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Writer, former trial lawyer, & columnist with @natobserver . Also on Post at this same handle. She/her Not notable at all, per my fam

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@Garossino
Sandy Garossino 🇨🇦🌻
2 years
BOOM If your truck is being used in these blockades, your corporate accounts will be frozen and your insurance will be suspended. Send your vehicles home.
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@Garossino
Sandy Garossino 🇨🇦🌻
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It really takes a lot of nerve to hold a country to ransom over a pandemic that EVERYBODY ELSE BUT YOU is helping to end.
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@Garossino
Sandy Garossino 🇨🇦🌻
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1. Canada had an election 4 months ago. 2. Vaccine mandates were on the ballot. 3. There is no food emergency or even shortage. 4. The anti-vax convoy seeks to overthrow a democratically elected govt over a lie. 5. Prominent members of the Opposition support them.
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@Garossino
Sandy Garossino 🇨🇦🌻
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More Canadians have died of Covid this week than there are truckers in that convoy.
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@Garossino
Sandy Garossino 🇨🇦🌻
2 years
It’s argued that the Emergencies Act was unnecessary bc prov authorities always had the powers to enforce the law. What if the emergency IS the failure or refusal of authorities to act?
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@Garossino
Sandy Garossino 🇨🇦🌻
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As our gaze is fixed on Ukraine tonight, I for one am extremely grateful that Canada’s capital was cleared so that our government can function unimpeded through this nightmare.
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@Garossino
Sandy Garossino 🇨🇦🌻
2 years
. @gofundme must give a full accounting to Canadians of all funds spent enabling an unlawful occupation of our capital, costing taxpayers millions & harming the lives of thousands.
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@Garossino
Sandy Garossino 🇨🇦🌻
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Cancel the contracts.
@CarAdrianH
Adrian Harewood
2 years
Towing companies on city contracts refuse to move convoy vehicles | CBC News
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@Garossino
Sandy Garossino 🇨🇦🌻
7 years
Just think: Trump has fantasized about his presidential inauguration his whole life. Worst nightmare. Nobody came & all the women laughed.
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@Garossino
Sandy Garossino 🇨🇦🌻
2 years
It is a grotesque failure at every level that citizens of Canada’s capital city were forced to go to court to enforce the law.
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@Garossino
Sandy Garossino 🇨🇦🌻
7 years
Talk is cheap, Senator. Find your spine.
@marcorubio
Marco Rubio
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Partnering with Putin on a "Cyber Security Unit" is akin to partnering with Assad on a "Chemical Weapons Unit". 2/3
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@Garossino
Sandy Garossino 🇨🇦🌻
2 years
Whatever possessed authorities to permit this situation to get to a third weekend?
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@Garossino
Sandy Garossino 🇨🇦🌻
2 years
Have any senior CPC MPs or leadership denounced Trump’s comments about Canada today?
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@Garossino
Sandy Garossino 🇨🇦🌻
2 years
We never needed the military. Freeland is the hammer.
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@Garossino
Sandy Garossino 🇨🇦🌻
2 years
I stand with the 90% of truckers who rolled up their sleeves to help their fellow 🇨🇦. Like real grownups do.
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@Garossino
Sandy Garossino 🇨🇦🌻
2 years
For anyone unhappy with the extent of these powers, please remember that the provincial governments and policing agencies could have stopped this in its tracks 2 weeks ago.
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@Garossino
Sandy Garossino 🇨🇦🌻
2 years
Anti-vaxxer coda: It’s my right to force you to serve me, sit next to me, socialize with me. You will do what I say, when I say it.
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@Garossino
Sandy Garossino 🇨🇦🌻
2 years
So I did a deep dive & tons of research to show that GoFundMe was basically faked & a US op, and then they just come out and say it
@KenPaxtonTX
Attorney General Ken Paxton
2 years
Patriotic Texans donated to Canadian truckers’ worthy cause using GoFundMe. This BLM-backing company went woke, froze the funds, & failed to deliver Texans’ money. Today I assembled a team to investigate their potential fraud & deception. Texas donors will get Justice! #GoFundMe
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@Garossino
Sandy Garossino 🇨🇦🌻
2 years
If you haven’t updated your computer & device security lately, do it now.
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@Garossino
Sandy Garossino 🇨🇦🌻
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America, which was never invaded, found it a lot easier to forget the lessons of WWII Europe is showing us with every hour that it remembers everything.
