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Still much work to be done. At home here. I block anti-vaxxers or if you spread lies about pandemic. Based in toronto 🇨🇦

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JackMcgraw 🇨🇦 @redmcgraw.bsky.social · Nov 15

Its a path that goes clear off the map, to adventure and peril, to treasure and dragons, fine food and ale, and gold. Aye, gold. Tread not lightly on that path, but with a firm step and a light heart.

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tamrakat @tamrakat.bsky.social · 1h

How does she think that little 10yo girl who got pregnant from being raped felt? This is just sad all the way around.

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My IRL friends call me Chris @christyceeck.bsky.social · 3h

This anecdote about Karina Gould is awful. To use one of Carney's beloved hockey analogies, crosschecking a promising young female politician -- a colleague -- is very troubling.

This man is a C-suite executive, with all the arrogance & nastiness that too often brings.

Carney, a one-time Goldman Sachs executive and former governor for both the Bank of England and the Bank of Canada, had won the race in a landslide, despite having zero political experience. The evening of his victory, he gathered with jubilant advisers for a victory party in a backroom. There, they got a text from a staffer for Karina Gould, the 38-year-old MP from Burlington, Ontario, who’d run against Carney for the party leadership. Gould had made a few mild pokes at Carney during the campaign. In one debate, she took a jab at his reputation as a fiscally focused technocrat: “You can’t bring a calculator to a knife fight,” she said, referring to the trade war with the U.S.

The attacks were genteel compared to most political mud-slinging, and Liberals warmed to her during the campaign. They embraced her as both a cherished member of the Liberal family and, increasingly, the standard bearer for its left flank. But her needling got under Carney’s skin, even though he was the front-runner (she ultimately received only three per cent of the vote). He and his staff made their irritation plain; one member of Gould’s team told me that many of them were aggressive in their vitriol toward her.

When someone from Gould’s team texted to ask if she could stop by and congratulate the winner, Carney said no. In fact, according to one source I spoke with, he said he didn’t ever want to see her again. Carney’s staff sent Gould a non-committal answer, trying not to offend her, but she showed up anyway. That led to a brief, awkward meeting with Carney.

The incident rattled some of the people around the newly elected leader. Many had worked under Justin Trudeau, who, after a lifetime in politics, had skin like a crocodile. Carney, after years of being celebrated, venerated and treated with the deference accorded to a titan of the financial world, seems to have a skin like a peach.

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JackMcgraw 🇨🇦 @redmcgraw.bsky.social · 4h

How is he a city councillor?

JackMcgraw 🇨🇦 @redmcgraw.bsky.social · 6h

What is the english fascination with this catholic saint?

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 12h

Racism Knows No Bounds

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LA Legault ⚜️ @lalegault.bsky.social · 8h

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My IRL friends call me Chris @christyceeck.bsky.social · 13h

Piccini, who has final say over who receives money through the $2.5-billion Skills Development Fund (SDF), was in Paris this weekend at the wedding of Michael Rudderham, a lobbyist & longtime friend of the minister, The Trillium can report based on well-placed sources & social media records. #OnPoli

Jack Hauen @jackhauen.bsky.social · 13h

NEW: David Piccini, the minister whose office picks Skills Development Fund recipients, was in Paris this weekend at the wedding of a lobbyist whose clients received millions from that fund.

From me and @charliepinkerton.bsky.social.

www.thetrillium.ca/news/politic...

Ontario labour minister attended lobbyist’s wedding after granting his clients millions in training funds

Two clients of lobbyist Michael Rudderham have received more than $8.5 million in Skills Development Fund grants, records show

www.thetrillium.ca

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John Roscoe @johnroscoe.bsky.social · 9h

Dunno. Seems a bit odd, retired Mr. Alexander being invited to Parliament’s Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security, given that the leader of the party to which he belongs is incapable of passing a security audit.

I always figured he was more of a Frank Burns than a Colonel Flag.

Chris Alexander and Larry Linville as Frank Burns of M*A*S*H fame.

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JackMcgraw 🇨🇦 @redmcgraw.bsky.social · 9h

So, thats good

JackMcgraw 🇨🇦 @redmcgraw.bsky.social · 9h

Chris Alexander has been out of govt for 10 years, why does he have classified documents?

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JackMcgraw 🇨🇦 @redmcgraw.bsky.social · 22h

He built a fake lake

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Tabatha Southey 🇨🇦 @tabathasouthey.bsky.social · 1d

You don’t need Doug Ford qualifiers in this headline. The Hospital for Sick Children’s study showing “automated speed cameras reduce aggressive driving and speeding by almost half” didn’t make the cut.
Just call them speed cameras.