: Montrealers rally at Foreign Affairs Minister
@melaniejoly
's home to call for an end to Canada's military and diplomatic support for Israeli genocide.
My biggest fear in life is being trapped underwater in my car. The pictures don’t look so bad, but the water was going and at the end of the second picture, I didn’t even know if there was a road there. Home safe + not going back out until this water is gone! 😅
#ONStorm
Let’s say it a little louder for those in the back - DO 👏🏻 NOT 👏🏻 PROTEST 👏🏻 AT 👏🏻 POLITICIAN’S 👏🏻 HOMES 👏🏻 NO 👏🏻 MATTER 👏🏻 WHAT 👏🏻
This is completely offside and unacceptable. Intimidation is NOT how we sustain a democratic society.
#onpoli
🧵: The house of cards is beginning to fall. Everyone close to Ford and this horrendous deal is going down.
But let’s be VERY clear - this is not enough. Ford, Clark and the Provincial government have called this entire process a “mistake”… but refuse to make it right 1/
“I’m not just going to let this go,” he said. “If I don’t ever play hockey again, that’s fine by me, because I’m going to fight this until it’s right.” -
#KeeganMitchell
This is a kid we should all be proud of.
It’s an emergency in Niagara Region because of the sheer amount of people expected to flock to the city. They are expecting 1.5 million tourists that afternoon to watch the eclipse. Declaring a state of emergency is solely so they can put more resources into traffic control, etc.
Can someone please tell me what’s happening April 8th that is causing society to shut down and go into a state of emergency? 🤯😅 why is FEAR so prevalent
As we delve into election results, the rise of the PPC has to be a discussion point, and a lot of soul searching as a nation.
PPC played into the angst of the nation attracting the rise + giving a bigger platform to their lives core base. But, where do we go from here?
#cdnpoli
*taps sign* Hey
@CBCNews
@globalnews
. If you have PPC supporters on air, there's only two questions worth asking. What's with all the white supremacists supporting you? Follow up: no, really, explain to us why racists love you.
#cdnpoli
#Elxn44
What I can’t help but think of is our rural PC MPPs who have to play along with this farce they know is not true. They have to know the loss of this
#ontag
land is unneeded and a dangerous precedent. They have to protect themselves in the party.
But, who protects us?
#onpoli
#StarInvestigation
: A developer close to Doug Ford bought this farmland and got special permission to build ‘desperately needed homes.’
Then he sold a chunk for what appears to be a huge profit.
I guess it’s hard for some in
#ldnont
to grasp how some could have issues with Internet. This dish on a pole at the edge of my property, is how I get Internet, from a signal on top of a corn dryer 1km up the road. It’s real high-tech out here.
#RuralMatters
#localgov
#onpoli
Reading all of the “we don’t have a straight flag” comments between what happened in Norwich and York Region last night makes me believe everyone needs this little reminder…
#pride