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@Garossino
Sandy Garossino 🇨🇦🌻
2 years
Erin O’Toole, Pierre Poilievre, and every elected official who promoted this convoy must call on protesters to leave Ottawa today.
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@Garossino
Sandy Garossino 🇨🇦🌻
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And give us back our flag 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦
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@Garossino
Sandy Garossino 🇨🇦🌻
2 years
FFS declare an emergency, establish a perimeter, cut off diesel refuelling, issue tickets and enforce the law.
@paulvieira
Paul Vieira
2 years
Ottawa police chief Sloly: there is evidence of firearms/weapons coming into the trucker demonstration. "That is one of the major risks we are trying to mitigate"
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@Garossino
Sandy Garossino 🇨🇦🌻
2 years
What could the protesters do that would be so crazy that even the CPC would denounce them? Because sitting at a news conference and discussing overthrowing the government with their help isn’t doing it.
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@Garossino
Sandy Garossino 🇨🇦🌻
2 years
What if there was an enemy attacking us that killed 35,000 Canadians in 2 years— And all it took to defeat it was for all of us to get a needle & wear masks inside.
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@Garossino
Sandy Garossino 🇨🇦🌻
2 years
Remember when this was about fake empty shelves? And border rules that made zero difference bc of US policies? Or provincial mandates that Trudeau had nothing to do with? But still you encouraged these people, knowing full well their intent.
@CandiceBergen_
Candice Bergen Harris
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I'm disturbed & saddened by what we are seeing today in Ottawa. This situation was created by the PM & his desire to divide Canadians. It’s time for MPs to return to the House tomorrow to stop the overreach by this government & restore unity, wholeness & hope back to our nation.
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@Garossino
Sandy Garossino 🇨🇦🌻
2 years
Intrigued to see the CPC plan for winning a majority govt without Southern Ontario.
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@Garossino
Sandy Garossino 🇨🇦🌻
5 years
On September 11, the day the entire world came to the aid of America.
@MeetThePress
Meet the Press
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BREAKING: The US will not grant temporary protected status to people from the Bahamas displaced by Hurricane Dorian, an administration official tells NBC News. (via @JuliaEAinsley )
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@Garossino
Sandy Garossino 🇨🇦🌻
6 years
Might be a good time for them to look at Roseanne Barr’s Twitter feed...
@RVAwonk
Caroline Orr Bueno, Ph.D
6 years
Running list of companies that have cut ties with Fox News host Laura Ingraham: Atlantis Expedia Hulu Jenny Craig Johnson & Johnson Jos. A. Bank Liberty Mutual Miracle Ear Nestle Nutrish Principal investment group Office Depot Ruby Tuesday Stitch Fix TripAdvisor Wayfair
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@Garossino
Sandy Garossino 🇨🇦🌻
7 years
Why was this not done every week by a phalanx of professional journalists during the entire 2016 election?
@amjoyshow
Formerly 'AM JOY' on @MSNBC
7 years
Watch @JoyAnnReid debunk the #UraniumOneDeal fake news story on #AMJoy
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@Garossino
Sandy Garossino 🇨🇦🌻
2 years
In the amount of time it takes to bring a new pipeline to approval & build it, Canada could build massive solar, wind & battery capacity. And so could many other countries.
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@Garossino
Sandy Garossino 🇨🇦🌻
2 years
Ben Harper, waxing nostalgic about days gone by, is 25 years old.
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@Garossino
Sandy Garossino 🇨🇦🌻
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In the 90’s NL lost 12% of its entire workforce due to cod fishery collapse. Ontario lost 300,000 manufacturing jobs 2005-15 BC forestry in free-fall. We hear you AB, because we have been there before, even if you have not. We just didn’t threaten to split up the country.
@katherinelynd
Kathy D 🇨🇦 🍎
4 years
@CTV_PowerPlay @Garossino What a condescending, smug, ignorant woman. People losing their jobs, their homes, people committing suicide...and she refers to this as Alberta temper tantrums. Could you be any more out of touch in your Vancouver home?
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@Garossino
Sandy Garossino 🇨🇦🌻
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Do not be distracted by noise. By an overwhelming majority, Canadians voted for vaccine mandates. 226 ppl died of Covid yesterday, almost all preventable by vaccines. The anti-vax movement is anti-democracy and pro-Covid.
