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Mark Shaw @markshawtoronto.bsky.social · Jul 31

Elephants are born weighing 250 lbs. They are the biggest babies on earth except for motorists when they see a bike lane

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Robert Hernandez @webjournalist.bsky.social · May 6

Sesame Street had him pegged back in 1988.

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Dan Jelly @kingandjames.bsky.social · May 2

It's wild to me that an NHLer, who happened to score a couple of goals one night, answered more media questions in one press conference than the Conservative leader had to in a month-long campaign.

Media availability should be mandatory for all politicians across the political spectrum. #cdnpoli

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Dan Jelly @kingandjames.bsky.social · Apr 30

Thanks as always for this transparency and honesty. I hope the people who have suddenly become fanatical armchair fiscal watchdogs take the time to read and understand the complex story of how this all happened.

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Dan Jelly @kingandjames.bsky.social · Apr 30

In reality they haven't given us anything. It's a Provincial project supported by Federal $. It's not even the City's money to redirect.

I agree we need better transit but robbing another transit project after tens of millions has already been spent seems unwise.

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Dan Jelly @kingandjames.bsky.social · Apr 30

Upper governments provide captial for infrastructure, but not operating costs. The cost of the bus is a small fraction of what it takes to get that bus on the road. The operator, fuel, insurance, maintenance, etc are local expenses. In any case, LRT is mass transit, buses are a bandaid.

TL;DR: no

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Dan Jelly @kingandjames.bsky.social · Apr 29

He lives in Mississauga. He couldn't even vote for himself. He didn't show up to the cable 14 debate, and now he'll be our MP. Not thrilled.

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Dan Jelly @kingandjames.bsky.social · Apr 28

I highly recommend getting on the Conservatives email list. It's endlessly hilarious how bad they are at everything.

#ItsOurVote
#CdnPoli
#Elxn45
#Elections101

Image of Steve Buscemi, who is clearly not a kid, posing as a high school student wearing a backwards ballcap, holding a skateboard, and wearing a t-shirt that says "Music Band".

To be clear, Pierre Poilievre is a sack of shit who doesn't care about any of the issues facing Gen Z.

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Dan Jelly @kingandjames.bsky.social · Apr 28

I voted. Notes on my experience:

1. It was busy, but fast. I was in and out in maybe 5 or 6 minutes

2. What a stark contrast to the Ontario provincial election in February. It felt like the vote mattered and I didn't have to leap a snow pile (🖕 Ford)

3. That school gym looked a lot bigger in 1986

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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · Apr 16

The only question for Doug Ford (and Ontario voters) on Ontario Place: is this your government‘s incompetence or your government’s corruption?

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Dan Jelly @kingandjames.bsky.social · Apr 12

I could have gone the rest of my life not knowing what the word "crepitus" means. At least I didn't learn it the hard way.

Also, if the characters in these first aid videos, "Garry" and "Linda", aren't fictional, then they should be investigated. People around them are always getting hurt.

Dan Jelly @kingandjames.bsky.social · Apr 4

I see we've reached the "Stop signs and speed limits don't matter" part of Friday afternoon traffic.

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Dan Jelly @kingandjames.bsky.social · Apr 4

I think that section of Cannon is about to temporarily become 2-way for all vehicles when reconstruction of York/Cannon resumes this month. They shouldn't have painted the line yellow in December when they knew it would cause issues.

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Dan Jelly @kingandjames.bsky.social · Apr 4

Peak procrastination: I had a dentist appointment this morning, or so I thought. I was a week early. I think they tried to offer me an opportunity to reschedule it to today but it was so hard to hear them over the sound of myself escaping rapidly and gleefully out the door.

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Dan Jelly @kingandjames.bsky.social · Apr 4

People keep saying this is the darkest timeline so I peeked into the timeline next door and everyone there is running around with their hair literally on fire, so it's only marginally better.

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Dan Jelly @kingandjames.bsky.social · Apr 3

Loblaws labelling their orange juice with a little red maple leaf is just more of the shady shit we've all come to expect from them. Was the fruit from the famous orange groves of Flin Flon, Manitoba?

Their shiny new signs might as well say "Disrespecting our customers since 1919"

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Dan Jelly @kingandjames.bsky.social · Apr 1

He's been instrumental at settling petty disputes for many years, with the help of Sam Paperwell and Sam Scissorswell, of course.

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Dan Jelly @kingandjames.bsky.social · Mar 26

My partner asked me to pick up a tent but the reminder she sent me said "Trent". Clearly this is an opportunity to pull an only marginally funny and mostly awkward prank on her. Alas there aren't a lot of Trents around these days.

This is yet another reason why 2025 is a tough time to be alive.

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Clare Blackwood @clareblackwood.bsky.social · Mar 25

If you're having a bad day, just remember that without security clearance, accidentally being invited to a group chat is the only way Poilievre is gonna learn Canada's national security secrets.

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Dan Jelly @kingandjames.bsky.social · Mar 23

As an NDP voter, here's my totally for sure expert analysis of the other major national party leaders:

Mark Carney seems like a level-headed, sensible, capable person.

Pierre Poilievre seems like the kind of guy who would egg Justin Trudeau's house and shit on the hood of his car. #cdnpoli

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Dan Jelly @kingandjames.bsky.social · Mar 20

Well the news isn't all doom and gloom after all

IF @mapleleafsfan.bsky.social · Mar 20

Hahaha #hamont

Upwards of 80 Tesla cars damaged at Hamilton dealership

Officers in Hamilton, Ont. are reviewing CCTV footage and asking the public for assistance with the investigation.

toronto.citynews.ca

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Dan Jelly @kingandjames.bsky.social · Mar 20

I see CBC Front Burner decided that a break from the doom and gloom news was necessary, so they ran an episode about a more cheerful topic: Charles Manson #cdnpoli #onpoli

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Dan Jelly @kingandjames.bsky.social · Mar 20

At this point in time, with our country's sovereignty and economic future in doubt, any #HamOnt City Councillor still giving oxygen to a 2030 Commonwealth Games bid should resign. This was pure folly a year ago, it's absolute madness now.

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Dan Jelly @kingandjames.bsky.social · Mar 12

They may take our steel industry, but they'll never take our dirty snow piles in front of predatory lenders that used to be a Taco Bell.

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Dan Jelly @kingandjames.bsky.social · Mar 10

There will be a new Federal riding: Flamborough-Glanbrook-Brant North. Flam-Glan drops Upper Stoney Creek and gains Paris, Saint George and surrounding parts of Brant County.

That seems goofy.

Source map:
redecoupage-redistribution-2022.ca/ebv/en/?data...

Map of newly redrawn federal electoral boundaries centering on Hamilton. New riding of Flamborough-Glanbrook-Brant North is a goofy rural/small town area that includes Binbrook, Carlisle and Paris.

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