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@Garossino
Sandy Garossino 🇨🇦🌻
2 years
What’s going on with O’Toole, Kenney et al, goes far beyond what we used to call “spin.” Which was fair ball, in politics. These are actually lies now. Open lying. A very bad sign for our institutions that this has become acceptable at the highest levels of the Conservatives.
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@Garossino
Sandy Garossino 🇨🇦🌻
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Vaccine mandate seems like a great way to get rid of bad cops & we should 100% do it.
@CBCNews
CBC News
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The RCMP's union says it supports the "right" of RCMP officers to refuse to get vaccinated and will back up any member who refuses vaccination.
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@Garossino
Sandy Garossino 🇨🇦🌻
3 years
If I only hear analysis from Chantal Hebert tonight it would be perfectly ok with me.
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@Garossino
Sandy Garossino 🇨🇦🌻
4 years
It’s ok if you never read another Rex Murphy piece again. You won’t miss anything, & will probably feel better.
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@Garossino
Sandy Garossino 🇨🇦🌻
2 years
We’re accustomed to a world where police & military use guns & tear gas, not banks. So clubbing and gassing citizens is normal, but cutting off their supplies is an outrage against human rights.
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@Garossino
Sandy Garossino 🇨🇦🌻
3 years
Be specific. Disavow Rebel Media & Cdn fake news sites. The Proud Boys were founded by Canadian Gavin McInnes, then of Rebel Media. You said nothing while they agitated in violent far-right events for years, & their co-founder managed the CPC’s last election campaign.
@erinotoole
Erin O'Toole
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Canada’s Conservatives have consistently stood against terrorism and extremism wherever it is found and whatever its motivation. 1/2
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@Garossino
Sandy Garossino 🇨🇦🌻
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Both 🇨🇦 & 🇺🇸 had elections during Covid. The right wing parties lost both. RW supporters rioted/occupied both capitals. Both movements overtly sought to block/dissolve the elected govt Leaders of the losing parties TACITLY APPROVED both efforts.
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@Garossino
Sandy Garossino 🇨🇦🌻
2 years
The convoy will be noisy for its 15 minutes of fame. The dead are silent forever. Remember what elected Opposition members did, and who they did it for.
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@Garossino
Sandy Garossino 🇨🇦🌻
2 years
I don’t even know what to call the “truck protesters,” because here’s what they’re not ❌truckers ❌protesters
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@Garossino
Sandy Garossino 🇨🇦🌻
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Dunno, it just seems like Ukrainians are going to be tougher than Canadian anti-vaxxers.
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@Garossino
Sandy Garossino 🇨🇦🌻
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Without the empty shelves lie,the trucker convoy is pointless. Crucial for journalists to underscore repeatedly.
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@Garossino
Sandy Garossino 🇨🇦🌻
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Remember when various of us repeatedly warned about the dangers of Levant & Rebel Media? And most large platforms were like, “best to ignore them & deprive them of publicity.”
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@Garossino
Sandy Garossino 🇨🇦🌻
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@CPC_HQ @PierrePoilievre If you want to be Prime Minister of Canada and there are organized swarms of trolls harassing our pensioners on your behalf, maybe you're in the wrong line of work.
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@Garossino
Sandy Garossino 🇨🇦🌻
3 years
Can we have some data on how much antivaxxers cost taxpayers PER DAY in hospitalizations? #cdnpoli
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@Garossino
Sandy Garossino 🇨🇦🌻
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So we didn’t actually need the army after all? We just needed provincial governments & police to enforce the law?
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@Garossino
Sandy Garossino 🇨🇦🌻
2 years
Actual Freedom Convoy 2022
@SabinaCiofu
Sabina Ciofu
2 years
Awful times, beautiful people. Thousands of Romanians drove to the border with Ukraine to pick up refugees and offer them a ride and a place to stay. Queues on one side to escape, queues on the other to help. #StandWithUkraine
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@Garossino
Sandy Garossino 🇨🇦🌻
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Ok, I am going to be so happy to see the end of 2017, but one bright spot is finding @RVAwonk ’s incredible work & Twitter network. So I interviewed her for my last piece of the year:
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@Garossino
Sandy Garossino 🇨🇦🌻
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Canada is ever so fortunate that Joe Biden was elected.
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@Garossino
Sandy Garossino 🇨🇦🌻
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Not a lot of mention that Meat Loaf was an anti-vaxxer who died of Covid. Not to make that big a thing of it, but it seems relevant to obituaries and tributes.
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@Garossino
Sandy Garossino 🇨🇦🌻
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Heard from a pensioner who tweeted a fairly anodyne post critical of a Pierre Poilievre policy... And has since been swarmed by hundreds of anonymous trolls. Is this how it's going to go, @CPC_HQ & @PierrePoilievre ?
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@Garossino
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The reason Pat King should be detained before trial is not because of his objectionable conduct, but because his release poses an unreasonable risk to public safety.
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@Garossino
Sandy Garossino 🇨🇦🌻
3 years
In every election for the rest of my life I will Vote climate Vote climate Vote climate
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@Garossino
Sandy Garossino 🇨🇦🌻
5 years
Of course Rebel media accosts Greta Thunberg in her Edmonton hotel, shows its exterior and other identifying details. Aka doxxing her location. Meanwhile Canadian media defend them as journalists. #cdnpoli #elxn43 #greta
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@Garossino
Sandy Garossino 🇨🇦🌻
3 years
The same way I feel when drunk people aren’t allowed to drive. Safer
@JanessaWaterson
James Waterson
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Hello Vaxxed people. Honest question here (as I fully support your decision to get vaxxed), how do you feel when showing your vaxx passport knowing it excludes people?
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@Garossino
Sandy Garossino 🇨🇦🌻
2 years
Not getting snow tires this winter because I’m a naturally good driver.
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@Garossino
Sandy Garossino 🇨🇦🌻
6 years
If you’re watching the #Mueller indictments news, read this phenomenal interview with @RVAwonk who caught the trolls in real time:
@RVAwonk
Caroline Orr Bueno, Ph.D
6 years
#BREAKING : Special counsel Mueller has indicted 13 Russians for defrauding the United States for their work at the Internet Research Agency. These are the people behind the infamous "Russian bots and trolls."
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@Garossino
Sandy Garossino 🇨🇦🌻
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Feeling enormous pride that the artists who got this #Spotifydeleted train going are Canadian. @Neilyoung & @jonimitchell There are sure to be more, and bigger. But it’s Canadians who led.
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@Garossino
Sandy Garossino 🇨🇦🌻
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Sending much thanks, support, and respect to @MaryamMonsef , who endured too much, and probably paid with her seat for the efforts she made to get people out of Afghanistan. Canada owes you.
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@Garossino
Sandy Garossino 🇨🇦🌻
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Ahhhahh! Moneypot is gone, lawsuits being served, time to lawyer up, cowboys. If you thought Trudeau was f**king you, wait til you meet YOUR OWN LAWYER!! 😏😏😏
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@Garossino
Sandy Garossino 🇨🇦🌻
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In every country, there’s a bottom 1%
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@Garossino
Sandy Garossino 🇨🇦🌻
4 years
Since when does Canada tell a combat veteran, military helicopter pilot, founder of Invictus Games supporting wounded veterans that he & his family are not welcome here? Take a long aalk off a short pier, @globeandmail .
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@Garossino
Sandy Garossino 🇨🇦🌻
2 years
Never did I ever think a serious political party would politicize vaccines during a global pandemic that killed tens of thousands of Canadians
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@Garossino
Sandy Garossino 🇨🇦🌻
5 years
George H.W. Bush’s place in history was written long before this sad day. When all the storms of politics have passed, something essential remains. This
@BeschlossDC
Michael Beschloss
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George H.W. Bush’s letter to Bill Clinton, Inaugural Day 1993:
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@Garossino
Sandy Garossino 🇨🇦🌻
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Conrad Black is irrelevant
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@Garossino
Sandy Garossino 🇨🇦🌻
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What’s most frustrating about this is that the best tools to solve this haven’t even been touched. Suspend drivers licences. Use civil forfeiture to seize vehicles. Immediate dominos are MV insurance & bank loans. Do it 10 times & 95% of protesters will vanish.
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@Garossino
Sandy Garossino 🇨🇦🌻
5 years
Your party ran an entire election campaign on the niqab and “barbaric practices tip line.” Your campaign director co-founded Rebel Media. No skating away today.
@AndrewScheer
Andrew Scheer
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Freedom has come under attack in New Zealand as peaceful worshippers are targeted in a despicable act of evil. All people must be able to practice their faith freely and without fear. 1/2
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